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- Jun 16, 2000
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Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
Biden was knowledgeable, and he was pretty restrained ? didn?t really say one stupid thing. He did his fair share of saying what he wanted to say without really answering the question. But Palin did that all night. At one point she said something like, ?I'm not going to answer the question the way you or the way the moderator want me to ?.? I was thinking, then why the hell are you here?
I personally don't think Golly-Gee-Wizz talk belongs in a vice presidential debate. It makes it feel like I cannot trust what she is saying. It takes away from the substance of what she says. I'm not looking for her to connect with soccer moms, I'm looking for leadership and a firm grasp of the issues this country needs to concentrate on. Golly Gee Wizz Beaver, did you do your chores? - has little place in the politics of high office.
Her incessant, almost overly excessive reading of her crib notes gave her little room for her golly gee wizz comments.
To paraphrase a columnist in today's paper (and this matches my observation), her answer to ANY question contained one (or some combination of) the following statements:
1. McCain is a maverick.
2. The surge worked.
3. Drill.
4. Taxes are bad.
5. This election is about ordinary people.
This is a short, easy to remember list. Pretty much any 6th grader could master it after several weeks of indoctrination by experienced political handlers.
ha....I particularly noticed 1 and 3. How she managed to turn every single question into "McCain is a maverick, just look at my record on energy in Alaska!", I'll never know.
