DISQUS

greta · 1 year ago

mccain gave sarah something to focus on, reigning her in already? most recently he said: "The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of Third World dictators. palin will figure out soon enough that she is just a ploy in big league politics.

the only reform sarah could bring to the table is her record and that shows she can only spin facts. we have already 8 years of that and rove politics.

energy? palin doesn't even know how much energy the state of alaska provides.

special needs? would all who need help also have a state employee (i.e.ivy frye) take care of their children like palin does?

has mccain decided what todd (shadow governor) will do?

God help us all. if mccain/palin aren't more of the same then i've been living somewhere else for the past 7+ years.

chris d. · 1 year ago

well, for what it's worth, i was in junction this morning, while the crowd was large (5,800 according to organizers), it wasn't exactly overflowing. there was plenty of empty space in the back of the area cordoned off for 'ticketed' spectators.

senator obama most definitely re-hashed the bulk of his nomination acceptance speech from a few weeks ago. he definitely relied heavily on his teleprompter for the very few fresh sections of it. in his pre-speech 'thank yous' he mispronounced the word Ute as "ootay."

he departed before the cheers died down and he did not take any questions.

for what it's worth ...

Buckeye · 1 year ago

I enjoyed your take on the article as I picked up on the same painfully obvious slant by Mr. Luning. He has every right to express his views in an editorial piece, but I'm not sure whether he was trying to be subtle with the "less than subtle" comments you addressed in your post. If he was not attempting to be subtle, then his message is duly noted. However, if he was attempting to to be subtle, then I find his comments as rather laughable since most of have a bit more cognitive ability than he must think.

eluning · 1 year ago

No attempt at subtlety intended, but thanks for thinking the article might be cloaking a message. The turnout was much less than organizers hoped; she repeated much of the same speech she's been giving for two weeks, including a line that has been widely labeled fictitious by the AP, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and a dozen other news organizations; she made claims about her ticket's intentions on the economy and renewable energy which are belied by their record. Unlike the other three national candidates, she has given only one interview since the convention and stayed true to form in Golden. This is simple reporting -- draw your own conclusions.

chris d. · 1 year ago

if you were john temple and you were responding to something that had been printed in the rocky mtn news, someone on this site would call you defensive, or worse.

there isn't a day that goes by -- and today, mr. obama's comments on economic policy that he made in golden offer a perfect example - when claims by national politicians aren't refuted. why wasn't this 'simple reporting' provided on your site?

don't get me wrong. at this point in the campaign, i've every intention of voting for senator obama. and i think, by and large, this story on palin and her speech was informative. but by picking on her re-use of old rhetoric, etc., while insinuating that obama once again nailed it in front of throngs of followers, i think it's injecting bias into a story that ultimately weakens the work that was put into it.

i went to junction anticipating being thoroughly impressed. i was not. obama was flat. he used dozens of the same quote lines he's already used, verbatim. i actually found it hard to pay close attention because his speech was, frankly, boring. but that's OK. no one hits a home run every time up. if anything, all this made obama seem more real to me. and i think i found a new respect for him and the unbelievably daunting task he faces every day in this campaign in which he is attempting to make history.

making him out to seem infallible hurts this cause, in my view.