Palin-Biden Debate Sets VP Ratings Records

His name is Senator McCain.

People tuned in to see Palin and Senator What’s-his-face,
As they tuned in to see Obama and Senator What’s-his-face
The Real question is: Why Obama/Biden REFUSE to engage in MORE debates with McCain/Palin?

Just wait til they pull out Internet 2 and you will have to subscribe to this channell to read this drivel.

That’s great news for the Obama camp. Majority of the viewers believe Biden won.
CNN
Biden 51 Palin 36
CBS
Biden 46 Palin 24
FoxNews (not the online poll)
Biden 61 Palin 2– (In the 20s)

Sarah showed how to field dress a donkey.
While wearing high heels.

AMERICANS TUNED TO WATCH SARAH PALIN
NOT JOE BIDEN-A POLITICIAN WITH 35 YEARS
IN WASHINGTON-.
70 MILLION,FIRST TIME FOR VP DEBATES..
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

I think lot of people must have tuned in for the comedy factor. I must say sarah did not disappoint, her constant dodging of questions and her rehearsed answers and attacks were pretty comical to watch. Poor girl, the republicans are using her for her looks. (BTW I am neither democrat or republican, I am a foriegn national visiting the US temporarily)

“For Sarah Palin, Thursday’s night’s debate was an open-book exam. She spent much of the evening methodically reading and rehearsing answers from “carefully scripted talking points.” Palin’s notes were largely hidden from plain view, resting behind the lectern where she stood. Because the cable and network television stations did not show a split screen of the debate, most viewers could not see that, during Joe Biden’s answers, Palin spent almost all her time looking down and studiously reading her notes. But viewers did see that when Palin delivered her answers, she would repeatedly glance down to check her talking points. ThinkProgress has compiled a video documenting some of the instances where it was clear to the audience that Palin was propped up by written responses. /

For that matter, 52.4 million watched the presidential debate last week between Senator Whats-his-name and Barack Obama.
Just what is the purpose of that?

So dl, do you want to answer to the facts involving Obama’s associations with mob figures, his work for ACORN subverting democracy, and his personal hand in the financial crisis through suing banks to give out subprime loans?
Ryan?
This isn’t about talking points. It’s about justice. Justice is something we only have when people ensure we get it. If you subvert that or deny that, you join the bad guys.

palin won by 85% on fox news i was watching when they talked about it after wards and she didnt have to lie like biden did she was great…
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Uh, Davie boy, hate to tell you:
CBS Biden 46% Palin 21%
CNN: Biden 51% Palin 36%
FOX NEWS: Biden 61% Palin 39%
MSNBC: Biden 52% Palin 38%
AOL: Biden 48% to Palin 45%
MediaCurves: Biden 67% to Palin 33%.
Survey USA: Biden 51% Palin 32%
But don’t let the facts get in the way. Palin didn’t. If you see fact check, she told just as many distortions as Biden.

Talking points? The only talking point Obama/Biden have is “4 more years”. Which unless you are completely uninformed is a farce. They offer nothing else except the lie that they wont raise taxes on the middle class. How else do they expect to pay for the trillion dollars in socialist programs they are promoting when their tax the rich plan actually lowers tax revenues.

I thought the VP debate was irrelevant. Since both presidential candidates voted for the bailout and to further destroy the dollar the only thing of relevance is the positions of the Third Party candidates. That is where all our attention should now be directed.
Bob Barr, Libertarian
Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party
Ralph Nader, Independent
Cynthia McKinney, Green

Sarah Palin for President!!
Especially if she keeps winking the way she does, stops my heartbeat every single time. ;-)

Lieberman is still Dem, but we’re hoping it won’t be long til he’s on the right side of the aisle since he’ll be demoted and pushed out by Reid after November.

How sad that we permit Senator McCain to lie to us about his VP pick. She is not prepared to be Vice President. She has a very simplistic limited view of the severe problems this country faces. She says that she will stop the greed and coruption in Government and Wall street, then states that government is the problem and that the it should get out of the way. Masybe her use of witch doctors is her answer to our problems. God I hope will spare us this disaster. If the Palin-McCain ticket wins and she redesigns the Vice Presidents roll we will be in big trouble.

Thank Mohammed that Sarah Palin decided to answer the questions America wants to hear answers for instead of the moderator’s questions. I really admire strong women! Wink at me all you want babe, if it makes the liberal left crazy-wink both eyes and maybe they’ll go away.

