What is your lamest Sarah Palin debate moment?

[TheFarseer]

For me it's got to be, "your plan is to wave the white flag of surrender in Iraq." This is Sean Hannity talking points from 4 years ago. Biden should have killed this one. I would have said something like. A plan to transfer security of Iraq back to the Iraqi government is waving a white flag? Our plan is the same plan that Maliki and bush are implementing. Frankly, I find that to be a really bizarre notion. It's interesting that anything short of staying in Iraq for the next hundred years as John McCain put it spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year is a white flag of surrender.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. Biden wasn't debating her

he was debating McCain. Palin just happened to be on stage with him. He completely ignored her, other than to be gracious to her.

[Hepburn]

2. Good analysis of what went on last evening, IMO. n/t

[polichick]

5. It was a brilliant strategy - she's inconsequential.

[LynneSin]

47. That's ok, she wasn't debating him OR listening to him

Proof:

She brought up that Obama voted against funding the troops claiming that it was bad for troop morale. But Biden was the smart man and replied back that McCain ALSO voted the same way as Obama in that vote - McCain voted against funding (mind you for a different reason).

A smart debater would have backed off that talking point because now her opponent just linked her running mate with something that was unpatriotic and lowered troop morale. No need to revisit that again.

But she's not a smart debater, she brought it up AGAIN and again Biden reminded all the viewers that this was the same vote that McCain did.

She wasn't debating him, she was reciting lines she memorized at debate camp and was trying her best to fit them into the questions (or just ignoring Gwen's questions if she couldn't fit them in)

[Virginia Dare]

61. He made it appear that she really knows little if anything about McCain's record..

that was sweet, how Joe kept throwing out McCain's voting record contradicting what she had just claimed.

[polichick]

3. Probably at the end when she said how great it was to "answer all those tough questions."

[auburngrad82]

4. The White Flag comment

She seemed lost before she pulled that out of her list of prepared phrases.

[harun]

71. That would be my pick as well.

[WinkyDink]

6. Telling Biden his joke was as lame as hers.

[TheFarseer]

12. did he tell a joke?

I might have tuned out and missed it, but I didn't remember him telling a joke or them referencing him telling a joke. That comment seemed uncalled for to me, but I might have tuned out. I wondered if that was actually a really effective moment for her either way.

[WinkyDink]

21. I don't know who your "them" are, but she said what I wrote.

[TheFarseer]

28. by "them" I mean the moderator or either candidate

I know she said that. I caught that part :) I missed which Joe Biden joke was lamer than hers.

[demmiblue]

7. The whole, "say it ain't so, Joe" diatribe.

[MarianJack]

8. To Me it was obvious...

...that she'd forgotten her memorized one-liner and fell back on the 2 to 3 year old "cut and run" talking point.

The smile of absolute JOY that cemented itself to my face the day she was picked is still there. She was a disaster waiting to happen then, and BOY HOWDY, is that disaster ever happening now!

PEACE!

[POAS]

9. She was as

condescending to Joe as McCain was to Obama but in a different way.

She was too easy with her praise of Biden, to the point it became an obvious ploy and not sincere.

[Norrin Radd]

10. This made me give the finger to the TV:

"There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet."

[underpants]

14. That is conservative obstructionist rhetoric

That is the point they think wins. I had a former boss give a long explanation about how all this is just a cycle and I let him finish and said "No one argues that it isn't cyclical the problem is that in the oil age we have seen a spike off the charts" the room went silent.

[Norrin Radd]

19. Good comeback.

[Virginia Dare]

62. I heard a scientist give the easiest explanation one time..

it's like throwing gasoline on a fire.

[cjsmom44]

20. RE: Me Too!

Except I think I had my middle finger up every time she spoke!

[Norrin Radd]

34. lol

[bdamomma]

53. she doesn't believe in global warming.

she is a fundi through and through.

[underpants]

11. "It sure IS..."

I can't remember the question but the issue was something that is a negative to their campaign and she lead off with spokesmodel language.

[TheFarseer]

16. I give her props for

never saying, "you're darn tootin" Wait, no I don't.

[terrya]

13. The winking at the camera.

God, that was fucking cringe inducing.

[Phillycat]

15. "Drill, baby, drill" with the stripper dance accompianament.

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. I missed the dance!

I was only listening at that point. I missed the dance. Boo hoo.

Edited for spelling.

[Phillycat]

40. She did a little upper-body twist, shook her boobs around.

Tacky, tacky beyond belief.

[lanlady]

17. her shout-out to the third grade

at Wasilla elementary school had me sticking my finger down my throat.

