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Palin scores for
"Soccer game"
"You betcha"
and for 'connecting'.

obv

when are Biden's eyes gonna show up?

she's annoying the hell out of me already with her reverse double logic and blue collar sloganeering

this is embarrassing.

HOW MANY TIMES IS SHE GOING TO SAY HOCKEY MOM

she just vaguely mentions what the question was about and then makes an appeal to the 'hockey moms' and the 'six-pack' guys to 'band together'.
sooooo bad.

darn right
darn right
darn right

They've learnt from McCain's mistake on Friday.

fuck this, I'm not debating, I'm talking to Joe Sickpack and Hockey Mom. Ugh ugh ugh

joey's warmed up now

The banks are horrible evil people, yet the government needs to make way for the private sector. LOL WUUUUUT?

I think Palin is winning - That bridge to nowhere line was good though.

I'm abandoning replies like crazy

she's sooooo aaaarrrgh!!!

but she isn't fluffing her lines like Biden

She needs to be tripped up NOW! or its all over for Biden.

HOW'S IT GONE?

Now she's recycling them.
Again
and again
and again...

it's two people talking to a camera about things that bare only the most tenuous relation to the questions posed.

A big mistake.

she's just spouting crap and going from one revised script to another without addressing any of the questions

the gay/family question

Big Mistake

now Iraq

oh my god

Hit Palin hard on the enviroment and skipping quickly over gay marriage. Lovely.

where Lois is debating in the mayoral election.
She gives up giving proper answers and says 9/11 to every question.

everyone knows obama is the single most liberal senator. letting palin tie herself in knots could have been a positive for biden

NOW!

oh lol

oh dear

this woman could be President in 6 months !

more more more

she went for the change thing, and he made the connection with Bush.

he mentions Bush once or twice and she's ticking him off for 'looking backwards'

she was totally coached on the Bush namedrop

and he was coached on the comeback

sweet

BIDEN JUST BULLY RAMMED BUSH!

Every time I see him with Palin his eyes look lost and confused in his round honest face, as if he's just been slapped by his friend's mum

He'd barely mentioned him and she has a go. I think that was a scripted line except the republicans prepping her expected bush to be mentioned a fair bit more.

she totally got slapped there

stop doing that joe!

The ones who like Palin will like her anyway and the ones who hate her won't like her anyway.

She wants to convince the undecideds she's one of them.

I never knew he was from Scranton. I love the american office. That's all.

thats good

cringe

something he's not really made a part of his politcal CV untill he became the running mate of Senator weak-in-small-town-pennsylvania Obama.

Palin: "How long have I been at this? Five weeks?"

she said that John McCain knows how to win a war?

fucksake which war did McCain win?

this thing would be hilarious were it not for the fact that this woman could very well be in charge of the US before long...jeeezzzz

CRINGE OF THE CENTURY

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jesus christ!

Weird.

GOOD!

this woman is clearly has no fucking clue about policy or even what the VP does. you should be totally w1nning this

she's getting a bit frayed at this end of the deabte

"Let her hang herself" tactic.

I can't bear to look at her face

I've adandoned all pretence of objectivity. I WANT HER TO DIE!!!

WHAT A FUCKING CUNT! With your book deal you crazy piece of shit.

i wish he was my granddad

he's been much more restrained with it than Palin

Palin has mentioned McCain 132 times
Obama has been mentioned not so much

That was clearly sincere. It threw Palin and never mind that - IT'LL BE ALL OVER THE NEWS TOMORROW. WOOP WOOP!

Palin says something crazy and Biden almost breaks due to his dead wife and daughter.

do you think he's swung it his way now?

Biden can fill his time up with things like... FACTS. Palin has very few of those so she spouts out campaign slogans.

It was a genuine, non-cynical use and showed that he has a heart to back up all his experience and Statesmanship

Which will have an 'echo affect'.

But on the debate as a whole Palin has done well and not had a meltdown. Its a draw in the debate but the punditry will say Biden did well.

Its a very tragic story.

yeah this. If he wanted to be cynical he could have used it much more. I thought it was sincere.

