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I thought Sarah Palin delivered a great speech last night. However, I did not like the tone and approach she took. While the first half, of the speech where she described herself, was funny and delivered well. The second half became a negative monster, full of attack lines and little substance.

While I myself have said the experience card is dumb, I have to wonder, do I really want “just your average hockey mom” being one 72 year old man, away from picking up the phone at 3am?

Here is an interesting article that breaks down claims by Sarah Palin last night. It looks at what was true and false.

I did not like how she claimed “But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”

Yet the facts say “but he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.”

I am excited to watch the debates,

Paul