It was a clear win for Joe Biden. Palin didn’t answer many of the questions and her remark that she’s only been doing this for five weeks hurt her badly; pointing up her lack of experience. Unfortunately for McCain, Palin’s debate caused many people to rethink their republican vote. What was he thinking choosing her as a running mate? The spectre of “President Palin” was frightening.

She was a Journalism major… does everyone agree that we really need to improve education in this country ? She did have a moment when she couldn’t remember the correct programmed phrase for “waving a white flag of defeat” but it finally came to her. Basically she retained the talking points pretty well for the short term. Senator McCain has been doing roundtables and other small meetings for the last week because he didn’t have the cheerleader to pull the crowd for him. She’s back now . There are times that I get flashbacks of old Shirley Temple movies with finger in the dimples, winks and the “golly gee” folksy dialogue. Is this what her supporters see ? She didn’t answer most of the questions… did she not have a scripted answer or did she not understand the question ? It’s time to get back to the economy and the never ending the war now.

I thought Palin was better than I thought she would be….but, she didn’t answer the questions. I didn’t care for the winking cutesy act or the use of slang.

I voted other - if you are an undeclared voter, you likely still are - we got to see good things from Joe - how well he really knows his stuff - how his years of work in the Senate have shaped him - his pause on talking about his family was genuine - I only wished he had called her on more of her exaggerations and lies, though I did like it when he noted that voting for tax increases are often buried in other bills so if you did that math, then McCain has voted for tax increases even more times - though her handlers knew that, by him saying that, it showed her lack of understanding, so to speak) - I think overall it was smart for him to attack McCain and not necessarily her unless she baited him the good news for Palin is that everyone had low expectations of her, so for the first 1/2, we said, hey wow, she’s answering some things - but then when she got warmed up, told Gwen that she wasn’t going to play by the rules of the debate and address the people of this country, I thought, okay, here we go - and if she winked one more time at the camera, what was that - her use of colloquialisms was too much, one or two to show you’re not a robot is fine but every answer having one is too much - and when she basically blew up the Constitution on the powers of the VP, again, what was that - this is still not a person I can see having serious conversations with world leaders (oh wait, that point is moot since she won’t be meeting with anyone anyway) and trying to get the Senate to accept the President’s policies (that’s huge - I mean, she pi$$ed off the East Coast, and her continued talk about shaking up Washington when she used the game to get money for Alaska is disingenuous)

Oh, Kryssi K, I am with you on that!! I got very tired of the “you betcha” and “by golly” style! I said to my husband this morning that Palin was pretty good at talking for 2 minutes without actually answering the question.

I thought Joe Biden did an excellent job and his knowledge and experience was obvious throughout the debate. Sarah Palin did a great job of not answering questions. As a female judging her, I’m glad she was more prepared but I wish she wasn’t McCain’s choice for a running mate. I think that choosing her has been a setback for women despite what Hillary Clinton accomplished.

Gov. Palin did well for someone who received a great deal of programming in a short time. To me that suggest that she can cram well for important test-great skills for a college freshman but not for a U.S. Vice President. Unfortunately, she reeks of Bush level intellect and that’s not comforting after what Americans have gone through over the past several years. “Joe Six-Pack” my ass, we’ve been through enough already!