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Prediction: 4th Debate question will be . . .

How many copies to the both of you plan to buy of my forthcoming book Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

Fuck, I'm already buzzed.

Should have been a question mark in that last post.

I like Biden a lot. And he he's great at speaking. I'm still swooning for Palin.

Immediately, I'm much more pleased with Palin than I was with McLame.

Gwen Ifill, not so much. Gwen Ifill is no Jim Lehrer. That's all I'm saying.

So far, it's going how I figured: Palin looks OK, perhaps good enough to rehab her viability as a Republican leader of the future. But it isn't enough to help McCain any.

Hey! It's actually a debate. During the Obama/McCain debate, it sometimes didn't seem like they were in the same room.

Gwen Ifill is kind of snippy to both of them.

Ack. John McCain has made her drink the global warming kool-aid. I feel my ardor fading.

It's kind of sad but gwen ifill is terrible. She does not ask follow up questions, allowing Palin to not answer questions and just recite talking points.

She is turning this into draw by not having to answer the questions.

This is not even a debate.

I think this global warming question (at about 9:31 ET) is the first that Palin has answered as asked.

She accuses them of not answering questions, tho. And then goes on to the next question they won't answer.

I'm so gosh darned proud to be running with John McCain.

In a world gone insolvent, an unstoppable force travels from our past to destroy our future. He is . . . The Deregulator.

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He's the host of America’s least favorite reality game show: Drop the Regulations!

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I'm not a bigot! I have gay friends!

Sarah and Joe Biden both like gay people, but don't want them to get married, but want them to have the same civil rights as anybody else.

I thought I saw a little spark between them, right there. There's some chemistry. A little sexual tension in the room. Palin is a saucy little firebrand of a conservative, and Joe Biden is robust liberal with a full head of luxurious hair. Together, they just might make beautiful music together.

But what to do about their respective running mates? That's the question.

This is terrible. Ifill did not even press her on Biden's question on civil distictions on marriage. Palin just chose to answer as she pleased and ifill respnded "you agree."

There is no accountability in this debate. No follow up.

Oil companies only love Obama half as much as they love McCain.

Joe Biden's eyebrows don't move. I think someone's been hitting the Botox.

I'm pleased with Palins performance so far. I think Biden is doing a good job, too.

Gwen Awful is living up to her name, IMHO. But at least everyone at the debate will get pre-order their copy of Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

Like John McCain, Sarah Palin is firmly against a second Holocaust. The silence of the Obama/Biden ticket on this issue is deafening.

That's because Obama wants a new holocaust. A Red State, White Cracker Holocaust.

It's true. I read it on a blog somewhere.

Nucular, nucular. No cue cards with phonetic spelling tonight!!

Can we talk about Afghanistan, please? Because I have some talking points that just popped into my head and I'm gonna forget 'em if I don't spit 'em out right now.

She's no worse than Lehrer was a week ago, though I wish there was more follow-up and more focus (from Ifill and from Lehrer).

Which war has John McCain won? Vietnam? Iraq?

ok, that last question about how would a Biden/Palin admin differ from Obama/McCain was really lame. I don't get the point of it at all.

I know I'm late to this, watching on TIVO several minutes behind, but... "Henry Kissenger, and his passion for diplomacy" That's a classic! It's like his hobby -- he's one of those quirky folks who love crocheting seahorses, or something.

I've noticed now 2 examples of Sarah Palin stealing Reagan quotes verbatim. Earlier "gov't is not the solution, etc." and just now, "there you go again." Did I miss any?

Palin won . . . my heart. Sigh.

I'll leave it to the pundits to decide who won the debate. I think they both did really well, where as my opinion of McCain's debate performance continues to decline.

Bedtime for me. Gotta put kids, then self, into sleep mode. Gonna have to miss the follow up punditry, sadly. Check you all out in the AM, fellow patriots.

Well, now she's quoted Regan by name. Sigh.

"Governor Palin, I knew President Reagan. And you, madam, are no Reagan."

that's right Sarah, McCain is the man we need to LEAVE

I just want to point out that when Ronald Reagan called America a "City on a Hill" (1989), he was stealing a line from Mario Cuomo who used it in the keynote address to the Democratic Convention in 1984.

