Off to Virginia...

So, once again, I have driven south to do what cannot be done sitting on my couch with my laptop, yelling at the TV over something that angered me on CNN.

Like the day I drove to New Hampshire to give Hillary a hand almost a year ago, I've taken off to Northern Virginia to help bring change to America. This time, I brought three friends, three fellow agents of change, and we're in for the "Get Out The Vote" weekend of a lifetime.

I will write about it when i get back next week, but for now, yes we can. Oh, yes we can.

Obama Loses - 2.8 Days Later

Perhaps to a fault, there is a great amount of emotional investment in the result of the November 4th American presidential election. A wounded liberal America and Democratic Party have been resurrected by an unpopular Republican president and a failing economy. Disenfranchised and cynical minorities and younger voters have been inspired by Barack Obama’s rise. A world that saw America in a negative light during a disastrous Bush Administration fawns over Obama and is poised to change its mind.

With a week left until Election Day and a significant lead for Obama in the polls, how would people react if Obama still lost?

November 7, 2008 – The American public reached a near-chaotic state of polarization yesterday as it attempted to understand and react to the surprising and controversial victory of Senator John McCain in Tuesday’s presidential election.

African-American communities, left-wing groups and supporters of Senator Barack Obama rioted in major cities across the country. Claims of mass racism and conspiracy were seen on signs and heard in chants as tens of thousands in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia took to the streets.

There was no masking their anger and disbelief at how Democrat Barack Obama could lose after being up ten points in the national polls. John McCain won the Electoral College with 277 votes to 261 for Obama after razor-thin wins in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida; all states Obama led in before Election Day.

Numerous reports of voter suppression and anonymous racially charged anti-Obama automated phone calls in key states have triggered many of their reactions to McCain’s victory. Campaign strategists and their legal teams have warred over the last two days as voters who were turned away from the polls testified for the media. In some Ohio counties, thousands of voters were reportedly refused the right to vote for various reasons, and counts are still being disputed.

African-American leaders who feared the effects of Obama’s race prior to the election have accused election officials and the Republican Party of race-based voter intimidation, as they did during the 2000 election aftermath in Florida.

“There is clear evidence that there was a systematic effort by forces opposed to Obama to stoke racial fears as well as dull African-American turnout,” said Reverend Al Sharpton during a television appearance.

Racial tensions were accompanied by political tensions, as liberal groups rapidly mobilized online to inundate the blogosphere as well as the mainstream media with evidence to support their claim of an organized conspiracy to steal the election from Obama. The evidence circulating included rumours of electronic voting machines rigged to choose McCain, unexplained voting delays in heavily Democratic counties, and the automated “robocalls.”

Some of the enraged groups turned to violence. One of the more radical anti-war groups confronted election officials conducting re-counts in Philadelphia, according to the Associated Press.

The democratic candidate vowed to contest the results, but attempted to calm his furious supporters. “Although this fight is not over, I strongly urge my supporters to conduct themselves peacefully, so as we do not lose sight of our goal,” said Senator Obama at a press conference in Chicago.

But some in the media were extremely pessimistic about the political ramifications. “This is a disaster,” claimed CNN analyst Paul Begala. “This is not only a bad day for America, but this could very well mean the destruction of the Democratic Party. They were handed this election on a silver platter and they still blew it.”

The sheer surprise of the election results has convinced some evangelical Christians divine intervention was at work. “Although John McCain has not yet proven he plans to do the Lord’s work, God has spoken and has struck down the idea of Barack Hussein Obama and his extremist reign over the Lord’s greatest nation,” said Televangelist Pat Robertson. He has drawn sharp criticism for his remarks.

Although the election saw the highest turnout of younger voters in decades, voting for Obama two to one over McCain, the results may have increased their cynicism. “Everyone feels like the system is rigged and they wasted their time,” said Sarah Saccany, President of the Ohio Young Democrats.

The United States’ image abroad may have also been hurt once again, with foreign media ridiculing American democracy yesterday as they had in 2000. Most of the reaction throughout the world appeared to see the result and particularly the potential of a Sarah Palin presidency as a definitive sign of the end of American global dominance.

