 Sarah Palin'S Speech Written By A Bush Speech Writer |
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| Sarah Palin'S Speech Written By A Bush Speech Writer |
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| China Man |
 Sep 5 2008, 05:39 PM
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| Sarah "the terrah" |
Sep 5 2008, 06:14 PM
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You REALLY are afraid of her, say what?
Awwww, Fantasy blowing up on ya? |
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Sep 5 2008, 07:17 PM
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Interesting. I knew that the Palin speech was written before she was even picked, but I didn't know that it was written by a former Bush writer. They're telling us that its all about change, and that things will be better than under Bush. But it ends up being the same old song and dance.
"The clues are in the text itself. Scully started working on the vice-presidential speech a week ago, before he or anyone else knew who the nominee would be, and it's not hard to pick out the parts that would have been the same regardless of who delivered it. Scully unspooled two centrist themes via Palin that have been key to the McCain message: the idea that the Republican nominee puts service to country ahead of career and the notion that he's the true representative of Middle America. Both themes implicitly push Obama and Biden to the left, and Scully made them explicit with lines accusing the Democrats of élitism and talking down to working-class voters. Once Palin was chosen, Scully tailored the speech to the Alaska governor, highlighting her biography and using her PTA background and local political experience (contrasted so memorably with Obama's work as a community organizer) to bolster his two themes. Where much media attention in the wake of her surprise naming has focused on Palin's views on cultural issues like abortion, the speech carefully steered away from ideological touchstones. Palin was shown as an average mainstream American looking to bring change to Washington, further bolstering McCain's overarching message of reforming the wasteful Federal Government. Scully was a good choice to help moderate Palin's right-wing image. A veteran of the early Bush White House, his specialty was crafting Bush's pro-life message in a way that would not offend soccer moms or mainstream Catholics who get nervous around some of the more extreme Evangelical rhetoric. A former protégé of the late pro-life Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, Scully has a history of finding rhetorical unity for voters on the right and in the center". http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/...1838808,00.html |
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Sep 5 2008, 07:34 PM
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Which speech writer? The classic one about the "evil doers" as a persuasive argument for pre-emptive war was written by a Canadian. How embarrassing.
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| Chintu |
Sep 5 2008, 07:39 PM
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Scully is a vegetarian, anti-hunting, pro-animal rights, anti-guns.
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Sep 5 2008, 09:16 PM
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All politicians have speech writers. So do Obama. Reagen was a great speaker but had speech writers. Even JFK's famous speech where he said what can you do for government, not what government can do for you was written by someone else.
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