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Oh, that’s cute. Can I call you Joe? Nice.
Palin is looking at the camera and Biden did not.
OK, we’ve got the canned remarks out of the way.
She’s pointing at predator lenders and corruption. Personal responsibility.
Joe is getting in the quote about deregulating health care.
Palin: Taxes taxes taxes booga booga booga
As mayor she left her city in crippling debt. Someone should bring that up.
Biden is repeating the middle class tax cut. There you go Joe, look at the camera.
Palin: Redistribution of wealth. I hate that term.
Government is the problem.
Crossing state lines to buy insurance; I still don’t believe that’s possible.
Biden — ultimate bridge to nowhere. Good line.
Energy plan — Palin had to take on the oil companies. She broke up a monopoly?
Ooo, the bankruptcy bill. Greed and corruption don’t have anything to do with the bankruptcy bill. But Biden wasn’t on the side of the angels with that one.
We don’t have enough fossil fuel resources to eliminate dependence on foreign oil.
Don’t care as much about the climate than we do? Foreign countries will laugh.
OK, guys, how do you think it’s going so far?
Same sex versus heterosexual couples, no discrimination, says Biden. Hospital visitations, life insurance, benefits. Property.
Ooo, she just glows when she talks about the surge.
Funding the troops.
Ooo, white flag of surrender! Here we go!
I think she’s losing it. She’s repeating her talking points and not responding to what Biden said.
Al Qaeda is defining our war.
At least she can pronounce the name of whozits of Iran.
We’re in favor of diplomacy but not with people we don’t like.
McCain has pain and won’t sit down in Spain.
I honestly don’t know how this might be going over.
Here you go, Joe! No different from George Bush’s.
Um, little girl, Kim Jung Il already has nuclear weapons.
Ooo, we’re building schools in Afghanistan. Sure.
Bosnia. Kosovo. Bosnia.
She still sees like a ditz to me, but how will an independent voter see this?
The SNL writers are taking notes.
Pointing backward.
I just flipped to CNN to see the focus group line. The gang at MyDd says the squiggly lines like Biden.
Ooh, they’re right. As soon as Joe talks the lines swing up. Women like him especially.
She’s not answering the achilles’ heel question.
Palin speaks, the squiggly lines are nearly flat. This is fun.
Joe almost choked up.
Maverick maverick maverick. Oh, and the lines just went flat. Wheee!
Joe is challenging the “maverick” thing. The squiggly lines go up.
She appoints people of all parties in Alaska, as long as they are her friends.
OK, what did you think?
Y’all go ahead and talk among yourselves.
Hi Barbara…just stopping by. I’m tuned-in to CNN, with Wolfe and the gang. Are you excited??
Palin actually winked at the camera! Bambi.
Gwen messed up her own format on the first question: no rebuttals. Also she’s wearing some of my grandma’s old upholstery as a jacket. Hmm.
Good, Joe’s starting to look at the camera now. He’s pretty restrained, so far.
“Redistribution of wealth principle” — ooh, communism!
Patriotism in Alaska is giving gummint the finger. OK.
He’s trying to psych her with that big smile while she’s talking. I think it’s working… she keeps stealing nasty little glances at him in the middle of her current spew of BS. It’s creepy to see how rapidly her plastic facial expressions shift back & forth. Kind of Exorcist-like.
Ooh, “I agree with the governor” — worked last Friday!
STOP DROPPIN YER G’S, YA SLUT!
How do you think it’s going so far?
Well, if the same astute viewers from Friday are watching tonight, so far it’s a clean win for Biden.
I seriously misjudged my tolerance level for her voice. I had to shut off the teevee and just follow along with the various liveblogs.
wonkette has crashed from the site traffic. And CNN just posted this in the past hour:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska judge refused Thursday to throw out subpoenas for members of Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration in the State Legislature’s investigation of her firing of her public safety commissioner.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski rejected a request by Palin’s Republican allies to shut down the investigation and ruled that the subpoenas were issued properly by the state Senate Judiciary Committee.
Sweet.
I just flipped to CNN to see the focus group line. The gang at MyDd says the squiggly lines like Biden.
Ooh, they’re right. As soon as Joe talks the lines swing up. Women like him especially.
Palin speaks, the squiggly lines are nearly flat. This is fun.
Maverick maverick maverick. Oh, and the lines just went flat. Wheee!
Joe is challenging the “maverick†thing. The squiggly lines go up.
Now, don’t go on that ride again after you’ve had your cotton candy. I don’t want you throwing up in the car!
She really does do the cutesy thing. I give it to Biden hands down. Palin did better than I thought she would, but avoided answering some questions (IMO).
CNN’s freepable insta-poll gives the win to Biden, 76% to Palin’s 22%. I hope we see similar numbers tomorrow!
Me sleep now. Dream of smart administration.
Hey, stop calling McCain a Maverick! He’s a consummate Maverick…Ya got dat?
Well, Palin did better than I expected. And I suspect that new observers of Palin who aren’t familiar with her shtick might be impressed, but I saw her as similar to a Chatty Cathy doll where you pull the string and you get a limited set of stock comments. There was nothing original in her repertoire of one liners.
She did show a fine ability in confounding reality and perpetrating myth…a la Reagan. So what can be said besides, golly gee willickers, folks… she was really swell with her down home colloquialisms and cutesy little winks.
One word says it all — NOO-KU-LAR!