My Canadian Television Debut

I was interviewed by CTV Montreal on the US election today in my first official TV appearance as a political commentator!
See the video HERE
(Click on the video icon)

I talked about the state of the race two weeks from election day. I was fairly nervous before but overall it was an awesome experience. I was also pretty stoked to briefly share the green room with Hockey Night In Canada legend Dick Irvin. They had me in the newsroom looking into a camera with an earpiece in my ear, listening to the questions. I couldnt even see a screen with the broadcast on, and it was live!

Colin Powell endorses Obama, steals from my column

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Meet The Press this morning:

I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

This is the exact message I conveyed in yesterday's column. I'm not actually saying he took it, i'm just happy that its being talked about.

Full video of the endoresement:



I don't even know where to start on how meaningful this endorsement is. Everyone should watch it.

Campaigns tolerating cultural ignorance

“I can’t trust Obama. I have read about him and he’s not…he’s an Arab,” said the elderly woman to Senator McCain.

“No ma’am,” replied the Senator. “He’s a decent family man.”

McCain was praised in the media and by Obama's campaign for correcting the woman without hesitation. But what no one seems to have picked up on was what an insult McCain's wording was to anyone of Arabic descent. The idea that Arabs are immoral or untrustworthy was an underlying prejudice that went completely unnoticed in the media. The answer should have been ““No ma’am, but even if he were it wouldn’t matter.”

Quick wording during a rally is not grounds for accusing McCain of xenophobia or racism, and you can't expect American politicians to worry about pandering to Arab swing voters. But this prejudice can still have an effect on an impressionable public, and it reveals how American political dialogue has devolved into tolerance of racism, xenophobia and narrow-mindedness.

It's a long-standing stereotype that Middle America has an unhealthy level of cultural ignorance. In reality this situation exists in most countries, so it's unfair to broadly label Americans as ignorant, but there is plenty of evidence that the election campaigns aren’t helping.

On the issue of race, the official strategy is to bill Obama as a politician who transcends it. An unofficial strategy that has been visible is to highlight his Kansan half and downplay his African half. Obama speaks of his single mother and the role she played in his upbringing, and of his World War II veteran grandfather. One voter was quoted as saying they would not vote for a black president, so they planned to vote for Obama’s white half. To the question of Obama’s race, the answer should not be “he’s actually half white,” but “what’s wrong with a black president?”

It appears that race will effect this election, to some extent. There have been many Americans who have expressed a fear that it would be unwise to elect Barack Obama because he would be assassinated by remnants of the Ku Klux Klan before his inauguration. There have been more that have openly opposed Obama's candidacy due to his race.

There are also widespread fears that even more Americans who won't admit their racism to pollsters or the media will express it in the privacy of the ballot box. This, however, should be distinguished from the Bradley effect, which is where white voters tell pollsters they support the black candidate because of a fear of being perceived as racist, even though they plan to vote for the white candidate on non-racial grounds.

On the issue of religion, a year's worth of mysterious e-mails being circulated all over the United States claimed proof that Obama is not only connected to terrorist organizations in Africa, but also a Muslim.

On the campaign trail, Obama has repeatedly had to convince voters of his Christian faith and deny any significant connection to Islam. The larger issue, which has gone unnoticed, is the utter demonizing of Islam itself that results from such a dialogue.

In the years since Sept. 11, knowledgeable leaders, scholars, and journalists have worked to help the world understand the difference between moderate Islam and Islamic extremism. In this campaign, the words Islam and Arab have become synonymous with terrorism and evil, allowing the idea of a Muslim president to incite fear in voters.

Hillary Clinton earned some votes during the primaries because of that fear. The official Clinton response was always that Obama was a Christian, but the American public would have been better served by the idea that a President’s religion shouldn’t be relevant, provided they honored the separation of church and state.

The McCain campaign, with the help of friendly 527s, Political Action Committees (PACs) and media like Fox News, are stoking the fires. Although Senator McCain himself is not contributing to it, the message coming from his side has been attacking Obama's patriotism, connecting him to terrorism, and generally promoting his "otherness."
Likely a symptom of such campaigning, a couple of peaceful Obama supporters who attended a recent rally for Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin to have their voices heard were promptly assaulted physically and verbally by McCain-Palin supporters. The two young men were called "traitors" and "anti-American," and were physically attacked by a horde of seniors, according to the Boston Globe.

Cultural ignorance is on the rise for the moment, but perhaps, if he wins, the ignorant in America will finally see that the black man with a scary middle name, and a childhood in the predominantly Muslim country of Indonesia, isn't the boogieman they've been reading about.

