No Cable, No Debate
posted by elmos on Oct 2, 2008 8:08 PM PDT
14 Replies - Last post on 10-03-2008 4:28 PM PDT
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October 2, 2008 8:08 PM PDT
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October 2, 2008 8:14 PM PDT
I love it. I don't have to wait for downloads to finish so I can watch episodes of colbert and daily show anymore.
The only catch is you have to watch 3 30 second commercials placed intermittently through the program.
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October 2, 2008 9:11 PM PDT
all in all, kind of boring.
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October 3, 2008 7:15 AM PDT
What?
And I was also dismayed by how often she dodged questions. And those god damn folksy terms she kept injecting into her speech. "gee whiz" or "doggone"...
And it was really easy to tell when she was reciting a well coached talking point, because what she was saying actually made sense. The one that really pissed me off was harping on the Obama/Biden ticket for "looking backwards" and "placing blame." First of all, if there are things that have happened in the past eight years under a republican administration that need to be changed, YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT. Second of all, how fucking myopic is it to only want to look forward without consideration for what got you to your present situation? (or what caused global warming for that matter)
As for Biden, I thought he did well, but was too eager to pat himself on the back for congressional accomplishments.
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October 3, 2008 8:22 AM PDT
biden, as expected, is a way better public speaker and debater... but yeah, like rah said, palin did a lot better than expected. you could tell for the first 20 minutes or so she was really nervous though.
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October 3, 2008 8:38 AM PDT
She held her own. She may have even slightly resuscitated her image. If you want to call a victory, I'd call it for Biden, but it was definitely not a knockout.
All the golly goshing and darn its made her sound like she wanted to sit America on her knee and tell it a story.
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October 3, 2008 9:01 AM PDT
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October 3, 2008 9:16 AM PDT
Biden looks like the scary old woman that glides across the floor in House on Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price. Palin's impersonation of Frances McDormand from Fargo is flawless. This being October, edge to Biden.
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October 3, 2008 11:11 AM PDT
i'm really not sure about biden's choking up -- i'm a little skeptical because i'd heard he choked up during a campaign speech the other day when he was talking about his son, and he had actually told a commentator that he was embarrassed about it and wouldn't let it happen again. but then it happened again. i suppose he could just be very emotional about his son being deployed (i would be). who knows.
palin made ME nervous at the beginning of the debate last night -- i actually found myself holding my breath for her. she relaxed about 20 minutes in though.
i can't believe she wasn't made to answer more of the questions asked though -- not that the questions were all that great. i hate to say it, because i like gwen ifill a lot normally, but her questions were softballs.
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October 3, 2008 11:44 AM PDT
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October 3, 2008 4:28 PM PDT
In the end, though, I still did not have a good grasp of the material I crammed into my brain, and now I've probably forgotten it.