She doesn't seem to know the difference between changing your mind and compromising.

Shallow question, but: Why is SP wearing a squiggle flag umlaut pin?

(Also, this is my first comments, so hi! *waves*)

""More of the same" has not been a theme."

Wasn't it though when Biden said that he hadn't heard how McCain would be difficult on Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran?

Interesting: anytime Palin says anything that remotely sounds like more war, CNN's line graph dips.

Sarah Palin talks like a stewardess, with her emphasis on unimportant words like to, for, of. It drives me crazy when stewardesses do it, and it's just as irritating when she does it.

All the commenters thought she did great. These people are fucking clueless.

They are so desperate to get McCain back in this game that they are not even watching with anything resembling objectivity. She was a 90-minute train wreck. I am convinced that she doens't even know what she said for 44 of her 45 minutes.

She can't discuss politics as intelligently as the average 40-something woman I work with. She's a fucking joke.

A strange choice of moderator. Why did they get the Michelin man to run this debate?

"Like John McCain, Sarah Palin is firmly against a second Holocaust. The silence of the Obama/Biden ticket on this issue is deafening."

Well, would you rather they disagree?

Has anyone else noticed?:

Sarah Palin made a few similar remarks here -- on global warming, she says "it doesn't matter what caused it"; she repeatedly scolded Biden for "pointing fingers" at the Bush administration -- and then saying that only moving forward matters.

The message here seems to be: to move into the future, we have to completely forget about the past.

It was getting to the point that if she had said the word "also" one more time, I was going to throw something at my tv.

i just came home from watching this debate at our headquarters with 250 people.
i expect that the obama campaign will report 10 million dollars worth of contributions coming in to them this evening!
there was a stampede to the volunteer signup sheets at the end of the debate.
people were stunned by her this evening!
my daughter watched this with three hundred students tonight, and said you could barely hear the debate, as the laughter was so uncontained at sarah palin's responses.

by the way, i thought joe biden was brilliant this evening. what a wonderful choice.

jacqueline, I agree.

Joe Biden was utterly brilliant. Despite Palin's snideness, rudeness, and thundering stupidity, he never attacked her. Wise move.

He did, however, command the debate, and he was a class act.

Palin has no class whatsoever. What a disgrace. And what an insult to women everywhere who can cite SCOTUS case law, who not only know what the Founding Fathers wrote (and you don't "tap into" what the Founding Fathers wrote, fer Chrissakes), but can recite whole amendments just because we love the Constitution that much and have actually bloody read it.

I'm so glad it's a school night, or I'd have been tempted to join the many drinking parties going on around the blogosphere.

I think a really overlooked part of the debate was the horribly callous, offhand comment Palin made about Biden's wife getting "her reward in heaven." Yes, heaven is great. That's where we religious folks hope to go, and like to think our family members go, because we like to think we're good people. But we never talk about heaven as a 'reward.' If you're in heaven, you're dead. That is pretty objectively a bad thing. Talking about heaven is something said to console the grieving, not to highlight someone's life. Certainly not to their spouse, who very much wishes, at that moment, that they were there rather than in heaven.

It reeks of Otto von Bismarck ordering a cannonade against civilians because he was christian and believed they would be rewarded for their innocence in the afterlife. The afterlife isn't what's important, especially for those who survive. If someone said that to me about my wife, regardless of how public it was or how many cameras were aimed at me, I would strangle them.

Kudos to Biden for keeping his cool.

Yes, he was cool. "The Bosniacs..." was my favorite of his gaffes.

