Comments on: VP Debate Live Blogging

By: matt

matt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:29:35 +0000

we're over here now. join us.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:26:07 +0000

I had the same thought! She sounds soooo scripted.

By: Flan

Flan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:23:18 +0000

I am wondering if she is writing down information she is being fed through an ear piece.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:19:30 +0000

>itâ€™s not the massacre people were expecting

she can only memorize so much. but she is holding her own. nullus.

By: doug_jr@bellsouth.ne

doug_jr@bellsouth.ne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:14:20 +0000

She’s looking straight at the camera the whole time hoping she will come off as speaking directly to the people and right on the level of the people.

And all of her comments are directed to the lower middle class and middle class.

The BBC pointed this out saying that they have to go for those moms who shop at Wal Mart … they are so transparent.

She’s not answering anything with specifics. She memorized the hell out of her pre study material.
She’s speaking really fast because she has to get it out before she forgets it.

but true….it’s not the massacre people were expecting…she’s holding her own.

By: jamie beth

jamie beth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:23:44 +0000

i heard that she does better in debates because you can be on offense rather than defense in debates….that is to say, she can lash out at obama rather than defending mc cain, or herself and therefore she can come across as not so stupid.

i guess what i’m saying is, i’m worried. if biden blabbers too much and is “mean” to her, or perceived that way we could all be in trouble.

yes, i will be commenting, though i wish we could blog side by side….

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:31:42 +0000

I’m hoping for a bloodbath too. In my fantasy, it’s such a bloodbath that McCain goes apoplectic and has a minor stroke (or even a very public temper tantrum full of what the British quaintly call unparliamentary language).

By: matt

matt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:11:23 +0000

i notice that my writing is much less precise than normal today. i’m going to predict a bloodbath and go silent.

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:08:40 +0000

“the audience a touch less likely to accept folksy vapidness”?

really? the American voting public? the ones who “elected” and “re-elected” Bush?

By: matt

matt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:58:03 +0000

that was kind of insulting. i take it back because a couple friends were in alaska this summer and report that palin is not especially loved there. i meant that the issues will be different, and the audience a touch less likely to accept folksy vapidness.

abimbo indeed.