Kitsch/Posh » Joe Biden http://kitsch-posh.com Mmm, Needs More Blog. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:44:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Liveblogging Sarah Failin http://kitsch-posh.com/2008/10/02/liveblogging-sarah-failin/ http://kitsch-posh.com/2008/10/02/liveblogging-sarah-failin/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:48:58 +0000 M http://kitsch-posh.com/?p=351 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


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Beau Biden, 39, elder son of Senator Joe Biden, Mr Obama’s running mate, is scheduled to go to Iraq early next year. Beau Biden is attorney general of Delaware and a captain in the legal corps of the US Army’s National Guard. He is in line to inherit his father’s Senate seat should Mr Obama win the White House.

Damn Tories. They must be forgetting in a fit of wishful thinking that even their own House of Lords no longer has inheritable seats.

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He’s clearly just making shit up and trying to pull a Dan Rather.

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