See: Colin Powell endorses Obama, steals from my column

Right isn't going calmly into the night

Watching the final month of the election unfold makes one thing clear: it’s getting ugly down there.

At this point there's a clear frontrunner, outside of the margin of error. Senator Barack Obama is that frontrunner because of a single dominant issue that has historically favored Democrats as well as hampered incumbents. If the issue were national security rather than a collapsing economy, a foreign threat rather than a domestic one, the candidates would be in the opposite position in the polls.

Regardless of the scenario, the frontrunner would be playing it safe while the other would be trying desperately to change the national dialogue, which is what we’re seeing take place. The strategy being executed by several forces on Republican Senator John McCain’s side, including the campaign, independent groups, and supporters, is that of guilt by association.

Attacking Obama on his connections to questionable characters and organizations has an official purpose of criticizing his judgment and an unofficial purpose of questioning his motives. The desired outcome is to bring a frightened conservative base to the polls and sway the now Obama-leaning swing voters.

So far, it has become painfully obvious that the first desired outcome might be working. At McCain’s rallies, panicked and less-than-articulate supporters are expressing their fears that Obama is an “Arab,” ”terrorist,” “liar,” and “hooligan,” right to John McCain’s face.

In an effort to retain any last vestiges of his original call for a “respectful” campaign, McCain has tried in vain to temper those fears. “I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States," said McCain to a chorus of boos at a rally in Minnesota.

McCain is in a tough spot, and it’s not just because of the inner conflict he’s no doubt feeling right now. If he does not play along with the playbook, McCain risks reminding conservatives that he was never really that popular with them in the first place, due to his maverickness in the Senate. Sarah Palin is out there playing along, and it’s effective, but if McCain decides to essentially be a maverick within his campaign, you could end up with many disillusioned conservatives.

Without the conservative support base, McCain has no chance. But his chances are almost equally diminished if he can’t win independents, and they don’t seem to care about anything other than the economy right now, let alone the questionable associations that Hillary Clinton’s campaign already brought up in the primaries months ago. For Clinton, the attacks may have had some effect on the working class democrats, but they got her nowhere with independents. The attacks should prove to be a zero sum strategy for McCain.

There is only one controversial Obama association that is truly new. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which the Obama campaign paid to register voters in several states during the primaries, has allegedly been trying to register thousands of dead or non-existent voters.

This is relevant because there were plenty of unconfirmed rumors of voter fraud attempted by the Obama campaign during the primaries, including various manipulations of the flawed caucus system.

But as for this election, two things need to be understood. There is no evidence that the Obama campaign had any part in ACORN’s get out the vote efforts during the general election, and surely no evidence that they instructed ACORN to commit voter fraud. Secondly, anyone who knows anything about politics knows that elections are always a dirty battle to the end, and many strategists will likely do almost anything if it means they’ll win. This is not to legitimize the actions of those who hurt democracy, but a reminder that it’s a reality on both sides of the election.

This is only relevant insofar as what it actually says about Obama, which is that he is a politician who wants to win. The same can be said about working on education reform with a certain Chicago professor, joining one of Chicago’s most popular churches where a certain reverend likes to speak his mind, and accepting the help of a certain political fundraiser and real estate developer to start his political career, all of which took place many years ago.

Barack Obama is not a radical, he is a politician who wants to win so he can get in office and take the country in a different direction. It’s not news, it’s reality, and right now Americans who are fluent in reality care about the crumbling economy.

What's journalism and what's not

This is not journalism.

Put aside whether a journalist or a news outlet favors a candidate or party or whatever, what's most disgusting is when you see a journalist or news outlet in full cooperation with that candidate or party's campaign.
When I watch Sean Hannity ask questions that McCain's strategists could have handed him, I ask myself: If you believed the Ayers issue was important and relevant to Barack Obama's character, record, or beliefs, why make such a big deal about it this week? The Ayers connection is NOT NEW. It was an issue for Obama in the primaries when Hillary Clinton brought it up, Obama had to respond, and he did, the media looked into it, and moved on. It's old news. When the Reverend Wright issue blew up last spring, it was because of the discovery of the video of the reverand's rants, so it was new. But right now, Fox News is doing it BECAUSE the McCain campaign has decided to use it to tear down Obama. Other news sources are covering the fact that the McCain campaign is bringing it up and why they are doing it tactically, but thats pretty much it.

