Question Answered

Yes, Sarah Palin really is that stupid.

Now we know.

She dodged questions, talked a stream of consciousness that can only be decribed as complete babble, flip-flopped within her own answers, and (my favorite) said McClellan was leading our troops in Afghanistan. McClellan? Really? Damn. How long has this war be going on?

As Harold Meyerson noted in his column in the local paper (The Washington Post):

"She responded to any question that required real-time thinking by ignoring it and dredging up a canned answer from the McCain campaign’s canned-answer pool.... Palin was the kid from the sticks who was still standing when it was done.... [H]er performance was a marvel of its kind -- dissociated, jumbled, at times completely contradictory (“you build up infrastructure and rein in government spending,” she prescribed at one point: Huh?), with soundbites appearing and reappearing almost at random, but fast, happy, almost joyous: Made it through that five-minute question that I know nothing about without even pausing: Phew!

How American Scored the Debate:

• CBS: Biden Wins
  Early numbers from a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters give Biden a significant edge: 46 percent say he won compared to 21 percent for Palin.
  


• CNN: Biden Wins
  When asked who did the best job in the debate, 51 percent said Biden as compared to 36 percent for Palin. When asked who was qualified for the job, 87 percent said Biden was, as compared to only 42 percent for Palin.
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