I think we did see her unscripted. Her snarling relish said it all for me.
Perhaps this is a minor issue because poetical and it's odd for me to be defending Obama, whose own speech I just lambasted on a nearby thread (I'm a democratic socialist, à la George Orwell). But why this obsession with Obama's "clouds of rhetoric" (that's rhetoric on my part; I know the answer)? To craft one's words and to deliver them with passion used to be hallmarks of care and sincerity. Now they indicate their opposites.
What we heard last night was close to fin de siècle Vienna's politics "in a sharper key," falling just short of a call to violence. (And, no, I'm not approaching a Hitler comparison. I won't destroy my argument that way.)
[This message has been edited by Mike Slippkauskas (edited September 04, 2008).]
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