What can I say, the folks at SNL have it nailed when it comes to Sarah Palin in many regards... ...she's either completely muzzled by her handlers or she actually doesn't know what to do with a direct question, particularly ones having to do with international politics. She may be a great leader but it doesn't come across that way when everything she says is just a generic colloquialism.
Biden's no better but there's no male equivalent Tina Fey to make fun of him with. Biden's a career politician who has been a voting member of the national machine which has brought us these trials. What was his vote on the Patriot Act? What was his vote on the No Child Left Behind Act? What was his vote on going into Iraq? What was his vote on the banker bailout package? To put it bluntly, he is as opposite of the promises of the Obama campaign as you can get. I really kinda get the idea that the reduction of these debates where voters SHOULD be getting to know the kinds of policies that the candidates support from informative or at least combative into wishy-washy sound-bite strings is only going to result in them being judged by how entertained people were by them in the first place. I bet if you took a survey of Twitter, Digg, Fark, and other aggregators that are based on user contribution for their content, you'd notice that folks basically don't care if the candidates actually say anything real, they just care whether their candidate came out more popular than the other one.
Even though I know he couldn't be impartial if he wanted to, I'd prefer the next Presidential Debate be moderated by Jon Stewart.
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