I watched the debate last night. After the CBS interview with Palin that went so horribly wrong how could you not? And as circumstances happened I was pet sitting for a neighbor and went there to watch it on a real television.
And this morning I have been up reading the early media comments and blogs on the subject. Most put Senator Joe Biden as winner but some say Palin won in that she did not fall flat on her face.
She has obviously been heavily coached in the last couple of weeks and spent a lot of time reading from her notes on the podium. She also fell back on the non-answer answer that politicians have so mastered. When she did not have an answer to the question posed by the moderator she substituted an answer to a question not asked. In a college debate forum she would have lost points. Seriously lost points.
As it was she did lose points with CNN's panel of likely voters for her colloquialisms. I frankly would have slammed her for the winks and those cutesy little wiggles of her head that teenage girls do when trying to curry favor with the boys. But she is not a laughing stock of YouTube like she was after the Katie Coric interview. But she also did not provoke Biden into attacking her even when toward the end she resorted to giggles while he was answering the questions. I frankly would have slapped her and said, "Grow Up. This is serious business." I hate women that want to play on a level playing field with men and then resort to female tricks that should be beneath us even when dating.
But what was really interesting in the analysis afterwards is that most people thought she hurt McCain. Not satisfied with the Mayor-Governor-Vice President accession she was trying to position herself for a 2012 run for President. God Save the Queen. We may need to throw ourselves on the mercy of the Brits again. "Sorry, your majesty, we apologize for that tea party thing a couple centuries back. Just take control again, please."
But Joe Biden made me proud. He gave answers to the moderator's questions and stayed on subject. But I was especially for his closing statement. While Palin fell on canned campaign rhetoric (much stolen from the Obama campaign) the Senator spoke from the heart. I almost stood up from the couch and waved the flag.
Yes, most comentators over here think Joe came out on top.
ReplyDeleteAs for SP , see my post over on Bekkie's blog for my opinion of her.
And the "rebel colonies" returning to the fold? Now there's a thought... I guess we would be willing to forgive and forget, in the circumstances....
The scary thing is that coy female tricks survive because they so often work, with both men and women...
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing here is on the surveys done and analysis this morning was that it may have worked with men thinking with the wrong head. But it seemed to irritate thinking women.
ReplyDeleteI personally thought this was a better debate than the presidential one, as for Bidden answering all the questions I beg to differ on that-only thing he was doing all night is attacking Mccain, trying to say Mccain is the same as Bush, and really not answering the questions.
ReplyDeleteI liked the fact that Palin is down to earth, gets the job done, has executive experience (which Obama has absolutely none of-only thing to Obamas credit is that he is a great speaker-period), and she spoke from the heart and to me in the debate and not at the commentator.
This election is going to come down to the wire. I don't think either side picked up new votes-democrats are still democrats and republicans are still republicans.
Obama has been talking so long he has himself convinced that he is already the president-It will be the beginning of socialism in this country if Obama gets in-and I believe that with all my heart-he is a dangerous person
G.W. Bush's initial bailout plan makes the United States a sociolistic country. Anytime a nation owns the vast majority of its major business it crosses that line. for England it was when it bailed out the railroads. Now we are bailing out the investment banks.
ReplyDeleteMoreover all the "earmarks" re-tax breaks which benefit on those with high incomes were added by the Republicans to get the Republicans in the house to vote for it.
How can anyone be more dangerous for this country than G.W. Bush has been.
we are in such a mess in the country, that I really don't think we can point a finger at any one person. Clinton even tried to get legislation passed to oversees the markets etc, and the congress refused to pass it, as did Bush try to a couple times and again the congress refused to pass it.
ReplyDeleteit comes down to corporate greed politicians lining their pockets etc. this is what happens in a free society- if the bad guys are kept in check somewhat.
these are definately trying times.
on a lighter note-I have been have fun with my experience of plant dyes. I spent 3 days dyeing with goldenrod on wool. I have three different posts about the outcome.
How have you been Jacqui?
Check out Creative Journey which is in Blog list on this page. It is my new blog spot devoted to poetry and painting and essays on the creative process.
ReplyDeleteAs a 'foreigner' I was not impressed. SP is what I call 'twee'. Her voice needs to come down about three octaves for her to begin to be taken seriously. This 'jolly hockey sticks' behaviour is not becoming of a person who could be a heart beat away from the Presidency. She was well schooled so we now know that she can retain some information but I doubt that she is anywhere near intelligent enough to hold the position of VP. On the other hand Bush was voted in (or was he??) so anything could happen. The debate is over and the McCain camp can breathe a sigh of relief because she needn't appear again. I have a major problem with the way she avoided the questions, made clear how she was going to answer in her own way - like it or not - and her determination to let the American (and any other0 public know that she is an Executive and a Governor. The burning news of the day is that she was a small town Mayor and in my country the milkman can be elected to the mayoral position - and has been.
ReplyDeleteFor a vast array of Sarah Palin stories (and her poetry ;-) )take a look at this blog page
ReplyDeletehttp://webweaversworld.blogspot.com/
Sorry John I got to the Sarah Palin Debate flow chart and was rolling on the floor and laughing so hard that I haven't gotten to her poetry yet.
ReplyDeleteWill go back and check that out after the pain in my side subsides.