VP Debate Wrap Up

Just ahead of the 2nd Presidential Debate, may I present to you my (drumroll, please) Vice Presidential Debate Wrap Up!

Here were some of my Twitter comments during the debate:

• Have I mentioned that I heart Sarah Palin? This chick kicks ass.
• *gasp* Is Palin advocating personal responsibility? Silly girl...she should know that no Democrat would ever buy into that!
• Say it again, girl. 94 times. 94 times. "Government's going to need to learn to be more efficient." No Dem will ever buy into that.
• Biden/Obama have never taken a math class. They want the government to do it all...and still promise less taxes. HA! Robin Hood.
• "Unless you're pleased with the way the federal government is running anything these days..." God, I love this woman. Go Palin!
• OH SHUT UP. Spending the first 5 years of your life in Scranton doesn't make it your home. On behalf of Scranton, BITE ME.
• Gotta love Joe playing scare tactics with healthcare. Too bad intelligent individuals won't buy it. Socialized medicine=bad.
• What I think I just heard Biden say is that bankruptcy courts should help people stay in the houses they couldn't afford in the first place.
• I'm not sure where in the constitution the issue of marriage - same sex or heterosexual - is mentioned.
• I love Palin's clarification of Ifil's question on gay marriage instead of falling into a potential trap.
• I think that Palin is very smart to point out the differences between what Biden has advocated in the past and what Obama has advocated.
• I've judged HS kids who gave better answers to some of these same types of foreign policy questions than Biden. Sad.
• Palin pronounced "nuclear" just like Bush. Apparently, that's become an accepted pronunciation.
• Obama DID say he'd sit down with Achmidinijad (Sp?). Biden, you lie. Lie. Lie. Lie.
• France hasn't ever kicked anyone out of anywhere. *Snort*
• "Let me repeat"...yeah, heard ya. You still aren't saying anything of substance.
• Oh yes, by all means, go to Scranton. Do they WANT to see my head explode?
• GREAT summation by Palin.
• Doesn't Biden just think he's oh so smooth. Yuck.
• Geraldine Ferraro looks like 10 miles of bad road.

Here are some quotes from the transcript, and my reactions:

• Biden: "If you need any more proof positive of how bad the economic theories have been, this excessive deregulation, the failure to oversee what was going on, letting Wall Street run wild, I don't think you needed any more evidence than what you see now."
  You say "letting Wall Street run wild," I say "free market system."
• Palin: "John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he was talking to and he was talking about the American workforce. And the American workforce is the greatest in this world, with the ingenuity and the work ethic that is just entrenched in our workforce. That's a positive. That's encouragement. And that's what John McCain meant."
  Amen. And it's more than just the workforce. Many areas of our economy are strong. And if we'd just hold businesses and individuals to a level of personal responsibility instead of covering up for their mistakes, even more areas of our economy would be stronger.
• Palin: "Darn right it was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception there, and there was greed and there is corruption on Wall Street. And we need to stop that."
  And here's where Palin and I part roads. It's not the lenders' fault that idiot homebuyers got in over their heads. If you make 40k per year for your total household, you have no business buying a $300k home, ever. Period.
• Palin: "Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don't live outside of our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all of this."
  Personal responsibility? Snort. Most Americans wouldn't have the first clue. I think we need this desperately but I also think that more parts of society would advocate entitlements versus taking responsibility for their own actions.
• Biden: "You had actually the belief that Wall Street could self-regulate itself. And while Barack Obama was talking about reinstating those regulations, John on 20 different occasions in the previous year and a half called for more deregulation. As a matter of fact, John recently wrote an article in a major magazine saying that he wants to do for the health care industry deregulate it and let the free market move like he did for the banking industry."
  It's not deregulation that caused these issues. But nice try, Joe. Again, what you call deregulation, I call the free market system. Get government the hell out of the way and let businesses and individuals solve their own problems without interference.
  
• Palin: "Government is going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less if that's what it takes to reign in the government growth that we've seen today."
  AMEN!
• Biden: "The middle class is the economic engine. It's fair. They deserve the tax breaks, not the super wealthy who are doing pretty well. They don't need any more tax breaks."
  Yes, the theory of Robin Hood is always fair. Idiot.
• Biden: "Well, the one thing we might have to slow down is a commitment we made to double foreign assistance. We'll probably have to slow that down."
  Oh, how very fiscally conservative of you. You shouldn't have proposed to provide that much foreign assistance in the first place!
• Biden: "We should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage to be able to stay in your home, but be able to adjust the principal that you owe, the principal that you owe."
  Are you FREAKING kidding me? This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
• Biden: "If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting."
  Can't you just picture this moron peering through a microscope at water that used to be frozen on a polar ice cap and seeing like a fleck of dirt so he can pronounce the problem manmade? Oy.

All in all, it's clear that Palin kicked Biden's butt! On to Presidential Debate #2!