Political media should be trying to get politicians off-message so we can at least try to get some genuine understanding of their views and knowledge. Seeing Fox News now suddenly care about the Ayers issue is worse than being a relatively conservative news outlet, its not even journalism, its being part of a campaign's media strategy.

And MSNBC is JUST AS BAD! Keith Olbermann has been an Obama surrogate since the beginning, and now that they've added Rachel Maddow (formerly of Air Obamerica Radio) you can tell they don't care.

Making it easy for CNN to call itself "the most trusted name in news"

Town Hall Debate Notes

Notes from my time with about 100 McGill students watching tonight's debate.

-Obama already pouncing on AIG's expensive corporate retreat with taxpayer money
-McCain looks very awkward walking around, odd camera angles make it worse
-Who would you want as Treasury secretary? "Not you, Tom [Brokaw]" - McCain WTF?
-"You're not interested in seeing politicians pointing fingers" - Obama
-Too much talking point time is being allowed between questions
-McCain finally looking at Obama! Hey yea he's there! The rest of us already knew, though.
-CNN voting tracker: Swing women love Obama. Lucky guy
-I'm getting tired of hearing about earmarks...there were tons in the bailout package and neither of you seemed to care
-Obama on sacrifice: change energy habits, join peace core
-Obama prefers a scalpel to a hatchet for the budget...but at this point, would people prefer the hatchet?
-Obama: mr smooth "The straight talk express has lost a wheel"
-Numbers, numbers, numbers. 10 billion for this, 200 million for that. Does it even mean anything to the average voter?
-McCain is (thank god) on the right side of the climate change debate, but is Palin?
-Nice Obama line (paraphrase) - Congress hasn't done shit for climate change in 30 years, and John was there for 26 of them. Cheers at McGill
-Like numbers, i think people are tired of hearing how these senators voted and how many times they did it. Saying Obama never created legislation to do something is barely meaningful since he was only a full time senator for 2 years, and saying McCain voted 353 times for that is barely meaningful since hes been in the senate for decades.
-Obama owns the health care debate. Send a thank you card to Hillary
-McCain introduced some "crossing state lines" argument, and Obama throws it out the window.
-McCain shouldn't say he's nervous about anything...even if it's Obama's plans...its not helping the old guy image
-Obama: Health Care is a Right. I don't agree, but its the right thing for him to say.
-Still on health care, obama cites his Mother's death and nails McCain on S-CHIP. Why doesn't McCain ever talk about his cancer? Oh i know, the old guy image agian, and don't forget this image from a possible future: "On this tragic day, Vice President Palin takes the oath of office, and becomes the 45th President..."
-McCain: America is the greatest force for good in the world. Jeers from McGill students
-Not sure why Obama is calling McCain a big spender
-Obama: we could be with the world in Darfur intervention
-McCain still acts like the Iraq war started in January 2007
-Pakistan - Obama says central front in war on terror is Afghanistan/Pakistan. CORRECT
-McCain: Obama likes to "talk loudly and carry a big stick" in foreign policy. ARE YOU KIDDING? If anyone is the "bring it on" type, its McCain.
-McCain is unwilling to take risky action in Pakistan to get Bin Laden. Didnt he say he wanted to follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell?
-FINALLY!! Obama brings up McCain's "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" joke from early in his campaign. By the way, as I remember it, it was not a conversation with a fellow veteran, it was at a town hall campaign stop with cameras rolling.
-McCain only has old worn out jokes
-Interesting idea - Obama cites energy independence as a way to combat russian aggression.
-Awesome last question: What dont you know and how will you learn it - Obama should mention how he would fill his cabinet with strong opposing voices instead of yesmen, in case he is not an expert on the problem theyre dealing with.
-Too bad neither of them answered the question'
-LOL McCain wanders in front of Brokaw's teleprompter!
-Debate winner is impossible to determine objectively. Why bother.

Brace yourselves for culture wars and 527s

If you look a the polls, the McCain campaign desperately needs to change the subject. Were the election take place today and follow the polls exactly, Obama would win with a landslide 364 electoral college votes, to McCain's 174.