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i agree completely....and also recoiled
when i heard her utter that comment about mrs. biden.

when i watch sarah palin, and especially tonight, i feel like i am watching a sitcom,"reba goes to washington."...
i keep thinking i am looking at reba mcintyre, with dark hair.

wisecrackin' lines, perky shoutouts to the delighted third graders in wasila ,winkin' to the husband who looks like he is right out of central casting,the same level of intelligence as a recycled sitcom....i keep waiting for the laughter and recurring theme song.

the horror of it, is that we are in the midst of our worst economic crisis, wars, global warming....and she could actually become our vice president, and more terrifyingly, our president.
it is just unbelievable.
sarah,todd and those cute palin kids just need their own wassila reality show...america is sad and troubled...we need a new brady bunch.... decoratin' the christmas tree by the stuffed mountain lion in grandma's den, snowmobeelin and watchin' todd and sara makin' mooseburgers...and a christmas show, with snowflakes fallin' on the lake, plane and boat outside the big window.
how did she miss her true calling, and wander dangerously into the world of politics?????
what was it again that hamlet said in the first act?

"I'm a bad barometer for middle America."

Finally, I agree with you. Brainwashed Obama supporters following like sheep to the slaughter.

"i thought there was a little spark between them."

i dont think there was any spark at all.
i think that biden did everything he could to deliver the most resounding repudiation of john mccain's policies that he could...and he didnt lose his focus, not for one moment of the debate.
he performed as if the fate of the country depended on that debate, and in part, it did.
and he delivered.
thank you!!!:-)

Got another look at the part where Palin reprimanded Biden for "pointing fingers" and "looking into the past"... turns out she immediately said afterword "I'll learn from [Bush's] blunders".

So, maybe not as philosophical as I initally thought, but still -- a stone's throw away from calling Biden a "negative nily".

Belittling the blunders of the Bush years in comparing it to other Preidencies -- now that's unsettling...

We are all dumber for having watched that debate. Sarah Palin is more effective than alcohol at killing braincells. I'm amazed I am still able to move about after that disgrace of a debate. At least Joe managed to keep it together while in the presence of such wretched stupidity.

Palin speaking to Biden: "I have great respect for your family also and the honor that you show our military. Barack Obama though, another story there."

Can we finally admit that the Republicans are questioning Obama's patriotism?

Also:

1) She started with fear about the economy, and ended with fear about losing our freedom (to whom was unclear). Maybe that's working for undecided voters, but I found it depressing and decidedly un-Reagan-like.

2) She has latched onto McCain's theory that all of our problems are due to moral failings that the government must correct. Not institutional failings, not bad incentives (for lenders who could offload bad credit risks into securities) or lack of accountability (for credit rating agencies that issue poorly-researched ratings and say they have no responsibility, they're just stating an opinion). No, it's greed and corruption, and apparently McCain/ Palin can make Wall Streeters into angels, just like McCain-Feingold was mysteriously going to do for politicians.

George Will has been annoyed by this self-righteous tendency in McCain for a long time, and McCain's cockamamie rhetoric about the economic crisis is making me understand why.

"The Bosniacs..." was my favorite of his gaffes.

It's usually spelled "Bosniak", and was hardly a "gaffe". I'd say it's a gaffe to call it a gaffe. What a maroon.

Yes, Bosniaks is the term for Bosnian Muslims.

A BosniaN is someone from the state of Bosnia.

A BosniaK is an ethnic group consisting of slavic Muslims who are citizens of Bosnia.

I wanna see Ezra debate Michelle Malkin.

we have left the age when satire ruled comedy and entered a period in which reenactment reigns supreme.

I was thinking that as Palin was saying her lines. Actually I think Palin could be a fairly good comedy actress, since she says her lines with enough emotional delivery to be almost believable.

The trailer for the new "W" movie from O. Stone had me thinking just your thought, since Tina Fey showed that literal recitation can be better than the real thing.

I made a tour just now of some dozens of online polls from media (dKos diary with links), and guess which two polls didn't follow the general opinion of 70% or above for Biden:

Drudge
AOL online

The CO newspapers were all over 90% Biden. Same in OH.

Joe Biden did GOOD. Palin didn't fall on her face.

I just want to point out that when Ronald Reagan called America a "City on a Hill" (1989), he was stealing a line from Mario Cuomo who used it in the keynote address to the Democratic Convention in 1984.

Stupid liberal blog commenters. Don't you remember what Cuomo said about the city on a hill? I quote:

"Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. The President said that he didn't understand that fear. He said, "Why, this country is a shining city on a hill." And the President is right. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill."

So no, Cuomo was quoting Reagan.

