Talk Back: Reactions to the VP Debate

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Talk Back: Reactions to the VP Debate
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Thu, 10-02-2008 - 5:14pm

Hi everyone --


We wanted to get your reaction to the Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin. Did you watch? What did you think -- and who do you consider the winner? Were there any surprises? Tell us what you considered to be the highlights, the low points and everything in between.


 


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Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:40am

Great, substantive performance by Joe Biden.

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Registered: 10-03-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:40am
Palin. But does it matter? All of the mainstream media has an agenda to get Obama elected so they don't tell the truth about this anyway.
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:40am
Joe Biden clearly won and drove home that Obama made a great pick as a VP choice. Palin didn't do as bad as expected, but that's not winning. she was rehearsed and answered only the questions she wanted to. Totally scared me at the end when she said the VP should be given more power ala Cheney. Cheney was disastrous, she would be nuclear (oh wait, she doesn't know how to prounce nuclear!).!
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:42am
Palin
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:43am
The whole "surge" thing re: Afghanistan was truly astonishing to me. Aside from the fact that Palin apparently believes that Scott McLellan is commanding US troops in Afghanistan (LOL), she simply insisted that he (his actual name is McKiernan) had said a "surge" WOULD work in Afghanistan. It's as if she either hadn't read the news she'd read correctly, or she thought people wouldn't be able to use The Great Gazoogle:

The new top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that more American troops are urgently required to combat a growing insurgency, but he stated emphatically that no Iraq-style "surge" of forces will end the conflict there.

"Afghanistan is not Iraq," said Gen. David McKiernan, who led ground forces during the 2003 Iraq invasion and took over four months ago as head of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan.

Speaking in Washington, McKiernan described Afghanistan as "a far more complex environment than I ever found in Iraq." The country's mountainous terrain and rural population, poverty and illiteracy, its 400 major tribal networks and history of civil war -- all make for unique challenges, he said.

"The word I don't use for Afghanistan is 'surge,' " McKiernan stressed, saying that what is required instead is a "sustained commitment" to a counterinsurgency effort that could last many more years and would ultimately require a political, not military, solution.

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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:43am
Sarah Palen
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Registered: 10-03-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:43am
Wow, what debate did you watch? Kept reading her cards???? Perhaps you should rewatch the show. She stared at the camera and spoke from the heart. America needs more of that. I, for one (although there are MILLIONS with me), am glad that she has common sense instead of less political experience. Who cares.
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:44am
Palin
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:46am
Biden has been in congress 30 years! That is not cramming a lot of information in a small amount of time. He has had 30 years! How could he not know???
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:46am
Palin
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