by Mama Dragonfly
Tonight, the much anticipated Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will be broadcast from my city, St. Louis, Missouri. The experienced politician with well-known gaffes facing off the sassy good looking, but ignorant young governor from Alaska is the much talked about event all this week on the radio, on TV and all over town.
For a political junkie like me, this should be the juiciest moment that I have been waiting for.
It should be the night where I plop down in front of the TV with popcorn and soda in hand, ready to be thoroughly entertained. There will be nail-biting moments, I am sure, where Biden will inevitably say something off-the-chart. There will be rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-my-ass-off moments when Palin inevitably mentions Russia and how she can see it from her house, or maybe another one of those endearing cute jokes of hers (perhaps she'll have a mascara joke this time).
There might also be tear-jerking moments if she mentions her Down's baby or goosebump-producing moments when both of them mention sons in Iraq. Maybe I can count how many times "change," "mavericks" and "reforms" will be mentioned. It will be educational for my kids to relearn counting.
Now, this is a guaranteed pure entertainment with educational aspect that you can't get anywhere else. And all for the price of almost none (excluding the electricity cost, of course) Beat that, Netflix! This is more exciting than re-arranging my Netflix queue in the hope of scoring a winning movie for the weekend.
All week, I've been seeing the footage of Palin being prepped at the boot camp in Arizona with her cute little face totally concentrating at her coaches. Yup, cramming at the last minute sucks, whether you are cramming for an exam or for the debate, especially if you have not been studying or paying attention from the start. I've read about Biden being told how to walk a fine line between appearing to be knowledgeable, but not to shoot off his mouth in his usual reckless manner.
My advice to Joe: bite down your lips and think before you spray off the words. It works for Bill Clinton, so it might work for you as well. The pundits, looking like the starving hyenas on the dying prairie, are already salivating over the details they will get to pour over and dissect in detail. Even Gwen, the moderator, who has been in the business and known for her professionalism is getting her share of scrutiny from the media, especially the Fox News. If Palin fails or blunders, Gwen will take the blame -- Fox has already decided. A good plot with a built-in scape goat. Perfect scripting! The stage is being set for the actors, the audience, the directors, the writers, the stone-throwers, the voyeurs, and the by-standers, except that I get to miss it all tonight.
Unfortunately or fortunately, I will not be watching or even listening to the debate tonight because I will be in the woods with my daughter's sleep-over camp, away from the internet, the TV, and the media. At first I was bummed about not having to see the broadcast live, but then I thought maybe it is not a bad thing after all. Debates are great to watch but rarely do they sway the voters. Most of us are already in one camp or another by this time. And frankly, I don't understand a bit about being the "undecided." Who the hell are you and why are you undecided? Where have you been the last eight years? I want to ask these undeciders. Did you vote for Bush the second time and still think the mess this country is in has nothing to do with Bush's policies? If so, you are a lost cause at this point. No swaying there.
When I emerge from the woods on Friday, both sides will have declared the winner and the noises of the talking heads will be hopefully quieter by then. I can just catch the important highlights from the Daily Show and watch the real debate on the Saturday Night Live. I'm saving the popcorn until then.
Who do you support in the VP Debate?
Comments (58)
All I can say is "GO SARAH!"
Go Palin! Woohoo!!
Neither, but I am excited to see who says the dumbest thing.
Sarah Palin!
As one of Biden's constituents in the tiny state of DE I say -
Go Sarah!
"Who the hell are you and why are you undecided? Where have you been the
last eight years? I want to ask these undeciders. Did you vote for Bush
the second time and still think the mess this country is in has nothing
to do with Bush's policies?"
Bush is running again? {wink}
My husband is one of "THe Undecided", but no, he did NOT vote for Bush the last time.
Go Palin!
Go Sarah Palin!! Have you seen her actually debate? She is actually pretty good. I think all the people picking on her and tearing her apart has gotten to her a little. Making her really nervous in the public eye. Regardless she needs to step it up.
And as for Biden...well he needs to close his mouth sometimes cause he can say some really stupid things.
Oh and Fox is actually a lot more fair then most of the other news channels. The other channels are just pro Obama and that gets tiresome. I want to see both sides accounting fairly.
fortunetly for biden, i think he can get away with saying just about anything with the way palin has been articulating herself lately. this is going to be exciting.
obama/biden '08!!!
Unfortunately I don't know much about Joe Biden, so I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say. So far, I'm really not impressed with Sarah.
I'm mostly supportive of the Democrats. So, Go Biden!
Biden
Biden is a foreign policy genius. Poor Palin doesn't have anything on him.
Biden 100%.. Palin has been fumbling the whole time.. and, as you said, I've already got a count on "maverick" and "hockey mom".. *sigh*
@loveable_lush@xanga - My sentiments exactly! I was excited to watch and hoped she would come back from her horrible interviews, but she is NOT impressing me one bit!
Biden, all the way- and I will be watching!
GOOO PALIN!
Go Biden! If I hear one more "hey hockey moms" or "sit down next to a parent at a soccer game" I'm turning off the tv. She's trying to play the every day middle class American when she's not even close. Besides I don't need a vice president that thinks foreign policy experience means being able to see Russia from their house.
Palin is a moron. A pretty one, but a moron just the same. She claims Castro is dangerous dude. She's still living in the freaking 60s dude! She's using the same old arguments of "these evil dictators who are against our freedoms...blah blah blah" I can't take this. If she's VP I'm moving to Germany.
Palin!
I can't take vice presidential candidates seriously. Instead of quoting their superiors, I want to her THEIR policies. The only time I heard that was with the gay marriage thing, and then I just wanted to tell them both to go away so really I think I just lost an hour of my life listening to two lap dogs say that their master is better, no matter what they believe.
I do think Sarah Palin's way of articulating herself is done on purpose for "image" that's playing to a certain part of america, but I really don't think that part of american society pays close attention to American politics....
Libertarians, 08!
No
If any one is undecided you very obviously are not paying attention to what each party is doing and saying. Also you should dig into some history and see what happened to other countries that operated the way Obama wants to. Obama's ideas are old fashioned and they don't work. Look at Cuba and North Korea. And Russia used to be extremely prosperous until they did what Obama now also wants to do. I'm sure a lot of people that will vote for him are simply not digging in deep enough and are ignorant to what will happen to America if he implements the changes he talks about. Come on, people, educate your selves!!! Even if you don't agree with everything McCain and Palin stand for, it will be like a Sunday afternoon picnic compared to what America will be like with Obama and his changes!! I'm just a stay at home mom and normally don't pay a lot of attention to politics, but this year I have been on the internet a lot and saw a lot of things Obama is doing that I haven't seen anywhere else. Already brainwashing and indoctrinating school children and youth. They're singing and chanting songs of praise to Obama. I saw and heard it on a video. I was like, speechless. My tongue is still in the process of slowly recuperating and gaining some movement again. "Heil, Obama!" (That's what those indoctrinated children and youth would say. I say, "Go Palin!" But I'm not going to worship her or any earthly leader!)
@misuriver@xanga - Hey, go take a look at Castro and how his people live!! Do you want to exist like they do?