Should be interesting

Hahaha! Islandgal, according to the Republican posters, the fix is already in to conspire against Palin. Stay tuned . . .

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Sure wish she
could pronounce Iraq/Iran correctly. She also pronounces
nuclear as new-cu-lar. Her "good old gal" act is out of place for the position she seeks.

I just shut off the TV ...They are both posturing and I cannot listen to anymore of their combined cr..
What a misery this election is , can't stand either candidate..back to voting for the lesser of 2 evils,and who might that be????? Arghhhhhhh

Originally Posted by beady

I just shut off the TV ...They are both posturing and I cannot listen to anymore of their combined cr..
What a misery this election is , can't stand either candidate..back to voting for the lesser of 2 evils,and who might that be????? Arghhhhhhh

Posturing. You got it.

I cannot believe they are not coaching her to lose that spunky, cute, girl next door routine and to try to come off like a world leader. And the word energy is getting pounded into the ground. "Go! Fight! Win!" She sounds like the head cheerleader trying to get us all pumped up for the big game. And I am not saying this to be mean or to pick on her. Really. But I sure would market her differently. She keeps going after the vote she already has.

And Biden just comes off slicker than snot on a doorknob.

A misery indeed.

What Beady said.

Me, too.

And now I will shut up. I cannot believe I started hanging out in political again tonight. What was I thinking?

Boomer

I still think she has a string coming out of her back. When you pull the string, the good old gal, memorized lines come out by rote. She coyly flirts with us on an eighth grade level. This is a possible world leader???

Why does she keep winking and making that clicking sound with her mouth?

I'm trying to find the right words. And, believe it or not, I'm trying to be fair. I agree with Boomer 100% that they should get that "you betcha Joe Six-Pack" out of her. It appears they think this connects with people. What people? The ones that can't even spell GED, I fear. This is not the woman I would want representing women in any way, shape or form. Much less our country. Way and I mean, waaaayyyyy out of her league.

To be fair, I think she did what her party wanted her to do. The bar was set so low, even she could not stumble. Energy, reform and maverick were her buzz words. (Although Biden snuffed out the maverick image and I noticed she then stopped using it.) Thank God. She did not make me, personally, feel any more comfortable than before. If I lived around people that "folksy" quite frankly, I'd move. The thought of her and Putin staring each other in the eyes is chilling.

I thought the moderator was fair, but not that good. She did not do the follow-ups I would have liked to have seen. Palin seemed to want to control the debate, even telling the moderator she might not answer everything asked. And somehow, that was allowed.

Joe Biden made me feel comfortable especially in the Foreign Policy segment. I liked that he didn't use kid gloves, but was still always the gentleman. I liked that when she pulled out the "mom" card, he trumped it with the "dad" card.'' I think he answered all of the questions. I can't say the same for Palin.

All in all, I don't think this debate changed anyone's minds.

I really hate to bring any substantive issues into this discussion, but when Biden said that climate change was 100% man-made, I just couldn't believe it. When did we build refineries on Mars?

Another day we can get into easterners' (& Californians') disdain for fly-over people.

wink wink!!

I thought the Palin and Biden debate was forgettable. They both made we wince at times. And why does she have to drag that poor little baby around on stages?

Sarah Palin didn't do herself any harm, but she also seldom answered the questions directly, so she didn't do herself much good either. Biden was okay, didn't smack Palin around (figuratively, of course), and didn't bloviate much. All-in-all, a pretty boring experience. If you want a debate, put the two debaters (or is it debators?) in a room together in front of the camera with no moderator, and let them duke it out. In that format, you can't hide and you can't evade the questions. But that will never happen as long as the networks get to set the agenda.

I think Biden did a better job of connecting McCain to Bush than Obama did. Palin got in a couple of zingers. There was the typical political posturing (lying and exaggerating) by both of them. All in all, they seemed like two nice people who were trying to respect their opponents.

Palin needs someone to point out to her that the U.S. doesn't need a down-home, aw shucks soccer mom. If she's shrewd enough to go from mayor of a small town to governor, she's certainly a lot shrewder than she's showing. We need to see her srtengths, not her cuteness.

It really is hard to pick on Biden. He has the age and experience and the savvy needed to show his best side. He can be dull and long-winded, but he is a politician, albeit one of the nicer ones.

It is strange to think that regardless of who is elected to be president, our vice president will be the poorest we've ever had.

At this point, I think I'd rather have Biden for prez and Palin for vp (given our choices) than the two running for that office.

There, I think that covers my opinion of the VP debate and more or less what I feel about these two. (YAWN probably sums it up best.)

Originally Posted by samhass

Sure wish she
could pronounce Iraq/Iran correctly. She also pronounces
nuclear as new-cu-lar. Her "good old gal" act is out of place for the position she seeks.

I agree with you. I find it irritating that she says "ya" instead of "you" and "goin" instead of "going", that type of thing. It makes her sound uneducated. I know she's been coached to make the best of her strong points, i.e. her folksiness, but I too would prefer someone who speaks a little more intelligently.