Kitsch/Posh

This debate was much less painful to watch. Transcript, after the jump!

9:00	M:  ..It’s 9:00 aren’t they going to start?

9:07	M:  Ugh. We’re back online after coveritlive.com’s massive fail.

9:08	L:  And the first thing we noticed was the awkward handshake between the candidates…it looked as if Biden would kiss her on the cheek, but just thought “never mind.”

9:08	M:  …and she said “nice to meet you, can I call you Joe?”

9:09	L:  and to continue with the “folksy” appeal, she talked about soccer moms.

9:09	M:  …she’s already said “maverick” like three times.

9:11	L:  Greed, corruption, blah blah blah…why isn’t she talking about the Community Reinvestment Act?

9:11	L:  or anything else other than platitudes?

9:12	L:  darn tootin’, Sarah!

9:14	M:  BIden: “The Governor did not answer the question”

9:14	L:  Oh, she is talking to us!

9:15	L:  The moderator is clearly in the tank for Obama.

9:15	M:  LOL moderator cut off Palin mid-sentence

9:16	L:  I like heard, like, she, like, wrote this book where Obama is king.

9:17	L:  The lesson here: Obama and Biden know what’s fair.

9:17	M:  Biden: John McCain wants to give 300 million billion dollars to corporations

9:18	L:  Sarah Palin just like to remind people that she just came out of nowhere to be the VP candidate.

9:19	L:  Palin: “The plan is detailed and I want to give you details on that.” She learned from the Couric interview, it seems.

9:19	L:  Joe Biden also came out of nowhere, but he took longer.

9:21

M:  YES

9:21	L:  Joe Biden: Screw the foreigners before Americans.

9:21	L:  Country first!

9:22	M:  Joe Biden gives specific answers to that question Obama failed miserably on

9:22	L:  Biden doesn’t have “character.”

9:24	L:  Obama gave tax breaks to oil companies and Sarah Palin doesn’t like it. Huh?

9:24	L:  Oh wait, it’s BIG OIL.

9:25	L:  Palin: “Greed, corruption, etc.”

9:25	M:  Palin didn’t answer the question

9:25	M:  But she gets to get away because of the format?

9:27	L:  Putting the campaign aside did squat.

9:27	L:  Palin: “Main Streeters like me.”

9:29	L:  Palin is lost, so she comes back to “energy.”

9:31	L:  Palin is the only Artic governor, so she knows everything about “climate change” (formerly known as global warming)

9:31	L:  So will Gwen ask her a creationism question now?

9:32	M:  that question she didn’t answer was about bankruptcy rules… Biden gave a quick easy explanation but also glossed over saying “it gets complicated.”

9:33	M:  Palin complains about China polluting with abandon. Joe Biden does too.

9:34	L:  DRILL BABY DRILL

9:34	L:  good cheerleader chant.

9:36	M:  Sarah Palin could confidently say that she supports emissions caps only because the moderator stated a minute before that John McCain does.

9:38	M:  Palin: “I am tolerant”

9:38	M:  She promises not to stone gays.

9:38	L:  Sarah Palin wants to make sure you know she is not a bigot before she tells you she doesn’t personally like same sex couples.

9:39	M:  So these two don’t disagree at all, then? Both want visitation rights, co-owned properties, etc. but not marriage.

9:40	M:  Sarah, the “Surge” is not an “Exit Strategy”

9:40	M:  Actually it’s the _opposite_ of an exit strategy.

9:41	M:  Sarah Palin doesn’t even want early withdrawal to be used as a contraceptive method.

9:42	M:  Biden points out that George W. Bush’s plan is closer to Obama’s than McCain’s?

9:43	M:  Joe Biden: We will end this war. Sarah Palin: Your plan is a white flag of surrender.

9:44	L:  Palin giving the laundry list of hit points that the debate camp taught her.

9:45	L:  Nuclear Iran or Hostile Pakistan: I choose Iraq.

9:46	L:  Biden: “John’s policy of Terror and Stability”

9:47

M:  LOL

9:47	L:  Uh, Joe, madrasa means school in Arabic.

