10:11PM
"There you gooo again, Jooo!" OOOH! Isn't she aborable! OH! Weeee!
10:12PM
Jesus. She's just absolutely George W. Bush by way of Edie McClurg. No substance. Just a rambling personality who doesn't belong anywhere near anything serious.
10:15PM
Her answer on the vice presidency was the Couric Palin. That was her Miss South Carolina moment.
10:23PM
Biden is welling up talking about his kids and the middle class. Then we cut to Palin-bot and she goes off like an animatronic character from It's A Small World.
10:24PM
Wow. She doesn't compromise. Never has. Does that sound familiar?
10:26PM
You know who lost? Gwen Ifill. She was a terrible moderator.
10:30PM
With the economy crumbling around us, I can't imagine that anyone is buying this perky nonsensical babbling. Totally unserious.
10:33PM
And now the cable news people tell us about a debate we didn't see.
10:36PMWill anyone rip apart the fact that she was totally nonspecific on the questions? I mean, sure, politicians tend to dodge, but this was a crutch. Pakistan = foreign = nuclear = talk about foreign nuclear.10:38PMAnd before I finish asking... Andrea Mitchell: "She didn't answer questions." And, "She would raise her own questions and then answer it." Matthews, "Reciting to the point. It was like I was watching a spelling bee."10:40PMRachel Maddow: "Frenetic. Cartoonish."10:41PMBuchanan: "She was sensational."10:43PMFrank Luntz's focus group on FOX News says Palin won the debate. Whatever.10:47PMSoledad has a room of gomers on CNN. "People dialed down" during the folksy moments. Then again, an older undecided voter said she's decided to vote for Obama because she didn't like Biden's answers on the economy. And there you go.10:50PMMike Murphy: the debate was "a bit of a Nothing Burger." Cool. Huh?10:58PMI'm thinking that the McCain campaign will become overconfident and thrust her into more ridiculous interviews -- or maybe even a press conference. Either of these things will delete any uptick in her awful reputation.10:59PMHere comes Keith.11:02PMI missed this the first time. Palin: "Your ticket's energy ticket."11:06PMTonight went a long way towards further connecting the McCain-Palin ticket to George W. Bush. You could almost exactly hear President Bush reciting those same answers verbatim.11:10PMEd Rollins on CNN... She'll have crowds of 15,000 tomorrow.11:11PMCNN instant poll... Who did better in the debate? Biden 51, Palin 38. Palin qualified to be president? Up four points from 42 to 46. That might as well be nothing.11:17PMYou know what George W. Bush has always been really, really good at? Talking for a long time about basically nothing. It's his press conference tactic. The more he talks, the fewer questions he has to take. And he doesn't always choke on his own tongue while he's doing it. Then again, he doesn't really have a direction or a point -- nor does he make any sense. Just like Sarah Palin.11:20PMCBS poll... Who won? Biden 46, Palin 21, Tie 33.11:21PMHer ridiculous vice presidency answer:
Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation. And it is my executive experience that is partly to be attributed to my pick as V.P. with McCain, not only as a governor, but earlier on as a mayor, as an oil and gas regulator, as a business owner. It is those years of experience on an executive level that will be put to good use in the White House also.
And such as and. Maps!11:22PMCNN poll... More in touch with people like you? Biden 50, Palin 44.11:25PMOh, and Biden's response to Palin's ridiculous Ms. North Carolina answer:
Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.
11:26PMThat's all for me. I'm going to post some additional observations as their own thing. Cheers!