Talk Back: Reactions to the VP Debate
Find a Conversation
| 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.
Please note: This discussion will be featured on our homepage as well as our Election 2008 feature page (http://www.ivillage.com/0,,dkrjhqbk,00.html) and may elicit some "Guest" responses from our "Talkback" box tool on the page. Inappropriate responses that violate our Terms of Service will be removed.
Thanks for your input!
Caryn Stein
Director of Community
iVillage.com
Beehive: The iVillage Buzz * Tech Update
Power Users' Tips & Tricks * About Our Boards * Customer Support

Pages
I guess that makes us "elitist."
Janie-Come-Lately Hockey Mom
I would much rather have a real person in there as VP than someone who has been caught up in all the Washington stuff for years.
Biden apparently didn't realize that prior to the 2005 bankruptcy code changes, debtors could modify their mortgages through the bankruptcy plan.
I agree with you completely.
Everyone wants to focus on Palin not answering some of the questions--what about Obama?
Poppycock. Hell, McCain's own economic guru, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, when he was head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in 2005, released a report which said, in part:
In other words, during the first five years of a 10-percent tax cut, the resulting economic impact on the budget would offset at most 22 percent of the federal revenues lost and during the second five years would offset at most 32 percent of the revenues lost. (source: MediaMatters).
Holtz-Eakin also told the Washington Post, in 2007, that "you are not going to get tax cuts to pay for themselves." So let's not have any false statements or deceptions on that score. Do lower taxes create jobs? Possibly; sometimes yes, sometimes not at all - depends upon the tax and a galaxy of other variables in the particular situation. And tax cuts are far from the only governmental or financial levers which can be used to stimulate job growth.
This is simply rubbish: 66% of economists favor Obama over McCain...for obvious reasons, related to their field of expertise:
Pages