Palin too uninformed to be vice president (Concord Monitor)

[struggle4progress]

Monitor staff
October 05, 2008 - 12:00 am

... Palin the debater managed not to be the cartoon version of herself portrayed by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live. But that's not nearly good enough ...

Palin was confident, even cocky at times. She had learned her lines and masked the shallowness of her knowledge of national and international affairs with a peppy, folksy style ("Darn right, it was predatory lenders"; "Here's a shout-out" to third-graders watching at home in Alaska; "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again") ...

For his part, Biden was neither windy nor condescending, two fears of Democrats as they awaited the debate. In some ways, Biden made a better case for Barack Obama's candidacy than Obama himself in the first presidential debate. He presented Obama's platform in often sharp, concise language, rarely falling into the Senate-speak that has doomed so many previous candidacies.

Biden challenged Palin to show Americans where McCain's policies on Iran, Iraq and the Middle East would differ from President Bush's. He reminded us that his knowledge of the world is deep and, by comparison, Palin's is not ...

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/OPINION/810050329/1027/OPINION01

[bulloney]

1. It's been encouraging reading and hearing media gerbils seeing Palin's debate performance

for what it really was. They're commenting that she didn't address the questions and projected that phony winking and folksy "aw shucks" demeanor.

[unblock]

2. can you imagine if they did this eight years ago?

i mean, was bush really any better?

and thank goodness biden did sigh or wear earth tones!

[OakCliffDem]

3. Palin was not interested in communicating facts about policy

She is an actress selling the flesh, not facts.