9 PM Eastern: St. Louis Vice Presidential Debate Live Thread

c-span.org ^ | October 2, 2008

[2ndDivisionVet]

Okay, folks. Let's keep an eye on this debate and see if Sarah can beat down hairplug.

[6SJ7]

Yah haaa! Sara’s not-so secret weapon!

[longtermmemmory]

How long was Biden a national senator?

How long was Palin on the national scene?

Biden was struggling to keep up.

[The_Reader_David]

Don’t exhibit your own ignorance.

A Bosniac is a Muslim Slav. Same ethnic stock as the Orthodox Christian Serbs and the Latin Christian Croats, but Muslim.

And now that you know that, perish the thought that ‘We’re all Bosniacs.”

[Dawn531]

Hmm...I just went and checked with my husband. He’s been listening (he doesn’t read FR.) I said, “How’s she doing?” He said, “She’s kicking a@#!” He’s an average Joe, not as tuned in politically as those on FR, and he thought she did great.

[Nasher]

Joe Biden: "Thank you Gov. Palin, it's been a pleasure meeting you getting my @ss handed to me"

[Bob]

If she winks at me again my wife is going to get suspicious.

Don't worry about it -- she was actually winking at me. Just tell your wife that I said so. :=)

[MathDoc]

Lots of “new” faces around FR tonight- all very down on Gov Palin...

But I haven't seen any serious flaws from our favorite governor. The armchair quarterbacks occasionally have better lines (with no pressure). Maybe. But Governor Palin did a fabulous job. She has my vote, without any reservations.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Gwen just told Biden he did great and said to him “thank you, governor.”

[generally]

Couldn’t agree more.

She was outstanding! I loved her!

[Red Steel]

WHY IS BIDEN GETTING THE LAST WORD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ifill showed her bias.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Stupid CBS... “she didn’t embarrass herself”. Bleah.

So did CODE PINK and the anti-war movement really sign up for JOE BIDEN’S INTERVENTIONIST PLAN?

CBS - “Palin did not blunder or mistake”... IDIOTS, she knocked it out of the park.

[AuntB]

“WHY IS BIDEN GETTING THE LAST WORD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

And he went first, didn’t he? Well, at least we got to see what the word ‘bloviate’ looks like. People probably thought the woman would cry, but Biden cried! lol I like that.

She sure made him smile a couple times. She’s difficult not to like. Now he’s pawing her! lol

[Shermy]

“She had a chance with global warming...and missed that too.”

She can’t.

McCain believes in AGW and cap and trade. Big time.

[BMC1]

You bet she was GREAT!

[luvie]

...Sarah!!!!!!

[dragnet2]

She did very well.

[beagleone]

Could someone please count the times Biden has gotten the last word in this thing.

None more important than the parting words.

However, Sarah just kicked his ass in the finale. Her closing monologue was one for the ages. Heartfelt and delivered with grace and sincerity.

[Abigail Adams]

Someone on NBC saying Palin was a better surrogate for the presidential candidate.

[cherry]

I mentioned several hundred posts earlier that we could solve the problem of trolls by making this a PAID site...or at least having one thread be a PAID site...like the football boards....

even Dave Ramsey has a charge....

if Jim did that, we could KNOW for sure who is a troll by the number of posts at certain times and we could see a pattern....and trolls usually don't want to PAY for anything, they just like to blather.....

[ReneeLynn]

Another one? Okay, I don’t think Sarah did as well as Biden. Is this ‘Free’Republic or ‘tow the line Republic’? Go back, read my original post here and tell me what was to ‘trollish’ about it. Don’t just throw the ‘troll’ title out because you disagree with me. Like a Lib would call someone ‘racist’. Sorry, story not over. You think I’m a troll. Show me where.