I was working on configuring my DVR to work with my current cable setup on Wednesday night and so I saw about five minutes of GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin’s speech, off and on as I labored to get things working (it is Linux after all). Based on the little that I saw, I have two things to say. First, she did not write that speech (or even have a hand in writing it), and that was obvious. Second, when she debates Joe Biden it will be over for her. It will be like if the internet is a dump truck and it runs over her. She was so incorrectly informed on so many issues; it was ridiculous. How many issues can you show you are misinformed on in five minutes? It was an impressive feat of ignorance.
On the TV front, it is working, but the cable setup is wonky. There are only 19 channels on the analog service :-( and I don’t yet have a cable box. Also, the signal strength coming off the wire is pitiful. I put it into a 4 way splitter and attenuated things to the point where I couldn’t get > 65% HD signal strength. With a two way splitter I get 75%, which works. I used to get 99% with a 4 way at my old place. Looks like I’ll be buying an amplified splitter, and getting a cable box. Hopefully it will be the same easy to control model as my last cable box, which, had a standard, open serial port on the back for that purpose.
Like Obama really writes his own speeches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I did say “have a hand in.” I later learned that her speech was written by someone who also writes speeches for Bush. That is why it seemed so obvious she didn’t write it. It sounded like Bush talking. If you have your own trusted writer, then while it may not be you’re writing. It at least doesn’t sound like someone else’s.