My brilliant thoughts on the VP debate

Well, it's over and that's all that can be said. Joe Biden showed up, looked like a guy who had his shit wired, and had an answer for everything. Sarah Palin? Whew! She didn't fall over, take a shit on stage, and she spoke entirely in English, so the media says she won. She also was vague, general, and meaningless almost to the point of incoherence, thinks a dead Civil war general runs Afghanistan, was so rehearsed she should have opened her debate answers on Broadway, and turned up the phony, folksy bullshit so hard that Will Rodgers head would have exploded. As someone said last night, satire is dead, all SNL can do is a re-enactment of this woman's performance. Of course, most of the media pundit class loved it. Substance? What's that?

The people saw things differently....again. CNN and CBS focus groups awarded the debate to Biden, and we'll probably have more snap polls doing the same out today. It appears independents and undecideds prefer actual solutions and answers to Marge Gunderson folksiness and bland pablum read off a index card. I watched the debate with my father and his constant snickers, cries of "What the hell is she talking about", protestations to turn on the Pitt game because he was tired of listening to her bullshit, and after Palin's riposte about McCain knowing how to win a war he said "He got shot down and imprisoned for 5 years. That's called 'fucking losing'" I knew it wasn't my crazy biases against her entire existence. Unlike me, he was actually considering voting for McCain.

But beyond that, Palin was just bizarre. She said she wanted more power than Cheney, thought either George McClellan or Scott McClellan ran Afghanistan, avoided questions she didn't have long enough answers prepped to veer into her own imaginary debate where Gwen Ifill was asking the questions she prepared for, winked at the camera a bizarre amount of times, let Biden demolish several McCain policy proposals without so much as one word of defense, and seemed to have no grasp of McCain's record beyond the phrase 'maverick'. She wasn't as bad as she could have been and in many ways exceeded her low expectations, but by any standard this woman was not able to even grasp the basic issues plaguing this country. She can remember all the soundbites Rick Davis made her memorize, she has no business being on that stage and in a position to be the VP of this country. Clearly. Someone tap the media on the shoulder and mention that she's up for the #2 slot in the most powerful country in the world, not Secretary of Adorable.