Palin, a week ago Thursday at the VP debate, paraphrasing, regarding the start of the Iraq War, “There you go again, Joe, talking about the past. Americans don’t care about the past, they want to talk about the future.”
Palin, this week, talking about 1970’s radical Bill Ayers, paraphrasing, “The media needs to ask questions of Barack Obama and expect answers.”
So–two points–
1) 2003–It’s the past. Who cares? Early 1970’s–very relevant. Good to know.
2) Barack Obama has to answer questions and Palin’s never held a press conference? Makes sense to me. In fact, I seem to remember Palin saying something along the lines of “I may not answer the questions that the moderator asks me.”
If McCain/Palin win, invest in Dramamine. It’s going to be a fun four years.
Hell Jones / Raptors with Lasers ‘08
You make some really good points here. I, however, will focus my comment on your opening sentence.
1) Nice work on the paraphrase. You’ve managed to take something that took her about two winding minutes to say and put it into a couple of clear, concise sentences. (Can you tell I’ve been grading papers?)
2) Let us not forget that “There you go again” is a blatant Reagan presidential debate rip off. Not sure how that relates to your direction here…I just thought it was an interesting rhetorical choice…