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7:30pm CST – 30 minutes to showtime…
8:02pm CST – The bailout bill…Biden gives a sound, intelligent answer. And Sarah gives us a similar answer…trying to run away from the Bush record so fast…and gets in a jab at Biden (“his colleagues didn’t listen”).
8:05pm CST – Palin is hitting her points…and Gwen points out that neither candidate answered the question.
8:07pm CST – Palin, “The American people need to band together.” “We need to not live outside our means…personal responsibility.”
8:09pm CST – Palin, “The government is going to have to learn to live with less…if that’s what it takes.” Biden tries to respond to the charges of Obama raising taxes…not sure it was effective.
8:12pm CST – She hasn’t created the moment yet…but this Phil Singer comment seems pretty prescient on her goal coming into tonight.
8:11pm CST – Palin acknowledges she’s not going to answer the moderator’s questions…probably a good move.
8:14pm CST – Sarah is definitely on the attack and Joe is struggling to respond.
8:15pm CST – “The Feds”? Does she realize she wants to be the Vice President of “the feds”?
8:17pm CST – Joe seems to be struggling more than Sarah, and is very much on the defensive.
8:18pm CST – Joe gets in his laugh line…”the ultimate bridge to nowhere”…and he had specifics on what they wouldn’t be able to do because of the economic crisis, but offered little.
8:21pm CST – Gwen confirms that Sarah didn’t offer anything they would have to do differently because of the economic crisis…does that sound a lot like Bush/Cheney to anyone else?
8:23pm CST – A third of the way in and it’s clear that Sarah Palin came in with an agenda that had nothing to do with the questions she was going to be asked and she’s just marching through it.
8:25pm CST – And the ultimate pivot…back to energy…when the question and the discussion between Gwen and Joe had nothing to do with energy! I can see the SNL skit now…Tina Fey saying over and over again, “but let’s talk about energy”.
8:27pm CST – And now Gwen is going to hand her energy questions when that’s all she’s talked about all night? Give me a break…
8:32pm CST – Odd pivot on the moderator’s part from energy to same-sex marriage…being “straight-up”…
8:36pm CST – Now to the Iraq War…Joe seems to be much more in his comfort zone…John McCain has “been dead wrong” and Barack Obama “has been right, those are the facts”
8:43pm CST – Palin was able to say the name of the president of Iran…unlike McCain…let’s tweak the SNL skit to include that…
8:54pm CST – Both candidates got in their strongest hits…Palin says “there have been huge blunders”…Biden says “I haven’t heard how John McCain’s policy is different from George Bush’s.”
8:57pm CST – Palin sticks with her point that the counter-insurgency strategy can work in Afghanistan…Biden lets it go.
8:59pm CST – Biden makes a strong case on Darfur.
9:01pm CST – “The capacity to do anything about it?”…not sure Joe can let that stand without further explanation.
9:03pm CST – 30 minutes to go and Palin seems like she’s running out of gas, while Biden gets more comfortable.
9:05pm CST – Best question so far from Gwen Ifil…not sure Palin will have an answer…You’re a heartbeat away, how would your administration be different from the candidate you are running with?
9:08pm CST – “There you go Joe”…been saving that one…if there’s still a third grader watching this debate, I say god bless that child…”more attention” on education, but no more money
9:13pm CST – Supporting Cheney’s position on the vice presidency not being part of the executive branch?
9:15pm CST – What’s your deficit? And Palin talks about her strengths…theme of the night, she didn’t answer the questions, will it matter?
9:19pm CST – YES! Finally something we can all agree on Sarah…”He is the man who needs to leave“…yes he is.
9:25pm CST – Apparently Sarah’s going to be making appointments as Vice President…
9:28pm CST – “I really enjoying answering the tough questions”…THERE’S the kicker…she spends the whole debate not answering a signle question and then states that she enjoys answering questions.
9:30pm CST – Good closing Joe…not sure what else there is to say.
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