Palin v. Biden

[[AK]Nuts]

Most people vote with their heart. Emotions make up a big part of our system. Who is a better speaker? Better looking? More honest sounding?

Biden is just sour and dour. He doesn't look at the camera. He looks at the biased moderator of just off of center. Palin looks up and comes across with more charisma. Plus, i'd much rather see her in a swimsuit than Biden.

Though sometimes she does seem like she's a bit out of her league.

[[AK]Clay]

In balance, Palin comes across pretty preachy.

[[AK]Kidd]

As she continued to reference her energy record....I conceded defeat to my bleeding heart liberal wife.

That said, 30 minutes into it she stole the show.

I was very pleasantly surprised that she can speak as well as she looks in pumps

[[AK]Squidly]

She was weak on foreign policy, and very strong everywhere else. With time, she'll be strong across the board. This is a sharp lady.

If McCain loses this election, this won't be the last we see of her, I'll wager.

I'd love to see her at the top of the ticket with HER ideas and not McCain's driving her answers. She's forced to deliver his talking points and defending his years in the Senate - and that's a tough chore.

[[AK]Kidd]

i must say, this is my hangup with our current election.

We focus on the voting records of the senators in the spotlight. Bush is the Antichrist, yet nobody has mentioned how the Pelosi/Reid Congress has failed the American populace. Let's place blame where it's deserved. i don't believe Bush was a Roosevelt (Theodore, of course) but the US Congress has failed the American people, and the sheep are blaming Bush. This burden is then passed to the republican party's candidate. Nobody has the balls to mention that the Republicans left McCain for dead, penniless, and way behind the democrat's campaign curve.


You may not like McCain for whatever reason, but I admire a street fighter that always stands up.

[[AK]Bribo]

It's a touch task to debate Biden - a seasoned politician and great debater - but I think she did an admirable job. I kept waiting for that one train-wreck moment but it never came.

All she had to do was look competent and no screw up to win and she did that handily.

I though Biden was good though - if not a bit preachy. I think he fell into the trap of talking too much about Joe Biden at times and not enough about Obama. Some of the stuff he stated was just bald faced lies especially the stuff about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and affixing blame.

All in all I thought it was a good debate. I think it probably helped the McCain camp more than it helped the Obama camp but probably not by much.