yeah that was pretty whaaaaaaaat
― TOMBOT, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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― it be me, me, me and timothy (bernard snowy), Friday, 3 October 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
especially since the question was about pakistan, right? she mentioned basically every country ever except pakistan in the "answer."
― TOMBOT, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
WE WILL NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH THE CASTRO BROTHERS!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the Castro Brothers is def the best takeaway from this
― gabbneb, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
hey there you arewhere you go
― Office Cat is Eating the Monitor Again (kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
pronouncing Ahmed "Ackmed" is such a canonical orientalism i don't think it reads as wrong to anyone in the west.
― horseshoe, Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:29 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
People always used to pronounce the name of former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul Rauf with that "k" sound, too.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Halperin gives them both a B, with Palin graded on more of a curve, says it changes no fundamentals
― gabbneb, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Worst Hypothetical Rapper Names
― john mccain's illegitimate black child (musically), Friday, 3 October 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
> Vic, is there a way to explain to your Mom that most of what she said was incoherent babble? that she doesn't know what "attributed to" means, for instance?
Oh, my mom still assured me that "we're (dad + her) voting Democrats, i don't like what she says," but that "she looked good and spoke well." The superficial "looking good" thing kind of registers w/ her, unfortunately - though I tried to tell her how Palin was looking gross w/ all the over-winking. As my parents are Pennsylvanians I'm v concerned abt whatever they're thinking
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
ok now there's a guy behind chris matthews with a "SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION DESERVED AN AWARD" sign.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Sarah Palin: Clean and articulate!
― rogermexico., Friday, 3 October 2008 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
a guy rules and is otm
― TOMBOT, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
The Race, Status Quo Ante; For Palin, Late Night Jokes Could Cease
^^^ummm ... no @ halperin
― joe 40oz (deej), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
blubbing becomes the story, no one will remember the rest of the debate. Dems win.
― caek, Friday, October 3, 2008 3:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
This is wrong, by the way.
― caek, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not as if she answered any of the questions in any depth; she seemed primarily to give a one sentence answer and then launch into the pre-programmed response she's been prepping for the past two weeks.
This was most ugly and glaring when she was asked if lack of experience isn't her biggest failing, what her true Achilles heel was and she responded to the question by talking about how her Experience Matters. To be fair she produced a good strong speech there, really well written and delivered, but it didn't even come close to addressing the question! She heard "not experienced" and clicked play on the tape with a big ol' smile that read "ah, I know this one!" As an ex-theater major (god help me), that's the exact type of satisfaction I used to see on the faces of freshmen with a dash of talent who would just beam with the enjoyment of knowing all the words. Biden, on the other hand, heard the question and was really nimble about turning a positive to a negative in an eloquent turn of a phrase about how he had to learn not to accept Supreme Court Justices based solely on their competence.
The bar was so low that she cleared it easily; heaven save us from low expectations.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
another dude with one that says:
"HEY PALIN:I,L,TC TOO"
????????????
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"I love tooting coke"
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
^new board suggestion
i heart MSNBC, god
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS DEBATE WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT SO BORING FU
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
another dude with one that says "NIXON'S HEAD FOR PRESIDENT"
and this---> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/Futurama_nixons_head.png/180px-Futurama_nixons_head.png
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"MY CHAIR IS STILL BROKEN"
is that an office space joke?
"TIRE SWINGS ARE NOT TOYS"
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 38 for "palin comparison to joe biden". (0.30 seconds)
― Pillbox, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
my fav thing about the debate was when Joe Biden said "Bush"
― original dixieland jaas band (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
You mean the repetition of "the same as Bush's"? It had a nice cadence.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
ONE PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST SAYSI’m back where I was a month ago. I wasn’t where Kathleen parker was but I was starting to waiver. My daughter made a “Sarah Rocks” sign that we have on the back of our minivan. I was starting to not feel so good about it. I’m back where I was a month ago. Sarah does, in fact, rocks.
rocks
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
your official media reaction: "Gov. Sarah Palin made it through the vice-presidential debate on Thursday without doing any obvious damage to the Republican presidential ticket. "
― caek, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
AOL polling:
Who won the debate?Sarah Palin 47%Joe Biden 46%It was a draw 7%Total Votes: 153,879
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
HAY GUYS DID JOE BIDEN BRING TIGHT GAME OR WUuuuutt
― goole, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah he was awesome
― horseshoe, Friday, 3 October 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
sens. barack obama and joe biden make for a pretty formidable presidential ticket it's true
― hoops (tremendoid), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ban laol polls
― hoops (tremendoid), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i vote in lots of aol polls if that gives you any indication (netscape will rise again!)
