I'm sorry, I skipped it because I knew she wouldn't answer anything ...

[apocalypsos]

Did she seriously WINK at the fucking camera?!

Oh, my God, she really is turning into Tina Fey's impression of her, isn't she?

*headdesk*

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[bionicaknee.livejournal.com]

Oh and the best part. She actually said, "say it ain't so, Joe." Please just kill me now.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

... SEE?! This is why I watched SPN instead. I didn't even watch her cutesy moronic bullshit and I need a Smirnoff.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Why do you think she bothered to ask if she could call him Joe when they greeted each other at the beginning? "Say it ain't so, Biden" doesn't rhyme!

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I'm not watching, but if she can coast on charm it doesn't matter if she says nothing at all. People aren't very good at judging the substance of debates if the personalities involved are shiny enough. It's about impressions and feelings, not substance.

[crediniaeth.livejournal.com]

What got me was all the folksy language she used - all the 'gosh darns' and 'betchas' were like nails on a chalkboard! You are from ALASKA, Sarah, not MINNESOTA!

[florahart]

Actually, the folks over at Language Log had commentary on this, because of having been asked why she sounded like she'd been in Fargo; evidently the Alaska accent IS the Minnesota and North Dakota accent--it's perfectly legit, they say. It's been a while since I've spent much time around any native (that is, born there, not NA) Alaskans, but I do recall that the one in my dorm in college sounded pretty Minnesotan.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

SEVERAL TIMES.

I don't think I heard her answer a single question directly.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

onelittlesleep pointed out this debate summary from MSNBC (she thought):

Biden: 16/18 questions answered
Palin: 2/18 questions answered

IT'S A DEBATE, SARAH. ANSWER A FUCKING QUESTION SOMETIMES.

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

This is the same woman who cheerfully stated that she thinks the Fey sketches are hilarious, and also that she watches them with the sound turned off. You could blow through her ears and use her head as a musical instrument.

I cannot believe that the press is actually praising her for her performance, when all that she really did was not fall off of her podium.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, let's remember how much she's lowered everybody's expectations in the past few weeks. "She can stand upright! Give her an A!"

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

I believe the proper criteria for Palin success was "did she burn the podium down and piss on the ashes? no? SUCCESS!" ; )

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if Biden was going to reach over and SMACK her when she brought up his wife. I think he flinched.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I probably would have flinched, too, just watching that.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

She did what now?

[rhyana.livejournal.com]

I believe my response that was, "Oh, bitch, you didn't just say that!"

[doqz.livejournal.com]

She was winking at her father (a science teacher) who was in the audience. It was when she was answering a question about education reform, iirc.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's better. Although considering how popular the Tina Fey impression is, she probably should have considered a different signal.

[crevette.livejournal.com]

She winked several times. The one that sent my head all ka-blewie was in her answer to the first question about the economy wherein she started on her Soccer mom soliloquy with many 'gosh darn's and lack of enunciation of any word ending in an 'ing'. The wink was at the end of her question, as if she realized she'd said absolutely nothing but was okay with it and was letting her base in on the joke.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Which part of the brain controls how you say "nuclear"? HERS NEEDS FIXED SRY2SAY. I couldn't absorb a single thing she had to spew about energy (and there was a lot of it) because all I heard was nukular nukular nukular nukular.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You know what? She can be an energy expert when she knows how to pronounce them all.

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

I took a vicodin before it started. I made it to the point where she was introduced and I just couldn't take it because I couldn't drink as well and I turned on the Food Network.

And followed the debate on Fark.com.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I lasted an hour.

Then her hideous whiny voice sliced too far into my eardrums and I had to turn her off. Seriously, I did.

This gave me a whole new reason to vote for Obama.

BECAUSE I CANNOT POSSIBLY LISTEN TO THIS EPSILON SEMI-MORON WITH THE WHINY VOICE FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

ditto

[karrenia-rune.livejournal.com]

I lasted about an hour and half before I had to get up off the couch and go
turn on either major league baseball or go check email. My aunt only lived here for six years before moving back to South America, before she got up and went to sleep. Ditto to want you said above, too!

Karrenia

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

I watched it with my professor and some fellow grads. And when she winked at the camera, we all just about exploded.

She did it THREE TIMES.

We made it through the debate, but couldn't take the post-debate commentary where, essentially, it was said that she "did well." Which translates into, "She didn't burst into tears on stage." But it's such a big thing for women!

*head. desk.*

[writerrising.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of about the wife/teacher comment is that she did mean the second wife, and she was saying that teacher's don't get rewarded here on Earth for their efforts. Low pay and they're also doing work worthy of the reward of heaven, etc, but she forgot his first wife DID go to meet her reward in heaven already in a very tragic manner.

Either that or she got the wives confused. Or forgot about one or the other completely. Either way, you just don't bring some things into a debate like that, at the very least using the very insensitive phrasing she did.

As for the rest of the debate, I do think she did -okay-. Certainly better than her previous interviews. She kind of had this smug smile the whole time that bugged me though. Then, again, she needed to looked confident at all costs.

Looking back at her sentences though, the grammar is awful. Biden wasn't perfect, no public impromptu speech every has perfect grammar, but Palin's sentences didn't even make grammatical sense at some points. The folksy terminology I can deal with, but at least form proper sentences.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get that. I thought she was just being condescending about teachers (even if she's the daughter and sister of a teacher) while acknowledging that they get low pay. And not realizing that there are other rewards besides money. (And not trying to find ways to raise their salaries.)

I was so touched by Joe Biden's genuine emotion about that time in his life that I didn't connect anything else. (And rather bothered by her lack of reaction.)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

All I know is that Sarah Palin made Joe Biden cry, and after how eloquent and willing to answer questions he was during the debate, I want to hurt her for it.

You do NOT say that a man doesn't know what it's like to be a single parent after what he went through, you vapid fuck. DIAF.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

I thought Biden was completely charming. I'd never seen him really speak before, and he came of as completely passionate and competent. I could see him being president, if it came to that.

Palin, on the other hand, made me want to throw my Bailey's glass through the TV. She actually rolled her eyes at one point! And I couldn't get over "team of mavericks." That cannot be, Sarah. It immediately prompted my fiance to say "Anarchy. That I run!"