Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
Sep. 4th, 2008 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningBy chance, I found myself listening to Sarah Palin’s speech to the Republican convention in the early hours of this morning. I’ll admit that she didn’t have my complete attention: I was trying to get back to sleep, and I hoped that listening to 5Live might help me.
What surprised me was the complete adulation by the crowd gathered to hear her. Sure, they were there because they are fans. But I have just heard one member of the audience tell BBC news how the speech felt like a normal conversation – how Ms Palin talked like someone in her town.
It must be an odd town to have one’s every phrase greeted by huge applause. Even things that clearly didn’t warrant it. She could have read the phone book and that audience would have applauded.
It was also a very partisan speech: perhaps she does know her audience. But it didn’t go down well with me. It made her sound a bit crazy, frankly.
So I wasn’t really surprised to read this post on Liberal Conspiracy and this one at Harry’s Place about Palin’s beliefs and allegiances: she appears to be of the fundamentalist “last days” camp. And she may one day have the power to bring about the last day.
Maybe time to start praying for Obama?
What surprised me was the complete adulation by the crowd gathered to hear her. Sure, they were there because they are fans. But I have just heard one member of the audience tell BBC news how the speech felt like a normal conversation – how Ms Palin talked like someone in her town.
It must be an odd town to have one’s every phrase greeted by huge applause. Even things that clearly didn’t warrant it. She could have read the phone book and that audience would have applauded.
It was also a very partisan speech: perhaps she does know her audience. But it didn’t go down well with me. It made her sound a bit crazy, frankly.
So I wasn’t really surprised to read this post on Liberal Conspiracy and this one at Harry’s Place about Palin’s beliefs and allegiances: she appears to be of the fundamentalist “last days” camp. And she may one day have the power to bring about the last day.
Maybe time to start praying for Obama?