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D’oh.
“…This doesn’t happen in America, maybe Ohio, but not in America…”
How appropos. Use this a a vice presidential debate open thread.
Homer Simpson votes – vice presidential debate open thread
03 Friday Oct 2008
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03 Friday Oct 2008
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D’oh.
“…This doesn’t happen in America, maybe Ohio, but not in America…”
How appropos. Use this a a vice presidential debate open thread.
…on C-SPAN.
This debate will just go to show that you can’t cram a lifetime of experience and thoughtful contemplation of the nation’s great challenges into three days if you’ve been an intellectual sloth all of your existence. Oh, wait, that wouldn’t explain this.
Sarah Palin: “Can I call you Joe?”
…if you’re playing a debate drinking game and you have to chug the bottle when Sarah Palin first mentions soccer. Chug away.
“Maverick” – chug away. Oh, noooo. “Maverick” – again. Chug away.
…the way you or the moderator wants but I’ll talk to the American people.”
Translation: “I don’t know.”
…quote Ronald Reagan.
“Government is the problem.”
“Where I come from…Scranton…we don’t call it redistribution of wealth, we call it fairness.”
On McCain health care plan: “Replacing $12,000 in health insurance with a $5,000 tax credit check that goes directly to the insurance company is the ultimate ‘Bridge to Nowhere’.” [laughter]
This is beginning to sounds like Fargo:
As an answer to global warming?
“Your plan is a white flag of surrender.”
A two state solution is a two state solution, two state solutionaly.
Palin: “There’s just too much finger pointing backwards.”
Biden: If there is a difference from Bush, why aren’t we hearing anything about it?
Palin on Afghanistan: We’re building schools.
“America is a country of Exceptionalism.”
…the war on the mainstream media.
Those damn liberal easterners!
and not wander off into non sequiturs, and for the most part, that’s what happened.
I feared Biden might say something off the wall, but he was beautiful, just kept hitting McCain. I loved the way he kept hammering at his record. Furthermore, he showed in his answer about Iran and Pakistan and their relative importance that he understands the situation in that part of the world, has depth she can’t touch.
Biden came across as informed, calm and yet capable of emotion. There was no K.O., but he won it on points.
How many Americans will agree with that assessment is, of course, the question. Guess we’ll see.
about Cheney and his function as part of the legislature or the executive? It seemed to me that she did not understand what Ifill was talking about at all–which is whay she launched into the description of her executive experience.
I was in a room with a laptop, and I kept it closed out of courtesy.
I subsisted on asking “Is the question on the screen wrong?” during some Palin answers, and trying to not let watching Biden guide me into being way too talkative and odd.
I hope I made it fine. Biden being Biden is workable, and I think he did well tonight. He stayed on McCain, Palin didn’t seem to get anything big in on either side. Biden didn’t ignore attacks and distortions on Obama.
Palin kept repeating phrases over and over. Her vision of McCain on the economy was based on some sort of alternate reality. It was.. interesting. But she didn’t freeze up or say anything too weirdly off-tone other than claiming Obama was going to surrender in Iraq.
So it was all good.
In conclusion, not a lot of people vote for President based on the VP.
Saying in 1976 that Poland is not dominated by the Soviet Union IS a gaffe.
Saying that it is patriotic to ask rich Americans to pay taxes is NOT a gaffe.