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Biden suffered knockout in debate
Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 | 2:05 a.m.
Regarding the Las Vegas Sun’s Saturday editorial headlined “Presidential timber?”:
First, the tree that fell in the forest was Joe Biden. Seventy million people tuned into the Sarah Palin- Biden debate and I don’t think they tuned in to hear Biden. What’s with you people on the left?
Biden took a knockout punch, and no matter how the far left spins it, Biden was the timber that fell in the forest. Biden was never in command as the Sun stated in its editorial, and he was on the defense all night. He didn’t have his talking points right and his little white lies stood out like a sore thumb.
You had to laugh at Biden trying to defend someone that even he’s not sure of. Give me the qualifications and knowledge of Sarah Palin; I already saw Biden’s qualifications and knowledge with this bailout to Wall Street.
How long do you have to be in Congress before you get it right? And how long will you keep defending the likes of Biden before getting the facts right?
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They tuned in to see Palin screw up. She didn't screw up because she didn't provide any specific answers to specific questions. It's hard to be accused of anything when you don't say anything. But they did not tune in to see her shine. THAT'S the fact check.
Exactly right, Teaser.
Yep
Mr. Mesker,
Of the two Vice Presidnetial candidates, I would suggest that it is Sarah Palin who knows nothing of the particulars of the record belonging to the person heading her ticket.
COURIC: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
PALIN: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie--that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.
COURIC: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
PALIN: He's also known as the maverick though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about--the need to reform government.
COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?
PALIN: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.
Gee willickers and gosh'em golly. She only gave the blandest of bland generalities and can't be expected to know anything about foreign policy or any policy except her extreme evangelical views.
Mr. Mesker, I don't know what you were watching but the only thing that Palin was successful of was not falling flat, as many expected her to do. Credit to her for that but as for Biden getting "knocked out"... um, I don't think so.
When Palin announced to Ifill and Biden that she wasn't going to answer the questions, I scored the entire debate for Biden. She may have made the far right feel all warm and fuzzy, but she told the rest of America that she didn't know the answers and didn't care to know the answers. In fact, all she had was Rovian talking point, kind of like a trained seal.
Just think, when leaders from Russia or some other country sit down to talk, she'll just tell them that their concerns are not of interest, but that she has a really good recipe for "moose stew."
My God, back in the day I could see Mexico from where I lived in California. I must have foreign policy experience. I should be made an envoy to Latin America. I can also stand toe to toe against Chavez and Castro.
Obama use to claim he had foreign policy experience because he grew up in a mulism country.
Hey at least he's been to another country. Unlike Palin who's only been to Mexico and Canada, once.
Excellent foreign policy credentials...Mr. 3 year part-time senator and 7 year state senator.
Last I heard Hawaii where Obama lived from 5th grade through high school is not a 'mulism' country but rather is part of the United States. And he lived with his American mother in Indonesia as a very young boy - do you hold that against military kids who live abroad w/ their parents? And even if Obama was (he's not) a muslim, who cares?
Mr. Mesker you should read the lastest on cnn.com. "More Americans appear to have an unfavorable view of Gov. Sarah Palin, and that may also be helping Obama in the fight for the presidency. Forty percent now have an unfavorable view of Palin, up from 27 percent a month ago and from 21 percent in late August, when McCain surprised many people by picking the first-term Alaska governor as his running mate."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/06/p...
The further away from the debate we get, the clearer we see it: she is way out of her depth; Biden has command of the issues.
She was reading from cue cards, was unable to or unwilling to answer questions - either is totally unacceptable in a candidate for high office in a Democracy.
Sadly, it's not really her judgement that is in question here - it is John McCain's for having selected such a terrible candidate, and the American people understand this - the polls are clear.
Oh please. For Palin a victory meant not screwing up Ahmadinejad's name. She knows nothing about nothing, was rude to Ms. Ifill by completely ignoring her questions, and sounded like she was running for VP of the PTA, not the USA. Her inexperience doesn't bother me as much as her utter lack of intelligence, integrity and honesty. The woman is a tired old joke that's no longer funny.
Oh and how are those character attacks on Obama working for ya? Last time I checked Obama's numbers keep rising while McPalin's are falling like a hot potato. Keep talking, honey, keep talking.
The republicans seem very desperate now. Instead of lauding how much better their candidate is, they only are relying on how bad Obama is. News flash folks, voters don't vote against candidates, they vote for them. Start building up your own candidate, or else you're looking at a bad loss this November. I think the electorate is tired of being shocked and fearmongered into voting republican again.
Gov Palin's expectations going into the "debate" were so low, short of not showing up, she did much better than expected. So, she must get a shout-out for that. I never in my life ever expected a candidate for Vice President of the United States to ever say the words "shout out".
Did anyone miss that she had no idea what the expression "achilles heel" means?
Her cue cards read:
"DRILL BABY, DRILL"! "HE'S SUCH A MAVERICK"!
"MY STATE ALASKA IS REALLY BIG"! "BARACK OBAMA IS DOWNRIGHT ANTI-AMERICAN. HECK, HE VOTES AGAINST OUR TROOPS"! "DID I MENTION JOHN IS SUCH A MAVERICK"? "This all makes me so giddy"!