Palin/Biden open thread

Biden would carry out Obama's policies. Gives list.

Someone above said Biden is still running for president--agree.

Actually more precise than Obama usually is!

Gov's reply: Heaven forbid. McCain wants deliberative debate with VP, hasn't asked her to check her opinions at the door.

BTW, were the terrible performances in the Couric interviews a set up to make her look better when she actually debated?

on many of the issues. I'm not sure if he's right all the time.

As much as I like Sarah Palin, I find her tedious, staged and cutesy. It's too bad because I really want her to succeed for the sake of women leaders. But I can't stand the winking, the references to main street and all the dropped "g"s.

I respectfully disagree that she is strong in this debate. Visually she comes off as tense with a tinge of "dear in the headlights."

"There you go again, dog gone it..." Yikes, she's quoting Ronald Reagan.

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Yes, she sounds like home, to me. She's so sweet she's making my teeth rot.

It's not working at all. It's time to put it out to pasture, it deserves a good rest.

Barf :(

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Ha! Palin is just great. Wrong in every single way, but great.

The President Dies? question.

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Again, I was very much excited by her entry into the contest but she's really making it hard to respect her with her. I still want to see her succeed, it's important.

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I know she's been ripped apart, but this is so much better than the Jim Lehrer debate. Ifill seems to want them to answer questions. Jim wanted to see nothing more than a circus, and tried his damndest to make it so by egging them to fight each other.

I'm looking forward to the Brokaw presidential debate, the most, though. He seems the only one who's been able to keep his head, this year.

Seen on other blogs something along these lines:

"Biden was calm and confident and his years of experience really showed. Sarah Palin was uncomfortable and new she was way overmatched by Biden."

favoritism. But, I agree, she's doing well.

Hooray!!

Now, will someone put Leher out to pasture?

...and it was very real.

Biden has been very restrained, he hasn't rambled on and on, but been quite succinct. He's done a good job defending Obama's (and his) plans and record from the mischaracterizations/lies thrown around by the Palin/McCain camp.

Oooh, just called Cheney the most dangerous veep in US history. Go, Joe, Go!!!! I give him bonus points for that.

Palin has not fallen on her face. Her folksiness irritates me, she even threw in Reagan's "there you go again," and I personally think the refusal to correct the pronunciation of nukular and Eye-rack is deliberate, a shout out to the so-called real folks of red-state Amurrikah. That said, she has studied up a lot, and she's been relatively coherent.

Biden comes across as more impressive and knowledgeable. He wins on responses. That said, this will give a slight bump to McCain, only because things went south after last week's Palin interviews with Couric.

Re: the gay marriage thing - I know so many people are distressed by the stance of Obama et al (all of them), but looked at from another angle, both VP candidates, including the conservative one, acknowledged the legitimacy of same-sex relationships, and the need for legal equality. That's huge. The culture, it is a-changin'.

We've seen just isn't coming across, here. She does relatively poor interviews by Village standards, but she is not a shrinking violet in debates. Again, her biggest problem in national politics is that she's a normal human being; she doesn't speak Villagese.

Hillary treatment for showing that emotion?

Then I realized, no, bcz he's a guy, a longtime player in DC, and a frequent guest on all the talk shows. So, no. Plus, this year it's the Republicans' turn at the bottom of the barrel. Obama is getting the benefit of the doubt, never given to Gore, Kerry, or Hillary. Edwards they took our early with utter ridicule.

all of Bush's picks to the floor for a vote--and it wasn't him who killed Bork. He let Bork go to the floor for a vote too.

I'd feel better with Joe Biden or Sarah Palin in the WH.

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...skin crawls when he hears Palin call McCain a maverick. He visibly bristles at that characterizations.

I disagree - I think he's been pretty feisty tonight about a number of things. I liked his take-down of the "maverick" label. He was very forceful (and effective) pointing out that in three weeks we spent more on Iraq than we have spent in 6+ years on Afghanistan (that I did not know).

I really don't want another president or vice-president who repeatedly says "folks". Palin: there are a lot of diverse folks in my family.

Ugh.

oops, Biden just said "folks"

drinking games based on the number of times the words "maverick" and "heck" were used, you'd have alcohol poisoning by now. "Doggonit" too.

all I'm doing is looking at her. I can't take my eyes off her. I don't want to but it was psychologically compelling.

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