[Norrin Radd]

18. Oh, yeah, that clearly demonstrated her lack of gravitas.

[underpants]

22. What time did this come on the air in Alaska? 3PM?

:shrug:

[TheFarseer]

29. delete, stupid comment!

[cjsmom44]

23. RE: Comment

Her comment on It's Drill Baby Drill.....How incredibly stupid...

[secondwind]

24. About the white flag of surrender: Biden didn't bite. and that is good.

[Bucky]

25. The awkwark pause before the sputtering of "white flag of surrender" was bad, but...

my true favorite was when she guaranteed that "General McClellen" wanted us to use the surge in Afghanistan. McClellen wouldn't even use the surge in northern Virginia!

[Youphemism]

26. "Now is the time for John McCain to leave." Classic...

I can't believe they didn't play that line along with the other gaffes. Nobody even mentioned it!

It was, by far, my favorite.

[mtnester]

27. Telling Biden his wife's reward as a teacher would come in heaven

ummm...very thoughtless since Joe lost his first wife and daughter in a terrible car accident, which came up not long after her stupid gush at the mouth statement.

She was gushing on and on and on about her brother and father and grandpa and friends and teachers are wonderful...she got OFF HER TALKING POINTS with diarrhea of the mouth when she does not really know what she is talking about and made a rambling comment that for most people would have been OK, but was COMPLETELY wrong to say to Biden. Making any kind of "wife reward in heaven" remark even when referring to his current wife, was inappropriate if you even had a shred of common sense. (That would be NO)

My husband screamed at her to stop as soon as she opened her mouth and started "soccer momming" it.

I think I filled my first bingo car in less than 3 minutes.

[XemaSab]

36. OMG I didn't connect that to his deceased first wife!

How TASTELESS! :o

It was a tacky comment in general, but moreso coming out of that bitch's mouth.

[mtnester]

52. I do not think she meant it for that

she was referring to his current wife who has been a teacher for years, and that her reward for being a teacher would be in heaven (FORGETTING OR NOT KNOWING Joe's first wife and little girl died tragically, and it would be inappropriate to talk about ANY wife of Joe Biden and heavenly rewards, whether they were deceased or alive...does that make sense?)



on edit - I put nothing past this woman...she could have absolutely said that to disarm him or as a tactic also.

[XemaSab]

55. Even without the dead family members

it was SO condescending...

I was grossed out by her whole education answer (which wasn't the question that was asked).

Someone here nailed it: she talks like an elementary school teacher speaking to a class, and not like an adult talking to another adult.

[Bubbha Jo]

60. I think she was talking about his current wife

saying her rewards for her work now would be in heaven, trying to get the fundy vote. I wish he'd run with it saying a stable home, job, economy is heaven right here.

Gosh gee she had so many tasteless moments it's hard to pick just one!

[bdamomma]

54. to me comments like that show her fundi extremist roots.

[Vinca]

30. The part where she was supposed to explain what part of the government

the Vice President's office was associated with. It appeared she didn't have a clue about the 3 branches of government.

[jules1962]

31. when she listed her "qualifications"

and she mentioned protecting women's rights. Really? I mean REALLY? In what regards Churly? What a bunch of BS. My mom and I looked at each other several times with our mouths open all night.

Thank goodness for DVR. We had to stop and rewind several times because my father kept screaming above the volume "Bitch shut the hell up". Dad was fired up.LOL

[Norrin Radd]

37. I heart your Dad.

[Mad_Dem_X]

39. I couldn't believe that, either

Protecting women's rights - when?

[Mad_Dem_X]

32. "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

And she's another one who can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly. :mad:

[PA Democrat]

33. When she brought up that one of the things she would work on as VP

was "special needs". I'm sorry, but she has NO IDEA of the struggles faced by parents of children with special needs. She's barely begun the journey. There's never enough money for special ed to be done the way it should be, there's never enough funding for assisted living programs, job training, health care, you name it.

She has taxpayer funded health insurance. I'd like to see her lose that and go try to buy health insurance for her special needs child in John McCain's wonderful free market with a crappy $5,000 tax credit. No insurance company would cover her son for ANY AMOUNT of money.

[salguine]

38. The winking was one of those things that leaves you stunned and wondering

in disbelief, "did she really just do that?" and hoping that's not how she plans to get through tough negotiations with someone like Putin...but what drove me more insane—and I haven't seen anyone else mention it—is how she WOULDN'T. STOP. SMILING. She made every speech and answered every question—even those about deadly serious topics—with this big, fake, unrelenting smile that made it seem that she regards the Presidency of the United States as another pageant sash to be won, like she was trying to sell me a goddamn vacuum cleaner. Did anyone pick upon this?

