[mcmama]

Your thoughts? Who won? What stood out for you?

And do you think Gwen Iffel is biased?

[JeanLynn81]

I was going to watch them, but Alyssa needed my attention! But I am off to Google and see if I can find the video of it.

It was here in Saint Louis. No one really made a big fuss about it. I wanted to go, but only students of Wash U could get tickets. (thought about becoming a student)

I was really hoping Palin tripped all over her words and made bad jokes again. Its just hilarious to me that she may be a VP. I'm all for women having more power, but of all women, THIS is the one? Geez....Tina Fey has it dead on that her voice raises and she acts cuter when the questions get tough. You should have heard her trying to explain her bad joke about Biden's age! I laughed so hard I about fell over!

So yeah. I guess everyone knows what I think now.

And I'll be back with more after I find and watch the debate.

[mcmama]

Ya know, if she says "maverick" one more time, I'm gonna start looking for the talking doll wind up key or string. That just seems to be one of those prefab phrases that is being worked to death. I think she did pretty well, otherwise. I think the people who are handling the McCain campaign should be bundled into a car late at night, and driven out of town on a dark road and left there to figure out how to get back. McCain and Palin are better of when they are themselves, not a product of professional "handling".

He did too. Nice with the common touch about the tragedy in his life. And good point about the vice presidency having changed with Dick Cheney and how he's going to put it back in the executive branch, decisively.

Neither one of them did anything dumb. But the format was much more limited, I felt. Questions were targeted, with little back and forth.

[mcmama]

News reports are saying Biden won, but Palin did ok. What do you think?

[Samual]

I love that Palin was unable to answer a single question, any who still votes for McCain now clearly do not care in the slightest that they are voting for another brainless idiot. I'm surprised she can wipe an arse, all she ever does is stare at the camera looking confused and making stupid, pointless comments of the utter most unimportance. Hopefully this woman means McCain will not recieve power, if he does, it shows just how thick alot of people are.

Though I did like her lovely lies as per usual. Palin said this lovely-

"the United States has reduced its troop level in Iraq to a number below where it was when the troop increase began in early 2007"
Actually Ms Palin, there are now 17,000 more troops.

[pattiewrites]

I think Biden clearly won the debate. He gave clear and straightforward answers to the questions and showed a clear understanding of the problems, what got us in this position and what is needed to get us out. Palin dodged questions, rambled and went off topic on several questions. One example was the question about bankruptcy and she went off on a diatribe about her energy producing state. She did this about a half a dozen times, not giving a clear answer. For someone who swears she is not a "politician" she did the one thing that makes me absolutely crazy about politicians: not answering the question that was asked! It truly drove me nuts. I loved Biden's McCain is no maverick response. That word is getting under my skin too.

Joking about Biden's age was unbelieveably foolish, considering she is running with the oldest candidate in history. It just reminds me that she is literally one very old heartbeat away from running the country. That is a scary thought.

The moderator showed no bias at all, in my opinion.

[Samual]

You can't forget her foriegn policy knowledge either, she lives 'near' Russia, watching her is a bit like watching Anne on Little Britian.

What is also brilliantly amazing is they have found someone that makes Boris Johnson look good!

[mcmama]

For those Americans who just said "huh?" Samual is referring to the mayor of London.

Here is his blog.

[twinzplus3]

I thought the moderator of the debate showed no bias. . .but when other people on this thread go on about how stupid people are who vote for McCain--why on earth would I want to share my opinion?

[Samual]

Here are some lovely Boris Johnson quotes to go with the link.

"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."

On Tony Blair: "It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall."

During the campaign trail of the 2005 general election: "What’s my view on drugs? I’ve forgotten my view on drugs."

On George Bush: "The President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy."

"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."

“Nor do I propose to defend the right to talk on a mobile while driving a car, though I don't believe that is necessarily any more dangerous than the many other risky things that people do with their free hands while driving - nose-picking, reading the paper, studying the A-Z, beating the children, and so on."

“I don't see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects."

"Face it: it's all your own fat fault"
On the dangers of obesity

"Have you ever had sex with a man?"
Boris "No, not yet."

Now, imagine the people that voted for him!