Just finished a five-mile run in some pretty thick humidity. But I feel pretty good and am ready for action.
iPod: some political podcasts
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Sent from my Verizon Wireless LGVX9900 device.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
This is a test
I figured I'd try to see if I can blog via phone. Isn't technology grand?
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Sent from my Verizon Wireless LGVX9900 device.
Eerie similarities
Hearing some of the speech again, the cadences and specific phrasing used by Sarah Palin echo John McCain — as if the words could have been written for McCain. This raises some questions about what is to come down the road. Are the words she is speaking her words and will she be ready to work away from the teleprompter? That remains to be seen.
The fear card
The pieces of the speeches I caught — by the Texas railroad commissioner, by Giuliania and Palin — all played the fear and conspiracy card, painting the world as a far more dangerous place than it is while demonizing the notion of allies and international consensus. That matches the Bush approach and sets up a McCain administration likely to engage in a series of foreign misadventures.
Nice speech, but….
As I said, she gives a nice speech, but it remains to be seen whether she can cut in on the campaign trail. There are nine weeks left, so we will see.
