And "Exceptionalist" is a laughable slap in the face to anybody except a NeoCon. (Plus, she used it wrong, obviously does not understand it, just learned it.)

The cutesy shit is really getting old,

We even got pushed off the human rights panel at the UN.

I realize that Senator Biden can't point that out though.

If she says "team of mavericks" one more time, I'll throw my shoe at the tv.

Make her stop saying "maverick." Please.

"he is the man we need to leave"

"John McCain is the man we need to leave."

Freudian slip?

nt

Happy now? :-)

I'm also glad Senator Biden addressed that.

Watching this debate and Palin's rote, smiling, winking responses. It's somewhat like watching the home shopping network, only somehow worse. It's a info-mercial gone bad.

Throw the kitchen sink too!

Palin in a nutshell: Wink. Wink. Wink. "Tapped into." Tight skirt. Wink. "Maverick."

Goshdarnit!

OY!! I cannot believe she just said that!

My hubby says she reminds him of that Barbie at the end of Toy Story--"Are they gone yet? Are they gone?? Oh, my gosh my cheeks are so sore! I have GOT to stop smiling!"

uh, nucular maverick, team of maverick nuculars, reform, change, workin for ya, maverick maverick nucular change maverick ya reform

wink

thank god he called her out. My face hurts. I think it's all that maverick in the air.

... when he can't even shake Obama's hand yesterday and totally snubs him.

Biden needs to remind the voters about Bush saying the same thing.

Oh, and "Nucular." Wink.

Also, also also also also also also ad infinitum.

shoutouts to the schoolkids? you betcha.

but you go Joe - tell her and the world the truth about the Mavericks - good for you, that was a great shot. Enough about Mavericks, enough.

winks, really? Again, truly insulted by this woman's sense of stage presence, maybe it works on the pageant circuit, but really?

Did she just *wink*??!!!

As a Midwesterner I have had a hard time listening to the substance, or lack of substance, of anything she has to say because her very Midwest-sounding accent. She seems like a bizarre hybrid of Marge Gunderson and Evita.

I finally saw it.

I can't believe that Palin implied that only mothers cared about the well-being of their children. The emotion Biden expressed when speaking about his family almost overwhelmed him but he pulled through.

Whoever wrote them, I'm not impressed. I wanted more on the bailout. I hated both on foreign policy. Now I feel like I'm watching a divorce trial... and Palin is the one with the really bad lawyer.

The earlier gay marriage questions ticked me. They both answered the same- is it a non-issue now?

Increase taxes kills jobs? Didn't she do that in Alaska with the oil companies? Talk about hypocrisy?

Biden on the issue of a timetable for pull out- shut up. YOu sound stupid. SHe won that point.

Palin is killing herself with the expanded time in this debate. It just gives her more ait to fill. I can see the gears showing. Biden looks like he is trying too hard.

Independant viewers will call for Biden, pundits will call for Palin.

Gonna barf if I have to listen to her saying, "Gonna," for four to eight years. (Sixteen years????????)

I've watched about 30 seconds so far of the debate. Not sure if I should watch more. It's so bothersome and maybe scary that someone like Palin would be running for VP. It shows what this country has come to.

Do I just have a low political pain threshold? Are you all actually enjoying the debate?

and ya hire people regardless of their political party."

That way you can say you were equally opportunist when you fire people when doing their jobs conflicts with your private agenda.

You know, Biden needs to remind the voters that the Republicans haven't actually changed.

Palin is obviously a quick study, although she still can't stop saying "nucyular", can't stop saying "maverick", can't stop wrinkling her nose and trying to cute us. It's all part of her game, such as it is, and she was at least well prepped.

Biden, on the other hand, has been magnificent. Always at his best when debating, this has been without a doubt his finest moment. Stole the show, and it couldn't have been easy with the Noise Machine to his left running full blast, shout-outs and all the other gimmicks.

Great debate, clear winner. This really is the most important election any of us have ever voted in. The choice is pretty clear now. Onward and upward. Get up!

and if I have to hear her voice after Nov. I will simply cease to watch political news.

tax cuts do not create jobs. republicans have a worse job creation record than democrats.

her "folksiness" looks like pure manipulation to me.

she also reminds me of the bitches in high school that you avoid (I'm a female and I'm using that term f2f - women who are bitches to other women).

If, God forbid, anything happened to Barack Obama, we would be in good hands. His heart is in the right place.

She covered everything but said very little, like icing on a cake, just decoration. Ya Betcha!

Did Palin not know what is meant by "an Achilles heel" or did she just choose not to answer that question at all?

Palin is an outrage!! This childish winking and "Oh shucks-doggone it" blathering is totally insulting! She sounded like a beauty contestant answering every question with, "I wish for world peace." Why didn't she just do this debate in a bathing suit and tiara.

I think he congratulated her on a good debate, to which she giggled girlishly. Whatever. I can finally exhale!

Did anyone else notice that she appears not to have understood the term "Achilles Heel?" Her response made no sense whatsoever in the context of that term.

"She didn't wet her pants or cry, so she did great!"

Way to set those expectations low....

Go Joe Lieberman. Suck up like there's no tomorrow....