I think a really overlooked part of the debate was the horribly callous, offhand comment Palin made about Biden's wife getting "her reward in heaven." Yes, heaven is great. That's where we religious folks hope to go, and like to think our family members go, because we like to think we're good people. But we never talk about heaven as a 'reward.' If you're in heaven, you're dead. That is pretty objectively a bad thing. Talking about heaven is something said to console the grieving, not to highlight someone's life. Certainly not to their spouse, who very much wishes, at that moment, that they were there rather than in heaven.

Another dummy. She's talking about Jill Biden, the living wife. Who's taught for 30 years.

Yes, but it's still callous to Biden, WHOSE FIRST WIFE DIED IN A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT THAT ALSO KILLED HIS DAUGHTER AND INJURED HIS SONS, to talk about even his second wife getting her reward in heaven. Why not stick to talking about the policies that will reward people like her on earth?

Referring to Biden's wife, even his second wife, being dead when it is completely unnecessary, would be like Biden's bringing the issue of teen pregnancy up with regard to problems in schools or the difficulties faced by everyday families -- just don't go there.

Except it's merely embarrassing for your teen daughter to be knocked up, whereas it's a life-changing loss for your wife and daughter to die.

Palin = disaster, but goddammit Ezra there are lots of Americans who like ice hockey, not just foreigners like Canadians.

She's talking about Jill Biden, the living wife. Who's taught for 30 years.

Basically, Palin just handed all the teachers' votes to Obama right then and there. "Her reward's in heaven" sounds really condescending.

That quote is a bible reference whose whole context is from Matthew 5:11-12: "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you."

Thought a lot of the New Testament, there is a comparison drawn between "Earthly rewards" and "rewards in heaven" and that we should shun earthly treasures for "treasures in heaven." For Palin to say this sounds like a patronizing, "how nice it is that you have a low-paid job so you can have rewards in heaven. I wish I could do that, but, you know, I decided to go for the money. But good for you."

So no, Cuomo was quoting Reagan.

They were both quoting JFK, who was quoting John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Did anyone else catch how Biden misspoke, saying "John continues to tell us that the central war in the front on terror is in Iraq," and then Palin took that mis-phrasing and used it twice:

"And as for who coined that central war on terror being in Iraq, it was the Gen. Petraeus and al Qaeda, both leaders there and it's probably the only thing that they're ever going to agree on, but that it was a central war on terror is in Iraq."

(video here confirms the quote at 43:55, except it sounds like "termed" instead of "coined," and no "the" before "General Petraeus")

Wouldn't it be nice if teachers got their reward when they picked up their paychecks instead of waiting until they got to heaven?

But that can't happen when, as Biden said, the No Child Left Behind got left behind because the money got left behind (I paraphrase).

Biden was controlled, gentlemanly and intelligent. Palin pales as a statesperson, diplomat and knowledgeable politician next to Joe Biden.

"So no, Cuomo was quoting Reagan.

They were both quoting JFK, who was quoting John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Davis X. Machina"

Who was quoting Matthew 5:14.
Oh, and Matthew was quoting Jesus Christ. Which Sarah should have known, you betcha.

The statement of McLellan rather than McKiernan was a simple mistake. In fact, Keith Olbermann made a huge deal about this and made several simple mistakes in the process of explaining who General McKiernan is. Olbermann stated "We don't really know who McClellan is supposed to have been. The general in charge of-working under Centcom commander General David Petraeus, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, is General David McKiernan." You can find this quote in his show transcript at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27008749/

GEN McKiernan is the NATO/ISAF Commanding General, but he does not work for US Centcom. The Centcom/OEF forces are only a small slice of the forces in Afghanistan and the NATO/ISAF Command does not fall under Centcom or GEN Petraeus.

So what does this mean? While I generally think Keith is a blowhard, it's not because he made this small mistake in understanding the chain of command in the Afghan theater. I submit it has the same gravity as Gov Palin's mistatement of "McLellan", which is none.

"Joe Biden is really incredibly authoritative on foreign policy."

When did we kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon, again?

Obviously he's miles ahead of Palin on these issues, but if this is the best we've got ... oy.

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