As I am in Scotland I missed the opportunity to watch the Vice Presidential debate live full of a room of yelling people. And since I don't want to scare my roommates, I'm going to subject you, my blogger audience, to my yelling. And like the advice given to Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical "Get angry".
Direct quotation from Sarah Palin:
"And may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you wanna hear, but I'm gonna take straight to the American people and let them know my track record also."
Doesn't that defeat the point of a debate? Why doesn't she just hold a private press conference and rant? Then I wont feel any obligation to watch her. But I think the truth is that since McCain & Co are keeping the pit bull penned in she's getting bored and this single opportunity she's getting to be out of her cage, she's going to bark as loud as possible about whatever she wants. If she was my pit bull I'd put her down due to rabies. (note: Palin quotations will always be in red, Biden in blue)
Question about tax policy:
If a small business is making more than $42, 00o a year doesn't that get taxed as a business not as the personal income tax of the owner? Isn't that why small business owners are supposed to incorporate or become an LLC, that way when the business fails they don't go into personal bankruptcy?
Here's a good one, in response to being asked AGAIN what policy promises she would rescind in response to the financial crisis:
"No there is not. And how long have I been at this? What, like, five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot I've promised except to do what it right for the American people."
I like that she is referring to her own inexperience. She basically says, 'I've only been on the national political scene for five weeks, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing'. (please pardon the swearing, I'm really mad). I also think that its strange that she doesn't think she can go back on any of her words, does she think it makes her look weak? I think it makes her look stupid. Or insane. Mark Twain defined insanity as: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Which seems to be what she's doing. Same joke, same question ducking, same memorized responses that don't fit the question, and her opinion poll numbers keep dropping. She's insane.
Hold Up, I think she just blamed the Wall Street mess on Main Street. OOPS!!
"It is a crisis. Its a toxic mess, really, on Main Street that's affecting Wall Street. And now we have to be ever vigilant and also...."
If you analyse her speech patterns she kind of reminds me of how a teenage girl would speak. And not a teenage girl on her best behaviour. She sounds like a teenage girl at lunch with her girlfriends and they're yakking about which boys they think are cute or which teachers they hate. I really wish she would use language that was a little closer to the news anchor standard that Gwen Ifill is setting.
I don't think Palin was paying attention to Biden's response about gay marriage. Shame on her.
I like how Biden is not scared to call out Palin for not answering the question, or making actual plan proposals. Good for him! Biden quoted Shakespeare: "What's past is prologue." I also think that you have hear Biden exhale loudly when Palin makes uniformed statements.
Palin is calling herself a maverick, has anyone given her an ego test? I think the word "maverick" has lost all meaning because the GOP says it way too much.
So Palin is telling everyone what she thinks the job of the VP is and in doing so she says that she wishes the Constitution would grant the VP more power in dealing with the Senate. Doesn't she want the government to generally have less power? Isn't that a complete contradiction?
"When the Republicans were in charge you didn't see a whole lot of progress there either..."
Biden is a much better speaker than Palin, he's so charismatic. I feel like she wants to eat me when she's speaking.
To finish off with another Mark Twain Quotation:
"...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane--just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Christian Science
3 comments:
'atta girl.
Darn tootin' right, you betcha.
The Laird
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thank you. Finally someone analyzing the debate. all the professional analysts could say was "she did better than expected"
Yahoo the republican VP candidate made it to mediocrity, we are safe now.
Back to the paid analysts they need to stop being afraid of telling it like it is with Sarah Palin. Don't understand why they are so afraid of the McCain machine. If Sarah had what it takes she would say "bring it on challenge me, see that I'm up for the job". What I've been seeing is daddy McCain bailing her out all the time. Queen Mom
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