Palin's Performance...

gimmesometruth27

i give her a 2. politics aside. all she did was spout talking points and avoided several questions and kept changing the subject. the worst example was the achilles heel question.

mfc2006

Honestly...

Overall, I'd give her a 2.
not just b/c of my own political views.
she did NOT answer any of the questions!!! she skated around them.

I was surprised that Biden didn't call her out on this.

mfc2006

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i give her a 2. politics aside. all she did was spout talking points and avoided several questions and kept changing the subject. the worst example was the achilles heel question.

it appears that we are on the same page, but you can type a bit faster!

Fighting Hellfish

almost every question asked, she had a memorized answer ready to regurgitate at the ready. I liked when she was asked about her biggest shortcoming, or flaw, however the question was worded, she basically responded: I'm too awesome. or when she asked what concessions she has had to make while in power: she fell back on old faithful---I wanted to cut taxes even more and more, but they wouldn't let me. You could tell with Biden, it was authentic. Surely he was coached, but palin was programmed. for baseball fans, she reminded me of an Alex Rodriguez interview. Where you don't believe one word he is saying is authentic. his speechwriters wrote it for him, he tested it out in front of a focus group, fine tuned it, then met the press at his locker for a post game interview

stickfig13

I think she was totally outclassed! She was obviously prepared to say exactly what she was told. Overall, I think it's very scary to think this lady could possibly be a step away from leading the free world....


Plus I think she is the first VP candidate to ever give a "Shout out" at a debate.

With that said....

Dubya fans will eat this shit up! They love a good old fashioned "Ameeericannn"

CHANGEinWAVES

stickfig13 wrote:

Plus I think she is the first VP candidate to ever give a "Shout out" at a debate.

this made me so sad!!!!!!:(

Anon

MattyJoe wrote:

So, all they had to go on was the idea of portraying her as the psycho religious, milf, redneck, pit bull fanatic from Alaska. Pathetic.

It's a sad state of affairs when people's political opinions come entirely from SNL.

I prefer to listen to what she has to say from her own mouth and then make my opinion...

I can see russia from my house......

mmm hmmm.

No one had heard of her two months ago. She scares the hell out of me. I just can't find common ground with her on anything. Let's not forget the fact McCain will be just about 73 if he wins. There's a chance he'll die in office. Then what? We are stuck with her..... The Earth is 6,000 years old? Fossils...

"Fossils were placed here by the Lord to test our faith."

Yeah, because God or whoever had nothing better to do than go around pranking the planet...

C'mon. She governs probably the last great wilderness in the western world, and she wants to fuck it over for the last few drops of oil. Unbelievable.

SNL didn't make that up. They are her words.

g under p

stickfig13 wrote:

I think she was totally outclassed! She was obviously prepared to say exactly what she was told. Overall, I think it's very scary to think this lady could possibly be a step away from leading the free world....


Plus I think she is the first VP candidate to ever give a "Shout out" at a debate.

With that said....

Dubya fans will eat this shit up! They love a good old fashioned "Ameeericannn"

I noted this and like you said the right will love this what else do they have to grab unto. That being said I think she did OK 3.5 almost 4. America tuned to see if she was going to implode and she didn't. She did well enough to convince those who have a smitten of faith in her to NOW believe in her totally.

She basically turned this race for President back unto the main characters Obama and McCain. She survived her main test however maybe down the road here we'll see or hear another end to her story.

PS. I just can't see myself everyday driving to work past the Naval Observatory knowing she's in the VP's house second in command a short trip down to the White House.

Peace

Jack_C_Gregory

I watched the debates hoping to witness a train wreck, but I think she handled herself pretty well. There weren't any major fuck ups and she didn't just stand there in silence waiting for her time to wind down when asked with a question she couldn't answer.

Like I said, I think she did pretty well, although when expectations are built so low on a person it's almost an achievement when they come out with their shoes on. It's like when the class dunce gets a C+ on their midterm and everyone is like, "wow, somebody studied. Good for you."

Commy

WeaponX655321 wrote:

I watched the debates hoping to witness a train wreck, but I think she handled herself pretty well. There weren't any major fuck ups and she didn't just stand there in silence waiting for her time to wind down when asked with a question she couldn't answer.

Like I said, I think she did pretty well, although when expectations are built so low on a person it's almost an achievement when they come out with their shoes on. It's like when the class dunce gets a C+ on their midterm and everyone is like, "wow, somebody studied. Good for you."

tools have uses I suppose.

stupidcorporatewhore

Uncle Leo wrote:

Home run. She's the female W. And deep down, America loves W.

born on third indeed...

this is your last chance to say this is somekind of (cruel, deeply unfunny) comedy.

MrBrian

Everything really looked fake. They both are really bad, but I guess Palin did lose this one. She needs some Obama acting classes if she really wants people to respect her. Or just show a nipple.

inmytree

I give her a 1.5....

She never answered a question and she rambled and rambled...

I was watching the debate with my girlfriend...and palin gave one of incoherent, rambling answers...I said "what did she just say"....my girlfriend said "something about maps....".....

palin did a bit better than miss teen SC....

let me just add....biden kicked the crap out of mccain....and palin couldn't defend it....

I liked the "ya keep loookin' back" talking point that palin kept using....yet she went on to ramble about mccain's experience....I guess that's not loookin' back, don't ya know...

darkcrow

4 for style
0 for substance...

it is really easy to be stylish when you do not answer any of the questions.

justam

It really discouraged me that even though she wasn't talking about anything deep (or even addressing the questions asked!), and even though she was passing out wrong facts, she gave a better emotional presentation than Biden.

Why can't Obama and Biden get on the ball and blow them away? They aren't being aggressive enough or emotionally connected enough to plow their opponents into the ground!!

I wish they'd work on the emotional presentations. They may have good ideas, but they're not demonstrating their strengths well enough!!!

It's so frustrating!!! :mad:

Open

I here people praising her and giving her a win based on her not imploding? Little Sarah thinks 1+1 =5, but lets give her an A b/c she can add? She avoided details and actually at one point said im not answering that question. She may have appealed to her base, but she already has those people.

polaris

i would say her performance was expected - i'll give her a 4 out of 5 ... she avoided for the most part the stuttering that looks bad on tv ... all she had to do was say the same talking points for all the predictable questions and she did a good job ...

but eerily similar to most right wing campaigns - she offered a whole lot of nothing which really has to be the GOP strategy for them to win ... she wasn't able to defende any of the accusations biden laid at her nor was she interested ...

she is still in waaaaaaaaaaaay over her head - anyone objective can see that ...

HermanBloom

MattyJoe wrote:

They all do that. Obama, Biden especially, McCain, Palin. They change the subject constantly. What it comes down to most of the time is they simply disagree. You can't take it any farther than that. The problem is, disagreement is "bad" considering both sides are trying to appeal to everyone. So they change the subject.

I give her a 4 also. I just can't wait to see how the Dems and the media will somehow try to get a new stereotype going about Palin. That is all that has been done against Palin. Stereotyping. She's not the VP yet, obviously, she never did anything glaringly abhorrent as governor or mayor. Actually, she did a pretty good job. So, all they had to go on was the idea of portraying her as the psycho religious, milf, redneck, pit bull fanatic from Alaska. Pathetic.

It's a sad state of affairs when people's political opinions come entirely from SNL.

couldn't say it better myself.

HermanBloom

PEPPER wrote:

I think she is more a female Obama ....talks a lot with nothing to back it up....but that's OK...she is only running for the VP..I give her a 4

Excellent point

meme

I'd say a 4, too.