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Originally Posted by Thunderbird
33% no winner,46% Biden wins 21% Palin cannot verify this yet but the here is what I got second hand.
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I saw some number like that too.
Certainly all things being equal, Biden won; but Sarah "won" by hanging on successfully. I'm sure the Palin promoters will feel vindicated.
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Isn't it amazing how quickly a person can be turned into a passable politician.
She got in enough emotionally charged phrases: "white flag of surrender," "Shia extremist," "hungry markets," "rear the ugly head of abuse," "Joe Six-Pack," her "mom" experience, and her "oil and gas regulator" experience, I guess; ...and of course she's always proud to be an American, "like John McCain."
She did sound more coherent, but only by sticking to what she wanted to get said; not by answering the questions, or responding to particular points. Even her cuteness seemed a tad rehearsed this time; a little too cute and folksy ...as one pundit said, like Gidget goes to Washington.
Hey, who was that last name she mentioned, after Lieberman, Rudy, Romney, and who? Lingle, or Lengle?
There were a couple of times that she strayed and started meshing talking points together; but usually she dodged and weaved effectively, avoiding those situations. I thought she seemed the most comfortable when she was answering the Darfur question. I could see that she felt her confidence on that one.
She was the true Sarah only twice, IMO; and it was when she was speaking of Israel! Her eyes were looking into the future when she talked about building that Embassy in Jerusalem (probably just the back door to the giant underground bases we built in Iraq).
And that moment of clarity came in the middle of one of those beauty-contest moments, "...also, still... despite, again..." after talking about the "two-state solution" question. That makes me fear that, like Bush, she's a rapturist. But aside from that paranoia....
The funniest moment was when, in talking about the environment, she talked about "conserving our petroleum proje... products...."
Ooop, too late! I heard that Freudian slip... the petro projects are what she's into.
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What the heck does she mean about the "flexibility" of the VP duties? Sounds like she been listening to Cheney....
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I have to laugh or go postal. 
Do the right thing and send John & Sarah back to their old jobs. 
Good one Essay!
