Flubs/Gaffes/Important Notes from Palin's debate

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I'm trying to get them all down so I can recap them to those that missed the debate. Any others?

1. Senator O Biden
2. Agrees with Cheney that the VP is *not* part of the executive branch
3. Wants to expand upon Cheney's modifications to the VP
4. Got the name of the Commander of US troops in Afghanistan wrong
5. Kept winking at the camera
6. Ridiculous accent involving no "g"s
7. Gave what must be the first "shout out" to some third graders
8. Accused Barack Obama of not caring about our troops
9. Said at the beginning of the debate that she was not going to answer Ifill's questions

[youthere]

1. Where she said the "Toxic mess on MAIN STREET"caused the prblems on Wall Street.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Oh yeah! That's a great one! Thanks!

:thumbsup:

[seabeyond]

3. 18 lies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7296235

[LiberalAndProud]

4. There is the "blunder" blunder.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7291088&mesg_id=7291088

[WeDidIt]

5. D'oh

Respoinded to wrong post

[msallied]

6. And her REPEAT flub of:

"I'm not going to blame the activities of man on the climate." I mean WOW! She said that shit twice on TWO different occasions! What the hell?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. I noticed that! I was thinking "wow, she got hammered on that before, and it's apparently still the

best thing she has to say".

[ellacott]

8. She agreed to closing a bankruptc loophole, McCain is opposed to closing it.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-misstates.html

[msanthrope]

9. General McClellan---claimed that the lead general in

Afghanistan was McClellan.....

[NYC_SKP]

10. Palin quote on not answerin'....

MS. IFILL: Would you like to have an opportunity to answer that before we move on?

GOV. PALIN: Oh, I'm still on the tax thing, because I want to correct you on that again. And I want to let you know what I did as a mayor and as a governor. And I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let 'em know my track record also.

BTW: Redundant use of "also" with and. Rookie way to stretch a sentence, really lame. ie: "I have a cat and a dog also"

[NYC_SKP]

11. Palin on VP Roll: "we have a lot of flexibility in there"

Including other sentence stretchers, prepositional phrases: "up there/back home in Alaska", "in there", "back in", yada, yada, yada....

MS. IFILL: Governor, you mentioned a moment ago that the Constitution might give the vice president more power than it has in the past. Do you believe, as Vice President Cheney does, that the executive branch does not hold complete sway over the office of the vice presidency; that is, it is also a member of the legislative branch?

GOV. PALIN: Well, our Founding Fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position.

Yeah, so -- and I -- I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation. And it is my executive experience that is partly to be attributed to my pick as VP with -- with McCain not only as a governor, but earlier on as a mayor, as an oil and gas regulator, as a business owner. It is those years of experience on an executive level that will be put to good use in the White House also.

MS. IFILL: Vice presidents -- Cheney interpretation of the vice presidency?

SEN. BIDEN: Vice President Cheney's been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. He has -- he has -- the idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the executive -- he works in the executive branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.

And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president to preside over the Senate only in a time when, in fact, there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit: the only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is to vote only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive, and look where it's gotten us.

It has been very dangerous.

:patriot: