Biden/Palin Debate Should at Least be Interesting
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Biden, Palin, VeepIf you can forget for a moment how incredibly important the upcoming election is, you have to admit that the two vice presidential candidates have provided us with some great entertainment.
While Sarah Palin keeps arguing that Alaska’s proximity to Russia counts as foreign policy experience, Joe Biden gave us this golden nugget a few days ago (which I missed at the time but is worth covering if only for its “he said what?†factor):
â€When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’â€
Wow. Really? FDR was president in 1929? And TV existed back then? I must have gotten one of those public educations, ‘cause I could have sworn history played out differently.
Nice one, Joe.
Between Palin’s slim grasp of the facts and Biden’s inability to keep his brain in sync with his mouth, factcheck.org may need weeks to sort out the vice presidential debate.
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September 25th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
what debate? i have serious doubts that debate is ever going to happen. why would it? if mccain can avoid doing his why would palin have to do hers?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 am
Nah. I can’t forget how important it is. This is quite simply, the single most important VP debate in history and it may have the largest audience of any debate in history!
But it seems to me that we should also be interested in knowing something about the debaters before it gets underway. We all know Biden. We’ve been listening to him speak since we were in 2nd grade ;-)
But, particularly from reading blogs and the comments thereto, it appears to me that so few people seem to know anything about Palin!
The fact is that aside from essentially only three interviews, the public really knows almost nothing about her except what the mainstream media and the east coast blogosphere tell us about her. As if someone in urban Boston can identify with a moose hunter from Alaska sufficiently to “explain” her to the rest of the country!
It seems that if you really care about understanding the players in this election that you ought to see what Alaskans say about her! And I don’t mean the few that were selected by the media for derogatory quotes or the putdown emails purportedly from Alaskans that are floating around.
Doesn’t it seem strange to anyone that there are nothing but negative comments from the citizens of a state where she was running an unheard of 80% – 90% favorable rating prior to her selection? There are lots of Alaskan bloggers who may or may not like her politics but can tell you a lot more about her than you hear on the evening news. I’m one of them. I’m pro-choice. I believe in evolution and I’m highly skeptical that anything resembling humanity’s view of God exists. In short … politically I disagree strongly with Palin.
But, that is an entirely different issue than what amounts to character assassination that seems to be getting out of control. For a much more balanced view of the woman from someone who understands her and the culture that created her (even though politically largely disagreeing with her), take a gander:
http://www.alaskanwoulds.blogspot.com/
But do it *before* the debate so you have a better understanding of who you are watching up there. Thanks.