Biden V. Palin, Much Ado About Nothing
 Friday, October 3rd, 2008  by Connie T.

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I was disappointed by last night's Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin. Biden, Barack Obama, and John McCain all voted yes to the staggering bank bailout plan just the night before; and then Joe Biden and Sarah Palin spent the night talking about how we must stop financing corruption on Wall Street. Huh?

When I hear someone say that this is the most important election in our lifetimes, I can't help but snort. First off, anyone who thinks they can predict the future is a little out there. But mostly, the difference between the two party's candidates seem to grow smaller by the day.

They all wanted to bail out the banks: yes vs. yes. Obama and Biden may want to withdraw our troops from Iraq, but they are prepared to increase troop levels in the war on Afghanistan (which has suddenly being announced by all the candidates as a war: when did anyone tell the people that?), as do McCain/Palin: so it's war vs. war. They all talk about tax cuts, they all talk about "change" until the word loses meaning. Sen. Biden said he supports going into Bosnia, Darfur, and other regions to control violence (he also mistakenly referred to residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina as "Bosniak" and "Bosniaks"); and we all know McCain and Palin support enforced democracy, so that's interventionism vs. interventionism.

I suppose the biggest difference is in their health care stances. None of them seem willing to fix some of the Bush administration's biggest blunders over the years: the Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, FISA, the Bush Doctrine, what-have-you...they're never even brought up.

I'm sorry, I was talking about the VP debate. Anymonopoly, there were no major gaffe's; Palin got a few laughs with corny phrases like "Say it ain't so, Joe" and "Doggone it;" they were friendly with each other; they agreed on many issues. Palin seemed to fall back to her two most familiar catchphrases instead of answering a lot of the questions: praising McCain's stance on Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, and calling McCain/Palin a "team of Mavericks." But that's her.

I hate when she says "well, John McCain is known as the Maverick"...he's not known as that, he named himself that! If I call myself a Queen, will I be recognized as one?

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