Not A Good Idea For VP

pm01 · 10-03-2008, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by Schlottke

How alarming... I am so shocked that a Governor from Alaska says "Ya", lol...

..okay, but it is a little shocking that a Governor would conduct official state business via her Yahoo! email account. If elected will she create, vpsarah@yahoo.com to email Ali Zardari?

Spider · 10-03-2008, 09:18 AM

The number two representative of The United States should be able to express himself or herself in a dignified and erudite manner. Palin's folksy style may play well with Alaskans and middle class Americans, but it won't be too impressive on the international scene. I think that in the debate, she came off as a nice person who was well coached, but is in over her head and not vice-Presidential material.

That said, I'm still undecided (but leaning right).

M Richardson · 10-03-2008, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Spider

The number two representative of The United States should be able to express himself or herself in a dignified and erudite manner. Palin's folksy style may play well with Alaskans and middle class Americans, but it won't be too impressive on the international scene. I think that in the debate, she came off as a nice person who was well coached, but is in over her head and not vice-Presidential material.

That said, I'm still undecided (but leaning right).

Like Lyndon Johnson, right?

arm-spin · 10-03-2008, 04:09 PM

I tried to watch the debate... found it too boring. Given what I've heard about Palin (ie she's a moron) I thought she did fine. Biden had the better grasp of specifics and tended to drone on, Palin was the more charismatic speaker and could have given a few more details. She looked like she was trying to play up the "everywoman" part while Biden was trying to play up his experience.

One part I found a little creepy... when Joe Biden was asked how a Biden Presidency would play out, first said it would be a "national tragedy" or something... then he gave this long, excited spiel about how awesome it would be. Made me think he was secretly hoping Obama would win and then die

JensenS · 10-03-2008, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by arm-spin

I tried to watch the debate... found it too boring.

I'm pretty much in the same boat.

In the bits and pieces that I paid attention to all I was really doing was rooting for one of them to screw up and say something dumb. Didn't much matter to me which one either.

However neither one did, hence the boringness.

FloggingSully · 10-03-2008, 05:43 PM

I tried to watch, but trying to follow Gov. Palin's incoherant ramblings made my brain hurt.

The woman is a walking run-on sentence.

_SL_ · 10-03-2008, 05:51 PM

running, off-topic sentence that loves the words "maverick" and "bi-partisan"*

ban basketball · 10-04-2008, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by _SL_

running, off-topic sentence that loves the words "maverick" and "bi-partisan"*

and "energy."

ban basketball · 10-04-2008, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by sgallan

Pointing out such things folks sound elitist. Being somebody who is too lazy to spellcheck, or clean up my grammar, even I get annoyed by the grammar police. Basically it is going too far.

I should have pointed this out in my initial post, but in all honesty, I actually speak that way myself; I always have. I almost literally cannot bring myself to end a word using "ing," I always end in "in."

However, I'm just of the opinion that the VP ought to try to pronounce words a bit more correctly than folks like me.

Spider · 10-04-2008, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by M Richardson

Like Lyndon Johnson, right?

I think she lays it on a little thicker than LBJ.

Not A Good Idea For VP

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