Juan Cole is on fire about the "debate"!

[Dhalgren]

"Joe Biden has been either the chairman or the ranking minority member on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years, and is one of our foremost foreign affairs experts and legislators. His acumen and expertise are wide-ranging.

Palin has revealed her real self in the Gibson and Couric interviews, and clearly knows nothing and offers only rubbery expressions and glib repetition, for all the world like a rasping myna bird, of a stream of memorized slogans that sound as though they were disinterred from a time capsule originally buried in William F. Buckley Jr.'s back yard several decades ago.

It was not a debate, and pretending that it was and judging "performance" is to fall into the trap set by the campaign spinmeisters and talking point pimps."


That is just a snip - he is cookin'

www.juancole.com

[TwilightGardener]

1. That's what I've been saying. It was a performance, it had nothing to

do with her beliefs, her knowledge, her understanding of the issues--it was pure memorization, regurgitation, and acting.

[Dhalgren]

2. Right. I thought she came off as shallow and not a little vapid.

The mudding for the camera that she did was embarrassing and is not something you want your VP doing. I thought her "performance" was very lacking...