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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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:11am
Sarah Palin
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Registered: 06-17-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:13am
Biden.

"But...the whole point of a Hoodsie cup is the wooden spoon!"


--Ms.A, staring disappointedly at the restaurant silver

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. 

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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:13am
Palin
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:13am
I am sick of liberals calling conservatives stupid. Every politician we have had for the past 30 years has been stooopid, (yet maniacal evil geniuses at the same time) Palin is not stupid. She doesn't have the insider Washington esperience of Biden, but obviously she will learn, and quickly. Can Biden learn?


If you are sick of it, then tell people like Karl Rove to get their candidates to stop cynically running as "just plain folks" while hiding any erudition under their hats. There has been a consistent, concerted effort for about thirty years now, by some very well-educated, very intelligent, very competent Republican campaign strategists to sell the "Democratic elitists think they're better than you!!!" line to the American public - specifically to the conservative base. And it has worked, somewhat: people now routinely think that we should elect "reg'lar folks" to the highest offices in the land. I do not. I continue to insist that the people who attain the highest offices in this land should at least come from the top echelons of intelligence, wisdom, maturity, erudition, etc. I don't WANT someone I can envision standing next to me at the corner waiting for the bus to come drop our kids off to be President. Or Vice President. I don't believe Palin is "stupid" in the absolute, raw-ability-to-synthesize-ideas sense of the word. I believe she - like George Bush before her - has spent most of her life being wildly incurious about most of the things which a diplomat or world leader should NOT be incurious about.

You say "she will learn.....can Biden learn?" That is the wrong set of questions and assertions to be making/asking. The correct one is: "Biden HAS learned....do we want someone who will NEED to learn on the job?" My answer has always been - and remains, after last night's debate - NO.

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Registered: 07-15-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:15am
How concisely and accurately stated.
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:16am
Yes.....yes, when you're up 6-8 points in every tracking poll, a month before the election, that's definitely the time to "just let it go."

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:17am
'sokay....Palin apparently thinks Scott McLellan is commanding our troops in Afghanistan!

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:19am
I think Biden did a much better job which was expected. He had all of the facts to support his statements which she did not (or her facts were exaggerated). He was more polished and his answers had much more substance.
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Registered: 08-29-2002
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:21am

" I'm sure that Biden knows that they are called Bosnians just as I'm sure Palin knows what Biden's name is."

Either that or he actually meant to use the term "Bosniac" (or Bosniak), also known as Bosnian Muslims. It's a term for a specific group from the Bosnian region:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:21am

Or General McClellan (from the Civil War).


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