Palin -v- Biden Thoughts

It has taken me a good 3-4 days to fully grasp what I saw and what I think about the debate that took place this past week between the two possible VP's.

Not much of note here that you hadn't heard before I imagine.

The expectations game was played well by the Repos, as I figured it would be...as they did both times Dubya was running.

I think the bar for her was even below Dubya in the sense that the Repos took her being a female and silently downgraded her even more so. A brilliant job by them and while she was clearly abominable in my mind...she didn't embarrass herself completely.

Interesting point by some elder women in my family however. Though they clearly will vote for Obama, they didn't want her to completely fall on her face because they were worried that such a bad performance would set women back even further and make it even harder for women to run for that high of an office for years. I think the sentiment is correct, but I still think the big Hill plans to give it another run at some point no matter what/when. So, I don't think the womens movement would have been set back that much because it's hard to argue the big Hill would be able to be in that type of a position.

It's sad to see the bar set so ridiculously low, it made me ill. And to bash Biden for making clear, concise points of substance, but not being "interesting" enough...is extremely pathetic by the American body politic and right-wing media.

This is why Americans are sooooooo extremely moronic and stooopid. They value cutesy over substance, no matter how damning that substance may be.

Ultimately, Biden enhanced Obama's positions with simple details and stats that should have broken through (and we may be seeing evidence in the polls that he and Obama finally are breaking through the morass). And Palin didn't crater OCGM's campaign, it kept him afloat with her "performance."

But, again...several pundits didn't think the bleeding would continue on the nightly shows, with one paper pondering if Fey could "out-Palin, Palin."

After last night, the verdict was in: Fey still kicks Palin's ass and made her look so much like the phony caricature that she is, full of sloganeering, and empty brains that refuses/can't answer simple questions a Governor should be able to answer.