Gov. Palin talkin' energy – UPDATED

Found this over at Dirty Harry’s Place.

If you like, you can also listen to a 1/2-hour interview podcasted by IBD, and it’s interesting and heartening. She’s very well spoken.

UPDATE: And reading this piece, I find that I am more and more pleased that she is not another Ivy League lawyer who planned and plotted a political career, but rather a concerned and active, intelligent woman who simply followed her own interests and concerns, and walked through the doors and opportunities as they were placed before her. That’s refreshing – it is also so very “can-do American.”

We forget, sometimes, that Harry Truman was just a haberdasher, and not an elitist, too. (end update)

I saw some negative comments from people, today, suggesting – on the basis of what, besides simple mean-spiritedness, I cannot tell – that Sarah Palin is “Dan Quayle with a vagina.” That sentiment seems to have started here.

I found her pretty impressive in that clip. Smart, articulate, forthright and authentic.

Bookworm has McCain’s response to the Obama camp’s initial, and rather ungenerous response to his veep pick. I had always thought that a gracious acknowledgment was simply the way it was done.

Anyway, it seems like they’re wasting no time taking Palin out of context. That’s how it goes, I guess. Unsurprisingly, they’re also saying really gross things about little Trig, and about her children. Classy, classy bunch.

You read the crap they’re coming up with and you realize, they’re terrified.

But you know, in the past few weeks we’ve seen several right-wing blogs defend the Obama team against excessive nonsense (the birth certificate carrying-on, for example) – I do hope we’ll manage to see one or two blogs from the other side actually give Palin a hearing – in context – before jumping aboard.