Is there really a debate?

Vice Presidential Debate

I tried my best to watch this debate with an open mind. I have always leaned on the more democratic side but I really wanted to watch this debate and be as neutral as possible which was easier because I honestly didn’t know as much about the vice presidential candidates. I did enjoy the questions that were asked. I think I most intrigued by the questions about the war in the middle east and what the plan was from each side about how to finally bring our troops home. It seemed to me that Biden said repeatedly that when Obama is elected they will be bringing the troops home. Palin on the other hand said that the war will end in victory for the United States and that we should not put up a white flag and surrender.
The moderator also asked a question about the energy crisis and what each party was planning on doing. I felt as though neither party really gave a straight answer to this question because they spent most of their time attacking the other candidate.
I watched this debate on CNN. There were several times that I am not really sure of Palin really answered the question. The moderator would ask her something and then she would go back to something they were previously debating like tax issues. At one point she even said she might not answer the questions how Biden wants, or how the moderator wants. I really did not think it was that difficult to just answer the question.


After the debate I heard a lot of people say that Palin had done really well and recovered from her embarrassing past interviews. However, I felt that most of the time she was trying to talk like she understood the common person and used this weird slang and or accent where she left the ‘ing’ off everything and only said the ‘in.’ I felt like this just made her look stupid and uneducated and made me mad because she was assuming that the common American can’t speak proper English.
I felt like Biden really could have been mean and called Palin out more when she obviously didn’t know what she was talking about and when she mispronounced words but he didn’t and for that I liked him even more. I think this debate in general will go down in the history book because this has been such a history making year and Palin being a woman and possible Vice President is history in itself.
I think it is pretty obvious that I am a Obama supporter. I feel like the Republican Party also tries to get votes by being that “family friendly” approach and not ever really getting down to the real issues. The one thing that I cannot stand about the debates is that I don’t feel like you can easy get a straight answer from both parties, and that is annoying. It feels like it would almost be better to do an interview with the candidate that is one on one that way they do not have the opportunity to attack the other party.