7 comments to “Sarah Palin Debate Chart”

1. Jason Ihle wrote:
   10. October 2008 at :

   Dude, wasn’t the VP debate more than a week ago?

2. Josh wrote:
   10. October 2008 at :

   this was just out today. better late than never.

3. Eric Hazard wrote:
   10. October 2008 at :

   What does the Biden flow chart look like?

   Ask question –> say something ridiculous –> smile wide –> try not to insults Indians again –> don’t mention 7-11 –> avoid questions about my law school plagarism.

4. Jason Ihle wrote:
   11. October 2008 at :

   I saw that flow chart the day after the debate.

   http://adennak.com/blog/wordpress/?p=92

5. Jason Ihle wrote:
   11. October 2008 at :

   Eric, you’ve got a fair point about Biden’s foot-in-mouth disease, but the law school plagiarism charge is a biiiiiiiiig reach.

   His claim at the time was it was accidental for a failure to understand how to properly use citations. Okay, it’s a dubious excuse probably used by every person ever accused of plagiarism. Whether we believe him or not, he was permitted to take the class again and then admitted to the Delaware Bar thereafter.

   This does not change the fact that Biden is actually qualified to take over as President if necessary and Sarah Palin is demonstrably unqualified to be President. The number of people who continue to insist she is (and that number is dwindling rapidly) are suffering from an incredible bout of delusional thinking.

   Further, the choice of Sarah Palin as running mate show McCain to be completely unserious about the Office of the President. It was his first executive decision and it completely tossed his “country first” slogan out the window with a thunderous thud. The Palin choice is not about putting country first, rather entirely about cynical identity politics. It’s also a giant leap backwards for feminism. No press conference before election day? How is that helping shatter the glass ceiling? She was not chosen for her qualifications. She was chosen because McCain thought he could cynically siphon off Clinton supporters by putting a woman on the ticket. She’s a joke, a farce, material for lampooning (which Tina Fey and SNL are doing with relish).

6. Eric Hazard wrote:
   11. October 2008 at :

   Well I can see how this will turn out, so allow me to give the Cliff’s Notes:

   -I’ll find some quote about the historical role of vice presidents, to say the office doesn’t matter all that much.

   -You’ll mention Cheney.

   -I’ll point out that Palin is merely the pick for VP, what should really be doing is vetting Presidential candidates right now. I don’t think Obama is qualified to be President.

   -You’ll of course disagree, claiming that organizing the south side Chicago into the model neighborhood it is, in fact, qualifies someone to run the country. Fine. You’re for Obama, I’m not.

   -Joel will probably chime in.

   -Someone will type “Bush” which has quickly become Goodwin’s new “1″ coefficient on internet chat.

   So rather he’s my deal. I’ve give up on this thing. My king has been laid on its side. The white flag is awavin’. I don’t see how Obama losses at this point. Congrats.

   How’s that. We cool?

7. Jason Ihle wrote:
   11. October 2008 at :

   That’s cool how you can hold down both parts of the conversation.

   I would not have mentioned Cheney because I don’t particularly think it’s relevant to the argument.

   And you can’t seriously tell me that it shouldn’t be a requirement of the VP candidate that they are fit to be President. The VP has 2 constitutional responsibilities: 1) break tie votes in the Senate and 2) become President if something happens.

   Of course we’ll have to agree to disagree on whether Obama is qualified to be president. You may think he doesn’t have the requisite experience. At first my arguments against Palin were lack of experience. And of course part of McCain’s goal (I think) was to diminish Obama’s stature by getting people to compare his experience with that of a VP nominee. It worked for about 5 minutes. Then Palin started talking. And she revealed herself to have absolutely no grasp on the major issues.

   Say what you want about Barack Obama: disagree with his policy positions and what he wants to do for the country; disagree about his limited legislative experience being sufficient to run for president. But I think you’d be really hard-pressed to say Obama doesn’t understand the issues and have lots to say on a variety of topics both foreign and domestic. Palin has virtually nothing to say about any topic that is not a memorized and regurgitated GOP talking point.

   The truth is I don’t think there’s any job in the world that really prepares someone to be President of the US. Maybe being a top level adviser to the President (i.e. Chief of Staff). I don’t even really think being VP is sufficient experience to be Pres. But McCain, Obama and Biden can all talk comprehensively about foreign and domestic policy.

   McCain, Obama, Palin, Biden
   “One of these things is not like the other…”
   And I don’t mean a Y chromosome.

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