Vice-presidential debate....OMG!

[stellinacadente]

Now my humble apologies to all of you for venturing in a field of which I have limited knowledge....

more apologies for sticking my greencard holder nose into the politics of a country where I have the right to pay taxes but not to vote...

am I stating blasphemies if I say that Palin should go back to AK and stay there?

I mean the woman did not even came close to compare to senator Biden's style, communication effectiveness and strategy...

She avoided to answer most of the hot question, mostly because well... there isn't an answer...

she kept repeating "as a governor of an energy producing state" like she wanted to use the debate to advertise AK!!!!

She kept rebuffing senator Biden  for referring to the distraous policies of the Bush's admnistration like it was a bad think to do (well, I hate to break to you Sarah, but looking at the past is the only way the human race, if ever, has learnt something!)

and she said " the greed and corruption in Wall street" at least 6 time in 40 min and 59 sec of her time... like the people who could't afford to buy that 750K beach property do not have anything to do with the economy going down the toilet....

I am so greatful I do not have to vote! 

[Aggie]

Missed it, and the Canadian debate scheduled in the same time slot.  I will have to catch both... they let Elizabeth May (leader of the Green party) participate FINALLY, so it was a 5-party debate this year.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I am so greatful I do not have to vote! 

And I'm sorry you can't, sorrier even because the kind of folksy accent and narrow minded speech makes her 'likable' with the 'common folk' (the same it did with dubya)*.

I honestly was hoping for more difficult questions for her to slip, but she learned the party line well enough not to draw more negative attention to her already clueless persona.

At least Biden didn't end up with his foot in his mouth...

* how talking in aggrandizing terms about her term as a major a little town in the middle of nowhere (there might be more people living in my block here!), and her hockey mom credentials, makes someone a credible candidate for many is a mystery to me, but then again I'm a foreigner too.

[Sibling Chatty]

Hey, she didn't fall on her face, so she's exceeded expectations!!

However, she's such a puppet.

And, for those of us with sensitive ears...

NUCULAR!!

The bimbo says NUCULAR. You can tell they've tried to train it out, but she says it.

We need a law that says if you can't pronounce it correctly, you can't say it. Bugged me when Carter did it (and he was a nuclear engineer), bugs me more now.

Auuugghhh...they'll claim it as a huge victory, and the mindless will flock to her lies. That's what mindless people do.

[pieces o nine]

Well, golly gee whillikers heck, Zono.

I sure as heck hope y'all aren't a-sayin' that "Joe Sixpack/Hockey Mum" talkin' doesn't just click with the middle class folksy folks -- just like her(!) -- who are a-sittin' around their new-cue-ler  dinin' room tables, a-worryin' '-- you know -- 'bout how to send their kids to college, gosh. An gosh, jest a-hangin' on her every word as thee ex-eck-you-tiv of a energy-producin' state, for gosh' sake. Cause, gee whiz, if that's what you're sayin', by gosh, I sure as heck...

gag   

Heck! I jest can't cough up any more folksy swarin' fer all y'all.



Oi sais, iffin yer a-goin t'sware, then sware, dadgummit.

Iffin yer a-gonna talk loike a perfeshunal, then talk loike a perfeshunal.

An gosh, iffin yer gonna lie mc-shamelessly threw yer caps, heck, stop a-winkin' an a-gigglin' an a-actin' loike yer at yer first dance an yer a-lookin' t'git 'lucky'.

[Swatopluk]

Well, she was able to pronounce it correctly in her acceptance speech. The teleprompter spelled it new clear for that purpose.

[Bluenose]

I listened to it live on the radio.  I was gobsmacked at the way she handled questions she didn't like (probably because she's a clueless bimbo, but then I'm an Aussie what would I know?).  She just said "well I'd like to bring it back to energy policy" and the continued on with the same mindless crap she'd already said a number of time before.  No one called he on it!  What the hey was the moderator doing?  She just let her rabbit on about irrelevancies.  I was just about ready to throw something at the radio!

