I would like to congratulate Sarah Palin ...

... on last night's debate. It looks like Debate Camp paid off. She managed to memorize key facts and figures and what sounded like a research paper and it almost made sense. She is now a mediocre politician and I applaud her for that. Now, let's just go ahead and agree that Sen. Joe Biden won that debate. First off, their debate was a damn site more exciting than the Obama/McCain debate. I swear ya'll, last week, that debate was like watching paint dry. This one was a tad more exciting though and it could have been because I was waiting for Palin to make an ass of herself. While she didn't succeed in making an ass of herself, she did succeed in contradicting herself a few times and that is typical of a politician. I don't think the debate did a thing to help the McCain ticket other than making her look like she's not an idiot. Don't get me wrong, I still think she's an idiot, I just think that they prepared her well, probably too well. She caught a lot of flack because of her interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric and for good reason. Those interviews made her look like a novice to American politics and dare I say, an imbecile. I made the remark that they have found a female version of Dubya. Anyway, I think Biden did an outstanding job of speaking on the issues. Every time he opens his mouth, he makes me more and more glad that Obama chose him as his No. 2. My sincere hope is that this debate will give the Obama/Biden ticket more momentum going into next week's debate in Nashville and as early voters take to the polls. What do ya'll think? Was Biden the winner? Did Palin do better than you thought she would?

21 and counting ...

... not years, debates. Tonight was the 21st debate for the Democrats in the attempt to get a candidate to take on "Old Man" McCain. OK, I shouldn't call him an old man, how about Methuselah? Anyway, Clinton and Obama are still going at it and are showing no signs of slowing down. Under normal circumstances, I'd say a debate is a healthy thing - that's under normal circumstances. Obviously, these circumstances weren't normal, or they didn't seem so to me. It seems to me that the moderators, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, were drilling Obama harder than Clinton. Of course a lot more of his "dirty laundry" has been aired in mainstream media as of late, but that should have had no bearing whatsoever on the debate. Usually, debates for public office are designed to talk about the issues and how the candidates differ on those issues. Strangely, these two candidates don't differ that much. Their differences are purely logistical and I think if they were running mates (Hell would sooner freeze twice) they could find a medium. At this point, having debates is pointless. It is almost numerically impossible for Clinton to win the nomination. If the super delegates vote the way their constituents are voting, then Obama has it hands down. Having debates now is simply an opportunity for them to listen to each other speak and clean it up to what the audience wants to hear. In the Philadelphia debate, the audience was stifled by the moderators and the actually had to think about what they were saying. As far as I know, there is one more debate and that will be in my beloved North Carolina. I don't want to see the moderators bringing up Rev. Jeremiah Wright, calling Obama elitist or talking about Clinton's "misrembrance" of being under sniper fire. It's over! You hear me?! Over. The issue is graveyard dead and I don't want to hear about it anymore. I want to know what you are going to do to get North Carolinians working again. I want to know how you are going to replace the manufacturing jobs in Robeson, Guilford, Scotland and Bladen counties that have been shipped overseas. I want to know how you are going to improve education in the state's school districts. How you gonna do it?! ***By the way, anybody know where that dang debate's going to be?***