Tag Archives: election 08

obligatory post-vp debate post

Since I wasn’t sleeping last night, I rewatched the debate. I wanted to see if, minus the twitter feeds and initial expectations, Palin was even half as intelligible as she seemed at first blush. The second viewing wasn’t kind to her, her lack of depth, knowledge, and experience was front and center. Her debating skills? I can’t even comment, since she never actually engaged in the debate by answering questions or staying on-topic. It wasn’t a debate, it was the interview portion of a beauty pageant. Actually, I don’t really have anything to say that can’t be summed up by the Sarah Palin Debate Flowchart that was on Daily Kos.

link courtesy of TrueEpicure

"Now, she's putting the ice in vice-president"

I’d just finished a post about something I saw on boingboing, when JunglePete pointed out an even more disturbing boingboing link:

Oh yeah, my original post was about the woman in the cowsuit:

32-year-old Michele Allen received a one-month sentence for disorderly conduct after police received complaints that she was dressed in a cow costume and chasing children, blocking traffic, and urinating on a neighbor’s porch.

I believe her steadfast resolve to wear that cow suit, as demonstrated by the fact that she wore the suit to her arraignment, is what really makes the story newsworthy.

Yes, there is a mugshot.

link via boingboing

Exactly how stupid does John McCain think voters are?

Even grading on the “and yet the majority voted for W again in 2004″ curve, I just can’t believe that voters are as dumb as John McCain seems to think. McCain Accuses Press of ‘Gotcha Journalism’. Well, duh. You chose one of the worst possible running mates and almost every time she opens her mouth she says something that is moronic, if not also utterly false. No “gotcha” techniques required.

rate the debates

Free Press has launched Rate the Debates, which they’re describing as “a citizen-driven guide to better media coverage of the issues that matter most.” It’s an interesting experiment.

I’ve signed up, although this will interfere with my plan to turn the Vice-Presidential debate into a drinking game wherein one takes a drink every time Palin or Biden start an answer with the word “look.” It’s for the best, did you watch Biden’s last visit to Meet the Press? He said “look” so many times I couldn’t stop laughing. Not good, Joe, not good at all. (page 4 alone of the transcript has 11 looks!)