Whoever is foolish enough to believe that corparations actually pay taxes is a fool–thus the entire democratic party is a fool. All expenses paid by a corperation are passed to you the consumer, including taxes. Vote McCain, not the foolish socailist liberals who crush corparate growth, thus constricting the job market.

IF YOU’RE INSANE….
VOTE FOR McCAIN!!!

Dear David,
Well I didn’t check the ratings after the VP debates so quite possibly your information that Palin was at an 85% rating after the debates could very well be false. In any case the fact that you got this information off of FOX news does not bode well for you considering it is totally bias. FOX news channel has been notoriously known as a REPUBLICAN news channel anyone who has seen Hannity and Colmes would know that, just like CNN has been known as a democratic news channel.
Get your facts from more than one place in the future and people will take you a lot more seriously.

To you Republicans:
One day you can tell your grandchildren, during the historic election of 2008 I voted for the ticket of the Alzheimer’s patient and an imbecilic hockey-mom over a man who culminated the 500 year Black struggle of equality and racism by becoming President, forever changing this country. You can then put your good judgment right up there with the people who voted for Douglas over Lincoln, Hoover over Roosevelt, Nixon over Kennedy.

“Sarah Palin for President!
Especially if she keeps winking the way she does, stops my heartbeat every time ;-)”
My God, you’re an idiot!

No one hates freedom other than the autocrat. Pepole who remove habeus corpus and throw people in other countries in prison with no trial and no prospect for freedom are the people who give freedom a bad name and terrorists a boost in numbers. Does Palin love freedom enough to take responsibility for Bush’s crimes?

The republicans refuse to ask the ultra rich to give their fair share to help us bear the grave challenges our nation faces today – with two wars and an economic crisis.
They refuse to tax the only people who can afford to bear the bill – the ultra rich. Instead they want to make the stuggling middle class bear the same burden as the ultra rich. They would rather borrow money from chinese but not tax the rich.
They dont understand it hurts a family living on 80000 dollar a year much more than the family living on 6 million dollars a year with the same tax rate. In these times of job loses and housing foreclosures the Republican thugs want the middle class whose jobs are on line pay the same burden as the super rich – like Rush Limbaugh, Cindy McCain and Bill ORielly.
Republicans have become a party of mean thugs.

Uh Jimmy. That is on one hand a total falacy. On the other reminiscent of attcks against Irish polititians in the last century men like Jack and Bobby Kennedy who helped to steer this nation away from global nucleur conflict and who helped to end the civil strife in this nation that bubbled into turmoil in the 1960′s. Those were good and decent men who proved their valor and have become a large portion of Americans. Its still a historical blight that Irish and Italian immigrants were treated in the way they were by other Americans. I thought we were farther removed than this in 2008. It isn’t 1908.
To see attacks about Obama because of his name. Because he is in part a first generation American saddens me. I am only 20 years old, this is my first election and I am not too far removed from my history classes. The point of civics education, of educating ourselves about history is to have educated voters who are unwilling to have the mistakes of history repeated.
The facts are not on your side and the intention and motivation for your attack is illuminating of the choice we have.
Barrack didn’t hit Hillary because Reverend Wright was her mairrage counselor in 1998. He hasn’t hit John McCain because he was the candidate actualy born outside of the U.S. he was Born in Panama. He also has never had to buy health insurance. His birth was overseen by Naval medics. His childhood bumbs and brusies taken care of again by Naval medics. His service in the senate and congress gives him the best insurance policy in the nation. He hasn’t hit McCain on his age 72. Hasn’t hit McCain on his health 3 time cancer survivor. McCain doesn’t get it both ways. If socialized medicine is not good enough for the country than it clearly isn’t good enough for a war hero and presidential candidate. I think its clear who has taken the high road because McCain Palin ticket has got more low hanging fruit (the keating 5) (troopergate) than almost any campaign in history.

I would rather vote for the person who had the foresight four years ago to know that Freddie and Fannie were in trouble. When Frank and Dodd were shaking their heads. Why would they want anyone checking into their cash cow. And guess who has pocketed $millions$ from that and Acorn! Mr. Black and his side-kick, Mr. White!!

