I enjoyed watching the Republican National Convention last night. I caught the tail end of Huckabee, all of Guiliani, and all of Palin. Brooklynne and I laughed about how Huckabee concluded with a story that we got in a chain email months ago. I always assumed those emails were mostly fabricated, but I hope Huckabee confirmed the story before he included a forwarded email in his speech.

Guiliani's speech was probably good from an overall GOP perspective, but to me, it came off as extremely condescending. We can all agree that being a community organizer alone does not qualify a person to be president, but don't make fun of or belittle community organizers!!! That is extremely insulting and I hope the GOP speech writers did not intend to imply that community organizers don't deserve the same respect and admiration we give to other community-level public servants such as teachers, doctors at free clinics, pro-bono attorneys, volunteer firemen, etc. I was highly involved with a large number of community organizers during my time as a School-Year Internship Coordinator for APPLES, and believe me, they have tough, often thankless jobs, that contribute greatly to the improvement of their cities/neighborhoods. I resent the condescending attitude of laughing at Obama's time as a community organizer.

Now that I got that off my chest, let's talk about Sarah Palin. I liked her (besides that she also poked fun of Obama's service as a community organizer). I haven't started her VP report card, and I suspect I'll have some major differences with her on the issues, but I thought she seemed warm, poised, and confident, intelligent, genuine, and tough, which gives her the qualities I want to see presented in a president. Brooklynne and I agreed that we would be glad for her to be a role model for Halleigh.

Plus her subtle upper-northwest twang was fun to listen for, don-cha-know? How bout that, eh?

Did anyone else watch last night? What did you think?