Liveblogging the Vice-Presidential Debate
By Is Greater Than Contributors | 10.02.08
Load up on popcorn and cheap beer while we liveblog the debate between Failin’ Sarah Palin and Firin’ Joe Biden. Listen/watch/stream along at home for the inevitable gaffes and painful silences, and drop your comments below!
Liveblogging tonight will be:
Political gadfly Matthew Beck
Novelist and satirist Leland Cheuk
Our resident activist-physicist, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
New media guru Dan Sinker
Is Greater Than publisher Paul M. Davis
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dansinker I think we can all say on a bipartisan level, that the true winner of this debate was beer. God bless beer.
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dansinker My Palin bingo card fucked me tonight, by the way. Corner spots: Karzai, Pit Bull, & Bad Guys. Damn
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dansinker OK, David Brooks’ lipstick is SERIOUSLY FREAKING ME OUT
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mrbeck Todd Palin is a disgusting redneck
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dansinker Maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist at heart, but if that baby was her own, she would have picked it up when her daughter brought it up
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dansinker Man, if I can make a closing comment: Gwen Ifill really didn’t do a very good job, did she? I feel like there are a ton of Qs she didn’t ask
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mrbeck Mainstream America- Biden won 60-40
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BuChanda JOE BIDEN WINS! He totally just won that debate.
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lcheuk Biden just took it home, took it to Palin in the last 20 minutes. Finally, he adds some value to the ticket.
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BuChanda I’m sorry, but I’m at the end of my rope. STFU Sarah.
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dansinker OK, definitely, let’s HAVE MORE DEBATES.
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dansinker How is Palin’s family diverse? They like country AND western music?
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lcheuk Finally Biden questioned McCain’s maverickhood / maverickness / and maverickosity.
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dansinker My very smart wife: Biden’s a smart guy and he says smart things, but nobody’s listening to him because they’re all playing drinking games!
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BuChanda By the way, I think those tears changed the election for me a little bit.
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dansinker So OK, let me just get this straight: Biden has a perspective that stretches the entire globe. And Palin? It’s all about Alaska.
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mrbeck When i presided over a $10,000 budget as mayor…
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BuChanda That’s right!!! Take off the gloves Joe!!!!!
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dansinker Thank you Biden, “Let’s talk about this Maverick thing for a minute” THANK YOU
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lcheuk Wow! I think Biden just won this…with his tears.
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lcheuk Wow! I think Biden just won this…with his tears.
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dansinker BIDEN BRINGS THE TEARS!!! THIS THING IS OVER.
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BuChanda Does she know what an achilles heal is? Like, did she understand the question? Didn’t she see that movie with Angelina’s baby daddy?
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mrbeck I’m sad
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lcheuk Equal rice?
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dansinker Damn, I’ll take “Aggrandize the power of a unitary executive” for 1000, Alex.
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dansinker Biden just realized, “OH MY GOD, I GET TO RUN AGAINST CHENEY POLICIES NOW!” Here goes.
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BuChanda Have we read the same Constitution?!? They were not flexible about the VP at all.
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dansinker Oh good, she agrees with Cheney. A thousand John McCain advisors just threw their hands up in frustration.
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lcheuk I’m sure the McCain/Palin camp is wondering when Gwen Ifill will ask a few questions about children with special needs?
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BuChanda OH. MY. GOD. A SHOUT OUT? ARE WE ON MTV? My hope for humanity is dying a swift but extremely painful death.
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dansinker Did she just give a shoutout… to an elementary school?
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mrbeck Worst moderator ever?
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dansinker “Doggone it.” Really, I have a GREAT job right now. But if she gets to be VP, I’m going to have to consider leaving the country.
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mrbeck People are eating her bullshit for dinner. They must be full.
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lcheuk Reference eight-hundred to heaven.
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BuChanda Republicans ARE corruption and greed on Wall Street. + a bunch of Democrats.
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dansinker Why does Biden spend a lot of time in Home Depot? A LOT of time? Really?
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dansinker “A team of mavericks”???? Christ. It’s painful. Really, it’s painful.
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mrbeck Another wink!
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lcheuk McCain knows how to win a war? Did we win in Vietnam?
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mrbeck John McCain won Vietnam, dammit!
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dansinker How much would someone pay to get ahold of Palin’s doodle pad?
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mrbeck Where’s Jim Lehrer?
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dansinker Man, she went like 15 minutes before bringing it all back to Alaska again.
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BuChanda I think I have the stomach for failure?
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dansinker “rebuilding civil society” isn’t the surge strategy? WTF is Palin talking about? Did I miss a memo somewhere?
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lcheuk Did the Demo’s tell Biden not to look at Palin or the camera?
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BuChanda You guys think she knows what the word disenfranchised means?
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BuChanda Let’s secure democracy for disenfranchised Black Americans first lady.
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dansinker We’re right back to the Axis of Evil shit again, huh?
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dansinker “He has been The Maverick” seriously? Does he have an action figure? Did McCain ever refer to HIMSELF as a “maverick”?
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mrbeck Take off the gloves, Joe. Ask her questions directly.
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BuChanda Glad to see the Palestinians are right up there with Pakistan.
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dansinker “I’m so encouraged to know that we both love Israel.” That’s it. I may be done with this thing. Does her gay friend have a jewish friend?
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mrbeck Can we talk about Alaska?
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BuChanda I’m Jewish, and not in my name or the names of those lost in the Shoah, sister.
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lcheuk Oh! Biden referring to himself in the third-person! Joe Biden’s gotta do what’s best for Joe Biden.
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dansinker Joe Biden referring to himself in third person is so WWF circa 99.
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BuChanda I know what the administration has done wrong on the Israel-Palestine conflict: sold weapons to Israel in support of their apartheid state.
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dansinker Sometimes I feel a little bad for the blender that lives inside Palin’s mouth.
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mrbeck Women’s rights- like charging for rape kits
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lcheuk Gwen Ifill’s really scoring low among uncommitted Ohio voters according to the CNN focus group.
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BuChanda Someone tell her how to pronounce “nu-cle-ar.” Please.
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dansinker Oh good, she’s continuing the “nuke-u-lar” pronunciation that Bush made so popular
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BuChanda Oh there’s something they can all agree on. Bombing Pakistan. God help us. And Pakistan.’
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isgreaterthan Biden busts out some history. 700 years of tribal warfare. No one gives a shit about the facts.
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lcheuk I’m trying to stay objective. But Biden’s kicking Palin’s butt in foreign policy.
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BuChanda Let me say that again: John McCain voted against funding for the troops.
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mrbeck Surprised they’re talking about McCain voting about anything.
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BuChanda Yeah our troops don’t need the war to end Sarah. They need to keep dying, right? God, does she have a soul?
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dansinker Did I hear a “Taliban-i”?
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BuChanda I think Iraq can’t spend its money because Halliburton has all of it |