Sarah Palin - Joe Biden Debate
I am going to keep a running dialogue of my thoughts during the debate. Since I am typing on my wife’s Mac, instead of my ThinkPad which is backing up data, my comments might seem more arrogant and condescending.
It’s a little after 8 and I am getting ready. This includes drinking a lot of coffee, finishing dinner and bringing in a cement block from the back yard to hit myself in the head after Palin makes an insanely awful comment.
I am going to watch on PBS, because I learned a lesson during the two conventions. The networks are putting on too much of a show, and PBS seems to stick to the basics.
I don’t know anyone NOT watching this tonight. Exciting, considering most VP debates are about as hyped as MASH reruns on channel 18.
It’s starting, shush.
• No cheers or applause from the audience? What fun is that? I want cow bell.
• Ok, Biden and Palin just came out. They both have the same number of letters in their last name. I am brilliant.
• SP (Sarah Palin) just asked Joe Biden (JB) if she could call him “Joe”. Nice touch. He should have said no, call me Big Big. If only I could speak through him.
• They are standing. Leading up to this, I watched several past VP debates. They would at times sit. I like them standing, it makes they look “game ready”. SP looks good. She is short. And a moose hunter in case you hadn’t heard.
• JB would be smart to keep bringing up Bush. SP would be smart to keep bringing up Obama.
• First question to Biden. He thanks Gwenn, in the tank for Obama, and says it was nice to meet Palin. His flag is much smaller than hers…which is very very interesting…very interesting indeed. Makes me wonder.
• Sarah, looking at the camera is freaking me out. Stop it. Look at Gwenn. And no more “betcha” comments. So first 60 seconds and you said soccer mom and betcha. Ugh. This could be bad.
• She looks nervous. Slow down SP, slow down. You look like Mike Tyson doing a Charlie Rose interview. You look like David Duke at a Black Panther rally (thanks Dennis Miller).
• Biden is smooth. Smooth like the bottle of scotch I am about to drink. Biden is doing a nice job. He is a perfect politician.
• She is fidgeting. She looks like she is reciting something she memorized. She needs to start speaking from her heart, not from her script. Loose the talking points.
• Did Palin just say that Americans crave something new and different, and new energy? Did she really say that? Does she know who her presidential running mate is? Its John McCain. He is 85 years old. Is she making a case for Obama? I am confused. Help me.
• Palin just said “Maverick”. EVERYBODY DRINK!!!!!!!!
• Say what you will, but Palin is attractive. Biden, not so much.
• Darn right? Did she just say Darn Right. Enough of this good ol’ boy speak, this isn’t Hazard County. Your country speak is getting real old, at least for this city boy. Or suburban boy.
• I like that Biden keeps saying John is a “good man”.
• Biden just said Wall Street should “self regulate itself”. Patti just got up and said she was going to self regulate herself another glass of wine. Oye, now we have two morons (two being Palin and Biden, not Biden and Patti).
• Wait a sec, wait wait wait. Biden just said he asked Joey Bagadonuts at the local Citco how much it costs to fill up his Yugo. And he said Joey said he doesn’t know, because he doesn’t have enough money to fill it up. I am confused. If he can’t afford gas, which is awful, why is he at the gas station. And everyone from the northeast knows to the PENNY how much they spend on everything.
• Oh, Sarah, answer the freakin question. Great, you did some good things in Alaska, but you need to answer the question that was asked.
• Why is Gwenn throwing out multiple questions to each candidate at the same time. She is all over the place.
• So, Biden, 5% of the people are going to bear the brunt of the tax increases so 95% of the people will be ok. Hmm. Interesting. Why not take all of their money and distribute it to the 95%, which is what you are recommending. Redistribution of well is fine, if we lived in a communist society. But what do I know, I didn’t go to Harvard.
• Was Biden making googly eyes at Palin. I think he was. Easy Big Boy, she’s taken.
• Is McCain’s healthcare plan detailed and will Palin give us some details on it. Just the details please, detail it out. Detailed.
• Wow, Biden did a great job with the health care plan rebuttal. Nice. Not sure if he is totally accurate, but nice job scaring the crap out of me.
• Now Biden’s looking at the camera. Its throwing me off. Look at Gwenn.
• Is that Tina Fey, or Sarah Palin. I actually think I like Tina’s version better.
• Ha, she has been at this five weeks, that was pretty funny. I like that. That was clever. Good job SP.
• Biden’s starting to slip. “quote, I’m paraphrasing”. What the hell does that mean? I’m not an English teacher, but is that good English?
• I don’t like where Biden is going with bankruptcy. So a judge can come in and change the value of a home and what someone owes on that home? That doesn’t sound fair.
• Wow. Palin, your response to climate change was…well…hmm…interesting…kind of rambling…a little incoherent….a little like my 6 year explaining physics.
• We’ve been at this for almost an hour and they only just now said “fundamental difference” when explaining the two camps. Come on Biden and Palin, you are slipping.
• I am losing steam a little. Both sides are starting to become boring, repetitive and a little pedantic.
• I admit I drifted off, but did Palin just say “Senator O’Biden”.
• Patti just said “this type of discussion is supposed to help us clear up who to vote for?”
• So conversation, from both sides, about gay marriage was messy.
• Both of them kind of fell into a rhythm. The discussion on the war was not as divisive as I thought it would be. Sarah is doing better now that she has a few zings under her belt.
• I am getting used to them looking directly into the camera. Biden has been doing it as well.
• Everybody has a passion for diplomacy. Passion passion passion. We all want diplomacy. Until some madman lobs a nuclear bomb into a friendly nation. But diplomacy is the first step.
• Biden: “No one has been a better friend with Israel than Biden”. What about Lieberman? He’s Jewish.
• EVERYBODY DRINK
• I am done. Nice ending, Biden, very heartfelt. Goodbye and goodnight.