Last night’s debate between six term Senator Joe Biden and the former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
What I saw and heard:
Joe Biden was a picture of confidence and self assurance. He took the stage with over three decades of experience in the Senate and his stature as one of the preeminent legislators of the latter half of the twentieth century and a key policy maker in the current one, was inescapable.
For the most part he offered serious and thoughtful answers to the questions which were put to him and presented a solid supportive picture of the Democratic ticket and their intentions in office.
He performed his first major job as vice president admirably if cautiously. Although I saw his anger rise several times when confronted with Palin’s distortions of his and Obama’s records, and her flatulent cutesiness, he kept it under control. He proved that he belongs in my White House on either position of the ticket.
Sarah Palin, doggone it, what can I say, golly, wasn’t she just precious, the way she read talking points and sound bites to the cameras. She was a model of right wing Church Lady womanhood, all lip gloss and sly winks to the camera, and jeepers she was so folksy, reminded me of the time Aunt Martha fell in the privy at the family reunion.
She was the Stepford Vice President. I thought her delivery to be robotic, canned, and obviously drilled into her by rote.
Compared to the calm seriousness and substance of Joe Biden she offered the ultimate pop cultural spam of what modern Republicans pass off as political discourse.
She also pronounces the word nuclear exactly like George Bush: NuKUler. I find that single fact eerily and enormously frightening. Hell, she even cribbed on Ronald Reagan, “Now Joe, there you go again.”
Palin could not be a more transparent fraud. In that area she needs no practice; she learned the curtsy and dimples shtick in the beauty pageant business.
I do not want this woman anywhere near my White House. Alaska is not far enough away, maybe we can get her a place on Big Diomede so she can see Russia for the first time.
Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust
