Thursday, October 2, 2008

Vice Presidential Debate

Just finished watching the Vice Presidential Debate. I have to say I started to watch it with sort of a biased opinion of the candidate, especially after our discussion in class today about Palin. I was fairly certain I felt more strongly about Obama/Biden up until this point, and after hearing what everyone said about Palin in class today (the Katie Couric interview, the Supreme Court thing, etc) i thought she sounded pretty stupid. But I have to say after watching the debate just now Biden was the one who made himself sound stupid and Palin sounded very intelligent. She was excellent at debating, didn't make any errors, was articulate and made very strong points. The language she used was easy to understand and she directed most of what she was saying to the middle-class, working, American. Biden on the other hand I felt made very confusing points. Most of what he said wasn't clear, and according to ABC News a lot of which wasn't even correct. Biden also spent almost all of the time he was given attacking McCain and his policies rather then expressing the ideas and policies that he and Obama were working towards, while Palin mention Obama about twice during the entire hour and a half debate. One thing that ABC News is bringing up right now though is that Biden kept tying McCain to Bush throughout the entire debate. Biden brought up many cases in which McCain supported and agreed with many of Bush's policies and ideas and Palin kept trying to change the subject because she had no way to argue this.

All I know is that every time I watch a debate or read something about the election or the candidates or talk to someone about them I just change my mind over and over. I just keep getting more confused :-X

1 comments:

Dr. Lesley Bogad said...

I am so glad you watched and that you are listening to commentary afterward. There is some great debate commentary on this blog
http://writeorremainsilent-fall2008.blogspot.com/
And check out Saturday Night Live's spoof as well for more to think about!