Not having heard her speech in Wisconsin, I cannot comment on your reaction. I would simply like to point out to you two words: Joe Biden.

I heard her speech at the republican convention – not bad. Obviously, it was well rehearsed. But today my ears were poisoned by the stump she gave in Wisconsin.

Alas, my suspicions were spot on: the woman cannot read. She stumbled, stuttered, and mispronounced 25% of the words in that speech. I don’t ask for much in a VP candidate.

But it is just beyond me to believe that an illiterate woman could handle the job of VP. Maybe the McCain camp thinks the American people find her illiteracy quaint. Please. Don’t insult our intelligence.

“It is no wonder, in an election year in which the Republican Party faces such a mythic, dynamic individual as Barack Obama, that John McCain was willing to gamble on running alongside his own legend from a land that, for most Americans, exists only in the imagination. If you had to write a screenplay about the first woman president, you would need the guts of a burglar to use the actual facts of Sarah Palin’s life. Just imagine the conversation with the studio head:

” ‘Seriously? You’re going to make her a high-school basketball star who played the championship game on a broken ankle and made the 11th-hour shot to win it? And then she becomes the ethics czar for oil regulation and fights dirty politicians in her own party single-handed? And this bit about the infamous ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’ when she actually sends $200-million in federal money for a notorious pork-barrel project back to Washington? And it says here she’s got one kid going to fight in Iraq and another newborn son with Down syndrome that she chose to have and raise? And she’s a snowmobile fanatic, licenced pilot and National Rifle Association member who’s so beautiful she will probably have to be played by Angelina Jolie? …

Buddy, I don’t know whether to give you a million bucks or toss you out on your ear.’ “

I’ll give you a little piece of advice – please wait a few days before posting what you see being spread around leftist websites. While it may read well amongst the Believers it doesn’t do so well elsewhere. It usually takes a few days for you guys to figure out how to attack someone even semi-successfully.

However feel free to not take this advice – it makes us winning elections MUCH easier.

I saw a clip of her on the news in which she was stressing that her parents worked with their hands. That seemed as moronic as the Obama team saying “we’re just like you”.

I guess there’s a lot of voters (in the USA) to talk down to.

I came to the same conclusion. Both are more “of the people” than the average Pres/VP candidate. Both operated honestly in corrupt political environments. As a Jackson County Judge in Boss Pendergast’s Kansas City, he gained an reputation for honest administration. In Truman’s second Senate term, he gained a rep for investigating fraud and mismanagement in military procurement.

One difference between the two: I don’t see Governor Palin being the dedicated reader of the Classics that Truman was.