Well it's been a lonnnng night and as I had expected, the media is echoing their own sentiments and calling Sarah a Palin a "star", and to put more spin and obsurdity to their headlines, they say maybe she is the "agent of change."
What a pantload! I was a huge fan of MSNBC but their inept ability to call Sarah Palin out for her outrageous speech is ludicrous and insulting to my intelligence. Then they put the weakest interviewer on the floor. Anybody can tell her speech was written by Karl Rove.
If I read it from the teleprompter, I would be made out to be a "star" too! Because she mastered the ability to be the GOP's puppet by reading the vitriol so eloquently, it does not make her qualified for dog catcher, much less VP.
Thanks to Jon Stewart who is the only person to call them out as liars. If it walks like a duck, it must be a duck!
It's important for us to let the media know that their display of partisan reporting and glorifying a candidate is not shared with the american people across the nation.
Now on to my diary written late last night after the jump. Please give it recs to show those who say they 'speak for all women' that they do not speak for us Independent voters.
Thank you for making my mind up for me. And in honor of the vileness of your speech, I have donated $100 tonight to Senator Obama's campaign on behalf of your children----$20 for each child.
Thank you for cementing the feelings I've had about the conservative mindset. You went after the media as visciously as you said they went after you. Down the road you just might need that media to get you votes.
You took pleasure in following the same verbal sniping as Guiliani, Huckabee, and Romney in making a mockery out of the government that the republicans have abused for the last eight years.
As a woman, thanks to you, you have set us back 200 years. Because you are the first republican woman to be nominated for VP, I was hoping to see a woman who showed class, dignity, and a fighting spirit when she was telling the american people how she was going to be tough on the issues that are plaguing the american people every day but instead I was shocked, pissed and happy all at the same time.
Shocked because of the disappointment, pissed because of the humiliation you put upon women across the nation. And extremely happy because Senator Obama is benefiting from your decision to take the high road and clone the 'good old boy' rhetoric by using malicious and vile words towards
a candidate who is poised to become the first black man to make american history. He should have been respected for it but instead you insulted the entire black culture.
While the cameras panned the audience during parts of your speech, I saw something very saddening. With every vile word you orated I saw jubilation, which was reason enough to understand why americans hate
Washington.
Your convention ends tomorrow and not once did I hear the republicans plan to fix high gas prices (isn't McCain's campaign funded by the oil big wigs?), implement health insurance for every american (oh yes, that's right, McCain wants us all to furnish our own plan or was that social security?), or how you're going to create jobs. Did I miss that portion of your speech? Or was it more important to you to spend your time painting a picture of your opponent with vitriolic lies?
There is a reason Senator Obama received almost 18 million votes. There's a reason Senator Obama won the democratic presidential nominee. Yes, he does speak eloquently but there's a big difference between your words and his. His words mean alot to 18 million people, yours only created the frame of your entire biography. They also just mean you're 'green' and don't mind following the same old path that has been used by the republicans for years. They mean something to me and I listen intently, as I did to Senator McCain.
You see, my family settled in the State of Arizona during the 17th century so I pretty much know the history of our great state and where Senator McCain stands on issues. That's why it was up to you to convince me to vote for your ticket.
Well now we know that won't be happening. This was never about not wanting to hire a working mother with five children or about pointing fingers at the media for being sexist, which they were not, it's just a typical talking-point the republicans use to turn the focus away from a potential scandal arising from an unknown who could be leader of the free world.
I refuse to put my children and grandchildren's lives in peril by voting for two people who have 'forked' tongues. I care deeply about their future so in Nov I will be casting my vote for Senator Obama and Senator Biden.
UPDATE: forgot to add she was the first 'republican' woman. sigh :)