9:47	M:  So Joe Biden switches words by mistake, says “central war of front on terror” or something like that

9:48	M:  and then in response Palin uses the phrase “central war” twice, when the right phrase to use is “central front”

9:48

L:  lol

9:49	L:  Palin pronounced “Ahmadinejad” correctly but still said “nucular.” No net win points.

9:49	L:  Kissinger gave Palin an audience. The honor!

9:50	M:  Diplomacy is hard work by serious people. Which Henry Kissinger is, but Sarah Palin isn’t.

9:51	M:  Biden brings up the Zapatero gaffe.

9:51	L:  LOL the Spain thing again. Joe should just say that McCain didn’t know who the hell Zapatero was.

9:52	L:  Palin states her religious doctrine.

9:52	M:  …Israel is our best ally in the middle east because they’re the only state even remotely resembling an ally.

9:53	M:  Biden says that NO ONE has been a better friend of Israel.

9:54	M:  His slightly hawkish side comes to the fore. It looks pretty good, I think.

9:54	M:  Palin: “I love Israel.” AIPAC has bought everyone.

9:55	M:  The questions have been about foreign policy for quite a while now, and Sarah Palin hasn’t brought up a single specific yet.

9:56	L:  Palin: Obama-Biden will not change things because they look into the past. McCain-Palin will change things because they look into the past.

9:57	M:  …the question is about when the U.S. would have to use its nuclear weapons. Again, she’s not answering the question.

9:58	L:  Palin: we are building madrasas for children in Afghanistan

10:00

M:  Sarah Palin says she wants to use the surge strategy on Afghanistan. Biden points out that the top general in Afghanistan specifically opposes this.

10:00

M:  WHOA. She knows who that general’s name is.

10:00

L:  Did Biden just give the Al Gore “sigh”?

10:02

M:  Joe Biden defends his initiative on Yugoslavia.

10:03

M:  and his active stance on Darfur.

10:04

L:  But Palin was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.

10:05

M:  …Alaska’s 40B endowment (“permanent fund”) disvested from Sudan. Just like Harvard did!

10:06

M:  …Wait, so Joe Biden supported starting the war in Iraq, full well knowing that it would be difficult and costly.

10:09

L:  In other words, McCain didn’t vet her.

10:10

L:  Palin wants to turn our country into a giant Wasillastan.

10:10

M:  Gwen said that “heartbeat away” is the biggest cliche about the Vice Presidency. That is incorrect. The biggest cliche is “bucket of warm piss.”

10:12

M:  Does anyone else here hate Sarah Palin’s verbal ticks?

10:12

L:  ”There you go again, Joe.” — Palin. Except that it doesn’t work as well because of her verbal ticks.

10:13

L:  Biden and Palin are having a contest of who is the most “average, Main Street joe six-pack.”

10:13

M:  She didn’t say “PTA”

10:14

L:  Palin read the Constitution at debate camp.

10:15

M:  Joe Biden: the reason No Child Left Behind was left behind was that the money was left behind.

10:15

L:  Biden is a maverick, too!

10:16

L:  Palin believes in the living Constitution

10:16

M:  Sarah Palin agrees with Dick Cheney’s view on Vice Presidential power.

10:18

M:  Joe Biden serves up a lesson on the Constitution.

10:18

L:  There you go again, Palin

10:19

L:  With that hockey mom and heartland talk.

10:21

M:  Biden points out that he has only one house.

10:22

L:  Palin: “John is the man we need to leave.” Best gaffe so far.

10:24

M:  Joe Biden hits a winner. “Maverick he is not.”

10:25

L:  Biden eventually realized that people have opinions.

10:28

L:  There you go again, Palin.

10:30

L:  Great, Palin supports people finding out about her lack of knowledge without the help of the mainstream media.

10:30

L:  ”unfiltered.”

10:32

L:  Biden wants the last word on who is most like you.

10:33

L:  Will Biden kiss her on the cheek?

10:33

L:  Palin wants to leave.

10:34

L:  Palin likes Dick Cheney because he made her relevant.

10:44

M:  …we close with this note: Palin referred to the U.S. general in Afghanistan as Gen. McClellan. McClellan is actually the name of a well-known general in the Civil War.

10:46

M:  …when she mistakenly used the name, we didn’t catch exactly what she said so we assumed it was correct. Apologies for that error.

10:46

Tags: Debate, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin

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