Your impressions please?

[Fire Walk With Me]

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. I now remember the offhand remark she'd made which had me wondering.

stated prior to the use of nuclear weapons question.

She said "Too many people". And smiled, IIRC.

Rapture THIS. I'm not ready, and it's not your decision.

[Silver Gaia]

2. I didn't catch that. "Too many people"?

Exactly what do you think she meant?

[SocratesInSpirit]

4. I caught that...

She was trying to answer a question about nuclear policy and Iran (and she kept saying nuke-u-lar - very annoying!), and she said something to the effect of we are having these problems because "there are too many people in every corner of are planet". My husband and I were dumbfounded - was she blaming nuclear weapon tension on overpopulation? Peake's observation that this fits in with her "Lawd, we need the rapture" outlook, which I did not think of at the time, makes perfect sense. What a scary person Palin is!!

edit: clarity

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. And she's this close to taking this set of beliefs into the White House...

...backed up by enough people to possibly do so...

We have a severe problem here, folks. They could actually manage to succeed, in spite of the wishes of most Americans. Even if not voted in, they'll be out there, pursuing their agenda in even more underhanded manners.

What to do?

[SocratesInSpirit]

3. It was interesting...

When she first came out, she was all perky and energetic, and I didn't have the visceral, recoil response of "I cannot even stand to look or listen to you" that I always do whenever I see her on TV. I actually thought her "can I call you Joe?" remark was kind of cute (heaven help me, I think my brain has been poisoned!)

Be that as it may, Palin is definitely out of her element, and outclassed by Biden. She started out well, but seemed to fall apart soon into the debate. She repeated herself often, using stump speech phrases that had little to do with the questions at hand. She lied very obviously and often, and harped on the old saw of "Democrats bad! Obama will raise taxes!" But the funniest part was when there was a question about health care, and she started rambling about her "energy policy" (something she returned to quite often when she was stuck - she was like a broken record!). My husband and I fell to the floor laughing (seriously!) My gut feeling is that the American people won't buy it - this time. Even the pundits (except for Buchanan, blech), seemed to be less than complimentary.

Biden did very well, I thought. Hammered home good rebuttals to her nonsense and important points that needed to be aired. It was touching when got emotional about the loss of his family, poor man. Also, he has a very charming smile - I enjoyed the "WTF?" looks he was giving her when she said something that made no sense (which was a good deal of the time).

I am very interested in reading others' responses, especially in terms of the VP candidates' auras and chakras.

[mother earth]

5. I totally agree, SIS. She repeated a paragraph of rote dialogue

twice, she learned her lines and was able to recite them well. Joe was absolutely right, the Ameican people heard nothing, zero, nada, to separate McShame policy from the failed Bush admin, down to the VP wanting more power & what's worst is we would get perhaps 100 years of continued war....

Palin is a joke in our family, we laugh over her overuse of Thanks, but No Thanks, and now we're a couple of Mavericks, in that awful voice/accent, I can't wait to see Tina Fey after this...I'd be willing to bet if we put our heads together here, we could write them a script. Just how many times is Sarah Palin could re-use her tired rhetoric? Apparently, it's her mantra, all she knows. Between her & McPain's, my friends, my friends...they are both more like characters in a comedy....sadly we have to watch this play out.

I was so struck by the fact that truth was optional for her, facts were optional & answering the question was optional, & all we've learned about her is that she doesn't want us to look back at the Bush admin, but there's no substance, nothing tells us how different they would be, because they won't be. Joe was right....I didn't hear it, did any of you? No, she didn't fool America last night, she just made it obvious, yet again, that she can learn her lines & recite tidbits of hand picked sound bites.

All I could think was her family will be relieved to go back home to Alaska. Did you see that little special needs baby being bounced around like a sack of potatoes? No shoes on his poor little piggy toes...lol. Poor kids, I hope she's a better momma than politician.

[Callie McAllie]

6. There was another point, too, where she said something flippant

about Joe Biden's wife, the teacher...."her reward will be in Heaven" in that breezy, chatty, over-the-top way and it was clear she totally forgot that Biden's first wife is already in Heaven. Joe looked down at the podium just for a heartbeat. I felt awful for him. Palin was oblivious. OMG.

[Cleita]

7. One thing that has always irked me about Gwen Ifill is that she doesn't ask

the obvious follow up question when she gets a vague or non relevant answer to a question. This is what made the Katie Couric interview so good. Katie pursued the question trying to get a rational and knowledgeable answer from her thereby exposing her for the air head that she is. I hope that she is forced to do more interviews before the election from journalists who know how to conduct an interview.