Rae x Rae
I'm kind of surprised Palin did as well as she did after things like the Katie Couric interviews. She held her own better than I'd expected given previous statements.
Jo kept IMing me about the "nucular" thing though. Like. Constantly. xd heart I think it's a Republican thing, because
Dubya is a retard and can't pronounce it correctly most Republican/conservative pundits say "nucular" while most Democrat/liberals and centrists pronounce it correctly.
That said, I was expecting Miss Teen South Carolina. I was pleasantly surprised that she didn't give it to us. I think Biden totally won on points, but they may have come across more equal on crowd appeal. But they do it in different ways - Palin tried to be like, "I'm just like you," and Biden went more for the, "I feel you guys" angle.
I've also been thinking about how my brethren on the left have been all, "How do these idiots even support a person that's
just like them? I know I want my president to be a freaking super genius!" Even my family is like that (though I think they're more hardcore Dems than pinkos like me). And...I think that analysis kind of misses the point.
I don't think that most people want a president LIKE them. They want a president that they can feel
empathizes with them, which is how a freaking Rhodes Scholar was seen as an everyman. (Shoot, we even called him "Bubba.") I think that's where Hillary finally managed to hit it out of the park with blue dog Dems - well, yeah, I think part of it is her skin color and her proper WASP ethnicity, but I also think that part of it was that Obama was - and still is - often perceived as aloof and atmospheric in his worldview.
...of course, lately he's actually been THERE, becoming human, but you know how it goes.
That said, I think Gov. Palin's problem was the obvious - people think she's a mental lightweight. (I don't necessarily think so myself. I think it's more that Team McCain is so damn inept the only good thing they've done so far is design the campaign logo.
Let's be honest - the star, and the fact that the signs are blue and gold instead of the standard red, white, and blue, is almost as iconic as Obama's campaign logo. All things aside, the McCain campaign has top-notch graphic designers.)
I'm biased, of course - I was rooting for Biden to demolish her or let her hang herself. But I think that, in terms of answers and being comprehensive, Biden handed her tight little a** to her on a silver White House platter.
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Ho s**t, Palin's talking about homosexuals!
d**k AND COVER!
What I initially read this as.
sweatdrop That was GREAT, though. She used the, "Some of my best friends are gay!" excuse ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. My God.
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