[anthrobabe]

simply 

( I hope they turn Tina Fey and writers loose with it)

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I heard she did a hell of a lot better than expected, but that meant she didn't pull a Couric, I expect.

Missed it last night (hey, friend's birthday party with swimming [yes, it's still warm enough to swim here] or tear my hair out. I picked the first option), but the youtube video is loading at the moment.

"Hey, can I call you Joe?"
Where's my puke bucket?

Update: Listening to it now.
Um, can I kill myself now? Please? She trying to connect to soccer moms. She's trying to connect to the group that won Bush another term. I hope she fails, please let her fail.
Also, she seems to ignore how much McCain has voted on party line. Biden should have pounded home on the health care issue, I think.

[pieces o nine]

He started off factual and on-topic (best course of action for him, especially since he would be damned for "picking on" or "patronizing" her otherwise).

But you could tell when he Got. Fed. Up. about halfway through with her refusal to even pretend to answer questions. He got angry -- but kept it under control -- and started treating her like the inferior candidate that she is.

I was wondering how the McCain campaign would counter the "Third Bush Term" meme and apparently simpering that Obama/Biden are "in the past" for pointing it out is their tactic. I watched the MSNBC post-debate analysis and *I* was 'gobsmacked' by how many Repub speakers gushed over her "clever strategy" of refusing to answer any question put to her, and instead setting up and answering her own. Taking control completely away from the moderator was described as the mark of an experienced and consummate debater (although I seem to remember howls and whining coming from the right when Obama "took control" during De-bait #1 in order to get back on topic.)

The MSNBC pre-debate analysis included a cameo interview with a Repug newspeaking all the McCain talking points and claiming that Palin's folksy folksiness would go over well with folksy folks in middle-class America, unlike Biden's "Arugula Middle Class" pretensions. The reporter actually took him to task on asserting that Joe Biden is an "elite" and beat him up a bit on defining what he meant by "Arugula Middle Class" but the guy wouldn't give a straight answer and wouldn't back down.

[stellinacadente]

Well, golly gee whillikers heck, Zono.

I sure as heck hope y'all aren't a-sayin' that "Joe Sixpack/Hockey Mum" talkin' doesn't just click with the middle class folksy folks -- just like her(!) -- who are a-sittin' around their new-cue-ler  dinin' room tables, a-worryin' '-- you know -- 'bout how to send their kids to college, gosh. An gosh, jest a-hangin' on her every word as thee ex-eck-you-tiv of a energy-producin' state, for gosh' sake. Cause, gee whiz, if that's what you're sayin', by gosh, I sure as heck...

gag   

Heck! I jest can't cough up any more folksy swarin' fer all y'all.



Oi sais, iffin yer a-goin t'sware, then sware, dadgummit.

Iffin yer a-gonna talk loike a perfeshunal, then talk loike a perfeshunal.

An gosh, iffin yer gonna lie mc-shamelessly threw yer caps, heck, stop a-winkin' an a-gigglin' an a-actin' loike yer at yer first dance an yer a-lookin' t'git 'lucky'.

Now, of all you you posted I could probably get like 20%, but I take it you don't like Palin either

[pieces o nine]

Gosh. Heck, does it show? 

[Opsa]

Oh gosh-n-golly no! She makes my head feel like it's caving in.

What do we have to do to make these people stop "speaking for the American People"? They are quite clearly NOT speaking for us, they're just SAYING they are. Every time I hear them say "and I think the American people agree with me-" I just want to scream. The American People are tremendously diverse. I am quite certain that my opinions do not match those of my neighbors in the house to my left, right, or across the street.

...BTW- when she says "Straight Talk", does she just mean "anti-Gay"? 'Cause she's certainly not speaking in facts.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Meh, in the end the polls after the debate went to Biden as the 'winner'. If the trend continues there is hope unless...
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[ivor]

I thought she was channeling the Boy Wonder from the original Batman series.