― hoops (tremendoid), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
lol chris matthews trying to find ONE mccain supporter outside in the crowd at 12am
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 3 October 2008 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
this debate turned into a non-event thanks in great part to ifill, who let the participants (and particularly palin) get away with basically whatever they felt like getting away with. palin announced at the outset that she wasn't going to answer the questions, and ifill utterly capitulated. i'm just fucking aghast at the fact that this is possible. i know politicians will seek to avoid answering questions if it suits them, but for fuck's sake, i thought one of the minimal duties of a moderator is to at least put up some challenge, on behalf of the electorate, who after all, is supposed to become more informed via these debates. FFS at least have the decency to pretend like you will try to enforce the basic rules of the contest.
i'm sure it'll be mentioned that ifill was overcompensating for the "Age of Obama"-related conflict of interest charge, but sorry, that's not enough for me.
Biden was great tonight, btw.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, when it became clear that my drinking game rules weren't gonna fuck me up fast enough me and my buddy added "deregulation" "nukular" and "maverick" to the list of drink words. at the end there when palin and biden were both spouting off "maverick" every other sentence i was pounding away my beer so fast that i was just chugging straight foam, which of course resulted in the projectile vomiting of said foam (luckily i was quick enough to make it to the toilet).
― Fetchboy, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm glad we have at least one person who can admit this debate gave them emesis
― TOMBOT, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the strongest of Biden's lines which he treated like a throwaway is that mccain's position is behind the curve given recent bush-maliki talks (whether that's true or not it would stick if they say it, like, again.)MCCAIN WANTS EVEN MORE WAR THAN BUSH hello
― hoops (tremendoid), Friday, 3 October 2008 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
btw aol polls being that close just go to show that obama is gonna win big imo. this was probably mentioned upthread but cnn: 51% biden, 36% palin, the rest called it a draw. cbs: 46% biden, 21% palin, the rest called it a draw.
― omar little, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't read this thread, i just saw sigur ros and came back to find out the cubs suck more than i thought so i'm gonna play catch up on the drinking game now.
― omar little, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Why are the CNN clips out of order? Makes it looks like Palin got a nifty zing in, when actually Biden had disproved her statement twice, once forcefully, but she kept hammering at the point like... a hammer. A bag of hammers, I guess.
Not me, but there was a good bit of foaming.
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Friday, 3 October 2008 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
also, never add "bipartisan" to a political debate drinking game.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
love when she just copies biden's darfur 'no fly zone' proposal. she's a scrapper i'll give her that.
― hoops (tremendoid), Friday, 3 October 2008 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ifill, who let the participants (and particularly palin) get away with basically whatever they felt like getting away with
Seems like Biden joined in the off-topic party when realized that was apparently what the rules were going to be. I don't blame him at all. When in Bizarro World...
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Friday, 3 October 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Doesn't arbitrarily picking out Cuba to play pinch hitter in a manufactured axis of evil smack of Bush-style desperation and ill-considered inflammatory?
Put his tight little butt in the honcho chair for a good while, didn't it?
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Friday, 3 October 2008 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone please tell me. Is this Sarah Palin or someone else?
http://www.errikk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sarah-palin-214x300.jpg
I saw this right after she was announced but it doesn't look like the lady that is running these days. Is it a really old photo or someone totally different?
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 3 October 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
what the hellthat's someone else
― jeepski (jergins), Friday, 3 October 2008 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/09/23/graf_palin-comparison.gif
― TOMBOT, Friday, 3 October 2008 07:17 (fifteen years ago) link