Sarah Palin's address to the RNC was many things. But, to me it underscored who and what Obama and Biden are running against. In one single speech, Palin hit upon a myriad of themes that have poisoned the body politic during the Dubya era -- hubris, corrupting drive for power, projection (i.e., accusing Dems of the very things she has actually done), and Orwellian propagandizing (i.e., dog whistle code phrases, and repeating lies often enough that they are perceived as truth).
These are things that I picked up on because that's my particular lens color, my particular liberal bias. I was on the lookout for those elements since they are part of the GOP playbook, and have been pointed out many times on this and other blogs.
Yet, for all of the punditry acclaim for this speech, it was the overall tone of last night that has me breaking out my checkbook for Barack Obama, and I anticipate galvanizing Obama's support even further.
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