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Unlike Iain Dale, I kept finding myself cringing, although I can see she got the crowd going. James Fallows' reaction hits the mark:
And this on the stage-management:The speech was surprisingly negative and mocking... If these words were delivered by someone older, less attractive, and male, they could have come straight frpm a Limbaugh radio monologue... Potential drawback: having taken this tone, she's exposed herself to more direct, aggressive attack by the Dems than she has received so far.
He was more enthusiastic about Rudy Giuliani's speech.Barack Obama has used his family as a prop from time to time... That's life in politics; everybody does it to some degree.Very few politicians do it as all-out as Sarah Palin just did... I can't recall any spectacle comparable to Baby Trig being passed from Cindy McCain, to Trig's 7-year-old sister, to Palin herself when she ended the speech... From this point on it will be hard for her to declare anything about her personal or family life out-of-bounds.
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