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Palin whipped ass. An angle I hadn't considered, that only she as a woman can do, is question O's masculinity. She managed to do that several times.



As well as his qualifications:

ST. PAUL — After days of mounting questions about her qualifications, Gov. Sarah Palin rallied the Republican National Convention tonight by touting her small-town government experience and ridiculing concerns about whether she is up to the job of vice president.

"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown,” Ms. Palin said. “And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities...”

The remark was a not-so-veiled shot at the career of Senator Barack Obama, who began his public service as a community organizer in Chicago.

In spirited remarks that were embraced by a crowd that was thirsty to learn more about her, Ms. Palin also took on what she portrays as an elite media establishment unwilling to accept that her government service in a small town and a sparsely populated state gives her the resume to serve at the highest levels of the federal government.

“I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone,” she said in her remarks. “But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion – I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country..."

In her remarks, the governor promised that a new McCain/Palin administration would undertake an aggressive program to deliver new domestic energy.

“We’re going to lay more pipelines ... build more nuclear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources,” she said. “We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers..."

To counter those who have questioned her lack of foreign policy credentials, she said: “With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.

“To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies,” she said, “or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia, or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries, we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.”

“Take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska,” she said, “we’ve got lots of both.”

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What was Obama doing about the Georgia crisis again? Oh, yeah, that's right: He was vacationing in Hawaii.