And you guys think Palin is dumb??

And tv hadn't been invented yet

Gosh Dano, you're awfully picky!

Maybe Obama should ask McCain where he got that ball gag he got for Sarah

Just inexperienced, clueless, irrational, and dishonest

But I would never suggest that savvy, satanic bitch is dumb.

Nor would I be silly enough to suggest that the highly intelligent Joe Biden is dumb because of a single slip.

Although, I'm sure McCain might have during his debate with Obama...if he hadn't chickened out, of course.

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As for it being ridiculous for FDR to have been on TV:

The Question:

Who was the first president to give a televised speech? My daughter answered FDR but her teacher says Truman. I have found several web sites, including The History of Television, that says FDR. I need a definitive answer. Please help.

The Answer:

We'll do our best to set the record straight.

According to our sources, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to speak on television. Roosevelt spoke at the opening session of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939. (InfoPlease)

is that Obama will attend the debate, the networks will show an empty podium, the modertors will either ask the questions or hem and haw and then cancel the thing on-air, and Obama will jet off to Washington immediately afterwards to show 'em all how it's done.

Is it possible that he and his handlers are that smart?

Alternatively, the networks might arbitrarily cancel the thing to pull the rug out from under him. We all know that network owners don't want a Demodumb government.

A slip?  For an average high school grad who got a B- in history, yeah, I can see mixing up Hoover and Roosevelt and forgetting when TV became widely available as a mass communication tool. 

For a politician (a DEMOCRAT no less, who went to college and law school) to mix up the patron saint of Democrats with the poster child for Republican ineffectuality?  It would be like a Republican mixing up Carter with Reagan. 

Of course I don't think he's stupid.  But for all the blabbing about McCain's age, Biden has shown far more signs of Alzheimers so far.

Has there ever been a VP nominee to publically state that he wasn't the best choice?  Before Biden I mean.

And I'm with you guys - If McCain isn't at that debate, then he doesn't deserve to win.  Smells of a cheap stunt to me.  I don't like it.

...he's had to have lieberman come to his aid, correct?

     On a side note, I really don't care who slips up where.  McCain's been a Bush supporter, and Bush and his crew have trashed this country.  I fail to see how Bush has a 33% approval rating while McCain, who has supported Bush's decisions 90% of the time, is at 50% in the polls.

Joe Biden makes one mistake and it's the end of the world! And that's especially pathetic when all you have to do is look at the lies, distortions and just plain idiocy spewing forth from the McCain campaign. There is so much crap coming from McCain that even some prominent conservatives are starting to gag.

but I never said she was dumb. Never even thought it. Dangerous and scary, yes. Dumb or stupid, not so much.

One theory is that she may, in fact, be the AntiChrist. This appeals to me on several levels of irony, although, when all is said and done, I would prefer not to die when she assumes the presidency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kiW0S-LJvI

Not sure if more needs to be said.

Best regards, Wally

For lowering the bar. 

And amazingly, it was the smart Bush who did that to us.

...the media wanting to prove that point.  They are using some of the biggest words I've ever heard used in a media interview in some of the most complex economic questions I've ever heard.   However, you've got to expect that since she's underqualified the media will do that to prove that point.  Biden could answer those questions, but they won't ask him all of those questions and drill him because they already know he knows the answers to them.

No, Sarah's not dumb, she's just underqulified.  I think McCain used her.  I do kinda feel sorry for her.  She did say yes though, yes if McCain thought it would help his election.  I'm sure she was so honored she didn't think about how they would drill her with tough questions.  I'm sure she knew she was underqualified but just wanted to give it a try.

The economy is one thing nobody but Bill Clinton seemed to have answers to in his recent appearance on the Daily Show.  Catch the rebroadcast if you can.

Are you aware that Joe Biden has done over 80 interviews with the press since his nomination?  In all those interviews, his misstatement of an event was the best gaff the Republican Slime/Smear/Fear Machine could come up with?  Let's compare this "extensive" collection of Biden's flubs with the single interview that Caribou Barbee did with Katie Couric.  At one point, Palin rambled incoherently for five minutes, sprinkling her stream of barely consciousness with Repubbie talking points that had no bearing at all on the question Couric had asked her.  Geez, man!  I saw the clip of that interview on CNN and I thought they were showing Tina Fey in an SNL skit (Wallee provides a link to Couric-Palin segment below). Are you embarrassed for her yet?  Palin has done 4 or 5 interviews to Biden's 80+ interviews and each one of hers was chock full of terminally blond moments.  Copared to Palin, Biden looks like Abraham freakin' Lincoln.

I don't think there's any way the Republicans will allow her in the same room with Biden, let alone allow her to debate him in a widely viewed public forum. 

Coaster's Prediction: The Veep Debate will be canceled for whatever the best reason is that the Republican Party can rationalize at the time. 

 If picking Palin to be "one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency" is an example of the experienced leadership McCain will practice in the Oval Office, God help us if he's elected. 

Men love to watch cat fights!

But alas that will never be unless McCain becomes president and croaks a few months in. Then it would be horror of horrors President Palin debating Hillary in the next election. That is if there is another election and still a United States of America then.

Biden doesn't need to attack her in the upcumming debate. All he has to do is let her talk. The more she opens that big fat mouth of hers the worse she'll be.

I think, pretty much sums up the problem.