Ah, me. O.J. Simpson finally got found guilty…but for a crime other than the heinous one he committed years ago.
Similarly, not too long after leaving office, I believe that Bush, Cheney, and a large bunch of other pols will be found guilty of causing this country to go into a recession and subsequent financial nose dive.
It’s impossible for me to understand that reasonable, intelligent people accuse Democrats of raising taxes when Bush et al. have allowed the mortgage companies, banks, and Wall Street to collude to undermine the American housing industry and the financial base of America. Bush et al. lied outright and got our country into the most incredible debt over the war in Iraq. $10 billion every month. $120 billion a year. $720 over six years. (For now, I’ll just mention the set up of Americans and Iraqis killed in that bogus war–just so Cheney’s buddies could make massive profits.)
OK, people who are afraid of Dems raising taxes…where is all that money to pay these HUGE debts coming from? So far, it’s coming from the U.S. selling treasury bonds to…China.
So one more question, why did Pres. Bush wait to ask for the “bailout” until the fiscal problems with the banks and Wall Street were a disaster? Do you believe that the president, Fred Paulson, and Congress only heard about this imminent disaster one week before the money was needed? Common on, use those good brains.
I believe that they were holding off, hoping that the Democrats would be left with this disaster. Time will prove me and many, many others right.
But it’s up to you to see the truth not the garbage you’ve been led to believe. Think outside the lies to the truth. Do you really believe that so many of us want our taxes raised, that we don’t care about America because we’re progressive?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, all the people who fought for this country in the early days were progressive…they weren’t following the old ideas. They forged ahead with an exciting plan that caused “the shots to be heard around the world.” Well, Robert Frost said it well, “Will the world end with a roar or a whimper?”
Think about it. Otherwise, you’ll enjoy melamine with your oatmeal in the morning.
It’s up to you. Roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

His name is McCain (our President, 2008).

The biggest hypocrites are ex Clintonites who now are supporting Palin.
Palin stands everything against what Hillary Clinton stood for. I mean everything. Hillary Clinton was for universal health care, Palin is not. Hillary Clinton is for taxing the rich to ask them to pay up their fair due – Palin is for allowing the rich to wallow in their wealth. Hillary is for pro choice – Palin is against it. In nearly every issue they are against.
If Clintonistas only voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries only because she was a woman not what she stood for, they do a great disservice to Hillary Clinton and to Feminism.
Tryuly the Clintonistas voting now for Palin just because Palin winked and said you betcha 16 times got to be the biggest hypocrites in the world.

The comment above by reader that says Sarah Palin showed us how to field dress a donkey wearing high heels was incomplete. The correct statement is that Sarah Palin showed us how to field dress a donkey wearing high heels and red lipstick.

Some of you are making grave logical errors when you assume that someone who says “aw shucks” a lot has no brains. Underestimating Palin based on her style makes you guys look like the idiots.
I am sure she rather enjoys befuddling you all — letting you get offended and cozy with the idea that she’s a no-mind — while she prepares to pounce. LOL
But I’ll be voting for Bob Barr.

Does the war-party of Bush-McCain-Palin really believe in the right to life?
Do you know that more children than soldiers have been – and continue to be – killed, seriously wounded, malnourished, and struck by illness as a result the Iraq war?
Is this the correct response to terrorist acts and threats: the creation of conditions in which thousands of children in Iraq are killed and maimed?
The Palin-McCain-Bush denomination claims that the surge of U.S. soldiers in Iraq has been positive. That, of course, is a characteristically dangerous warmongering over-simplification and is dead wrong.
“Despite any efforts put into the surge, the first six months of 2007 was still the most deadly first six months for civilians of any year since the invasion.”
And we still don’t have an accurate tally of the ongoing death and destruction.
In any case, the assertion of surge success is likely to be little comfort to the thousands of already dead, diseased, and disfigured children, victims of the Palin-McCain-Bush neocon holy war.
While Palin smirks and winks, while McCain beats his war drums, while Bush bumbles on, here are some additional important questions to consider:
How many more children is the Palin-Bush-McCain war-party willing to kill and maim to perpetuate the neocon holy war in an effort to achieve a so-called “victory” on terms they cannot even define?
How many and whose children are you willing to sacrifice through direct support of this war, or through apathy and inaction?
Do children in Iraq and elsewhere have a right to life?
Do the efforts of Palin-McCain-Bush to continue to wage war in Iraq really prove that they truly value a right to life?

That was no debate – it was a farce!