Jerry Springer's "final thought"?

do you think she's in danger of overdoing all the downhome middle america stuff? Do you think there might be some fiscal Republicans out there who are going to look at McCain and Palin and fear that they're just going to fuck up everything for the upper middle classes by being monumentally incompetent?

these are the currents polls for the battleground states:

Battlegrounds Obama McCain RCP Average
Florida 48.6 45.6 Obama +3.0
Ohio 48.0 46.0 Obama +2.0
Michigan 49.1 42.1 Obama +7.0
Virginia 49.0 46.6 Obama +2.4
Minnesota 50.0 44.3 Obama +5.7
Colorado 49.0 44.6 Obama +4.4
Iowa 51.3 41.8 Obama +9.5
Nevada 47.8 47.3 Obama +0.5
New Mexico 49.9 42.0 Obama +7.9
New Hampshire 46.7 45.4 Obama +1.3

Obama is head in every swing state. How dya think this debate will affect that?

I can see an Obama ad where she goes, "you betcha/gosh/ya/daggnamit" over and over and her being exposed as a gimmick machine.

Rich republicans will always vote republican. Bush has been good to them - a President who doesn't scream out competence - so they'll trust about any Republican.

you know that game they make kids play to sharpen their memory? you know, they ask them one question to be answered after the next question is asked and it goes on etc etc. well, it seemed like Palin was playing that game tonight, just with the occasional mispronounciation, fuck-up and "i'm a mother" thrown in. also, they weren't the answers to the previous question, they were the answers to questions that weren't even asked.
fuck, her side of the debate was so scripted she barely even needed to be there.

a sociopath - but not a stupid man

the combined prospect of Mr Magoo - I mean McCain - and a total novice seems to me perhaps to be a bit of a gamble all things told

to walk around burping a 4 month old and then hand it on to the 8 year old

hmmm

i've never watched one of these things before so wasn't really aware of how they were structured.

No candidate has maintained the momentum for more than 3 weeks and it WILL tighten between now and the election.

If Obama keeps the polls like this for the next three weeks Obama should win.
Trouble is the economy may be less of a daily issues which will help McCain.

Bush had the family caché

Had been Reagan's VP for two terms though

even telling off fox news recently. plus he held fundraisers for hilary. i reckon in the privacy of a voting booth he might opt for obama. and then diebold will steal that vote along with many others...

And McCain has been in the Senate since the 80s. What is your point?

I can't remember a Presidential race where the ticket looked so poor for the Republicans. I think some traditionally Republican voters might be rather hesitant to trust those two with their country

Maybe. Fox is still being Fox and its hitting Obama almost as hard a Kerry.

You could have said (as many people did) the exact same thing about Bush/Quayle. I can't think why Republicans won't vote for McCain - except that he isn't Republican enough on cultural issues.

but despite the all-conquering Gulf War I still managed to lose to a spliff smoking womaniser and his charisma-void running-mate

I think some Republicans might not vote for McCain because Palin is in NO way fit to be President and McCain looks like he's not too far from knocking on heaven's door

g'night

were thrown and Bush Quayle and they won.

No one really knew who Senator Truman was or Nixon was and Roosevelt and Eisenhower both won landslides.

People don't seriously expect their canidates to die. Mcain is the same age as Reagan was when he was President.

Palin motivtaves! Republicans.
She may not win over conservative independents but Republicans of all stripes love her. She wants lower taxes and is against roe v wade. The elected Bush at the TOP of the ticket, why would the oppose his reincarnation at the bottom of the ticket?

Last night went exactly as I thought it would. Biden was always going to emerge "victorious" but Palin wasn't made to look quite the fool that she really is.

now....

where CAN i stream it all in full now?

My girlfriend is in Australia at the moment, so because of the time difference she popped up on MSN Chat at the exact time the debate started - I spent the first half of the debate trying to have a conversation with her while listening to the streaming.

I managed to wing it for 45 minutes until she flat out asked me what was going on - my replies were so flippant and nonsensical that I had to put my hand up and say I wasn't paying attention, so I had to turn the thing off.

So I can't even comment on the second half of the debate - stayed up til 3.30am for nothing! So tired....

but yeah i reckon his new kid and young wife has made him go a bit soft

I missed it, but i'd wage money that that stupid spiltarse embarassed herself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7649832.stm

wtf is Palin going on about????? she is clearly out of her league- she skirts around the questions and is so robotic it hurts. she's definitely been "prepped" to sound like she knows what she is talking about and that is even an understatement. Anyone who votes for this woman and McCain doesn't believe in freedom or humanity. Dammit, and enough with this 'war' in Iraq!

Biden wins. Obama wins. Tina Fey wins. Bring on Nov 4th

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