LIVEBLOG: 2008 Vice President debate
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Ladies and Gentlemen! In this corner, marching North to the Future, hailing from the Land of the Midnight Sun, Sarah "Barracuda" Palin. And in this corner, the statesman from The First State: Joe Biden!
PALIN! it's as good as bingo. But there are always drinking games. What to watch it online? CSPAN's got you covered.
Game.
Fucking.
On.
PALIN! it's as good as bingo. But there are always drinking games. What to watch it online? CSPAN's got you covered.
Game.
Fucking.
On.
Posted by butterstick at 6:10 PM on October 2nd 2008
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In one corner, the gaffe machine from Scranton with rolled-up sleeves and a foot in his mouth. In the other, entering the ring despite injury, the hockey mom with lipstick major who will read any paper you put in front of her. Keep it clean, ref. Fight!
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Let's do this.
First presidential debate - in one minute
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I feel like those have been like watching someone beat up a kid in a wheelchair. You just want to tell Katie to lay off – Palin obviously has no f***ing business being on the national stage. I know it's Couric's job to push the issue, but P obviously will only make herself look stupid. (As a friend of mine pointed out tonight, it's not like a member of the football team beating up the wheelchair kid, either – more like another crippled child.) If you can't hold your own against Katie Couric, may the gods have mercy on your soul!
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(whipcrack!)
HALL AND OATES!!!!
Saddle up, let's go dancin'
Did I just hear a starting bell?
Except she's clearly playing smart, using a lot of "big" words incorrectly. She sounds smart to dumb people and dumb to smart people. The worst possible combination.
Is this thing on?
Ex points out that her ears are uncovered.
Time to "betcha": 20.
Also: You'd hear fear in their voice as they realize they're about to get cornered into a conversation about economics at a soccer game.
Republicans just love it.
Full of lies, but coherent, that was nice.
You betcha.
Ooh, they prepped her for the "fundamentals" callout. That was a rote-practiced answer.
Those predators, those wolves, let's shoot them from the helicopters
Guess they know they lost Florida.
Jeeesus, it's like a cartoon.
Also: Sarah Palin has a FLAG PIN to end all flag pins.
As far as the CNN reaction lines go, women seem to love both VP candidates more than men do. Ugh, who else has good coverage, the gendered line reactions are bugging me.
Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud...
And there's Palin, using big words in a not-quite-right manner.
Erase the state borders? What about state's rights?
Here's hoping she gets writers cramp
I guess it's the zed. Which you might call a zee. Crazy world.
I haven't promised anything, so you can't expect anything from me! no fair!
(but I don't know anything about what our campaign has promised)
She's a smoooooth talker
But the movie was FICTION!
There are some things I'd like to thank him for, but I don't think they are any of the things she's just mentioned.
Wait, what? We're back on energy? I've got whiplash over here.
Seriously, that was wide open for her.
christ, she went back to drill baby drill
Somehow I parsed that as "man's activities as a result of global warming"
"I only blame short shorts on bad fashion, not global warming"
BIDEN: "DRILL BABY DRILL! JOE BIDEN LOVES THE DRILL!!!"
FUCKING HILARIOUS
TINY FOOTPRINTS
Also, there's no conversation going on. Zero.
"DRILL BABY DRILL, FLOW INTO HUNGRY MARKETS!!"
Will Palin make the earth pay for it's own rape kit?
Now you can ask: are we there yet?
Good point Joe
Favorited in my mind!
Fuck you both on gay marriage
Well, at her rate, eventually she will have a gay kid. I'd say number 7 or 8.
BIDEN: I do not support gay marriage
She totally just said "yeah, what he said" on gay marriage.
We're garrrrds. Garrrrrrds.
Serrrrrge.
Funding¿
oh..
Fuck you, Sarah Palin, for MAKING ME USE ALL CAPS.
I have no problem with a legal system that only recognizes Civil Unions, and leaves Marriages to the religious organizations. However, that also means that the US just wont recognize marriage for straight people either. And that is a too nuanced answer for any soundbite.
We will leave when I say so.
I win the debate because I say so.
(I work at the company who builds MRAPs)
Tax Relief
Job Creation
AIR SPACE
National Guard
Drill
Bing, fucking, go.
heh
Oh, she's checking notes. "Petraeus! What was the question?"
'nother drink!
She can, however, pronounce Ack-my-deenijaahd.
OOOps.
Looong sigh from Biden.
FUCKING ROT IN HELL YOU EVIL FUCKER!
To write her off as a human being of any worth whatsoever.
HOLOCAUST WTF?
Too bad Joe didn't call her on the respect for women.
Palin scores with people who want to be tucked into bed and told "don't worry, daddy and I will protect you."
Gwen is not scoring much though, or am I missing something?
