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evnme
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
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juanvi
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
I thought she did a horrible job. Seemed to me that the bar was already set low for her in this debate and the only reason why people thought she held her own was because she didn't sound like a complete idiot. The winking etc. made me dislike her even more. She rarely answered the questions posed to her. She just ran around it blabbering about whatever she "studied". Seriously, I feel like the MacCain supporters are grasping at straws trying to make her look good.
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| Posted 10/3/08 5:12 PM |
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seaside
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
Dina-I have rarely heard anyone give such a candid insight into their candidate's performance. Most people are too stubborn to be as honest as you were.
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| Posted 10/3/08 5:21 PM |
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DaniJude
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
Posted by leighdvm
Dina, you're my hero!  
Not only do I totally agree with you, I admire how you posted your opinion without insulting the other side with a brainless insult....nicely done....
ITA!
To the OP: Thank you for the post - it was a good read!
You speak for a lot more of us than you think. 
Message edited 10/3/2008 5:36:32 PM.
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beachgirl
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
I was surprised at how well SP held her own in the second half of the debate. Based on her recent interviews I really expected her to bomb.
However as a working mother myself I do not relate to her at all. I find her hokey fargo style chatter annoying. She seems like she is an intelligent woman so why is she acting like this? Is this her normal routine or is she playing it up for the Joes and the hockey moms. I feel that she is going to alienate more moms by this type of chatter than if she stood up there and showed herself as an intelligent person who you would be 100% confident as the VP or President of the US. I would not be happy with her meeting with foreign heads of state and acting like this.
Also she even said herself that she does not answer questions the way that the moderator might want her to - because she didnt answer any direct questions she just diverted to her energy info as that seems to be all she knows. Why didnt Mc Cain just tag her for an interior job and leave it at that? Did he really want the left over hilaryvotes that badly? and I am sorry but comparing her to hilary is like comparing a honda to a Mercedes.
Just my 2cents.
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CaMacho
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
I think they both did a good job and I really enjoyed watching the VP debate. I didn't get to see the Pres debate last week so I learned a lot last night.
Posted by juanvi
The winking etc. made me dislike her even more.
I didn't even notice her winking, but everyone has their little idiosyncrasies (I have a coworker who rolls her eyes after every sentence of a story she tells) and it's surprising to me that something like winking would make you dislike her even more.
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leese
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
Great post, and I very much agree with you.
I love the debates simply because other than a moderator, you really get to hear the candidates.
It's refreshing to hear the candidates, instead of listening to reporters TELL us what they said/meant. And I think average people are getting sick and tired of the mainstream and nonmainstream media shooting out their opinions instead of doing their real job of reporting the news.
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| Posted 10/3/08 5:46 PM |
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dandr10199
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Dina
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
Posted by seaside
Dina-I have rarely heard anyone give such a candid insight into their candidate's performance. Most people are too stubborn to be as honest as you were.
Thank you I try to be objective in my own biased way. 
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Re: Beating a dead horse...The VP debate...
Posted by nrthshgrl
I don't see myself in Palin at all. I appreciate her ambition but not necessarily her success (which doesn't have to do with her politics which I disagree with). I don't like the cutesy remarks. It's not about elists ivy grads & middle america. I don't think it's professional - which makes me question her sucess. Frankly, as a woman, I'd have more respect with a pitbull wearing lipstick than someone winking & being "cute" during a VP debate.
I want her to answer a question she's been asked. I want politicians to answer the question they've been asked. As Vice President / President, you have a lot to answer for & I'm going to need the answers, not just what they want to talk about.
I agree with you. I did think she'd be a disaster, and she wasn't. But I think the way she's trying to connect with most of us is condescending (which I also said in another post). Today in the Daily News a fellow Republican referred to her as "Gidget Goes to St. Louis" and I'd be inclined to agree with all the "gollies" and winking. Love or hate Hillary Clinton, you would not see anything less than proper debate decorum from her; other Democratic and Republican women in gov't would not pull that nonsense.
And with regard to Gwen Ifill and her book: I don't know how anyone can call it "pro-Obama" when NONE of us have read it- it's not even published.
McCain's campaign knew about the book in August when she was chosen as moderator and there was time to have someone else step in. They just needed to cover themselves in case Palin was a train wreck- then they could have said, "Oh, Gwen Ifill is biased." As it is, Ifill is getting some criticism that she was too soft on Palin.
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