disneydude

Palin meets expectations but still falls short - Yahoo! News

"On at least 10 occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney's vice presidency and her own greatest weakness.


Asked which is a greater threat, a nuclear Pakistan or a nuclear Iran, Palin seemed to be stalling, or writing a term paper, when she said: “An armed, nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider.”


"And she had at least a couple of harp-seal-on-the-ice moments, as when she wandered into this sentence when trying to rebut a point Biden had made on energy: “That is not so, but because that's just a quick answer, I want to talk about, again, my record on energy — your ticket's energy ticket also. I think that this is important to come back to, with that energy policy plan, again, that was voted for in '05.”


Palin was obviously well scripted, but she refused to stay on topic and couldn't answer the questions that were presented to her.

So much for that "straight talk express"....

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jujuman13

Was not aware that Biden actually answered questions either.
My take on last night was that it was simply an exercise in Campaigning by both of them.

disneydude

Obviously there was a lot of "campaigning done on both sides".

However, if you were looking for "straight talk" you certainly got a lot more from Biden. By and large, Biden stayed on topic. I think if you go back and watch the debate again, you will see that Palin was off topic about 90% of the time. Sometimes subtely but oftentimes she came right and and said, I'm not going to answer that question, I want to talk about this___________.