Watched the debate tonight. Biden was great. The best I have ever seen him. I wish whoever prepped him for this debate had prepped him for the hearings on the last few Supreme Court nominations. He could have beaten Roberts & Scalito if he had been this focused and on-message.
Palin didn't have any horrible gaffes, but she was so weird. The cutesiness really puts me off. You're running for Vice President, not prom queen, for crying out loud. (I think this is why she does better with men than with women.) My mom called me after five minutes and said she just couldn't watch her any more. How can anyone take her seriously?
Jed Lewison notices the weird winking:
It was so obvious that she was just stringing together her talking points. She avoided several questions by giving answers about lowering taxes.
Biden's best moment for me was when he stated, then stated again, that what the US spends for three weeks of the Iraq War is the TOTAL of what we have spent on Afghanistan in the past seven years. While I think sending more troops to Afghanistan is insane, I think it is important to point out how far off track Bush & McCain sent the US after the 9/11 attacks, and how much money we are wasting on Bush/McCain's war of choice.
The worst moment for Palin for me was when Biden choked up talking about losing his first wife and daughter. It was the most emotional moment of the debate. And she stood there and listened to that and ignored it, went right back to her canned chirpy bullshit. A man had just stood next to her and relived a devastating loss -- his wife died, his daughter died, his two boys are near death in the hospital -- and she did not react. She did not care. To me that proved that she wasn't really there. She was reading her notes and reciting her canned answers, but she didn't even hear what Biden said. That was cold and uncaring. It made it pretty clear that Palin caring about Biden's son going to Iraq was a talking point. She didn't give a shit.
The post-debate polls are pretty uniform in giving the edge to Biden.
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Sarah Palin now has her own Michael Dukakis moment -- emotionally dead; a shell of a human being.
Reminds us of this dialogue from the Terminator:
"It's not a man [or an Alaskan]. A machine [although not a snow machine]. A Terminator. Cyberdyne Systems model 101."
"A machine? Like a robot?"
"Not a robot. A cyborg - cybernetic organism. ...Listen. The Terminator's an infiltration unit. Part man [and/or Alaskan woman], part machine. Underneath it's a hyper-alloy combat chassis. Microprocessor controlled. Fully armoured, very tough. Outside it's living human tissue. Flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs."
For those of you keeping score at home, Ms. Palin has now hit the Daily Double of political self-immolation:
1) Dan Quayle -- Dumb and Dumber
2) Michael Dukakis -- Emotionally Dead
I believe she will ultimately hit the Trifecta or Superfecta.
Bravo!
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