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Originally Posted by wendybeth
She was much better in a dumbed down debate format, but she didn't answer many of the questions and instead just seized on the opportunity to cheer lead for her team, which I suppose was her prerogative but damned annoying to me as a viewer. I kept thinking "just answer the damned question already!" Very evasive, and very vague.
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I fell the same as you WB. I felt she was adept at what she was coached to say, but I found her arrogance about not answering questions as posed very annoying.
That colored my judgement of her performance since she was unwilling or unable to even answer a question about what, given the current economic state, would the McPalin have to give up or bend (my words I'm paraphrasing) on what promises from the campaign not be kept. No politician has ever kept campaign promises, not all of them, not that I can recall. It's a small, niggling point, but it is this kind of crap that bugs me and illustrates that she is really not ready to make the jump from Gov-ner sx-pack to VP Hockey Mom (and alarmingly, Prez Palin if McCain drops over 2 days after election day)
She proved quite able to recite what she was coached on and evade, bait and switch and attack to deflect. The folksy manner and talk just irritated me. Let's face it, being a Main Street type person does not mean you hang out at the country store swilling beer and playin checkers with your buddies as she seems to illustrate. She has personality, but it's not one that apeals to me. Afterwards, I watched about 10 minutes of spin, and howled when I saw someone holding up a sigh that said Tina Fey '08, that I would vote for.
She exceeded my low expectations of her performance given the disasterous TV interviews. The right I am sure will feel great relief. She did nothing to sway me to consider my vote. Biden only strengthened my resolve that, for me, the Obama ticket is the one to cast my vote for. McCain and his platform do not speak to me or for me, so to me, McCain = no choice.
Of course, I am anxious for the next Obama-McCain debate on Tuesday.