did she just say joe 6 pack?...
also she has said maverick at least 2-3 times and she already brought up hockey moms only 15 minutes into the debate....
oh palin...

i'm sick of her saying "darn right" already. is she ned flanders? ;)

and, uh, "the event is at capacity". i hope i'll be able to hop in there soon, i want to read/participate too!

Duuudeee...take a shot everytime she says the hockey mom thing..I'll be we'll all be comatose by 9:45. Lol. Geez this chick.."Darn right" though? lol. Omigod.

I got kicked out. Don't ask me how.

Damn. I am so not getting in, are I?

Didn't someone teach her not to speak with that pseudo-Southern accent?

I think Biden is doing a good job not seeing too erudite.

Damn. I am so not getting in, are I?

Didn't someone teach her not to speak with that pseudo-Southern accent?

I think Biden is doing a good job not seeming too erudite.

Damn. I am so not getting in, are I?

Didn't someone teach her not to speak with that pseudo-Southern accent?

I think Biden is doing a good job not seeming too erudite.

Someone coached her to use Obama's first name and to look Biden in the eye.

Wahhhhh I want in to the capacity-event!

Patriotic is saying that private sector needs to grow?????????

Ok, everytime she blinks her bangs move. It's driving me crazy.

Sorry about the multiple posts. I'm on hotel internet.

Uh - federal health care would be bad because the federal gov't sucks? Good argument, Sarah. I love how Biden has details at his fingertips while she has to keep looking at her notes.

ULTIMATE bridge to nowhere!!! LOL!!!!!

Yes! Bridge to Nowhere jabs!

I snorted when Palin expressed disapproval with the way the federal government has been run lately when pointing out Obama's health care plan. Because the McCain administration wouldn't just be the second coming of Dubya, only deeper in the hole.

I want to kiss Joe Biden for his healthcare response!

Damn, her flag lapel pin is so much bigger. I bet that makes Biden a terrorist (on Foxs News, anyway).

She isn't saying anything of substance at all.

Oh holy shit, she just referenced her inexperience as a plus? WTF?

She hasn't made many promises in 5 weeks because she hasn't talked to America. For crying out loud.

"How long have I been at this? Five weeks? So there hasn't been a lot I've promised the American people...."

BUT then she lists a bunch.

PLEASE will they bring up the rape kits???

Biden's actually answering the question with FACTS. She's just repeating the same words. "Obama. Hockey mom. Alaska."

Seneca, you forgot "Maverick."

Wait, we JUST realized that the economy is worsening and that wallstreet is corrupt?

"We're going to fix the problem by putting politics aside." WTF? Isn't that what politics is for?

Now, Seneca.

She did call him "Barack" a couple of times.
:)

I heart Joe Biden!

I heart Joe Biden!

she'S changing the subject, again, to go back to her energy plan. we're talking economy here! focus!

"revelations made aware" regarding wall street greed.

care of the department of reduncancy department.

She just almost hyperventilated when she realized she had been briefed for this question. "OMG, you guys, I actually know this one!!!"

"The nation's only arctic state?"

Man, this is really disappointing to get here early, then get kicked out of the live blogging and not allowed back in.

Guess I'm going to wander elsewhere.

"The nation's only arctic state?" I don't wanna argue about the causes. BUT I was the first governor to...reduce emissions?

Again - when did McCain and Palin become environmentalists??

Her answers are so vague and general. She keeps saying "we need to do this" but doesn't tell us HOW we need to do this. Gah!

Oh, so now we CAN affect climate change? And thses other countries are going to stop their polluting production if we stop buying? Won't they just sell to the Chinese and the Indians?

W00t! Go Joe! Use those numbers!

Man, this is really disappointing to get here early, then get kicked out of the live blogging and not allowed back in.

Guess I'm going to wander elsewhere.

Ummm... did she just say that drilling for oil was raping the planet?

"The nation's only arctic state?" I don't wanna argue about the causes. BUT I was the first governor to...reduce emissions?

Again - when did McCain and Palin become environmentalists??

"revelations made aware" regarding wall street greed.

care of the department of reduncancy department.

"revelations made aware" regarding wall street greed.

care of the department of reduncancy department.

"revelations made aware" regarding wall street greed.

care of the department of reduncancy department.

sorry about that folks.

and she just said "drill baby drill" - like a minute or two ago.

Traditional marriage? Wasn't that one man and his multiple chattel wives? Too bad Obama/Biden can't fully commit to civil gay marriage... darn.

I really wish that Biden would bring up that the surge is still essentially in effect. Use the numbers, Joe!!!

She's committed so many obvious fallacies, I can't even count them all. I swear, she was trained to make Obama a straw man in all her arguments.

OMG! She did not just say that Obama was naive!

Ahhhhhhh, she just said "nucular"! Haven't we learned that a politician who can't even say "nuclear" properly is too stupid to lead?

I'm so glad he said that the Taliban is hiding in pakistan and afghanistan-- NOT IRAQ! WHY WHY WHY can't she pronounce "nuclear" correctly?!?!?

And what is wrong with entering into talks with enemies? Apparently the "passion for diplomacy" has nothing to do with, um... diplomacy?

Nice shot about Spain! Well timed, Joe. (he's my new boyfriend)

There she goes, being "cute" again. *finger down throat*

"blame game" "maverick" - take a drink.

