ellen_datlow

I watched it (first one in years) because I'm in California with
access to tv.

I was more ignorant about Biden than about Palin (I heard he was boring, a political hack, whatever). I've been following Palin's mishaps and Tina Fey's "parodies" of them since she was announced as McCain's running mate.

I think Biden was terrific--even though Palin did not respond to most of
the actual questions and only was able to stay with her script and unable
to improvise, he both responded TO the questions and responded to her
constant knocks at Obama. I was very impressed by Biden's knowledge of the issues, his passion (yes passion-not the showy hey I'm a patriotic Palinesque bullshitting kind), and his stature. I can see this man taking over for Obama if necessary. Gee, and he actually knows what a VP is supposed to do.

What this really showed me though is that while I don't think Palin is stupid,she is
woefully ignorant of anything going on outside of Alaska and NOT ready to be VP or President.

All the cramming she is admirable but the job of VP takes more than cramming. It takes experience and this debate really demonstrated how little experience she has.

Also, she needs to brush up on the constitution if she wants to be taken seriously. She'd like the constitution to give more power to the vp...and a special thanks to Biden for calling Cheney the most dangerous VP in history.