we will turn this into the live debate thread later tonight.
it's going to be awfully hard for her to turn this caricature of herself around now that the MSM has invested
so much time into it. she can't even play the "low expectations" game, since she has basically been labeled
as flatly "not ready".
an interesting lie being promulgated by the MSM this week; "one in three vice presidents become president".
true, but hardly relevant. the real question is "how many vice presidents have had to assume the duties
of the presidency due to the death of the sitting president"? the answer is not "one in three".
Underestimate Sarah Palin at your peril, Biden warned
One of Sarah Palin's former political foes has delivered a warning to Joe Biden before tonight's first televised vice-presidential debate: underestimate her at your peril.
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Republican concerns grew after interviews in which Ms Palin, 44, has appeared lost for words and supporters feared that a poor performance could deal a lethal blow to the McCain campaign in the same way that her performance at the Republican convention breathed life into it.
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The newspaper said that Ms Palin had been "woefully unprepared" when she started her run for the Alaska governorship in late 2006, stumbling in her answers before an audience of electrical workers
But within a few weeks she was much more at ease and, in the words of one observer, she ended up flummoxing her rivals "like Muhammad Ali dancing around the ring".
"She distilled policy questions into simple answers and countered her opponents' attacks with verbal thrusts delivered with a sunny smile," the LA Times reported.
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