So who won the VP debate?

[NightDragon83]

Aiemond said:

NightDragon83 said:

Lem_Nx said:
Hey.... were there any Cheney V Edwards debates?

 

Yes... about 4 years ago to be precise, but as you can tell, not very many people watched it. Al Gore and Jack Kemp's '96 debate is still the least watched pretty much since the inception of television... I can't even imagine what that snore-fest was like.

Next week's debate should be interesting... it's usually the second debate that proves to be the most defining of the three... by the time the third rolls around pretty much everyone's made up their mind. I think instead of another debate that's strictly McCain/Obama, they should mix it up a little and have all four candidates be involved and be able to cross-debate one another. A Sarah Palin/Barack Obama matchup would be ratings gold, as would be watchingold-timers McCain and Biden spar together. That would never happen though as it could hurt Obama... pitting the Democrats' #1 against the Republicans' #2 is definitely not what the media wants to see, it would be far too unpredictable.

 

The debates were already scheduled before the vp picks happened though. Not some media conspiracy for this. The debate comission already had stuff planned. And if they keep her this sequestered already the McCain camp is sure as hell not gonna pit her up vs Obama.

 

No kidding, it's been that way for decades... 3 presidential debated and 1 vp debate.  I was merely opining that for the final debate in the future, both candidates on each ticket should be able to face off against one another so the American people can see the total packages spar against one another.  It would certainly make for a much more interesting debate.  Or if that doesn't happen then at least feature a town-hall style forum perhaps with questions from actual voters a la the YouTube debates during the primaries.  All I'm asking is for a little "change"... surely you guys can all agree with me on that! 

And you don't think that the McCain camp wouldn't be happy to put her up against Obama and have her unload on him from everything from Fannie Mae to Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Reverend Wright, etc?  Just today she criticized his statements he made about the military air raiding villages and bombing civilians in Afghanistan... and this the same guy who said he would send troops into Pakistan to kill or capture Bin Laden without Pakistans permission or co-operation if necessary, thus invading a sovereign nation... which is exactly what he accuses the Bush administration of doing in Iraq.  So I guess its ok for him to do it but not Bush?  Pakistan didn't attack us on 9/11... what gives?

And what about Biden's comments on Darfur? Will an Obama/Biden administration send troops there too?  They haven't even taken office yet and already they've talking about sending troops into as many nations as Bush and Cheney have done in 8 years!  Now there's some change we can believe in!