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VP Debate Recap… Was it a debate of Lincoln-Douglas proportions? |
Sarah Palin did “defy expectations“, as most of us expected her to perform at an abysmal level. Palin appeared way more coherent in the debate compared to the train wreck she came across as in the series of interviews conducted with Katie Couric, the only other woman as desperate to attain credibility as Palin.
This said, Palin’s performance did not go without an embarrassing blunder: she did call Joe Biden “Senator O’Biden.”
Libby, I’m adding this:
Joe Biden did a really great job of appealing to the “Joe Six-Packs” (I guess that’s what we’re calling them?) who fled the Democratic party after the Great Society and identity politics clusterfuck… He pulled it off: coming off as a honest, working-class Democrat consumed with the idea of “fairness”. Aside from when he called Dick Cheney “the most dangerous vice president we’ve had”, the only real fist pumping “hell yeah Biden!” moment occurred when he pwned Palin on her whole “mother of five”/ “mother of a special needs child”/ matriarch of a “diverse family”/ understanding “kitchen table” family politics shtick.
- Remember the good old days? Before every tween had a cellphone and could text 35 characters per second? (The days before the micro-demographic “tween” even existed?) Here are some relics from the good old days, when kids passed notes in class. You know, when kids had balls and had to worry about teacher interception of personal secrets.
- In the vein of nostalgia… evolution of self-branding: trading a Peace symbol and youth for an entry level Mercedes and a tanning booth membership, a middle class rebellion: Hippies => Yuppies => Hipsters.
- Wu Tang Documentary!!! Roll Call! RZA. GZA. Method Man. Ghostface Killah. Raekwon. U-God. Inspectah Deck. Masta Killa. Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Dirt McGirt, Russell Jones, O.D.B., Osirus, Big Baby Jesus, ODB, Dirt Dog, Joe Bananas)
- Check out what John McCain kept on the side (note breast size)
Cale,
October 3, 2008 at 9:33 amWhoops. My HTML skills are lacking.
The Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart!
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October 3, 2008 at 9:34 amabout 30% of those limos could have been seen at my prom.
me and my roommate started to tear up during that part of the debate, we are such saps.
October 3, 2008 at 9:34 amcale: i’m not a palin fan by any means, but in comparison to the couric and gibson interviews she did a thousand times better last night.
October 3, 2008 at 9:35 amAlan - that is awesome - added it to the post
October 3, 2008 at 10:03 amgod i heart zach galifianakis
October 3, 2008 at 10:16 amDid anyone else find her winking at the camera enraging? And what about her hair being stuck in her eye during one response? That was great.
October 3, 2008 at 10:50 amwho cares about palin? there is a WU TANG DOCUMENTARY to deal with! shit son, it’s the macadamia nut.
October 3, 2008 at 11:55 ami like to think of myself as a “joe twelve-pack”
October 3, 2008 at 12:10 pmShe sure doesn’t seem to care about Jermaine six-pack…
October 3, 2008 at 1:48 pmOn my post-debate cab ride out to admo, I was listening to someone from the alaska legislature seething about Sarah Palin’s claim to co-owning some Darfur related legislation. Apparently Palin fought this woman and her colleagues tooth and nail on whatever the law or resolution was. I wish Biden was up on his shit enough to nail her on this, as well as that crack about being too maverick to follow debate format. he got close by calling out thJohn McCain’s maverickness, but I wish he went further like, “what is with this maverick crap? Does your campaign really think that Americans are so simple minded that they’ll fall for this and your winks and your doggonit ya betchas? Really?”
In the end, I think the swing voters will see through the Republicans’ robot show.
i was really hoping the comments would have gotten past palin and on to how mcinerny is full of shit.
October 4, 2008 at 12:08 am
Way more coherent? I wouldn’t go that far. I mean there was nothing that reached the level of stupidity as the interviews but did she actually answer a single question? It was still meandering talking points cobbled together and obviously calculated folksisms. I guess I’m biased but I thought she came off as an idiot.
October 3, 2008 at 9:31 am