"When Palin claims she said “Thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere: demand a new drink from your hosts, say “thanks but no thanks,” and then when no one’s looking, take it anyway, then claim you never wanted it."
make up a joint v: to screw a length of pipe into another length of pipe.
newcuelar
The U.S. is still the only country to have used nuclear weapons on ACTUAL FUCKING PEOPLE.
My friend's text back: "Hahahaha. Too bad we all hate her!"
We did not kill citizens in Afghanistan because I said so
We are building schools because I said so
Go, Joe! Three weeks vs 6.5 years.
Biden has to stop sighing.
Joe got beat on the Afghanistan question.
Man, she is good at saying nasty things while grinning.
Newscaster experience. It's damn creepy.
ream v: to enlarge the wellbore by drilling it again with a special bit.
round trip n: the procedure of pulling out and subsequently running back into the hole a string of drill pipe or tubing. Also called tripping.
CHUGS
Oh don't you tell me about small town, small minded people.
AGAIN, WOMAN, your citizens pay less taxes than others do!
GOOD THING I ALREADY FUCKING WON!!!!!
also: Joe Biden is handy.
Favorited!
Goddoneit!
SARAH PALIN FOR POET LAUREATE '08.
And holy Christ, she just referenced HIS DEAD WIFE.
I can't believe that she is for real the real candidate...
I figured it out. Palin is foldy in drag.
Someone told her that the VP presides over the Senate.
So that explains the veep selection
AWESOME
Oh, good Joe - left behind, left behind, left behind. That ought to be a book.
sidetrack v: to use a whipstock, turbodrill, or other mud motor to drill around the original planned path of the well.
But also, kinda legislative if I get in there.
RAMBLE ON RAMBLIN' ROSE
What are the weak spots?
tight spot n: a section of a borehole in which excessive wall cake has built up, reducing the hole diameter and making it difficult to run the tools in and out. Compare keyseat.
Oh, she's weak now, bringing up the kids.
Oh, and Reagan! Drink!
trip out v: to come out of the hole.
NEWSFLASH: Alaska judge is not supressing Troopergate subpoenas.
Good thing Palin's not a member of this site. =)
Whoa! He brought on the tears! That was beautiful, planned or not.
uncased hole n: see open hole.
MOAR BEER!
Are they making closing statements now? I think she rebooted.
He does suck, but you have wireless mics on them because those mics follow the motion of the head. Lectern mics are usually only for backup.
That takes me back...
valve n: a device used to control the rate of flow in a line to open or shut off a line completely, or to serve as an automatic or semiautomatic safety device. Those used extensively include the check valve, gate valve, globe valve, needle valve, plug valve, and pressure relief valve.
Jerk.
Buck o'five.
He namedrops a surprising number of legislators.
waiting on cement (WOC) adj: pertaining to the time when drilling or completion operations are suspended so that the cement in a well can harden sufficiently.
Powder puff answer from Palin. Loved Biden's answer on how he would change the tone.
Her closing statement is disjointed. Quoting Regan? Your children's children? I saw that blink, lady.
Eh, not bad, Biden.
All of these oil drilling terms brought to you by:
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I hate him sooo much.
Biden was pretty awesome at times, though, amazingly so.
Thanks, Brandon!
1. Dion is performing well, despite his English;
2. Duceppe is a fishwife;
3. Layton is a starry-eyed dogmatic;
4. Harper a condescending sonofabitch; and
5. May has no business being there.
Winner, Dion, but it's not much of a contest.
And more importantly, I'd like to shun any mention of "expectations". The debate has occurred. Expectations are now officially irrelevant. Whether she met them or not has no impact on the substance of her performance. That performance must be compared to her opponents, not to some imaginary expectation cast from a crystal ball.
Clear win for Biden.
I think a lot of regular voters would have a hard time agreeing with that because there was no real knockout punch. However if you mention Biden choking up, espeically in reference to Palin's tone deaf comment that brought it about, they'd say Biden won.
She was a sewing machine stitching together nonsense from the fabric of talking points she had committed to memory.
Great comment.
G'night.
Paiken, always prepared and so smooth.
Also: it really makes me sad every time I see a newborn baby up at these hours so he can be used as a prop.
Those aren't sure, but are looking for someone who knows what they're doing will spring for Obama/Biden.
FReep this poll: Who did a better job in the vice presidential debate? (URGENT--she's in trouble!)
(So what were the ratings like?)
Thanks butterstick, Brandon, and everyone. Good night.
As to Lieberman: Man he must be sweating bullets, he hitched his wagon to the wrong campaign and is going to be low man on the totem pole come Jan.
Sarah can go back to AK and face the music without the $ and people of a prominent senator keeping her wolves at bay.
Yeah, I was wondering what the hell Scottie had to do with that.