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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #530 on: October 02, 2008, 02:20:25 AM »
I'm dreading the days and days of complaints about how Gwen Ifill showed her Obama bias by daring to ask Palin about the world and stuff.

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I'm not sure she'll still be moderator in 18 hrs time.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #531 on: October 02, 2008, 02:21:02 AM »
Crisis averted!

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #532 on: October 02, 2008, 09:23:07 AM »
i really think Biden will say something that will be taken as deeply offensive to CNN useless table of pundits and then we'll get a couple days of Palin sympathizing to deal with.

also - terry gross is fanfreakintastic.  loved today's interview on how the wall street we just saw implode came to be.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95241895


Oh God, it's going to happen.  :-[

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #533 on: October 02, 2008, 11:32:56 AM »
Crisis averted!

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McCain & Palin playing down the moderator's "bias" OK NM, yr right.  They will play it down before hand then spin it the otherway 5 minutes after the debate ends - direct from the Spin Yurt.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #534 on: October 02, 2008, 02:54:39 PM »
Crisis averted!

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McCain & Palin playing down the moderator's "bias" OK NM, yr right.  They will play it down before hand then spin it the otherway 5 minutes after the debate ends - direct from the Spin Yurt.

i thought it was the "spin casa" now. man, they just keep changing it

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #535 on: October 02, 2008, 08:00:35 PM »
I'm a McCain supporter and even I know what they're doing. There's no need for McCain and Palin to go after Ifill, that's what pundits are for. As long as people like Limbaugh and Hannity rail on her, McCain and Palin can both praise her and claim they're taking the high road.
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #536 on: October 02, 2008, 08:18:17 PM »
Damn, I think that Debating Bot Camp may have worked.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #537 on: October 02, 2008, 08:44:02 PM »
God I hope people aren't believe in her crap.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #538 on: October 02, 2008, 08:55:55 PM »
Her section on the war was incredibly poor.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #539 on: October 02, 2008, 09:12:13 PM »
I cringed when she said we need to bring Iraq-surge tactics into Afghanistan. Being a history major with an emphasis on the Middle East, I can say confidently that would be a total failure.

Palin needs to stop being colloquial. It's incredibly grating.

Biden had a nice quip during the same-sex marriage question about Palin agreeing with him. Nice way to undermine her cred with the social conservatives that are in love with her.

Why does Biden keep referring to himself in the third person?

Biden mentioned that hundreds of medrassas have been built on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and that there should be schools being built there instead. I know what he was getting at (he's trying to say terrorist training camps or extremist centers) but does he not understand that medrassa means "school?"
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