VP Debates

Well gosh darn it, I must say – I really do agree that was one GORGEOUS silk black suit Gov. Palin had on last night. Perhaps Cindy McCain took her shopping at one of those places Joe Six Pack normally doesn’t shop, ya know?

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Yeah. O.k. The VP debates were far more entertaining than the presidential debate was but I nearly laughed out loud at how **cough** beauty pageant **cough** trained , robotic Palin was as she’d turn to face the camera, put on the smile, tilt that pretty head and give her very well memorized speech that her desperate workers had been hammering into her the last several days. It worked in the sense that the overwhelming response was “wow –she didn’t COMPLETELY suck this time”. ;)

The very first real question regarding deregulation and the subprime mortgage crisis she absolutely refused to answer The moderator pointed it out and what she did decide to focus on (instead of the question posed to her (they should train her how to disguiser her diversions better) Biden was quick to expose Palin’s “cherry picking” of what to tell regarding voting history in the Senate when it came to Obama. “umm, McCain voted the same” and her use of old school statistical tricks regarding taxes so she could falsely represent. A good example was Palin’s “small business” claim regarding taxes to where Biden could retort that that would work except 95% of small businesses didn’t make the money to get into the tax bracket she was discussing.

When it came to what to sacrifice in your campaign now that the financial crisis has taken precedent (neither presidential candidate would touch this either) – Biden immediately said “we’d cut in half the foreign aid promise we wanted to originally double”. Palin, for the second question of the night, refused to answer the question and went into her rhetoric garble so beautifully demonstrated by Tina Fey’s last impersonation on SNL.

When it came to Bankruptcy Judges being given power to change principals and interest rates on mortgage loans for folks in their court (I’m totally against this) –Biden answered directly and though I hated his answer – it was direct. Palin’s rhetoric was so bad on this one we literally had to rewind our tivo and listen to it again and laughed at how it made zero sense. I guess if you throw enough “gosh darn its” in their your hope is to baffle them with charm and not let them realize how you don’t’ really have anything of substance to say.

I found it admirable she was direct about her discomfort over same sex marriage (guess Ellen & Porta won’t get an invite to the white house if she wins) and her body language showed how uncomfortable that clearly makes her, but they agreed on allowing civil rights to gay marriages so that is a good thing in the end.

Iraq. Good god. McCain & Obama voted the same regarding funding the troops and she again, cherry picked her language to make Obama the bad guy despite the fact McCain voted the exact same way on the vote she was referring to. I loved Biden’s comment to point that out and to advise that currently, Obama, the President of Iraq and our current President of her party in charge now all agree on Iraq ’s current plan but McCain is the only one on the outside about staying longer.

Despite the fact the lady has an Israel flag hanging in her Alaska office, she couldn’t mention Pakistan in any substance when asked if Pakistan or Iraq would be more dangerous with nukes. She went off onto the “visit with leaders w/out presidence” issue that McCain hammered in his debate, and Biden (like Obama) reminded her that again, she was cherry picking the details of what “;presidence” meant to her advantage. She sidestepped her third (or is it fourth) question of the debate in this one – no mention of Pakistan at all when the question was Iraq or Pakistan re: nukes.

The Nuke question – she never answered (we’re up to 4 or 5 now) and instead wanted to “go back and talk about that other question” regarding Afghanistan .

Here is where I’ll throw her a bone. They asked if they were president, how would they be different than their running candidate. I thought it a horrible question to pose (it’s self incriminating and bad for either to shine any difference on the platform of the candidate they are to choose) – but she admitted she had differences with McCain directly and I liked that.

But she did give me the pleasure of ending with a bang, bringing up on her own that she hoped to get some more power as VP in the Senate (a Senate she has never stepped foot in where Biden has worked in 20 years) “like Dick Cheney” who, despite Biden’s comment, history proves as one of the most dangerous VPs every for his reckless power drive to want more power in legislature when the founding fathers never wanted that sort of power to go to the VP and the VETO power only goes to the President.

Final question – the ultimate interview question –what is your weakness? Biden said he was too over the top and passionate about things at times and Palin basically said she didn’t have one. Haha. That’d get your checked off as an option on any interview I’ve been on. ;)

It is ironic that years ago the Republicans made insane fun of Jimmy Carter for his “colloquiasm” and his “folksy” manner – but with Palin it’s suddenly a breath of fresh air needed in gov.

If a man were to wink in the camera they'd call it cheesy but with her its "adorable".

If Obama called the average American "Joe Six Pack" it'd be considered a racial slur against the beer Bubba stereotypical white Southener.

Grow up Republican fans - accept the fact your candidate failed you miserably picking this VP candidate!

Apparently you just have to be cute and charming to be president this year. Hell – sign me up – I can charm the sh*t out of most!! ;)

Hey, if she doesn’t win, she’ll have one hell of a right wing radio show I guarantee! ;)