# Biden V. Palin watch-along thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253 "2008-10-03T00:00:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/221 "2008-10-03T01:39:58Z")

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Yay Biden. What a world where a politician can stand up and say what he said re: rights for homosexual couples.

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**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/222 "2008-10-03T01:40:09Z")

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Oooh gay marriage! Hello parade of crazy. She said “same visitation”? Yeah, yeah redifing marrage. I’m lining up for my goat marriage license.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/223 "2008-10-03T01:40:14Z")

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> [@SmartAleq](#):
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> Aww, how cute, is she really going for “separate but equal?”

Doesn’t matter, because she has no idea what the Brown decision was.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/224 "2008-10-03T01:40:28Z")

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> [@CRich](#):
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> Maybe I’m biased, but the cute is definitely getting to me. I don’t want to see her shuckin’ and grinnin’–I want to see some serious answers. She sounds like a cheerleader on meth.

Good descriptive phrase.

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**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/225 "2008-10-03T01:40:32Z")

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She must have been prepped within an inch of her life during the past couple of weeks. Jeezopete.

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**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/226 "2008-10-03T01:40:44Z")

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She has a very diverse family? What does that mean?

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/227 "2008-10-03T01:40:56Z")

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> [@asterion](#):
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> Doesn’t matter, because she has no idea what the Brown decision was.

Please, some of her best friends are brown.

What?

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**Author:** ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/228 "2008-10-03T01:41:14Z")

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> [@JXJohns](#):
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> Thank God the Cub’s game has finally started.

Big Z looked good against the first 2 batters. What’s on the other channel again?

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**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/229 "2008-10-03T01:41:15Z")

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Why do they still kick over the word “marriage,” anyway? I just don’t get it–if it walks like a duck, etc…

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**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/230 "2008-10-03T01:41:16Z")

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Surge.

Too drunk to type.

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/231 "2008-10-03T01:41:16Z")

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My cat just tried to drink my whiskey.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/232 "2008-10-03T01:41:24Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> She has a very diverse family? What does that mean?

What else would you expect, with names like Trig, Bristol, and Track?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/233 "2008-10-03T01:41:25Z")

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“I respected you when you called him out on that.”

Bitch, you never even HEARD of the surge before last month.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/234 "2008-10-03T01:41:28Z")

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She’s starting breakdown–we need to get out or we need to stay the course? Which, Sarah, which?

Voice quaver…

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**Author:** ![CRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRich)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/235 "2008-10-03T01:41:34Z")

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I seriously doubt that she means she has gay family members. I’m guessing she has family who are strongly anti-gay.

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**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/236 "2008-10-03T01:41:38Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> we just had our first “nucular”

Not just my imagination then…

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**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/237 "2008-10-03T01:42:02Z")

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Didn’t hear a plan. Good point.

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/238 "2008-10-03T01:42:15Z")

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“With all due respect, I didn’t hear a plan. Here’s our plan…” and BTW, McCain voted against the same bill.

Great answer. There’s my Joey boy!

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**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/239 "2008-10-03T01:42:30Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> She has a very diverse family? What does that mean?

Some of the kids are allowed to play soccer instead of hockey…

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/240 "2008-10-03T01:42:35Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> She has a very diverse family? What does that mean?

On second thought, that was too far.

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