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OU professors: Palin exceeded expectations
Published Saturday, October 4, 2008
By Benita Heath
The Tribune
It was a chance for Sarah Palin to show she has the right stuff and Thursday night’s vice presidential debate proved Alaska’s governor could talk about more than the location of Russia.
“She demonstrated breadth of knowledge,” Dr. Michael McTeague, Ohio University professor, said.
And that was what pundits said Palin had to do after gaffes she made recently in televised interviews with national broadcasters that led to commentary on whether she couldn’t take over the presidency.
The most satirized of those was her explanation that she could command foreign affairs because of the close proximity of Russia to her home state.
“She certainly was composed. She was able to be almost, not quite folksy, but relaxed in speech, putting on colloquialisms,” McTeague said. “If that had been done 20 years ago, it wouldn’t have resonated very well. Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have spoken like that.”
But McTeague said it worked for Palin.
McTeague’s colleague, Dr. Kenneth Heineman, agrees Palin gave a smooth, confident performance as she faced a seasoned debater, Sen. Joseph Biden.
“I would say in terms of expectations the gain was Sarah Palin. She exceeded expectations,” Heineman said. “She was tough and quite funny. She became more comfortable and took command of the debate. She was able to bypass the media filter and go to the people.”
Calling her a Republican in the vein of Ronald Reagan, Heineman said she was strongest when she talked about herself and faltered when trying to defend the current administration and her running mate. But the same could be said for Biden, the historian said.
“Biden was very strong on himself,” he said.
However, when pressed on the issues he resorted to “a fog of confusions to obscure the fact there are fundamental differences between him and Obama,” Heineman said.
It may not be a campaign death knell but it’s Heineman’s contention that even if McCain does win the swing state of Ohio he will lose the general election. At issue is McCain’s role in the banking bailout bill that was originally defeated by the House by a mere 12 votes.
“I think McCain got done in by the House,” Heineman said. “A lot of conservatives don’t want McCain elected. They don’t see him towing the party line. I think they successfully nailed it for McCain.”
On Friday McCain pulled his campaign headquarters from the state of Michigan and suspended advertising there, all but conceding the state’s 17 electoral votes to Obama.
However, McTeague doesn’t see that as that much of a significant act, citing the heavy labor base there that historically goes Democratic.
“If there is a borderline state like Ohio where you could win, you put your money there,” he said.
And how will Ohio go?
“That will be the big tossup,” McTeague said. “McCain can’t win without Ohio. It’s a statistical anomaly.”
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Posted by cawren (anonymous) on October 4, 2008 at 11:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
SARAH SIXPACK AS PRESIDENT
I do not want a Vice President or President that winks and says GOLLY.
During the debate Sarah Palin did not stumble. She memorized her material well.
But…. What about Dealing with the economy, war or the security of our country?
With NO TALKING POINT FLASH CARDS to help her? What then?
Given McCains age and health history Ms. Palin could in deed become Commander in Chief.
The Thought Of
Sarah PALIN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Chills me to the BONE!
Posted by ddd (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 6:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I wish I had been so creative in school. When I did not know an answer I should had written: "I might not answer the question as you have asked it but this is my current thoughts" and gave a review on another subject.
Posted by ddd (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 6:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh by the way I have no know doubt she is bright because she did fairly well memorizing some of the correct answers. However she sounds like Ellie Mae of the Beverly Hill Billies.
She apparently learned publicly the other day she is not an equal of Mc Cain when his team pulled from Michigan and did not notify her. If they were such a team her opinions would have been requested. Hummm- you betcha?
S
ister Girl offered for Todd and her to travel and tour in Michigan and I say Todd Palin should not travel on taxpayers money since he was a member of a group that wanted Alaska to secede. The Palin family should go back to Alaska and put wheels on the the snowmachines and comeback and Get To Ridin and Stumpin but not on OUR hardearned money.
Posted by ddd (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 6:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh by the way I have no know doubt she is bright because she did fairly well memorizing some of the correct answers. However she sounds like Ellie Mae of the Beverly Hill Billies.
She apparently learned publicly the other day she is not an equal of Mc Cain when his team pulled from Michigan and did not notify her. If they were such a team her opinions would have been requested. Hummm- you betcha?
Sister Girl offered for Todd and her to travel and tour in Michigan and I say Todd Palin should not travel on taxpayers money since he was a member of a group that wanted Alaska to secede. The Palin family should go back to Alaska and put wheels on the the snowmachines and comeback and Get To Ridin and Stumpin but not on OUR hardearned money.
Posted by Retro (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 8:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The big difference... Palin gives her honest answer. Biden gives
you what he thinks will get him the most votes all the while lying
through his artificially whitened teeth. He is as phony as his hair plugs.
I can't believe you people can't see through this seasoned Washington DC phony.
Posted by buildinghope (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 8:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sarah Palin seams to be a nice lady, but she is NOT ready to be President of the United States! We have had eight years of George W. Bush who too was NOT ready to be President. John McCain seams like he is up to the job today, but he is 72 years old with a record of cancer. If he was to pass away, Sarah is President! Barack Obama is the best leader of what we have to pick from, he also seams to be the best educated and smartest. I will be voting for Obama!
Posted by Noesis (anonymous) on October 5, 2008 at 9:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If Sarah is so awful, why does she have an 80% approval rating from the people of Alaska?
She has loads more of executive experience than Obambi. What has he ever accomplished?
Posted by Joseph_Benning (anonymous) on October 6, 2008 at 6:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is too funny.
The omnipresent Obamaniacs haunting the Ironton Tribune website assert Governor Palin is NOT ready. But the candidate without a record, the candidate who takes dirty money and lives in a mansion paid for with dirty money; that candidate is ready for President.
The Obamanaics support a candidate who never did anything but run for office; and gutlessly votes "present" on anything controversial; that's one heck of a record. Normally, one might joke the candidate "an empty suit," but this suit is stuffed with pork. We ought to ignore the record of delivery; the audacity to shovel "earmarked" taxpayer money to his wife's employer. No conflict of interest or ethics violation here.
We are supposed to believe this corrupt Chicago Machine byproduct is somehow ready to be President? In a pigs eye.
Sorry Obamaniacs, I still judge a person by the content of their character and NOT the color of their skin, NOT by their gender, NOR by whatever party label they've cloaked themselves in.
When it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck; I'm not calling it an emu.
Posted by Noesis (anonymous) on October 6, 2008 at 9:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Merchanna, what proof do you have that Todd is using "taxpayer" money? How do you know that this money isn't coming from the RNC? The RNC gets it's money from donations.
And speaking of contributions:
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
Posted by Noesis (anonymous) on October 6, 2008 at 9:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
And, how about all those small illegal donations to Obama:
In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.
Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.
There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.
In an e-mailed response to a query from Newsmax, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt pledged that the campaign would return the donations. But given the slowness with which the campaign has responded to earlier FEC queries, there’s no guarantee that the money will be returned before the Nov. 4 election.
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.
But in some of them, he didn’t even go this far, apparently picking letters at random to fill in the blanks on the credit card donation form. In these cases, he said he was employed by “VCX” and that his profession was “VCVC.”
Following FEC requests, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro in February 2008. In all, about $8,425 was charged back to a credit card. But that still left a net total of $11,165 as of Sept. 20, way over the individual limit of $4,600.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Obama_f...
Posted by osu (anonymous) on October 7, 2008 at 11:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
How can she be ready when she didn't answer any of Ifill's questions? In fact she blatantly told her she wasn't going to answer them.
That is not leadership.
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