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Originally Posted by Envoy Costagravas  Cindy, because you are so upset in your partisanship you missed why I enjoyed it: I thought the writing was clever and well-done. The actual putting-together-of-the-words is what I enjoyed, because I like well-written pieces. |
Partisanship? What partisanship -- earlier this year I actually pictured myself as a possible voter for McCain. Then I started listening to them, researching, reading their policy positions. And I have come 180 degrees. I will be voting for Obama, like I've said on this board a hundred times in the past few weeks, because I'm sick and tired of the religious anti-science, anti-choice, hardline militarism of the Right. What partisanship are you referring to?
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Come on. No one in their right mind would have expected this choice to NOT get hauled on the carpet for her lack of experience, if for no other reason that it had been one of Mr. McCains prime arguments against the Democratic ticket. If you are going to be so primed and ready to pull the "hypocrisy" trigger, then at least be honest about the definition and declaim the hypocrisy of the choice of one of the least experienced candidates ever suggested for a national office.
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If you read my post, I'm not arguing that she's experienced enough or that she was even a good choice. I agree she's a singularly BAD choice. But I do think that calling a blog post on an ultra-lib site "brilliant" as Cris did, is over the top - and here's why.
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If it was "brilliant" it would have told us something we didn't know, or offered an insight no one had thought of yet. Newsflash for everyone: Nothing in that post said a single thing about Palin that every other news outlet and web blog in existence hadn't already come up with an hour after the nomination. (Edit: come to think of it, there are some BRILLIANT people on this board who said pretty much everything that writer did long before he said it. Why don't they get credit for their brilliance too?)
What else was brilliant? Was it the hyperbolic invective, accusing McCain voters of "hating America"? I addressed that, too - for so many people here on this board and in the news who thought Obama's speech was BRILLIANT (or at least brilliantly delivered), for all the tears in the audience I saw on TV after he finished, apparently some people didn't really listen. There are still those who want to engage in character assassination and question people's patriotism because they're on the 'other side'.
I'm with Obama on that - it's old, it is not helpful, it is destructive and divisive. Tell me something I didn't know and maybe then I'll consider using "brilliant", but not for a
hack piece like that, and most certainly not from the Huffington blog. They're the "Heritage Foundation" of the Left.