State(EC Votes) Obama McCain RCP Average

Ohio (20) 48.7 45.2 Obama +3.5
Florida (27) 49.3 45.3 Obama +4.0
Nevada (5) 49.3 47.5 Obama +1.8
N Carolina (15) 47.8 46.3 Obama +1.5
Missouri (11) 47.8 47.5 Obama +0.3
Indiana (11) 45.3 47.5 McCain +2.2
Virginia (13) 49.9 45.0 Obama +4.9
Colorado (9) 47.6 44.6 Obama +3.0
Wisconsin (10) 48.0 43.0 Obama +5.0
N Hampshire (4) 49.8 41.8 Obama +8.0
Michigan (17) 49.1 42.1 Obama +7.0
New Mexico (5) 49.8 42.5 Obama +7.3

Source: RealClearPolitics.com

The attempt is in its early stages, with Sarah Palin bringing up Obama's association to "domestic terrorist" (in the 60s) William Ayers. Ayers was a radical in his youth who plotted to attack parts of the government. If you want details do your own research. The association with Obama is that Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Obama in the 90s. A weak connection, but not insignificant.

John McCain has said in the past that in remaining consisted with his call for a respectful campaign, he did not want to bring up Obama's pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who was the cause of much controversy for Obama during the late primaries.
Although McCain's campaign might not bring it up directly, the 527s (independent political groups who support a candidate and raise money to support the candidate, or attack the opponent) are free to.

In 2004 John Kerry was victim of one of these groups, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who called Kerry's war experience into question. Kerry's campaign decided not to dignify the attacks with a response, and the decision was a major factor in his loss to Bush.

With Wright, Ayers, and controversial Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko, combined with Obama's childhood in predominantly muslim Indonesia and his ethnicity in general, these groups will have plenty to work with to create another October surprise.

There's also the question of the culture wars that dominated the 2004 election. Conservative groups are likely gearing up for an effort to remind their flock that Obama is pro-choice, pro gay rights (although him and Biden have smartly shied away from supporting gay marriage, dulling the right's artillery), and has a questionable christian belief system. A cynic would say that Obama only declared his Christianity and joined a church when he knew it would be essential to his political career. Personally, as an agnostic, I don't care.

Reviving the culture wars will be a challenge as long as the economy dominates headlines, and Obama's camp can keep towing the "look at them try to change the subject" line. But the effect can still be seen in the form of turnout. Bush was able to benefit from religious right turnout in 2004 in large part due to other measures added to the presidential ballot, such as state-level gay marriage proposals. Canadians should keep in mind that unlike our election ballots, American ones have a long list of choices you make when voting, like senate, congressional, and local races as well as new law propositions.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Bottom line is get ready for a hell of an October.

Edit:
Oh it's on!
Obama camapaign releases a doc about McCain's ties to the savings and loan scandals of the late 80s and early 90s, of which I know absolutely nothing about, but its clear that this doc wasnt made yesterday.