Did I hear correctly, or did Biden just agree with Palin on being against gay marriage? I didn't know his stance on this before the debate...it comes as a big disappointment.

rolfmao She can't pronounce "proliferate" either!

Man, this is really disappointing to get here early, then get kicked out of the live blogging and not allowed back in.

Guess I'm going to wander elsewhere.

OK, for fairness sake... He said "Bosniacs". First mispronouciation I've heard yet from Joe. If she says "Straight Talk" one more time, I'm going to rent the Dolly Parton movie!

I wish there was a way for Biden to bring up the fact that Palin is the governor of a state that has bajillions of dollars in oil surplus every year. Not exactly good practice for our current economic situation.

"John McCain, who knows how to win a war." WHAT?!?! What war was that exactly?? Vietnam? Iraq?

In spite of "Bosniacs," he is stomping her ASS. Stomping it. It's actually getting kind of boring. She is being so vague, trying to be sound-bitey, and anytime she tries to get specific it's so clear she's reciting from memory. I love how every time Biden starts on a killer point she concentrates real hard on her notes.

Man, this is really disappointing to get here early, then get kicked out of the live blogging and not allowed back in.

Guess I'm going to wander elsewhere.

RedPersephone, didn't you know? Apparently McCain valiantly climbed to the nearest hill as soon as he got out of the POW camp and planted the American flag forever proving that the USA won the Vietnam war. *sigh* This woman is completely underwhelming.

Wow, she just lost a million points by using "lame"

Man, this is really disappointing to get here early, then get kicked out of the live blogging and not allowed back in.

Guess I'm going to wander elsewhere.

"Nucular." Ha.

Joe Biden is my new favorite person, I think. I wish though that he would point out her errors more than he has been, but I suppose with the strict time limits I would rather have him talk about what he and Obama want to do than pick apart all of her answers. I would imagine that with the sad showing that Palin is giving here, all her answers will be picked apart in detail in the coming days.

Why isn't there some sort of rule against going up on the debate stage and spewing outright lies? I wish that the moderator could just have some sort of support panel that can tell them when a candidate is lying so that can get called out immediately. Because I feel like there are a lot of people out there who are taking her at her word and don't feel like there is any need to investigate things further. And that is frustrating.

Hey, she supports equal rice.

Puke puke puke.... pulling the "mom" card.

"maverick" AGAIN?!?!?!?

she just said she was part of the middle class worrying about how to pay out of pocket for health care. so is she paying out of pocket for bristol pregnancy, or is she covered under mama's state provided insurance, because she's a minor?

"John McCain is the man we need to leave...I mean lead...over the next four years."

YES! He finally said something about the Violence Against Women Act!
It warms my heart that he started to choke up there when he was talking about having been a single parent. He looks so real and she looks so phony and over-rehearsed.

Go Joe! I was so glad when he called her on the "it's so hard being a mom" card. As a mom, I know it's hard, but it is a hell of alot harder to lose your spouse and a child and still carry on to do what is best for your remaining children. She has no right to act like she has had it harder than he has in terms of family.

Hey Feministing readers:

I'm having some reporters comment on this debate (one from each side of the political spectrum), but I want to ask them some pointed questions.

Anyone have any great burning questions about the debate that would apply to both a liberal and a conservative columnist?

Is it just me, or was the "Top Gun" pilot Maverick an A-hole who got his best fiend killed?

lol friend, I mean. Will "Maverick McCain be so equally thoughtless, headstrong and foolish?

I can't wait for the Tina Fey on SNL version of this!!! :-)

ramble, ramble, ramble

Wow- a lot of these questions didn't get answered here, eh?

Gotta admit- having a little guilty pleasure checking out Palin's hawt hubby

Gotta admit- having a little guilty pleasure checking out Palin's hawt hubby

The newspeople on my local channel is that she did a GREAT job and they love her and think she was a credit to McCain whereas Biden took the spotlight from Obama

I accidentally closed out the chat, but thank you everyone! I loved chatting with you all. It kept me from screaming.

We really need to talk about why women's issues were not brought up. Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with that? Women's rights groups are not working together, there is no effort to reach out to the mainstream, there is no desire to compromise with each other and so on,....

this needs to change

I'm putting together a transcript if anybody wants one.

If he said "Maverick" one more time . . .

Also, the hokey language makes me irate.

*she*

honestly i don't think either of them did spectacularly. i really wanted biden to jump all over palin's bullshit.

how dare she speak about people's rights? "human rights" applying only to white men?

i think although she didn't make any huge blunders aside from sounding like an insipid, judgmental person, her general policies are so harmful... i don't want to call her names particularly gender specific names, (that's not a helpful card to play), but what a fucking bitch.

Transcript of the chat, I mean. For a transcript of the debate you'll have to go to CNN.

ohho,
someone in the news coverage after the debates referred to Palin as a "feminist with a gun". really?

i don't understand if anyone has the capacity to think beyond themselves and beyond arbitration why they can believe in the mccain/palin ticket. i know the point is to be open minded, but i can't. i can't handle it.

To those who pounced on Senator Biden for saying "Bosniacs," please note that that is actually the preferred demonym for many inhabitants of Bosnia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

Along the same line as Bosniaks . . . last night, I cringed every time Palin said "I-Ran". I think it's pronounced more like "Ee-raun". It's not the Flock of Seagulls.