Remove the "L" and It's "McCain-Pain"

"Palin shows star power to match Obama", says Newsweek, here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/156994

All the major news websites are gushing over Sarah Palin's acceptance speech. A grand slam. Brilliant. Effective. Watch out, Joe Biden.

Might I disagree?

Comparing Palin's speech to Obama's is like comparing a nipping, biting dog to Lassie. When she wasn't downright lying (Obama's legislative record, her own relationship to "earmarks", etc) she was appealing to the small and narrow in our nature: name calling, innuendo, bravado towards the paper tiger that is the media. In comparing her Americanism to Obama's, she is, in effect, saying "His family is, you know, that other race, wink wink." Her speech was cynical, mean, closed.

You may not like Obama's outlined policy proposals. But you can't argue that his acceptance speech was in any way like Sarah Palin's, i.e., small and cheap. His rhetoric soars, he appeals to the best of our nature, he speaks to the concerns of the most vulnerable, the least represented, the middle class. His speech was inclusive; hers was mocking.

After spending days telling everyone to leave her family alone, up they came, Okay, that's fine. But how about asking that special needs mother what the Republicans did to CHIPS? What does the GOP do for sex education to prevent teen pregnancies? Oh, I forgot -- teenm pregnancy is now a GOOD thing.

And, by the way, what was that gluttonous chanting of "Drill, baby, drill!"??? It was embarrassing, watching the Republican base slobbering over the thought of destroying the environment for money.