[Mad_Dem_X]

42. Yes, she acted pageant-like

Always smiling, winking, flirtatious, giving bullshit answers.

[bcoylepa]

41. worst thing about Cheney

Duck hunting accident??? really Sarah???

how about torture - how about Abu Ghraib - how about over 4000 men and women dead in a war that never should have been fought?? How about Gitmo? How about the shredding of the constituion???

Biden could have -should have-taken her out with this question

he did great but I would have loved hearing him say - really Sarah??? ducks??? how about lying to go to Iraq????

[barnabas63]

43. Shout-out to the 3rd graders was the stupidest imo.

[Virginia Dare]

70. Definitely a WTF moment...

she seemed to sacrifice a lot of dignity in order to appear folksy.

[Lucy Goosey]

44. "...nucular"

Also, I don't even remember the exact context, but she said something like "I'm gonna hafta correct you again on that, Joe." :puke:

And the winking.

And SHE AGREES WITH DICK FUCKING CHENEY about expanding the power of the VP.

[riverdale]

45. Even Bush doesn't use this line any more

She actually played the 'they hate us for our freedoms' card. Worse than that, she got by with it because Biden didn't call her on it.

[Virginia Dare]

68. To be fair, Biden couldn't possibly call her out on everything..

stupid and inane that she said, or he they would have skewered him for "picking on her". He went after McCain more, which ended up being a pretty good strategy.

[HughMoran]

46. The whole debate

She was shallow all night - nothing of substance to say at all.

[Alter Ego]

48. Her scolding Biden for "looking at the past"

THE PAST FUCKING MATTERS, SARAH. IT FUCKING MATTERS.

[Virginia Dare]

64. I loved Biden's "past is prologue" comment..

she was probably scratching her head trying to figure out what that meant.

[Bobbie Jo]

49. Her 'energy' answer to the bankruptcy question.nt

[bdamomma]

50. drill baby drill

sickening. what a immature person she is.

[abburdlen]

51. her answer to the 'achellies heel' question

I know it's typical and even expected to try and get your talking points in no matter what the question but with her long rambling answer I really don't know if she understood the question.
I would have LOVED for Biden to answer that his achellies heel was that he sometimes answers the question asked.

[Stop Cornyn]

56. (#5) drill baby drill, (#4) white flag, (#3) BYO?, (#2) embrace of Cheney VP model, and (#1) winking

[Frank Cannon]

57. When she told the moderator that she was going to ignore her questions

And then for an hour and a half, she proceeded to do just that, basically parroting whatever talking points were in her head at any given moment regardless of whether they had even a tangential relationship to the question just asked.

It was even more precious when the moderator didn't challenge her on any of this.

And yet, Biden still owned her.

[DemsUnited]

58. The facial tricks -- winks, nose wrinkles, lip pursing, lash fluttering!

This was a debate for the Vice Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth!!!

NOT an audition for Desperate Housewives.

[ITsec]

59. The shout out to the 3rd grade class... I'm sure she has THEIR vote now. n/t

[mtnsnake]

63. Many, but one of them was her juvenile attempt at humor with "Tell me it aint so, Joe"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

65. Le Wink.

[Virginia Dare]

66. When the moderator asked her if it was true that McCain/Palin doesn't support..

restructuring of troubled mortgages, and she blatantly lied and said "no, that's not so", then went off on a totally different subject to get her lame little talking points in once again.

The white flag comment was totally over the line, her naked honesty at saying she would go for a Cheney-style power grab was shocking and I've read to hear anybody from the press comment on that.

[symbolman]

67. The Biggie was when Joe Choked Up

while talking about his loss, his injured sons, and how he KNEW what it was like, and she POPPED back up like an insane prairie dog on speed, with, "We don't want More of the Same! We're Mavericks!" Big SMILE..

At that moment I knew this person was a sociopath without a LICK of Empathy..

I think all of America saw that. I hope they did.

[4_Legs_Good]

69. "Say it ain't so Joe, there you go again"

A lame, poorly delivered, rehearsed attempt to sound like Ronald Reagan.

Pathetic really

[leftist.]

72. Biden getting emotional and her callas non-response.

Your moment is my runner-up though :) I disagree with you a little though, I think Biden handled it well and you could tell that Biden realized what he was dealing with very early on and probably felt incredibly sorry for the poor woman.