I think the questions awere boring, completely predictable, and not designed to elicit personal

[hisownpetard]

responses that would teach us anything about the candidates that we didn't already know. Ifil was the opposite of daring, playing it
safe, instead of asking a single question that would make viewers sit forward in their seats, thinking, "Yeah, I can't wait to hear this answer."

It seems more than obvious that none of the views presented by Palin were her own. What she did was memorize a bunch of 90-second sound bites, written for her by someone else and spit them out on cue when she heard a trigger word she thought she could use to segue into a response by rote. In no way did her answers represent her own thought process, her own judgment or
her own core beliefs, nor was there any indication that there's a functioning brain inside that cranium, except for her ability to memorize. Therefore, tonight's exercise (or 'spelling bee,' as Tweety called it), taught us nothing about Sarah Palin at all, other than the fact that she's competitive, likes to go for information about the character or judgment of the candidates for VP.

All we learned about Palin is that she can recite by rote, goes for the jugular and (still) has a hard time telling the truth.

Biden, on the other hand, was a fount of knowledge and was totally on top of every issue. In fact, he even answered
the questions that were asked!

So what this amounts to is the Republicans are, at this very moment, jumping up and down and slapping each other on the
back for pulling off another stunt, because that's all it was: a trick to make voters think that they'd be getting something that
doesn't even exist.

Hey, pal, didja see Sarah? She nailed it, made it sound like she really knew what she was talking about. Way to go!!

But ask her a question she actually has to answer on her own, and you'd still get the moose in the headlights effect.

There is nothing real about the Republican candidates, just the false images they want to project of themselves in such a way that
they can steal another election, under false pretenses.

Not this time, pal. Palin was right only once, when she mistakenly uttered the sentence, "John McCain is the candidate we need to leave,"
and then corrected it to "lead."

I liked it better the first way.

P.S. Hope this makes sense. I'm so tired, my eyes are crossing.

[spag68]

1. Palin

I don't know about you, but for myself, I already know too much about her. If I let stress get to me I would be in panic mode. Knowing more would only make it worse.