Posted on 09/05/2008 4:36:51 PM PDT by markomalley
Joe Biden can beat Sarah Palin by pretending she's a man. And that he's not Joe Biden.
You have a problem. In less than a month, you will face off against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, and were you anyone but Joe Biden, it would likely be a rout. Last week, Palin proved herself a charming, confident, and gifted reader of speeches. But that doesn't change the fact that two years ago she was the mayor of a town of 6,000, crusading against dirty books at the local library. You are a six-term senator and chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. World leaders routinely friend you, unbidden, on Facebook ("Wait … Is this the Angela Merkel?"). World leaders had never heard of Gov. Palin until last Friday.
That's your problem, Joe. Everyone expects you to win the debate, and to trounce her on the substance. But the rules for debating Gov. Palin are different. If you lecture her, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. If you act too smart, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. If you condescend to her, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. So this longtime parliamentary debater (and longer-time female) is going to humbly offer you a few tips on how to debate a girl.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“..and gifted reader of speeches”
They never give up do they?
Biden is one of the stupidest men in public life, but he thinks he’s smart. That’s his achilles heel. I think Gov. Palin will get it.
I think the media has proven that it is acceptable to be sexist. Heck, the headlines the day after the debate’ll probably call Palin a sexist.
Yep, this debate will be a rout.
Cry?
What happened to her being Governor of the largest State for two years??? (Not to mention having an approval rating some nine times greater than the Congress?)
Simple, just say I disagree with Oprah on the War on terror or anything else.
How about we simplify it. Joe needs to pretend that he's a man.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“That’s your problem, Joe. Everyone expects you to win the debate, and to trounce her on the substance.”
Utterly delusional. Wow.
As opposed to not so gifted plagiarist of speeches.
Not to mention keeping her up on current events.
/johnny
This just might be the high point of the election when Slow Joe gets beaten alive. He might not even know he’s been made toast.
I expect him to lose, partly because of the issues outlined by Dahlia, the same reasons Barak won because Hillary! couldn’t really get tough on him.
The Damocles sword of identity politics incompetently applied.
All she’s got to to is get Biden to start running his mouth, his own ego will do the rest...
Ah they're doing the "reader of speeches" line. The writer of this article is probably shall we say is a rather small man. Liberals are scum.
I’m still perplexed at Obama’s choice in Biden. I mean of all the people he could have picked, he picks a Senator (knowing he lacks his own executive experience) and a pompous, typical “white guy” Senator no less.
Did he think this would win him some white votes? If so, Obama really is out of touch and a moron.
"Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, ELLE, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Washington Post. She was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show,...."
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