VP Debate: What a waste

Thursday night's vice-presidential debate was the most hyped one in decades, as it should have been. In a contest that is usually boring and inconsequential, this election year’s running-mate debate was supposed to be two professional cringe-inducers competing for which could best damage their ticket’s campaign.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate, has effortlessly garnered the kind of late-night comedy ridicule that George W. Bush took years to earn. And with Senator Joe Biden expected to crush Palin in knowledge and debating abilities, he only had room to go down, and of anyone, the man from Scranton who’s known for verbal gaffes was the man to do it.
An estimated 70 million Americans tuned in Thursday night. To put that in perspective, the Obama-McCain debate drew just over 50 million, and the convention speeches peaked at 40 million. But what the viewers saw was a frustratingly lame sequence of mini-speeches because of a lack of a challenge presented by moderator Gwen Ifill.
Ifill, who like last week’s moderator Jim Lehrer, is a PBS personality. The difference is that conservatives castigated Ifill during the days prior to Thursday’s debate for being an outright Obama supporter.
Their evidence? Ifill is promoting her new book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, which is set to hit shelves on January 20th, 2009, the exact day of the next president’s inauguration. You can’t blame conservatives for throwing a fit, like commentator Michelle Malkin did in a pre-debate column.
“There is nothing ‘moderate’ about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She's so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out,” Malkin wrote.
Alas, the onus was on Ifill to prove her objectivity while moderating the VP debate in St. Louis. To the detriment of the viewers’ knowledge of their candidates as well as their entertainment, she overreacted and dished out the easiest and most open-ended questions she could find.
Faced with questions that began with “what is your stance on…”, Sarah Palin was able to regurgitate the volumes of campaign talking points she had been trained to memorize at the week of debate boot-camp she endured at John McCain’s, I mean, one of John McCain’s houses. She looked into the camera and let it all out as if reading a teleprompter. Joe Biden, terrified of looking condescending or elitist, chose not to call her out and rather countered with a grin and campaign talking points of his own.
Without any challenge from Ifill or Biden, Palin was even able to freely misunderstand or completely ignore Ifill’s questions. “I may not answer the questions the way you want me to,” Palin said. What she meant was, “I’ll answer the questions I feel like answering, and the rest I’ll respond to with folksy charm, talking points, or attacks on the media.”
Ifill asked under what circumstances they would use America’s nuclear weapons, and Palin responded with the nonsensical “nuclear weaponry…would be the be all, end all of just too many people,” followed by a tirade about how dangerous regimes shouldn’t have them.
Ifill asked what they thought their Achilles’ heel was, which Palin either ignored or misunderstood because she talked about how much wonderful executive experience she had. She was not challenged on either occasion.
People aspiring for one of the most important elected offices in the world should be held to a much higher standard. Ifill was not the person to do it, and she should have been replaced. Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly would have at least kept the would-be VPs on their toes.
Katie Couric was able to stump Palin last week in one-on-one interviews because she pressed the Alaska Governor for specific examples. Whether it was examples of publications Palin read to keep informed or examples of McCain supporting economic regulation in the past, blank answers told all. Seriously, who answers “I read all of them”? It’s the type of answer you give when you’re pretending to know something about a subject.
Alas, Gwen Ifill was moderating, and it was an easier than expected night for Palin and Biden. The Delaware senator was easily stronger on the issues, a factor that was apparent during discussions on the environment and foreign policy. Biden did manage to pounce on Palin’s assertion that the causes of climate change are irrelevant and on her inability to distance her policies from Bush.
Regardless, for all the hype surrounding the supposed “big test” for the hockey mom and the gaffe-man, I feel like I want my money back.

Edit: I found this. Its funny.

VP Debate Notes

I usually take notes for my columns before i write them, but this time I thought i could post my VP debate notes before i write my column. They are NOT fair and balanced.

• How did she mention a hockey game in the first answer????
• These are softball questions
• Simple stuff
• “I may not answer the questions…” – palin
• She seems odd looking at camera…a bit scared
• Stop demonizing universal health care
• Stop asking simple questions then let them go on their talking points
• Dive!
• How could you not care about the cause of climate change and want to do something about it?
• She’s just spewing out talking points, id like to see how much time she talked vs the guy known for talking a lot
• “I’ll be tolerant” - palin on gays
• biden pulls away on iraq
• BEAUTIFUL!!!! UMM……3 SECONDS… - palin
• This is easy for biden on foreign policy – palin is a student
• Central front is not in iraq, that’s where they want it to be
• Gwen ifil is fucking terrible
• Biden needs to attack more…..palin is saying nothing….call her out
• NICE! Palin says Bush administration is not a failure. Nice
• “Be all end all of too many people” – palin on nukes
• the question was about your nukes sarah
• when did Obama say that?
• Nice joe. Quoting generals works (not sarcastic)
• Joe, stop with this “number one, number two” shit. Its old
• Finally an interesting question: how would your presidency be different from your running mates?
• These CNN swing voter ratings never go down….theyre sold on everything. Be critical people!
• “there you go again joe” – channeling Reagan…someone finally did it
• what was joe’s lame joke?
• Sarah, are you done saying nothing?
• SARAH COMPLETELY MISSED THE QUESTION. It was “what is your Achilles’ heal” and she answers “my experience as an executive is….”
• Im watching on TIVO, and at this point, I’m literally fast forwarding what palin says
• Joe youre wasting time talking about judges.
• Its an “ive been there”-off
• Is sarah palin reading a teleprompter?
• Bashing the media in your closing statement?
• A gaffe-less biden could easily be president
• “time for America to get up together” fuckyea
• Gwen, I’d like to not thank you for moderating
• Palin seems like she’s a teenager meeting a celeb