Legal Commentary

Obama's Response to Palin's Speech

By Jeralyn

Senator Obama issued this response to Gov. Palin's speech:

The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define 'change' as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that's their choice, but we don't think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change."

Obama took a few hits tonight from Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee on his experience. I think unless he confronts that argument head-on, the attacks will increase and begin to resonate. He can't do it by relying on Biden, unless it's in the context of combined ticket experience.

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From my vantage point, it's playing Russian Roulette to put Palin so close to the presidency. She doesn't even have a grasp on the important issues facing the nation let alone any idea how to respond to a crisis. Obama's been surrounded by experts for 17 months. His presidential team is probably already selected. Should something happen to him, all Biden needs is a different nameplate on the door. You can't prepare for the Presidency in 60 days and McCain is recklessly endangering the country with his Palin pick.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).