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Besides the petty viciousness, the hypocrisy of the speech was staggering. The McCain campaign has been screaming for the last couple of days that the Media coverage of Palin and her family should have been “off limits.” So what does she do? Drag the whole tribe up on stage including the knocked-up teenage daughter (who was conspicuously feeding her brother during the evening) and her soon to be husband for a great big photo op. I guess the message here is that family is off limits unless they’re being used to score political points.
What I wonder is this. In an election cycle where so many people have been motivated by the Obama’s difference in tone, his appeal to a post partisan ideal, is this really going to play? I can’t imagine that with so many people (myself included) feeling energized by his candidacy, are people really going to wallow in what divides us?
