Are shout outs to third graders in a national debate tacky or a brilliant move?

[dorktv]

Tacky.

[flowomo]

1. good move. She had some good moments, that was one.

n/t

[Doityourself]

2. It was tacky to me...sorry

[dorktv]

7. Sarah, do you not have a state to be governing or something?

[Ichingcarpenter]

57. I disagree........ If she wants

to talk to her base, then by golly, gosh darn it, those voters
in third grade should be counted.

[rzemanfl]

3. Third graders don't vote. If they did it would be brilliant, if you

were running for student council.

[WinkyDink]

4. It was both stupid and amusing.

[complain jane]

5. Tacky.

[knowledgeispwr]

6. Tacky

but a lot of people are dumb and may like it.

[MorningGlow]

8. HORRIBLE

Some major eye-rolling in the MG household on that one. I think I also stuck my tongue out at C-Span.

Way too many openly pandering moments like that out of her. Way WAY too fake.

[dorktv]

9. I know..ugh.

[memory]

10. tacky stunt!

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Distraction.

[justiceischeap]

12. Not at all Vice-Presidential or Presidential (eom)

[dorktv]

14. Bringing up one's family's professions is nice but shouting out to the kids and

imposing your will on their teacher? Bad.

[BlueIdaho]

13. Tacky or Brilliant?

Neither.

[mscuedawg]

15. "Welll...thats how we du it in Alaaaaaaaska...you betcha"

:puke: I give them to November 4th...then I NEVER EVER wanna hear that irritating voice say that states name ever again...

Add "Maverick" and "My Friends" to that list...

[dorktv]

22. hehehe...I was thinking "what if I was picked in the future before having more experience"

and would anyone call me the next Sarah Palin.

Then I remembered, I have a brain.

[mscuedawg]

27. You're safe then...lol

[dorktv]

34. From being picked Senator McCain's running mate.

Cuz I am smart and not hot. :D

[sad sally]

51. that voice, that voice...thank goodness for the mute button

[hatrack]

16. Tacky, pathetic, reaching, desperation

Hail Mary . . .

[MichDem10]

17. With the problems this country is facing, she was tacky.

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. TACKY

[Lugnut]

19. Tacky.

That might be appropriate if you're a contestant in a local beauty pageant. Yuck.

[Medusa]

20. Tacky

very tacky

[blondeatlast]

21. Tacky. nt

[graywarrior]

23. Hall monitor suck up tacky

[AlinPA]

24. Tacky, but a lot of 'muricans like that stuff. It's a show, not a debate.

[parabolabear]

25. TACKY. It's not myspace, bitch, it's a national debate.

[dorktv]

26. Oddly enough, no one on Myspace had a problem with it except me.

[vanderBeth]

28. tacky. I grimaced at the tacky-ness.

[Bubbha Jo]

29. Tacky.. the CNN ticker went down when she did that

[stillcool]

30. hokey

[dorktv]

31. The wink was hokey.

[TNMOM]

32. totally planned. no one with a brain thinks that was spontaneous

it lacked genuiness, and that is what people are looking for in this election.

[Coventina]

33. Actually, I was flat out EMBARRASSED

We've had 8 years of Chimpy acting like a complete moron. I thought it could never be worse. But guess what? The Republican party has managed to find someone MORE embarrassing than Chimpy McCokespoon. I didn't think it was possible.

I was cringing through the entire debate with the thought that people over the world were watching this bimbo and saying, "Americans want to give her the VERY REAL CHANCE to be president?"

[vanderBeth]

38. That was what I felt.

It was embarrassing and I couldn't watch it.

[jberryhill]

35. Eh... not 'brilliant', but

...so much better than the usual:

"When you talk about health care, I think of Norma Tumor of Anytown, SwingState, who told me that she can't pay her bills."

"I think of our brave soldiers like Gomer Pyle, who I met in Anytown, SwingState who told me to 'let us win'."

It's not as tacky as that crap.

The upside is that there is a class of third graders somewhere who may be inspired to keep an eye on politics and the issues for the rest of their lives.

[dorktv]

37. I had a guy recently tell me when I was trying to explain something to him

about his rights to treat him as if he was Gomer Pyle.

[TankLV]

36. "cute" - a "non-issue"...next...

[dana_b]

39. I rolled my eyes, but I'll bet repubs loved it. n/t

[Chovexani]

40. It was very Idiocracy.

[Chichiri]

41. A little tacky, but I didn't mind it so much

One of her least-offensive moves.

[Cherchez la Femme]

42. Her emotionally intelligent peers.

[Iterate]

43. perfect for the Disney version, or a sitcom

cute and expected. I hate cute.

[dorktv]

45. Cute works in podunkville when they elect dogs sometimes.

Cute does not work in the real world.

[fishwax]

44. It was an effective way to avoid engaging the actual question in any substantive way

but that's about it. I thought it came off weird.

[FrenchieCat]

46. Made our serious problem seem stupid.....

this is serious as a heart attack!

[Chorophyll]

47. Can't. Answer. Question.

Too. Busy. Puking. :puke:

Ahem. Tacky. My answer would be, tacky.

[dorktv]

48. Have some pepto.

[Chorophyll]

49. Thanks. Not good enough, though.

It's my soul that's puking.

[dorktv]

56. Darn, I was hoping to find some soul pepto...

[Doremus]

50. Tacky, transparent and generally insincere. n/t

[SaveAmerica]

52. Fer God's sakes, her peeps are 3rd graders, yo! Tacky...

[Iterate]

53. A more serious response.

While she tossed out an 'aw shucks' moment, clearly scripted and tailored as a folksy distraction, just ask yourself
how many of those third graders will be dead in 11 years from some war she would have us trip into,
or from a meth OD in her little village,
or unemployed in 20 years because they are too stupid to finish college,
or sick in 2050 because their creationist-trained doctors didn't get simple biology,
or finish out their foreshortened lives in a hellish misery when that most special state Alaska is squeezed dry, heated up, and left with a barren landscape.

[dorktv]

55. Never been one for the sky is falling.

[HughMoran]

54. infantile

[nam78_two]

58. Very Tacky-more like a stunt by a contestant in a reality show

than someone in a serious debate for an important position. It was just another example of the McCain-Palin ticket making a mockery of the office of the VP and laughing at the voters. "Hey we think you are so dumb that it doesn't matter if I waltz up here and don't take a single question seriously, but just put on some weird embarassing show." Very tacky...

[wileedog]

59. Its what someone does who is not used to a national stage.

Like a baseball fan shouting "Hi Mom!" into the camera at a game.

To me, it just points out that she is Amateur Hour.

[Raineyb]

60. Very tacky. I mean did she think she was calling in to a radio show or something? n/t

Regards

[knixphan]

61. Tacky!