9 PM Eastern: St. Louis Vice Presidential Debate Live Thread

c-span.org ^ | October 2, 2008

[2ndDivisionVet]

Okay, folks. Let's keep an eye on this debate and see if Sarah can beat down hairplug.

[BIOCHEMKY]

Joe Biden WISHES he was on the McCain ticket and, believe me, HE “GOT” the point of the “freedom talk” that Palin made sure to put in as her parting words at the end of the debate to the American people.

Look for Biden to consider getting off the O’Bama ticket VERY LATE in the electiobn campaign season as a parting patriotic act for his country.

I’m NOT kidding!!! Watch & wait.....

[PogySailor]

I give her an A- only because she had to carry so much of McCains water. But good grief was FR S-L-O-W....

[Cheetahcat]

She did a great job! Thank You Sarah.

[Quix]

MUCH APPRECIATE ALL THE EXTRA EFFORTS ON YOUR TWO PARTS.

PLEASE, JIM, INCLUDE SOME EXTRA MONEY FOR MORE SERVERS BEFORE NOV 4TH!

So what was the peak? Did we break records?

[donnab]

I meant quit your whining on your multiple posts.

[MathDoc]

Geraldine Ferraro just said that Palin did well! It seem unanimous. “A good evening for, certainly, for Governor Palin,”

[generally]

Not only did she win the debate, she is winning the post-debate. Check out how great she looks with her family.

And even the MSNBC commentators are giving her credit! Amazing!!!

They are dismissing it by saying it won’t matter that she won, but they are admitting that she did. I have to give them credit for at least being fair enough to admit she won. Woohoo!

[clintonh8r]

Well, I learn something every day!

[RobFromGa]

I think she’s done great except Global Warming...

[Syncro]

Oh Chris Matthews had a problem with Palin.

Said it was like a spelling bee.

Like she was reading a speech

Heh what a dolt.

That tingle is still goosing him

[wilco200]

Here we go. Rachel Maddow calling Palin’s performance comic, inhuman, gimickry

[luvie]

SHE WON! 'Nuff said!

[Patriotic Progeny]

Sarah just has to disprove the media depiction of her. She has proven to the country that she is not an airhead. No one believes she is a foreign policy expert, but she is more trustworthy than he is.

[KevinDavis]

The debate won’t be a big news item then..

[conservativeinferno]

She just beat a person who has debated for over thirty years. Go back to DU.

[Gondring]

MSM will have a difficult day tomorrow citing mistakes that Sarah made.

Other than naming a Civil War general instead of Gen. McKiernan, and misstating troops strengths? ;-)

[CaraM]

Gwen Ifill did a very professional job.

It seems to me Gwen always gave Biden the last word. Has anybody kept track of that?

[SoCalConservative]

Amen again!

During closing, I thought Biden didn’t look well. You wouldn’t look well either having been sprayed with a big, fat bottle of WHOOP-ASS!

She did great!

[The_Reader_David]

On the contrary, the very essence of ignorance is not knowing things.

Admittedly it is a very minor form of ignorance to not know the proper names of ethnic groups in the Balkans. (I’ve been ‘on the Balkan desk’ here at FR since I joined, so maybe I have a jaundiced view here.)

The problem is sneering at Biden on the basis of not knowing something.

There are plenty of reasons to sneer at him, but his using the correct name of Muslim Slavs is not one.

[PapaBear3625]

Running the country isn’t about who is the most glib, or the most handy with some useless bit of data. It’s about considering the information and being decisive.

It's also about being able to deal with high-stress situations and be able to think fast on her feet with a lot on the line - and that's a PRIMARY attribute that we look for in a President.