WingColors Thread: Mediocrity.

Mediocrity.

shadowsun7 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:41:15

Speaking of mediocrity ...

Mediocrity.

Ozone42 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:16:29

Well, I was optimistic, thinking neither of them could be that bad, and how influential is a VP anyway. I mean most of our VP's over the past few decades have simply been party men, casting the tie breaker votes as you'd expect.

After listening to that shit last night, I'm appalled. They're both lying, hypocritical, manipulative children.

When I heard all the position switching in 2004, it was funny. It was flip flopping. It was not good, certainly, but had a comical element to it. This year whenever I hear either candidate talk I just hear lies. I'll vote this year, but it's not going to be for a main party, I find them both slimy, dishonest, and downright disgusting.

Mediocrity.

jensized — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:41:34

I think she'll do fine, because she'll likely have some kind of cribsheet where she can organize her talking points.

Yes, she's kind of dense (as someone with a journalism degree who couldn't name any newspapers she reads) but part of the reason she tanked her first few interviews, I believe, was because she was asked questions she didn't anticipate about topics she hadn't been briefed on. It's pretty clear by the buzzwords she uses and the way she recites things that her knowledge beyond the scope of Alaska has been fed to her by the campaign.

As for Biden, I agree that he's got a big catch-22, but I also think this bullshit double-standard isn't doing us ladies any favors. I think if you want to be regarded as someone who can "hang with the boys," you have to withstand the treatment they give each other. When I go out with my guy friends and we do shots, they don't say "We'll have Jager, but give Jen a lemondrop because she's a girl." Hell no! Gimme the hard stuff!

Unfortunately if he was debating someone like, say, Hillary, I'm not so sure we'd be hearing this bully meme. I think he should say up front, "look, I'm not going to speak any differently than I would if it were Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty or whoEVER at that podium – to act otherwise would be disrespectful to Gov. Palin, because I believe in equality." Or something along those lines.

Mediocrity.

liza — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:35:07

I agree she will do fine. I do not think she or Biden will make much of a difference in the final results.

Mediocrity.

RightOn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:16:48

I think many people are expecting far less from Palin than they're going to get. Even Obama acknowledges that, based on her previous debate experience, she is very good at debating.

This VP debate is very structured unlike sit down interviews so I think she will do fine.

I think Biden will do fine as well. My only thing is that if he gets abrasive and hard hitting it could leave him open for criticism from Palin supporters and defensive women for being mean. So who knows.

Mediocrity.

fuscom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:02:57

I wonder what will be the bigger highlight of tomorrow's VP debate. Palin attempting to not look so normal or Biden trying not to look so political.