# Biden V. Palin watch-along thread **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/361 "2008-10-03T02:18:34Z")
[QUOTE=DtC] Biden’s smile is an artifact of a facial exercise he used to overcome a childhood stuttering problem. It’s not smug. Palin is just a fucking cunt. [/QUOTE] And his inability to answer questions with straight answers is probably due to his childhood as well…to be sure… Well, obviously the consensus here on the SD is that Palin is stupid (and a ‘cunt’) while Biden is brilliant (and a cock?)…so it MUST be so… Shocking and completely unexpected! (Seriously, you folks must be watching a different debate than I am…or I’m drunker than I though). -XT ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/362 "2008-10-03T02:18:37Z")
> [@Carnick](#): > > Do you ever get tired of being predictable? Anyone without horse blinders on can see that performance wise, Palin is clearly doing better. Better than we expected?? You can’t mean better than Biden ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/363 "2008-10-03T02:19:01Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > John McCain knows how to win a war: > > 1. Get captured. > 2. Be a prisoner. > > Yeah, that sure showed the VietCong, didn’t it? We won that war, right? Right? > > what? > > We didn’t? > > :smack: Don’t forget that he’s crashed 6 planes all on his own! ---
**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, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/364 "2008-10-03T02:19:09Z")
Biden forgot about the duty to protect the space-time continuum. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/365 "2008-10-03T02:19:17Z")
I’m a little sick of hearing Palin talk about how she’s a mom and she’s part of middle America. Enough, already! We get it! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/366 "2008-10-03T02:19:23Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > She’s coming off like Margie in “Fargo.” Combined with Paula Deen. Bless her heart. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/367 "2008-10-03T02:19:39Z")
What, no mentions of 9/11 yet? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/368 "2008-10-03T02:19:55Z")
Palin: My biggest weakness is that I am incapable of answering a direct question. ---
**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, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/369 "2008-10-03T02:20:35Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > She sort of comes across as an evil Marge Gunderson. > > ETA=wow, beaten to it. Yahhh, beaten to it. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/370 "2008-10-03T02:20:39Z")
It makes me really damn sick to my stomach how that bitch can keep touting equal rights and freedom when she is against equal rights for same sex couples. That is as hypocritic as you can get. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/371 "2008-10-03T02:20:47Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Well, not to start a debate, but the Serbs and Croats would usually be called Bosnian Serbs or Bosnian Croats. Bosnian _tends_ to refer only to the Bosniaks. Bosnian Muslim would have worked too. Fair enough. I concede the point. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/372 "2008-10-03T02:20:53Z")
Earlier, when Palin was talking about fiscal responsibility, I wish Biden would have reminded her that she left Wasilla $29 million in debt. Or that she kept the money for the Bridge to Nowhere, and that it costs $3 million to build a mile of gravel road in Alaska. ---
**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, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/373 "2008-10-03T02:21:02Z")
Jeezus Christ, they prepped her with pretty talking points, didn’t they. I hate the folksy crap. She’s not like me ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/374 "2008-10-03T02:21:13Z")
She almost literally goes in to robot mode. She hits those prepared/programed rifts and her voice goes monotone, her posture tightens up, her eyes stare straight and glass over. Stepford 2.0 ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/375 "2008-10-03T02:21:15Z")
I’m afraid that since she didn’t puke all over herself it’ll be considered a smashing success for McCain/Palin. That being said, by any objective criteria, Biden won. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/376 "2008-10-03T02:21:27Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > I think she is parodying Tina Fey. You’re way off. She’s parodying _herself_. ---
**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, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/377 "2008-10-03T02:21:28Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > And his inability to answer questions with straight answers is probably due to his childhood as well…to be sure To be fair, fucking _nobody_ does that. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/378 "2008-10-03T02:21:33Z")
She sounds like one of my first-semester freshman comp students on the “Achilles heel” question – pick a key word from the question and go off on a vaguely related tangent. They don’t know what an Achilles heel is either. :smack: ---
**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, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/379 "2008-10-03T02:21:33Z")
She’d be good at marketing–truly. She’d be a good ad man. Go Joe with the gracious, humble self-deprecation. I am also more impressed with Joe now–he has those facts at his fingertips. She has pretty painted nails. Good for him–you go. Fuck her and her mom shit. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/380 "2008-10-03T02:21:35Z")
Biden is just coming off as a lot more solid than Palin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253.md?page=20)