This is the “fair” moderator people like Ozzie wants for issues of complexity.

Joe was hitting hard on McCain’s “de-regulation” record. Given that Democrats always go on the side of bad de-regulation and bad regulation, it’s something that can easily be pinned on Republicans given the focus on de-regulating all of the Dem’s bad regulations and regulating all of the Dem’s bad Fannie Mae de-regulations.

Gwen ambushed Palin when she was getting started on putting out McCain’s “good” regulations track record. Palin responded by waiting for Gwen to mention the health topic, which when Palin responded to in detail, almost demanded that Gwen interrupt after one of her own questions.

That’s some complex maneuvering.

Well, good thing is that after this debate, Obama can no longer just pull Clinton out. He is in too deep.

When Sarah mentioned her one on one negotiations with BP, that hurt. THat really hurt. I had to stop the video for a few seconds, and not just to write this.

The thing about the Democrats is that even if they wanted to fix things, they couldn’t: not when they perception of the problem is so deceptive, wrong, and malicious. Dems believing in stealing money from those that earned it and giving it to those that didn’t earn it. How this will actually, on a philosophical bass, make more money, is left for Dem propaganda to fill in. The Dems believe that if you take the money from oil businesses, that new refineries and pollution controls will automatically go UP, because obviously the Oil Companies of America Don’t Need Profits to Invest In Such Things, now do they?

It’s hard for honest, not good, politics to reign supreme given the amount of lying that goes around in even VP debates. But that’s how DC has become. And short of my solution to hang the offenders, you are left with non-revolutionary reform such as what Sarah proposes to conduct. But mark my words, if people think such boondocks and vampirism will continue forever, they are seriously wrong. Eventually some revolutionary cadre will spring up, and even if they fail to topple the government due to chaotic financial and security issues, things are going to spiral into worse and worse.

This is the historical trend. Corrupt Senators in Rome living it big turned into targets for totalitarian Emperors. And then they turned into targets for the barbarians once the Emperors of Rome got weak and bankrupt.

When Sarah got cut off the moderator said “out of time or you are out of time”. For Biden, she said “pardon me”.

Yeah, the fix is in. Of course, the amount of external resistance you encounter is one factor to your success or failure but not the only one. Perhaps not only the most important factor in the end.

It’s interesting that Biden has son going to or already in Iraq. Think that was an Obama decision to armor himself with?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbDUa0yMCjo

I’m watching that line of videos. Since there are a lot of “part 1s” around, I’m choosing to watch this provider consistently.

That was worth a great belly laugh as I imagined it. So true!

Which reminds me how much Obama reminds me of “Chance” in Being There:

Peter Sellers plays Chauncey “Chance” Gardiner: a simple gardener who has spent his entire life isolated from the world. Chance’s calm and seemingly highly intelligent demeanor is essentially a blank canvas on which each of the film’s characters paint their own picture, making Chance out to be much more than he really is.

Joe Biden spouted quite a few facts with confidence, but as it turns out there are a *lot* of problems with his facts. If that gets out past the “media filter”, it cancels out his entire presentation.

As the debate recedes into days and weeks, people will definitely continue to remember Sarah Palin’s confidence, enthusiasm, and optimism. That is going to STICK.

She gave a very good performance and just plain rolled over Gwen Ifill. Kind of, “Ah, you’re done asking your question? (Gracious smile) Ok, time for me to talk about what *I* want to talk about.” Amazingly, it worked, and worked well.

Her command and control throughout the debate must have allayed concern among all those independent and leaning voters who had developed negative opinions about her. That won’t go away. In combination with the STICK-like-glue that’s going to occur in voters’ minds, with her confidence, enthusiasm, and optimism, this is a very very good thing.

Two questions going forward for the undecided independent and leaning voters…

Will Joe’s attacks during the debate on McCain stick with those voters? Some of them were just plain silly: i.e., McCain voting to deny the soldiers funds. How could that possibly stick in an average American’s head? They know McCain too well for that to have any resonance at all. Will any of Joe’s attacks stick?

What will McCain do now? I hope once the “emergency bill” passes, he (finally) takes off the gloves. If he does he might be extraordinarily effective. I hope.

I can go to sleep happy, feelin’ good about a good evening!

But all she lacks can be acquired with time. Look at it this way: A year ago, Obama was avoiding such unscripted events like the plague and with good reason. Still does. Palin is already doing much better. I don´t know if she will help win this race. Even if not, she can govern Alaska, maybe get elected to the Senate, but I see no reason why there shouldn´t be a Sarah Palin in our future.

She can run for president in 2020 and still be younger than Hillary is now.

“Don’t EVER make me debate that woman,….Sarah Palin,…again!!”