Thursday, October 2, 2008
Veepin' it real open thread
Will Chance the Gardener Sarah Palin be able to spout ninety minutes worth of folksy non sequiturs without drooling on herself? Will Biden be able to resist blurting out, "Are you for fucking real?" Come join us in the comments for what will assuredly be a debate for the ages; one where, years from now, you'll be able to tell your grandkids where you were at 9 PM EDT on October 2, 2008. Unfortunately, the answer to your grandchildren's query will be, "Making snide comments on some lame blog."
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snide comments!
I'm drinking rye and diet coke. What you all got?
Wine here. I'm kickin' it East Coast elitist-style.
Three dollar bill says Palin starts by intentionally tripping while walking on to the stage to gain the audience's sympathy.
sipping a very nice chianti while waiting for the eggplant parm to come out of the oven.
You're the second person I've seen mention eggplant parmesan today. Strange.
don't know if your weather has changed like ours has, but it's an eggplant parm kinda night.
what networks are ya'll watching?
We roll with the PBS here in the 301.
C-SPAN here
can I call ya Joe?
i _loved_ "can i call you joe?"
It's on!
I'm ashamed to say that my current drink is (bad) whiskey and root beer.
Holy shit - a soccer game? And shift to the touchy-feely.
Oh sweet jeebus.
Saturday soccer.
sweet jeebus, look at the size of that flag pin--it's HUGE
I think it crosses the line into patriotic "bling."
MSNBC
First answer: Palin does not seem stupid. But she's so focused. Has God placed a teleprompter in front of her?
She looks totally over-rehearsed.
wow that was not a very coherent first response from Palin.....
The worker!
WTF with the wink!
team maverick
At least Palin looks at the camera when she talks.
First lie: When John McCain talked about the fundamentals of the American economy, he was talking about workers.
John McCain: New and Different!
Go Ifill!
darn right!
Never Again!
who taught her what entrenched means?
Jason
Who do you blame?
Palin says lenders. Didn't she get the talking points?
Palin comes out in favor of "strict oversight". How does that compare to regulation?
I think it was a strong answer.
its freakin spooky to watch.... I don't know what to type....she doesn't really say anything....
I wish Joe Biden could just refer to the subprime mortgage with crisis as Big Shitpile.
I like that Joe is talking about McCain--it is like he got coached or something.
Biden is wonky. Palin wins this question. Unless, that is, the American people aren't uniformly stupid. Tough call.
damn, biden is kicking ass
Joe's gas tank was good.
My god - it's talking point hell.
dr: better wonky than stupid
kick ass!
No Senate jargon!
This format sucks
Jason
Talking about procedural votes v. Homespun folksy "I'm tellin' it like it (wink)."
She can't answer questions beyond her rehearsed bits, huh?
I recomend the CNN feed for the hilrious feed on the bottom showing what people think of the anwers
did gwen iffil just call tax increases on those earning more than 250K "class warfare"?
Fuck me.
The format is perfect for Palin.
She can just spout 3-5 talking points per answer.
Thank god she told him to look at the camera...
Palin have 1.2M -- middle class to Sarah
yea! backwards!!!!
I wanna give you some points on that....jesus...
She tries to be cute and it makes me puke.
I think Palin is doing very well. Imagine a low information voter watching this. They don't understand the issues, all they've heard is that Palin is a train wreck. So far, this isn't a train wreck.
I love Biden on health care.
oy.
both of them need to watch the takeaway shots...they both are dropping weird looks when not speaking
ew...didn't like the bridge to nowhere thing....
Sweet - bash on the foreigners first.
taxes is not our issue. Iffil and Palin are making this whole fucking debate about taxes.
This is not good.
dr--i am not so convinced the key audience is so stupid or "low-information"--you?
what do you think, Lips?
Oh my god, she is so bullshit.
she's reading her talking points. how does that play?
I wrassled em to the groun and pulled thar teeth, bless their harts, broke me up sum moneyopoly....it adversly infects the energy loving people of alaskya
is it just me, or does she never REALLY answer the questions?
A-ree-uh of expertise.
cps -- no, that's really the question. If they *were* stupid then the CW about the first debate -- that it was a tie -- would have been right. So I have hope.
That said, I think Palin is already as low as she's going to get. There are people out there looking for an excuse to support her, and an excuse to support McCain against Obama.
anon - that's the thing about this format. You don't have to answer the question.
revelations 9:11
that focus group thing is killing me.
going back to msnbc.
By the way, a court is set to rule any minute on whether the troopergate investigation will continue.
rear that head of abuse...bringing peaps to the table... gotta do whats right... toxic mess and every vigilant main streeters face eaters
why do they refuse to bring up CHarles Keating?
Jason
did you guys see the ohio, florida, and pennsylvania polls that have obama ahead and above 50%?
That CNN thing is freaky. Here's what I've noticed: women like the wonk.
DR:
They like more than that!
BOOM!
you guys are crazy. joe biden is trouncing her.
i like the wonk
AP says "An Alaska judge has refused to block a state investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her public safety commissioner this summer."
That is not true... but I wanna talk about sumpin else
this is where gender and all the push on the whole moderator thing is an issue--Biden and Gwen needs to be more pushy and force her to deal with the questions at hand--she is talking about whatever she wants!
"Tapped into" was definitely a focus grouped buzz word for her.
Gwen Ifill: I'd like to talk about whatever Palin would like to talk about it.
I can see russia from here!
unionboy: no real surprise, but yay!
ain't no warmin here... I don't wanna talk about that , I wanna talk about sumpin else
There are other countries that care less about climate change than America?
Please someone ask how the FUCK drilling would help climate change.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Tapping into." See? Told you.
"Clean coal"
Half the GTFF just peed their pants.
there ya go Dave
I'd say that China cares less about climate change.
DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!!!
we can *safely* rape the planet. yeah!
O'Biden
lol come on
Not "building a pipeline" so much as paying a Canadian company $200 million to think about investigating the possibility of building a pipeline.
teh gays!
Go Biden! Equality floats my boat.
Palin is going to go all state rights here.
me--I am tolerant too!
her anything but tolerant? no!!!
Is she apologizing in advance for her intolerance by stating ahead of time that she's tolerant of the gays?
New thread is available now.
I disagree with almost everything Palin is saying, but she's putting on a strong showing.
I forget. was it a strategy or a tactic?
Jason
Bless their hearts, we both love little Israel down the street there!
I just want too take some time too Thank everyone for doing what you do and making the community what it is im a long time reader and first time poster so i just wanted to say thanks.
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