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VP Debate transcript
protein wisdom — VP Debate transcript Courtesy of the LA Times blog. So whaddya think. Is he right? Posted by Jeff G. @ 10:49 pm | Trackback

VP Debate analysis: Palin hits home run
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... last four weeks.  Palin was confident, assertive to the point of aggressive, knowledgeable, and open.  She repeatedly went after Biden, which is not usually a tactic seen much in VP debates (candidates usually attack the presidential nominees), and Biden had no answer for Palin.  On foreign policy, she offered good answers, made only a couple of rhetorical stumbles in segues when she wanted to change the subject, and delivered an exceptionally fine performance. In fact, Palin had an answer ready for the entire Democratic strategy of tying McCain to Bush, exposing it as a ...

Biden gaffe: VP is always President of the Senate
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... If anyone would have guessed before the debate which candidate would make an error on a Constitutional question, odds would have heavily favored Sarah Palin.  After all, Joe Biden has a license to practice law and has served in Congress more than half his life, while Palin has a degree in journalism and has never worked in Washington at all.  And yet, Biden blew the one question on the Constitution — on the topic of the job he seeks: BIDEN: Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that ...

The Biden-Palin Debate Wrap
A Blog For All — ... notes that there were multiple constitutional law gaffes, particularly by Sen. Biden and the role of the Vice President , but ABC glosses over that in favor of pointing out that Gov. Palin didn't know the name of a general in Afghanistan. It's all about priorities. What is truly telling is how the media and punditry were focusing on how Palin would be an abject disaster or wouldn't be able to hold her own against Biden in the debate, and yet when it's more than apparent that she could do so, and got in her shots, that the ...

Biden blows softball question, brags about becoming more ideological
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... The final question from Gwen Ifill in last night’s debate provided both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin a perfect platform to launch tough attacks on their opponents.  However, both candidates missed the softball, and in Biden’s case, managed to strike out completely: IFILL: Final question tonight, before your closing statements, starting with you, Senator Biden. Can you think of a single issue — and this is to cast light for people who are just trying to get to know you in your final debate, your only debate of this year — can you think of a single issue, policy issue, in which ...

You can find anything you want — except Katie’s Restaurant
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... One of the more tiresome habits politicians have is to inject personal anecdotes into answers on economic questions as a way of avoiding discussion of real data.  Both sides do it, although usually this happens when one side wants to make things look worse than they are by noting that someone, somewhere is suffering.  It helps when that someone, somewhere actually exists — as Joe Biden is discovering this morning.  In the debate last night, Biden referenced a Katie’s Restaurant in Wilmington as an example of how bad the Bush economic policies have been: PALIN: So that people ...

Did Gwen Ifill show bias in last night’s debate?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... two days.  In speaking to a few of the people at Trocadero’s, no one could point to any particular bias or even sense of bias from Ifill in the few minutes following the debate. This morning, though, I received several e-mails that claimed Ifill gave Joe Biden the last word on topics much more often than she gave to Sarah Palin.  I didn’t recall that, and I was actually considering that as a potential issue while watching the debate.  I consulted the transcript at the LA Times Top of the Ticket blog and counted them myself.  In 20 changes of topic, both candidates got 10 last ...

“Mother of all gaffes”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... has followed the wars in Lebanon more closely than most bloggers, and Joe Biden’s assertion that the US and France “kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon” has him gasping for breath.  Calling it “completely insane”, Rick deconstructs the rest of the answer on this question to seriously challenge whatever credentials Biden claims on foreign policy.  First, here’s Biden’s answer in its entirety, emphases mine: BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure ...

Truth and Recklessness on Afghanistan
Comments from Left Field — ... During the debate Thursday evening, Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of “hurting our cause” in Afghanistan with a statement he made in August that “all we’re doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” ...

Memo from CFR to McCain: Ahmadinejad Does Not Run Iran
democracyarsenal.org — ... off the map, and we're going to sit down, without precondition, across the table, to legitimize and give a propaganda platform to a person that is espousing the extermination of the state of Israel, and therefore then giving them more credence in the world arena and therefore saying, they've probably been doing the right thing, because you will sit down across the table from them and that will legitimize their illegal behavior. And here is Sarah Palin at the VP debate: An armed, nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to ...