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Palin speech: 'Home run' or 'condescending'?

Sarah Palin accepted the GOP vice presidential nomination at the party's convention with a speech highly critical of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. "She came in with bats swinging and hit a home run with me," said iReporter Barbara Grant of Connecticut. But for Rob Crawford of Washington, D.C., Palin appeared "condescending and elitist." <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_topstories?a=hut2w5"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_topstories?i=hut2w5" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=vlOf3L"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=vlOf3L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=GKjl7L"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=GKjl7L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=cFECLl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=cFECLl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=aczdoL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=aczdoL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=ZTyPnl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=ZTyPnl" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/383425453" height="1" width="1"/>