so I finally managed to watch his speech and I have to agree with Ethan mostly. If you'd read anything a step outside the obvious (i.e. whats on the news) then this would be not the analysis. This would be the thesis.
To give the kid a break, he's 13 and he had a two minute speech but I'll garuntee his book is a no-**** synopsis of conservative rhetorical speech.
For the record, the ideas they are preaching are that governemnt should be limited. Thats conservatism. Whats practiced is republicanism, which is not anti-government, but anti-democratic execution meaning that rather than using govenment to create social programs, they use it to regulate morality because people left to their own devices (according to them) can't be as moral as they should. This gets you practices like....
Banning Stem Cell Research
Prohibition
Prevention of Condoms in schools.
You'll not thats a stark difference between the conservative that would find this level of intervention horrifying.
And thats really the problem. Its not intention or "principles", its practice. And in practice no "conservative" actually is. By all accounts, the democrats execute a more limited government than the republicans do at this point in time.
As for the Obama thing, there is a reaction to him because he is good. Its an easier thing to detract, but I chalk that up to playing to his base. All in all its because he's 13, not because he's intelligent that we're talking about him. The republicans are a gimmick party, and this is another Palin, "suspend the campaign", put *** marriage referendums on the ballot in '04.
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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Yeah, I wasn't impressed by his speaking or words, though it's great he's interested in politics.
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I don't know that this is fair. He's a good speaker, and he'll get better with age.