And no...
Sarah Palin did not win the debate this past Thursday night. It wasn't even close. Yes, she did better than most people expected. However, going from a 50 to a 60 in a class is doing better but it's still failing.
As I was watching the debate, I was amazed at how well McCain's camp "trained" her for this debate. You could tell exactly when a question was asked that she could answer: she would get that smile on her face and lean to her right on the podium. It's the same look some of my students get when they realize they know an answer on a test. However, when she didn't know the answer, she stuttered and then changed the subject. Hmmm...this sounds like something my students would do: if they didn't know the answer they would give me an essay on something they did know even though they are still not answering the question. You know what those students get? An F. You know what Palin got? An F.
Biden was impressive. Ya, so he was dry. So what? The guy knows what he is talking about. You can't bullshit your way around thirty plus years of experience. Palin was annoying the crap out of me with all her "doggone its" and other cutesy crap. What the hell is a "joe six-pack" anyways? Is she saying the average American is a beer guzzling loser? It's all cute and stuff but when my Vice President is talking to the ambassador to Russia I don't want our country to look like a bunch of hick idiots. Heck, it's bad enough we've had to deal with G.W. for the past eight years.
As I was watching the debate, I was amazed at how well McCain's camp "trained" her for this debate. You could tell exactly when a question was asked that she could answer: she would get that smile on her face and lean to her right on the podium. It's the same look some of my students get when they realize they know an answer on a test. However, when she didn't know the answer, she stuttered and then changed the subject. Hmmm...this sounds like something my students would do: if they didn't know the answer they would give me an essay on something they did know even though they are still not answering the question. You know what those students get? An F. You know what Palin got? An F.
Biden was impressive. Ya, so he was dry. So what? The guy knows what he is talking about. You can't bullshit your way around thirty plus years of experience. Palin was annoying the crap out of me with all her "doggone its" and other cutesy crap. What the hell is a "joe six-pack" anyways? Is she saying the average American is a beer guzzling loser? It's all cute and stuff but when my Vice President is talking to the ambassador to Russia I don't want our country to look like a bunch of hick idiots. Heck, it's bad enough we've had to deal with G.W. for the past eight years.
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