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9 PM Eastern: St. Louis Vice Presidential Debate Live Thread
c-span.org ^ | October 2, 2008

Posted on 10/02/2008 1:48:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008debates; 2008veep; biden; debates; election; electionpresident; elections; gaffemachine; jumpingthegun; mccainpalin; palin; palinattacks; palinping; palinpraise; sarahpalin; vpdebate; whenbidenspeakszz; whenbidenspeakszzzz
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To: ElCid89

CNN undecideds going for Obamabi:)


2,621 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:36 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Lipstick wearing Okie Moosehead!)
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To: Abigail Adams

Any chance Sarah can sub for McCain the next couple debates?


2,622 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:38 PM PDT by Moonlighter (.)
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To: ErnBatavia
We may have just seen the next Ronald Reagan.....F

From your mouth to God's ears.

2,623 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:41 PM PDT by ozarkgirl (Sarah Palin: pro-life, pro-guns, pro-family, anti-government corruption!)
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To: khnyny

Amem to that!~ A big thank you to The Lord!


2,624 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:43 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: sonic109
Her biggest positive is her irresistable charm, just like Ronnie. To go through some of that (Ayers for instance) would detract from that. Ronnie would smile and needle liberals for their wackiness, but he wouldn't get really direct and down and dirty. Some politicians are so gifted that they do better when they don't get too negative.

I wish she had mentioned Fannie and Freddie more. She did, though, mention that some in the Senate, meaning Biden and 0bama, had opposed McCain's reform in that area.

I actually think McCain should hit some of those points himself instead of having his #2. McCain has more of the adversarial toughness to make it work.

2,625 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:46 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (George Bush was eight more years of Bill Clinton.)
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To: sonic109
When biden put complete blame for the sub prime mess on Republican deregulation and Palin gave him a pass on it (as McCain did Friday) I turned the debate off.

What little I saw was ifill completely in the tank and Palin now McCainized. I can't stand to watch lying dems and rollover Republicans.

McCain has allowed the dems and msm to completely define him on the sub prime issue. obama will use this uncontested tactic to win this election. Stunningly bad move by McCain.

2,626 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:49 PM PDT by Tail Gunner John
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To: Moonlighter

Chrissie has a “problem” with the Gov., but Oberdork sends a tingle up his leg!


2,627 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:54 PM PDT by paul in cape
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I repeat the question: Why did our Presidential candidate debate their Vice-Presidential candidate?!


2,628 posted on 10/02/2008 7:49:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: EagleandLiberty

LOL!!


2,629 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:01 PM PDT by Fawn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A)
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To: nascent skeptic

I am greatly relieved and think that perhaps I had set the bar too high for her. She certainly avoided catastrophe and it seems that her likability won over more people.


2,630 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:05 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: sonic109

Honey, chill! That was not her job. On Frank Luntz’s things SHE WON! They were impressed.


2,631 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:05 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: skinkinthegrass; All

What a phony..


2,632 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:15 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: Jim Robinson
Sorry about the slowdown half way through the debate. We were cranking along under three times our normal load when suddenly one of the old servers smoked. Then all of our servers overloaded.
Sorry....I screwed it up.....dial-up yah know.
2,633 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:17 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Annoy the media, elect PALIN and McCAIN....errr....McCAIN / PALIN.....McPALIN" 8^)
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To: retrokitten

That;s fine, but I still think his focus groups are mostly idiots.


2,634 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:24 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: dfwgator

You said, “I think Sarah had a tremendous handicap to overcome, and that was having to defend John McCain. Her defense of McCain sounded forced to me, but then again, I can’t blame her for that.”

I hear you on that. I have a hard time trying to defend him too.

I loved it when she said the majority of Americans and business owners would like the Government to “GET OUT OF MY WAY”.


2,635 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:28 PM PDT by Duke Phelan
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To: tiki

I truly believe that if she did nothing else tonight, she proved to the American people that her critics were WRONG when it came to her being nothing more than an empty-headed bimbo... I don’t think ANYONE could’ve watched the debate tonight and come away agreeing that she is an imbecile as most of the media and partisan hacks have alleged.

I happen to think she did even better than that, and that she showed she DOES know what she is talking about. She was confident and strong...

The majority of Americans are not going to be listening to the debate saying things like — Oh, she should’ve said this, instead of that. She should’ve pointed to this, instead of that. I think that is the hardest thing to do for someone who is a political junkie like us FReepers — to accurately judge just how much the public is aware of, and just how much they will really pick up on. I honestly think Biden went over the heads of many “average Americans” when it came to some of his long, drawn-out answers - particularly when he started throwing strings of numbers around. People get turned off by that. We want straight talk, and I believe Sarah delivered that tonight, more effectively than Biden did — especially with a lot of the one-liners, and slams she got in against him.

All JMHO of course! :)


2,636 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:28 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ Pro-Palin & NObama Gear : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Why did he cry?


2,637 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:29 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: All

I was really impressed with Sarah. I just wish she was the top of the ticket!

Let’s hope she can energize voters in the coming weeks!

PS:
I just heard we’re getting 5000 McCain/Palin signs tomorrow!
Finally!!!


2,638 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:30 PM PDT by Spatha
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To: AnnGora

Flipping channels...ALL the DUmocrats are unhappy with Biden’s performance. They may not say so, but it SHOWS!


2,639 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:34 PM PDT by RasterMaster (CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!)
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To: PhatHead

yes. They liked her and her homesy folksy nature hit it big. They actually liked the way she kept saying “we”, instead of an us-versus-them that Biden used.


2,640 posted on 10/02/2008 7:50:34 PM PDT by newnhdad (Naval Aviator or "community organizer", you make the call.)
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