# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/161 "2008-10-03T01:30:18Z")
Sarah looks scared to death. It shows when she isn’t sure of her answer. After being subjected to so much ridicule for her interviews I would be scared too. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/162 "2008-10-03T01:30:19Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Did she just refer to a “toxic mess on Main St that is affecting Wall St”? The Repubs really love businesses… I think that was a Freuidian slip there. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/163 "2008-10-03T01:30:37Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Did she just refer to a “toxic mess on Main St that is affecting Wall St”? yep. you heard her correctly… she blew a talking point, and after a week of rehearsal too ooooh, she’s yelling and pointing now! woot! ---
**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, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/164 "2008-10-03T01:30:55Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Did she just refer to a “toxic mess on Main St that is affecting Wall St”? YES. Um, honey, we NEED China to buy our debt… God, she needed a primer on foreign financial markets. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/165 "2008-10-03T01:31:05Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > I agree. This has been an interesting debate and nowhere near the train wreck I expected. > > I want my money back. Worst freakshow ever. It’s what I expected. Blind repetition of talking points. I liked Biden calling Palin on her lies, but that’s about it. That and the fact Palin cannot answer a question. For all their concern over a moderator’s bias, it matters NOT ONE WHIT what the question is, they’re not going to answer it. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/166 "2008-10-03T01:31:10Z")
I think they made her memorize the points, and now she has to recite them in order or she’ll forget them. Questions be damned. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/167 "2008-10-03T01:31:17Z")
Climate change? Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/168 "2008-10-03T01:31:20Z")
“I’m gonna ignore your question there, and blather about energy. I like energy. Wee!” ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/169 "2008-10-03T01:31:26Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Everyone talked about this debate as if Palin was going to get up there and start stammering and drooling like she had a fucking lobotomy. It isn’t so. She’s been remarkably confident, with a very aggressive manner of speaking, no hesitation whatsoever, and even if she has no idea what she’s talking about, she nevertheless _sounds_ like she does. She is definitely coming off as likable and capable, and I’m sorry to say it but the anti-Palin crowd is simply going to have to eat some crow here. > > I still am not rooting for her, I’m just pointing out the impression I get. I don’t remember anybody saying that. I think they meant a lack of real content which may be so. I expected her to be a good likable speaker. I watched the other debates she was in. Likable without a lot of real content. The after debate factcheck should be interesting. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/170 "2008-10-03T01:31:43Z")
She’s losing it on the climate change question. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/171 "2008-10-03T01:31:45Z")
If we carpeted this land from sea to shining sea with oil wells, we still wouldn’t be energy independent. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/172 "2008-10-03T01:31:52Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > You honestly thought that we were serious about her drooling? It’s called hyperbole. No, I literally thought that you guys meant that she was really going to start drooling. Jesus, no. Of course, it was hyperbole. But you were wrong. She comes off looking and sounding very, very sharp here. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/173 "2008-10-03T01:31:57Z")
“How are we gonna get there to positively address those impacts”? ---
**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, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/174 "2008-10-03T01:32:03Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Why do we even have a moderator again? Hell, why do we have subjects? Shut. Up. Shut. UP and ANSWER THE QUESTION. God, she’s blathering now–she’s the Energizer Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/175 "2008-10-03T01:32:09Z")
Climate change. She’s starting to ramble. ---
**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, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/176 "2008-10-03T01:32:16Z")
I like how after she wasted 10 minutes talking about energy, Ifill gave her a question about…energy. ---
**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, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/177 "2008-10-03T01:32:17Z")
Does anyone else think that Palin is getting shakier? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/178 "2008-10-03T01:32:20Z")
I don’t wanna argue about the causes, I want to repeat my last talking point. ---
**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, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/179 "2008-10-03T01:32:24Z")
“Positively affect the impacts”? New catchphrase! ---
**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, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253/180 "2008-10-03T01:32:28Z")
Has anybody given the obligatory “I’d nail her” yet? 'Cause I’ll do it if nobody else has… ETA: I would _not_ nail Joe Biden. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-v-palin-watch-along-thread/466253.md?page=10)