As for “preconditions” – After trashing Obama for his “no preconditions” stance, Palin promptly threw out the preconditions of the debate: The format of ANY debate is questions are asked, then the opponents debate their positions on the answers. She chose to ignore those questions and simply present her speech in modified form. Would that be the McCain-Palin foreign policy: Agree to preconditions, then show up and then completely disregard them? That’s not being a “maverick”; that’s just reckless.

The CHEMISTRY between Biden and Palin was so charged they could make a great romantic comedy film together: Guaranteed more chemistry than there was between George Clooney and Renee Zelweger in Leatherheads!

During the VP debate, it was clear as the nose on your face that Biden was diggin’ on getting kicked in the bum by Palin’s spurs. Looked like he enjoyed the debate as well as the Republicans did! eee-haw!

The rich in this country already pay the higest tax rates in the world, and our tax revenues have never been higher. If we raise their taxes, revenues go down.

COME ON! We’ve been waiting for a woman candidate EXACTLY like Sarah Palin to come along since elementary school when we were told we might be President of the U.S. one day. VOTE HER IN!

It’s interesting how people see such different things. Cherly saw Biden “diggin’ on getting kicked in the bum by Palin’s spurs.”
I thought it was more like on a game show when the contestant can win some huge amount of money by answering a question, and half way through the reading of the question the contestant starts to smile because they know the rest of the question and they know that they know the answer.
Rather than answer a question, she would start to level a charge against Obama (taxes, health care, Fannie Mae, etc, take your pick), and Biden already knew what she would say. I’m not sure if he was laughing because he already knew how to respond, or because he thought her answers were (as they were in her debate in Alaska) lots of words with little or no substance.
That alone should tell you something about how shallow her understanding is. “I’m not going to answer questions the way you want me to, I’m going to talk to the American people about my record as mayor and governor.” Shame on all of you who think that during a debate on the issues, that is an acceptable response. A speech is not a debate.

Some one below mentioned that rich in US already pay the highest taxes in the world. Thats a lie. There are numerous sops in the tax code that allow the rich to get away with lower taxes. Worse tax cheats in the ultra rich stove away their money in off shore holding companies and don’t even pay their due.
Here is a question to you pinheads on the right – today we have enormous deficits partly due to Bush tax cuts and his boneheaded decision to invade Iraq which is costing us a fortune and international credibility. Add to that the continued Republican policy of lack of regulation which has lead us into this economic crisis.
How are we going to afford this enormous financial burden? Will the rich continue to evade giving what is due of them? Or will the Republicans ask us to borrow more money? Or will they ask the struggling middle class to bear more than they can afford?

Cheryl: Are your standards really so low that you’ve been waiting your whole life for a candidate exactly like Sarah Palin? There are dozens of well-known conservative women in politics who are vastly more qualified than Sarah Palin, and who knows how many who are not normally in the public eye. Ethical lapses aside, she has an extremely small world view, and seems to share with George Bush a lack of intellectual curiosity. A hundred years ago she would have been acceptable, but not in today’s world.

It’s not Palin’s fault the media and the DNC pushed Hiliary out the door for Obama, DEAL WITH IT!!! Some people just can’t face their reality!!! The DNC and the media SCREWED Hilliary!!! Stop taking it out on Palin. God, only an idiot would look to attack the next woman, for the fact that media and party bosses from her own party brought Hilliary down! But then again, how many idiots can the DNC hold? The number may be infinite! I mean tearing down anothe woman, in favor of the guy who’s operatives were behind the 1st woman’s demise. I mean this is perpetuating the WORSE stereotype of women imaginable! SO easy to manipulate, and for SO little. Take your insult, know your place, and attack one of your own! Boy, do women NEED the DNC THAT much! Talk about a “battered wife syndrome!” Ladies, you are free to think for yourselves, and make up your own minds. Feel free to disagree with Palin, but have facts and reasons, rather than making her the scapegoat fir your own party’s treatment of yourselves, and your standard bearer. Stop and think, PLEASE! It will help your credibility in the long run.

I have seeen the debate several times for the past few days. And the more I saw it, the more obvious it become that Mrs. Palin is the absolute winner! I thought Joe Biden won, when I saw it the first time. But when you connects the dots in Palin’s answers, conduct, attitude, performance without considering her new to the political arena, she has overmastered Joe Biden and demonstrate to the American people the way yo go. I do not have any interest who is going to be the president as I am not living, neither is from the USA. However, basesd on principle, Mrs Palin with Jhon McCain in the right way to go..

