02 Oct 2008, Written by Is Greater Than Contributors in politics
Liveblogging the Vice-Presidential Debate
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:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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lcheuk McCain knows how to win a war? Did we win in Vietnam?
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dansinker How much would someone pay to get ahold of Palin’s doodle pad?
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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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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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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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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
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dansinker I swear, I’m going to slit my wrists if she says “surge” one more time.
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dansinker “With all due respect I dind’t hear a plan” Again, that’s good stuff.
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BuChanda My affection for Joe Biden grows despite that whole racist “clean cut Black man” comment. I know, I am just a hypersensitive Black woman.
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isgreaterthan and this is where you fail, Biden. We might as well be living in the dark ages to not recognize gay marriage. It’s appalling.
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dansinker Oh good. I’m so glad we can all agree that gays shouldn’t get married. God bless america.
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BuChanda hahaha she has homos in the fam. Maybe we’re related!
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lcheuk Vladimir Putin is really going to care about your “diverse friends.”
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isgreaterthan she says “tolerant” like it pains her
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dansinker I hope she mentions her gay friend.
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dansinker You know what? I didn’t like Biden when he was announced; I thought he was the milquetoast choice. But now? Now, I actually like the guy.
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BuChanda Bad China! Bad China! Well, I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords, probably because I am married to one.
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isgreaterthan hungry for those domestic sources, like vampires!
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BuChanda “How are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?” Okay, I had to type that sentence to parse it.
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dansinker Gwen Ifill: Governor Palin, could you tell me ANYTHING that doesn’t have to do with Alaska?
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BuChanda Yeah Sarah, you are so right! We should really be getting the natives off that “sacred” land so we can drill for uranium and oil, drill!!!!!
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dansinker I seriously can not take any adult seriously that uses the word “Heck”
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lcheuk The word is “them,” Sarah. With a “th.”
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dansinker “Some who do not like america” I think I just saw her flag pin grow!
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mrbeck Tactic for avoiding substance- Blatantly avoid the question/ Talk about energy/Alaska.
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BuChanda wow she just said “your ticket’s energy ticket”
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dansinker Palin’s entire strategy: “No, that’s not true. BUT, I want to talk about this preprogrammed response instead.”
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dansinker I can’t believe she’s mentioned McCain suspended his campaign TWICE now. Good plug for the suspensionator though: http://bit.ly/3WxNlK
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isgreaterthan “toxic mess” “main street” she is more Orwellian than Dubya
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lcheuk Love the focus group favorability meter on CNN!
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BuChanda I wonder if Sarah knows what a windfall profits tax is. I mean, I wish I were joking and being mean. But it’s true.
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lcheuk Ouch. 5 weeks too long.
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mrbeck I heard Hillary is on suicide watch
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BuChanda I know what she had to do. Sell her airplane at a loss on Ebay. Or wherever.
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isgreaterthan “I want to go back to my limited energy experience!”
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dansinker John McCain doesn’t tell one thing to one group and one thing to another group? Really? That’s like his entire reason for living now.
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BuChanda So far Joe Biden shows no signs of crazy MAVERICK-like statements.
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lcheuk I think Biden, Burt Reynolds and Kenny Rogers have the same plastic surgeon.
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dansinker “The ultimate bridge to nowhere” that’s a nice line.
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isgreaterthan I thought this debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, not keeping the privatized health care status quo?
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BuChanda Hey $5000 will pay for a few weeks of my grandpa’s chemo. Thanks Sarah face.
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dansinker “I don’t know where to start” me neither Biden, me neither.
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dansinker Listen, I purchased my own health care coverage for ten years. It sucked.
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BuChanda uh oh sarcasm voice!!! Sarah, don’t hurt em with the SARCASM VOICE. Joey can’t handle it.
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isgreaterthan okay, she’s nailing Biden right now about his rhetoric. Granted, it’s catching him on a gaffe, but at least she’s putting up a decent fight
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dansinker Palin’s worth 1.2 million dollars. That’s not middle class.
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BuChanda Thou shalt not fuck with Gwen’s time keeping!!
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isgreaterthan It’s Palin vs. the “elitist” moderator, and she’s talking SHIT (in the Ricky Gervais sense)
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BuChanda wow, she’s good. at lying.
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mrbeck What’s a procedural vote, Sarah?
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isgreaterthan Biden coming through with facts. That’ll get you nowhere.
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dansinker Uh, Sarah, I’ve been living with less for a long fucking time now. How about you?
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isgreaterthan folksy wisdom from Biden and Palin. “darn right we need relief!”
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BuChanda I hope deregulation for health care works as well for John McCain’s heart as deregulation of banking did for Wall Street.
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dansinker We’ve officially moved into the folksy-off part of the debate!
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dansinker Joey at the gas station!
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lcheuk I had no idea Suze Orman was running for VP.
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isgreaterthan and from there comes the spectre of “never again”. 911!!!!
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dansinker JOE SIX PACK!
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dansinker When Palin talks about “sending the Maverick” in, it feels like some theme music should play.
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BuChanda So wait, to prove you are committed, you have to vote against your party, even if you agree with your party? What? WHAT?!?!
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isgreaterthan if I hear “Maverick” one more time, my head will literally explode
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lcheuk Thanks Sarah for informing us about what’s happened over the past few weeks for those Americans who have been stuck in a cave.
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isgreaterthan Palin: Capt. Catchphrase-a-lot
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BuChanda okay Palin, ya think? YA THINK PEOPLE ARE WORRIED? I don’t think my blood pressure/heart are going to make it through the debate.
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lcheuk Reference one to motherhood.
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dansinker They sent the Palin-bot in tonight.
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isgreaterthan ooh, she’s folky! Go to a kid’s soccer game!
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BuChanda I’m kind of scared.
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dansinker Sarah Palin wearing the XXL flag pin.
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dansinker Weren’t they supposed to be sitting at a table?
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lcheuk Gwen Ifill seems to be wearing a rare breed of teal-skinned zebra. Perhaps this is why her choice as moderator was so controversial?
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dansinker Wow, David Brooks chose the bright pink lipstick for the night. A daring choice!
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lcheuk I think Biden is a sleeper for most absurd tonight. Do not sleep on Biden’s gift for unintentional comedy.
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BuChanda thinks it is so appropriate that tonight’s debate is sponsored by ExxonMobil.
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dansinker election.twitter.com can’t keep up. This morning it was a 5 second delay. Now it’s “less than a minute ago”
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dansinker I love how many tweets are referring to the debate, palin, and massive amounts of beer. We are through the looking glass here, people
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3 Comments
October 2, 2008 8:43 pm
taboo
i canNOT believe what just went down on the same-sex questions. i am so appalled that i have effectively tuned out for the rest of the debate
October 2, 2008 9:24 pm
boots
How long until she adds the standard beauty queen line ” and world peace?”
October 2, 2008 11:35 pm
kira
dan sinker and mrs. Dan sinker’s comments make me laugh out loud. Well done is > than. Very entertaining coverage!
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