Palin vs. Biden

Palin never even answers the questions. She always tried to find a way around it.

How is Obama going to support everyone with Healthcare? Does that mean he will wipe out poverty or will the tax payers support those who cannot afford healthcare including illegal immigrants too?

Biden looks like old Washington with the same old politician telling us one thing for public appearance and actually doing nothing. Palin is fresh and new government that we need...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniacs -- for our less literate friends. Bosniaks are the people of Bosnia ...

She is an Anchorwomen, not a VP. Reading scripts is all she seems to be good at, terrible attempt to be 'cute' with her southern dialect.

One would think, however, that as a mayor, governor, Journalism major and former Miss Alaska runner-up, that she would be more capable of handling the press.

She gets her *props* for making eye contact (pity the fool, John McCain, for not doing that during the 1st debate with Barack), however, the very thought that women should "stand by her" just because she has "breasts and a womb" is pretty much exclusively an Alaska concept!

She has not proven that she can do anything, except get people to eat out of the palm of her hand by pandering to their base instincts. Granted, she admitted in the VP debate opener that she wouldn't answer anything she didn't want to and she did do MUCH better than she had done 1-on-1 with the mainstream press (that Katie Couric can be SO MEAN! :-P ), however, last night, she read the canned responses to real questions off sheets of paper she was provided by her *handlers* (doesn't that remind you of the circus???)-- with her added ma' and pa' colloquialisms -- and diverted the issues/topics not covered on the aforementioned pieces of paper.

I will scream it from whatever mountain top it needs to be hollered from... THIS WOMAN IS NOT READY TO BE 1-STEP AWAY FROM THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, especially when the man she is running with is 72 years old w/ a history of cancer!!!

Well if you watch Palin talk during the debate and take into consideration the way she answers her questions and her pageant background, as well as her quest to be a news anchor before hitting it big in politics, I'd say she was picked purely her for salesmanship.

During the speech she never broke her eyes from the camera and did the anchor non-stop-stern-talking thing which creates an artificial urgency, therefore subliminally keeping your attention. That's common in news media. Also if you compare the way that she 'answers' questions to the way a pageant contestant gives a run-around answer, and does the keep-talking-about-things-that-you-like or listen-to-how-great-I-am, all in ONE run on sentence. I can't quite put my finger on it, but to try to explain I'd say pageant contestants drop the 'ands' and then use transitional phrases like a comedian. I'm sure the transcript of the debate is riddled with run ons and other grammatical errors.

Palin is definitely the saleswoman and McCain is more the old manager in the back. Except for a two term Mayorship of a town with a population of only 6,300 and a two year toe dip in the Alaskan Governors mansion, how is she even quasi qualified?

Come on just think about it, she brings nothing to the table when it comes to experience and she just happens to be twice as identifiable with the average American than McCain and has already been through spokeswomen boot camp... And her 'sales' expertise just happens to specialize in self promotion and P.C. regurgitation! Who wouldn't choose her? She's almost literally a show horse bred for politics. You know the first rule of sales is that the mark must buy into the salesperson in order to buy into the product.

Which makes me sick that the Republicans continue selling the American people Bullshit Cupcakes and theres remains a line around the block.

I'm thankful that we have a rising star that isn't a Washington insider. Palin is the only one in the race who has ever managed a budget, managed people or run anything! She stood up to the big oil companies and to her own party and I'm glad that someone with guts and integrity has emerged. Foreign policy can be learned and advisors can be hired. It's far more important to have fresh faces with new ideas that can turn Washington upside down.

when in doubt refer to a campagin commercial. i especially like the fact that i heard the same speal about being a maverick 5 times last night. good debating.

oh and wasn't she supposed to be selling the idea of John McCain for president? (not bickering about defining herself, because the last time i checked she was only running for vp)

I am no fan of the republican or democratic candidates. But after this, all of you who aren't fans of Palin are running out of bad things to say about her. A teleprompter chip? Ok bad joke. Comparing her to an infommercial has nothing to do with what she stands for. This was not scripted it is a live debate. Palin not responding to a hit towards McCain is completely justified. And nitpicking a mere term (held her own) that the media used to describe the respect she deserves for the knowledge she has that allowed her to stand up to somebody who has been in DC for the past few decades.

......i really thought that sooner or later the "glamour" would wear off this gal......but how do some of these supposed serious politians gratify her and still sleep at night...........

....have they not considered that she may actually be the one with her hand on "the button" someday??!!

would anyone really want her to be the one to make a decision like that?????

......and here they are now patting themselves on the back that she "held her own" last night..........

......is that good enough, for a potential vp, to merely hold her own??

WOW!!!

Loved it when Biden basically said, "McCain was no Maverick!" and Palin didn't respond to his tears at all.

Also, Palin said something about having a "team of Mavericks". Is that even possible?

all of palins responses looked like a spokeswoman on an infomercial, not a broad minded leader.

I think they implanted a teleprompter chip in Palin's left eyeball.

man Biden almost shed a tear, akward.....
Palin never answered with anything of worth the entire time, a political tool is what she is.