{"id":12758,"date":"2008-10-03T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T00:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/03\/can-i-read-from-my-notes-you-betcha.html"},"modified":"2008-10-03T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T00:15:39","slug":"can_i_read_from_my_notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/can_i_read_from_my_notes.html","title":{"rendered":"Can I read from my notes?  You betcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the cutting back and forth last night (on MSNBC, at least), it wasn&#8217;t always obvious, but Palin spent a <em>lot <\/em>of time (often at the beginning of her answers) checking her notes on the lectern before her. And we&#8217;re not talking about &#8220;what&#8217;s the name of the US commander in Afghanistan before I misspeak it?&#8221; kind of notes but &#8220;ah, there&#8217;s the talking point and clever quip I was told to make first&#8221; kind of notes. Over and over again. <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/03\/palin-can-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pZ7Fp6QH150&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8212; this is the woman that McCain says he keeps consulting with for advice.<\/p>\n<p>Charitably, perhaps she was trying to evoke the spirit of Ronald Reagan, himself an inveterate user of little bundles of 3&#215;5 cards. Indeed, she might well have scored some points with the base if she&#8217;d been open about it and drawn that connection. Instead, she comes off more as a high school debater (&#8220;Um &#8230; Okay, first affirmative, plan meet advantage, Time Magazine, September 25th 2007 &#8230;&#8221;) than as &#8230; well &#8230; an executive.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Les)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cutting back and forth last night (on MSNBC, at least), it wasn&#8217;t always obvious, but Palin spent a lot of time (often at the beginning of her answers)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12776,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/feeling_sorry_for_sarah_p.html","url_meta":{"origin":12758,"position":0},"title":"Feeling sorry for Sarah Palin","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Sep-08 7:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to confess, for all that I've been busting her chops, I'm feeling a little sorry for Sarah Palin. 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