I can answer why the audience at the Conventions (both dem and rep) applaud like they are at a Friday afternoon high-school pep-rally -- they are all jacked up on the kool-aid.
It isn't that only the speeches are written by puppet masters, which bothers me. It is that the entire campaigns and Presidency is handled by puppet masters, and the Presidents are the puppets.
I'm not picking on you, just using you as an example when I say, "DUH!" Someone else (I'm too lazy to look it up) asked about why they have to be so nasty at conventions. Maybe we're still in happy-land after the Olympics and feeling all "I'd like to teach the world to sing," but this is politricks. It
is a Friday night pep-rally, right before the game with the cross-town rivals for the state championship. They spend all this money on these conventions with their elaborate stages and people like sweet Punzy steaming Old Glory so they can wipe up the field with the other team, who just emerged from the deepest pits of h3!!, bent on the destruction of America.
Which is why I watch a lot of HGTV these days.
Back to last night's speech by Palin. I'm not impressed with her speech writer. I have a feeling we didn't hear the real Sarah Palin last night. Only the future will show that.
I liked her spunk fer sher, but I got the same feeling. I'm sure she's a maverick and a tiger and all those fierce animals, but I am looking forward to hearing more of her on-the-spot answers.
This morning on Today, Matt Lauer was asking Biden what he thought--baiting him, really. As a side note, I was also impressed with Biden's classiness; he would not be baited into saying anything rude about her. He did say that he was looking forward to the debates, because (here he was very classy, too) he said that despite her party's lack of a plan, he believes that she is very intelligent and that she is known to be a formidable debater. I don't care a thing about the debates, and will be watching anything and everything but the McCain/Obama debates, but I'll watch Biden and Palin after hearing her speech and his reaction this morning.
Can we throw out the former and keep the latter? It think it will be much more interesting that way!