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Republican Convention

Last week mom and I watched part of Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention. Some time into it, I'm not sure just how far, we both announced to each other that we were done with it, bored and somewhat dismayed at the vacuous platitudes he was spewing. We shut it off, I'll say 1/2 way through and yawned and went to bed.

Tonight we watched Sarah Palin's acceptance speech to the Republican Convention. We both stayed glued to the TV the whole time! We were most impressed with her speech, agreeing with most of what she said and impressed with her delivery as well. About 1/2 through this speech instead of turning it off I turned to mom and delcared "I wish Sarah Palin was running for President!"

So, at the moment, barring changes in what I know of the candidates, I'm leaning very heavily toward McCain and might vote for a Republican over the Libertarian for the first time since Ronald Regan.

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