So who won the VP debate?

[Aiemond]

NightDragon83 said:

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!

 

No, I don't. You know why? Because she had many opportunities to do this waaay before the vp debate and the McCain camp basically made her invisible. Not only that, I will bet you that she does not come out into the media and will not be seen other than short fox interviews and stump speeches from now on. Lastly, Obama beat McCain in the first debate, who is good debater, far superior to sarah palin (im going by all the snap polls and later polls, including the fox one). Obama would eat Sarah Palin for breakfast. Especially in the atmosphere we are in atm, where people are looking for substance.

 

Plus, if she wanted to play hardball with Ayers, Wright etc, whom he has already deflected, do not think he would softball her. He could bring out the video where she prayed against witches, he could show how they were part of an Alaska secession group, he could bring up troopergate, he could bring up how she said iraq was a holy war for the us, how God's will was to go get oil, etc. She has skeletons in her closet that are at least as damaging as his, if not more so.