VP Debate
Oct/05/08 05:56 AM
I’m pretty shocked at the news that has followed the one and only vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. The vast majority of it has been about Palin’s adequate performance, much to the dismay of Camp Biden I’m sure. Most writers seem to think that she met expectations, that were admittedly set very low after multiple rocky TV interviews, and generally proved her competency. All this ignores the fact that Joe Biden had a very strong debate performance. Politically, he threw the jabs that the campaign wanted him to throw. He linked McCain to Bush and hammered home the middle-class message. Experience-wise, he had a clear grasp of issues, statistics, and history. He didn’t make any noticeable gaffes, either. Overall, I’d say he did very well.
Biden’s performance scared me when I turned the TV off last Thursday night. I could just picture tomorrow’s headlines claiming that Palin had been dominated and the McCain numbers falling even more. Well, I was wrong. Press-wise, she escaped relatively unscathed. But I guess the opinions of the almost seventy million people watching that night matter a lot more than the spin. And only time will tell what those seventy million actually thought.
Biden’s performance scared me when I turned the TV off last Thursday night. I could just picture tomorrow’s headlines claiming that Palin had been dominated and the McCain numbers falling even more. Well, I was wrong. Press-wise, she escaped relatively unscathed. But I guess the opinions of the almost seventy million people watching that night matter a lot more than the spin. And only time will tell what those seventy million actually thought.
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