VP Debate comments here

WTF??? SHE ****WINKS**** AT US??? HOW FUCKING CONDESCENDING!!

dg

So far, I have to give it to Biden, hands down!

:wtf: I'm sorry, I don't need a god-damned cheerleader/Mommy as a VP.

:hi: SG!

dg

for Joe to bring up charging rape victims for rape kits!!

dg

and I have two things to say:

1 - This woman's voice makes me long for the screeches of Rita C. Honest to God, I had to turn the damn thing down while she spoke. Her accent rivals anything ever heard in rural Wisconsin or Milwaukee. x(

2 - Even before the question came up, I had a horrible vision: of this woman presiding over the senate. :scared:

OMG, how could anyone take her seriously? Or, as she would say, "how could anyone take her serious?"

I cannot bear it anymore. I just can't. :scared:

The truth-squadders say they BOTH lied and exaggerated.

I fear too many people will say "she held her own" with all that winking and hockey-mom and you-betcha and darn-tootin' an' all that g-droppin'. And if that's true, I quit. I just quit. :cry:

"Passing it on in our bloodstreams to our childern"

:shrug:

And the nuclear policy question... that's "nu-cle-ar", not "nu-cu-lar"... anyone else get the impression she didn't even understand the question so she just substituted the only answer she knew that had the word "nuclear" in it? Which probably wouldn't have looked so bad if Biden hadn't come right back and provided a cogent answer to the question.

Answer after answer, I got the impression that she was trying to burn time by padding her responses with two or three sentences of meaningless preface before launching into an irrelevant talking-point answer. Not sure if she was playing for time while her brain searched for which canned response to give or if she was trying to fill time so she wouldn't come up short and therefore risk being asked a followup question, but all of her answers made me think of a fifth grader padding a book report to get it up to the minimum required length.

Palin's performance tonight coupled with the Couric interviews and her inability to bring up the Supreme Court decision in re the Exxon Valdez reminded me strongly of people I knew in college who would cram for exams and immediately forget the material they'd temporarily memorized. I don't think they actually learned much and neither, apparently, has she. Not what I want in an executive. Biden, on the other hand, actually answered the questions and seemed to be drawing comfortably from a deep store of knowledge. He understood the answers he was giving. I'm not convinced that she did, and rather suspect that she didn't, which makes her desire for enhanced VP powers profoundly disturbing.