Her voice is grating.

[Sannum]

She has that high-pitched squeal of women who think that they are just darling. Reminds me of someone I work with. Fucking Idiot.

I can't wait to send these people out on a fucking rail.

[MrMickeysMom]

1. Is it the "nasal" fingernail scratching squeal?

That would go so well with the lisping senile throatiness of her running mate.

[CJCRANE]

2. McCain is irritating too.

He always talks like he's telling his grand-children a bed-time story.

[Sannum]

3. myyyy frriendsssss

:shudder:

[grassfed]

11. yeaagh

[kestrel91316]

4. She lacks gravitas. Actually, she sounds like a teenager and about as informed.

[nc4bo]

5. Or a high school cheerleader :S (no offense to HS cheerleaders out there) nt

[CJCRANE]

15. It's doubly annoying that

the Dem convention was so good and so well organized and suddenly these amateurs (McCain/Palin) steel the limelight and appear to be making it up as they go along.

[Phx_Dem]

6. 538.com describes it as a "Fargo" accent.

This morning one of the anchors on either CNN and MSNBC (can't remember what I was watching), said her voice was squeaky and a little shrill. They said she "need to work on that." True, because bad voices are hard to listen to for very long.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

So why is the Obama campaign going for the jugular and critiquing Sarah Palin's experience? Shouldn't they be happy enough that the experience argument was essentially taken off the table by this selection?

Because it isn't really an argument about experience per se. It's an argument about whether she meets the basic threshold test of voters feeling comfortable with having her as President. Experience is a part of that, but so are essentially the aesthetics of it: picturing a young, attractive, kooky, female governor from Alaska who has an accent straight out of Fargo in the White House is going to be a much bigger leap for many voters than picturing Barack Obama there.

And whereas Obama has had eighteen months to make himself familiar to voters, the McCain campaign has barely any time to roll Palin out. It's not that she's inexperienced so much as that she's new.

[OneGrassRoot]

7. DFW posed the question in another thread...

who her voice reminded him of.

I just heard her in the background while not looking at her, and she sounded like the Karen character from Will and Grace.

Megan Mullaly (sp?)

Loved that character, couldn't stand the voice.

But Lieberman reminds me of the dude in Alf.

[spanone]

8. she reminds me of my whining, super right-wing rep...marsha blackburn

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[Neshanic]

9. I KNOW! I first heard her today and yikes! That was the first thing I said to myself.

[ecstatic]

10. It's not presidential. Can you imagine overseas talks? nt

[JustAnotherGen]

12. She reminds me

Of that yip yip dog Susan Molinari

[BlueIdaho]

13. Weird Voice

Women from Idaho DO NOT talk like that! I can't imagine where she got that accent.

[FormerConservative]

14. My wife immediately commented on her grating voice when she first saw Palin on tv