OK, how many here watched the to see if the babbling Palin would be the one to show up?

First, I would like to say that I wish I had watched this through the bottom of a shot glass.

This debate as with the last debate as with all these things are just flippin’ boring.  A new style or format is badly needed.  If any of them are popular it is because of something other than the content.  The drinking game may be the only way to make these things interesting.

Onto the analysis–If the plan was to “do no harm” then both candidates did a pretty good job.  Biden stuck to and regurgitated the Oba stand on the wealth of issues, Israel, diplomacy, healthcrare, on and on and on……Palin did not push the McCain position so well–no real specifics.

Palin was sort of “aw shucks” style with a few cute little folksy quips.  Biden was short and to the point–that was unusual for him–but in the long run he was teetering on boring.  Biden is full of….facts, Palin is full of–talking points, she was well schooled but none of it sounded like it was something she really believed.

As always, Americans need a winner and a loser, it is part of the DNA.  I scored it a sloght win of Biden.  Why?  He was on the Obama/Biden points, he defended Obama as well as himself well.  Palin, while well schooled did not seem, to me, to defend MCCain very well and that was her job for the evening and she failed.  The good news is she did not shoot anybody in the butt with glib answers.