VP debates tonight
For all of you going to local debates tonight, or to Drinking Liberally (maybe Monty’s will tune it in?)– here’s a fun “Palin bingo” game for you to make it easier to watch.
I’m really looking forward to tonight’s debate. It wll give us the opportunity to determine if Sarah Palin will have the graciousness to look Joe Bidden in the eye when she provides her answers (which will, I’m sure, be cleverly fed to her through a well concealed listening device which they’re probably practicing with as I write this-can she listen and talk at the same time, making it appear as though she is forming the responses in her own brain?) to prove that she is one step above her running mate (who refused to look at Barack at all) in the common courtesy department. From Online Businesswoman.com:
For McCain, did anyone else notice that NOT ONCE did John McCain look at Obama during the debate? Several times you see on camera Obama looking over to speak with McCain but McCain clearly seemed to be making an effort to completely ignore Obama, to the extent it was like he wasn’t even there! This attitude, this aloof snub, seemed almost like backward pre-civil war to me. At least, that was the impression.
The bar has been significantly lowered with her previous performances during her interviews by Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. “How low can you go?”, would seem to be her mantra. She has also lost in popularity as evidenced by a recent Pew poll, released Wednesday. From the LA Times:
Palin is still enormously popular among Republicans and continues to stoke enthusiasm in the party’s base, but as voters learn about her, many have started to view her unfavorably. After the GOP convention, more than half of the voters surveyed by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press said she was qualified to be president. In a Pew poll released Wednesday, just 37% said she would be ready to take over for McCain
Not that we’re surprised by this, but the article goes on to say:
And polls now show little evidence to support the McCain campaign’s hope that she will attract female swing voters in significant numbers.
We’re not like, duh, stupid.
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