I watched the Biden-Palin debate last night and wondered why the call what happened last night a debate.
Palin, as expected, was programmed by experts. The questions were all very predictable so the answers were well rehearsed and sounded a lot like the standard stuff you hear in the commercials or in speeches given by each candidate; there was nothing new.
Palin was so well programmed that if a question was not to her liking, she would just answer a question she was programmed to answer even though it had nothing to do with the question asked by the moderator; quite bizarre.
Neither candidate “won” the debate but supporters of each will claim victory. Friends and family told me they would make up their minds as to who to vote for after listening to the debates. I suspect that they have made up their minds long ago but wanted to seem like they actually made their decision based on a careful examination of each candidate’s positions in the debates – hogwash.
If you really wanted to examine the debate closely you need to read the papers the next morning. I really like when they examine each answer as to its “truthfulness”. Its one thing to listen to a candidate deliver his or her answer but another to read whether it was correct, semi-correct or total bullshit.
I think each candidate needs to be compelled by the moderator to answer her specific question and not just deliver a sound bite from their rehearsed speeches. This particular moderator tried but then just gave up and that is why this debate was so worthless.
More compelling and revealing are the interviews Palin has been allowed to do especially the one with Katie Couric. Poor Katie would ask for specifics like what papers and magazines do you read on a regular basis and Palin’s answer would be “all of them”. When pressed to just name one Palin would just wave her hand and repeat “all of them”. Or her now famous non-answer, “I will have to get back to you on that one”.
I really hope more and more of the “real” Palin come out in the next few weeks so voters can see that she is just a programmed robot and not a real, thinking person.
McCain will do his best to keep her inaccessible to the media and for the very act of doing that as a political ploy or shall we just say “trick”, I cannot ever entertain voting for him.
Palin, as expected, was programmed by experts. The questions were all very predictable so the answers were well rehearsed and sounded a lot like the standard stuff you hear in the commercials or in speeches given by each candidate; there was nothing new.
Palin was so well programmed that if a question was not to her liking, she would just answer a question she was programmed to answer even though it had nothing to do with the question asked by the moderator; quite bizarre.
Neither candidate “won” the debate but supporters of each will claim victory. Friends and family told me they would make up their minds as to who to vote for after listening to the debates. I suspect that they have made up their minds long ago but wanted to seem like they actually made their decision based on a careful examination of each candidate’s positions in the debates – hogwash.
If you really wanted to examine the debate closely you need to read the papers the next morning. I really like when they examine each answer as to its “truthfulness”. Its one thing to listen to a candidate deliver his or her answer but another to read whether it was correct, semi-correct or total bullshit.
I think each candidate needs to be compelled by the moderator to answer her specific question and not just deliver a sound bite from their rehearsed speeches. This particular moderator tried but then just gave up and that is why this debate was so worthless.
More compelling and revealing are the interviews Palin has been allowed to do especially the one with Katie Couric. Poor Katie would ask for specifics like what papers and magazines do you read on a regular basis and Palin’s answer would be “all of them”. When pressed to just name one Palin would just wave her hand and repeat “all of them”. Or her now famous non-answer, “I will have to get back to you on that one”.
I really hope more and more of the “real” Palin come out in the next few weeks so voters can see that she is just a programmed robot and not a real, thinking person.
McCain will do his best to keep her inaccessible to the media and for the very act of doing that as a political ploy or shall we just say “trick”, I cannot ever entertain voting for him.
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