What nonsense. Palin could not answer the tough questions, she simply side stepped them or used generalities. Whenever a tough question was asked she went back to her favorite Energy policy in Alaska, or simply “Doggone it” or ~gasp~ wink! She has such an hollow personality…
No wonder Palin failed so miserably when Couric asked followed up on questions such that she could not side step.
If Biden went after her like Couric did and asked follow up questions today the right wing pinheads will be all up in arms and accusing Biden of Sexism.
It is so pathetic that today the conservative right has chosen someone who would only qualify in American Idol as their VP candidate. They really are devoid of any ideas.

“Well then how do you explain the fact that the top 10% of tax payers account for more than 70% of all tax revenues? That’s like 1.75 trillion, the rest of us in the other 90% paid a paltry 750 billion…..”
Top 10% pay 70% of all tax, because they are so obscenely rich that even with their low tax rates compared to anywhere else in the world they end up amounting to 70% off all the taxes. It also goes on the show 90% of America has so small an income relatively that their taxes hardly amount to 30%.
Today the income disparity in US is more than ever. The rich have only become richer and poor poorer over the last 8 years. US has the highest ginni index (46 ) amongst all the industrial nations and is rising. It is comparable to some of the most corrupt third world nations where rich hoard all the money. Ginni index measures how unequal the wealth is distributed in a country.
The war in Iraq was led by the master of all dumb people – Bush. He led us into a war based on flawed intelligence or at worst LIES. Today we are paying the consequences of his SINS. We are paying for the war through our noses and our credibility amongst the comity of nation is at its lowest.
Get the Republican thugs out from the government. – Every one of you vote them out.

Did you guys know that even if we made the tax rate on paper the same for all people, the top 10% of the rich will pay more in taxes than the rest of the population. Do the math.
Take an example suppose there are 10 people in a room. One of them earns 2 million dollars a year (representing the ultra rich) the rest earn only 100,000 dollars a year (representing the middle class), at 20% uniform tax rate to all, the one rich man alone will pay around 70% of all the taxes – compared to the rest of the nine people in the room.
The question on fairness to all Americans – people on the right and on the left is this. If today the middle class is struggling with job losses and housing foreclosures, is it fair that rich dont stand up and pay what is fairly due of them?
Whom does it hurt more – taking 20,000 dollar away from a person earning 100,000 or 400,000 from a person earning 2 million dollars a year?
For our increased expenses – caused primarily due to Bush lead boneheaded wars, and from economic crisis driven from the flawed concept of complete deregulation of free markets – WHO WILL STAND UP AND PAY THE BILL?
Is is fair to burrow more? Is it fair to pass the burden to the struggling middle class? Is it fair to ask the ultra rich to pay more?
Under Obama’s tax plan – 95% of Americans will see a reduction in their taxes. 5% of super rich like Cindy McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Bill ORielly are being asked to be patriotic and stand up when you are being counted on.

You dems blaim Palin for side stepping and ridicule her for it. However is that not what Barrack does. He wants others to vote for a bail out but he will not make a decision. He believes inthe 2nd amendment rights but believe in gun bands. Or you can caryy guns but they can’t have bullets. The fact is I would rather have Palin as a VP than Barrack as the President.

Palin tried hard to hang in there. She’s full of talking points. She failed mainly because she didn’t – and couldn’t – distinguish herself and McCain from the Bush administration.
Palin kept saying Biden was looking back and not to the future – but we know the real on this – McCain-Palin do not want to deal with the last 8 years of failures, and they can’t demonstrate not one thing…not one fundamental policy where they would be different from Bush. And Biden did not let her off the hook about this, not one time. He was awesome !
Palin said she wants to talk straight to the American people, but the truth is she kept lying to the American people about McCain’s record, and I am so very glad that Biden didn’t let that stand. He told us the “REAL” and “TRUE” record of McCain and he told us why McCain is so very wrong on domestic and foreign issues. Sen. Biden so expertly told us – an ddemostrated with substantive policies – how only the Obama-Biden ticket are the “REAL” change that we need. And he is correct !
Sen. Biden won this debate. He was strong and precise. He showed a command of the issues. He gave excellent facts and answers.
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children. It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !

Don’t be jealous with poeple who work hard to become rich. McCain family is one of hardworking families. Beside, McCain himself is a great leader with experience. It’s so ridiculuous when I hear people mention unqualified vice president but never mention unexperience top ticket Barrack Obama. BTW, I agree with Palin what she said about Obama: “… This is not a man who sees America as I see America”