Did We All See The Same Biden/ Palin Debate?

Didya see the Palin/ Biden Debate? I did. And Palin cleared wiped the floor with Biden. I was fearful that Biden's suppsed experience and expertise would make Palin look like the Bimbo they keep trying to paint her as or the harpy they painted Hillary as.

I was wrong! PHEW!!

But then... I decided to listen to some talk radio. Both on the Right and The Left. All I can say is, "OMG are we all on the same planet? Did we all see the SAME debate?" My head is spinning from the spin. I need to lay down.

PIT BULL KICKS WONK BUTT
by Charles Hurt

Joe Biden tiptoed out on stage last night wondering whether he'd face a lady pitifully out of her depth or the lipstick end of a pit bull.

He found out real fast.

Biden's striped-pants Washington wonk talk ran into a regular American who looked like a lady, talked like a hockey mom and smacked him around like a cat playing with a mouse.

"Oh, man, it's so obvious that I'm a Washington outsider and someone just not used to the way you guys operate," Sarah Palin said in her arctic accent and a tone of utter disbelief.

Biden - the Senate's reigning foreign-policy expert - had just given a long explanation for how he voted in favor of invading Iraq but didn't really mean for President Bush to invade Iraq. And how he knew it would be a very long war and a very difficult war but now opposes the war because it's been too long and too difficult.

As the debate began, Biden smiled broadly a lot, watching his opponent with open curiosity - as if unsure how exactly to handle this hissing mongoose without soiling his pin-striped suit.

So unsure that when he accidentally called her "Sarah Palin," he corrected himself in a sweat: "Gov. Palin."

By the time Biden figured out that he was debating nothing short of an icy china doll with a switch-blade, it was too late.

"Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq," she said fiercely. "And that is not what our troops need to hear today, that's for sure."

And while Palin talked like smiling - but p.o'd - hockey moms across America, Biden wooed the people with lines like: "Past is prologue."

That's one for the Congressional Record.

Or his oration on the role of the vice presidency and Dick Cheney's performance therein: "The idea he's part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive."

You tell her, Joe!

Palin's got so much moxie, she actually went nuclear - or "nucular," as she menacingly repeated over and over - on Barack Obama for his lack of foreign-policy experience.

Even when Biden made his strongest play of the night for women voters - choking up while reminding people that he was a single father after his wife died in a car crash - Palin didn't let up.

"People aren't looking for more of the same," she responded - without halting for Biden to gather his composure. "And John McCain has been the consummate maverick in the Senate all these years."

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