The Debates Thread — Page 9

Yeah, last night someone was crankier than usual. (which is pretty amazing).

I agree that by nominating Palin, McCain undermined his strongest argument.

Got to agree with you there.

Palin;s experience highlights Barry's LACK of experience.

It is just a troll Windy, doing its best John McCain impersonation.

True, true!

Government tinkering in the market caused the current meltdown. Experts have traced it to the current congress, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.

To Barry with Love from Fannie and Freddie

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 03:44 PM

Obama, he charged, lacked the "knowledge and experience" to be president.

Pundits highlighted that and said it was the key to McCain gaining at least a tie. But I didn't hear a single person on TV point out: McCain just picked Palin for vice president! How, then, could he make such a charge against Obama?

My feeling is that the Couric interview might have done for McCain what the first Nixon-Kennedy did for Nixon in 1960 -- a true watershed moment. The American voters finally "got it" about Palin and so McCain's "best moment" against Obama either fell flat with many of them, or proved laughable.

This made all the more stark with Palin AWOL during the post-debate analysis -- and Joe Biden all over the place. And with reports of McCain team alarm about her performance during the mock debate preps.

But the pundits barely recognized that the "experience" charge was a non-starter -- and that's why they scored the debate fairly even even as viewers seem to have rated it a landslide for Obama.

Why didn't pundits see it? Obama won.

Watching Bill Clinton on Larry King made me remember what it's like to have a president that's smarter than I am. And believe me, I'm not tooting my own horn very much with that statement.

I love the fact that people are saying Couric was hard on Palin during that interview. The CNN panel made it seem like she was unprepared for that interview and that they should have allowed her more 'warm up' interviews, essentially, rather than starting in with the big guns. Couric didn't ask her anything out of the ordinary. If this woman is going to be the VP, she should be able to give fairly intelligent answers regarding topics that most of us are knowledgeable about. But the woman shot herself in the foot first by evading the question about the Bush Doctrine. Then she bombed the Couric interview by pushing the whole Alaska/Russia proximity as experience in foreign policy. One more strike and she's out.

And to be honest - it was unfair of McCain to even put her in this position by choosing her. It's like calling in a favor and putting Paris Hilton the the Harvard Law Review.

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Experience doesn't guarantee anything. LB Johnson, NIxon, Carter, all had plenty of experience but were considered poor presidents.

Of course I've never been president, but I have a feeling nothing can prepare you for the actual experience.

On a lesser level, all the education courses in the world can not prepare you for the actual experience of being in the classroom and teaching.

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I'm not a Barry voter.

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Borsty -- Gramps was caught in a corner, and he knows it now since he has picked Miss Alaska. If we are going to have a beauty queen in the White House, sometime in the next 3 or 4 years, could he not at least picked Miss America?...or Janet Jackson?

Updated On: 9/28/08 at 02:33 PM