Veep Debate

[Koga No Goshi]

Darn tootin, let me get back to the point of energy again if I might for a minute...

What did you all think?

My take:

Sarah Palin memorized her lines very well.

We're supposed to just assume I guess that she and McCain are for alternative energy despite their voting/governing record. A faith leap.

If I hear "other countries hate us for our freedoms and democracy" one more time I might throw up. This, alone, if this is someone's spoken explanation during a discussion of foreign policy as to why other countries might be irritated with us or opposed to us geopolitically, should disqualify them as incompetent. Because to believe this implies either a) dishonesty-- you know better but it just rings better to the public ear to say foreigners hate us irrationally for noble things about us b) complete lack of assigning any agency to other people/governments or any understanding of American foreign policy and how our policies might have irritated other countries. (One of those things being near-complete support of Israel without qualification or "precondition", as McCain and Palin might like to say.)

Palin apparently disagrees with many of you that the problem with the lending crisis was just irresponsible poor people and liberal pet projects and TOO MUCH regulation. She clearly and emphatically blamed predatory lending. Curious to hear how many of you spin that around the arguments you've made.

Biden repeated himself a few times; not a huge failing or anything but I think sometimes it was unnecessary and he could have squeezed a couple more points in with the time.