Vice-Presidential Debate 2008
Gov. Sarah Palin and rival Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. faced off during their first vice-presidential debate on Thursday night at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Vice presidential candidates sparred about a lot of the important issues–taxes and the economy, energy and oil, same-sex marriage, Iraq and Afghanistan.
To watch the full debate online, visit NYTimes.com. The video is about 1.5 hours long. Be sure to check it out–the interactive video and transcript is really nifty!








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Watching Palin was painful. You bet ya people. Oh…. come on . John McCain is 72 and this screwed up woman is going to run our country. Yes, we better run but no other countries want Americans. I WONDER why???? Stupid americans.
I really think that Joe Biden gave CLEAR details as to what changes that Obama and he are going to uphold. Sarah Palin was ok but she all over the place and she continued to read cue cards which to me, illustrates that she’s unsure as to what issues need to be resolved. Yes, she had valid points on some topics, but overall Joe Biden was surely on top of his game. And I learned in public speaking class during my undergraduate days, that one thing you just don’t do is say “Um”. Just pause and gathered your thoughts, don’t ever say “Um”.. That shows that you’re again ‘unclear’ as to what you’re trying to get across.
Elle??? Are you an american??
SARAH P. WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THAT!!!!!!!!EVEN THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLLS ONLINE AND CALL IN POLLS ARE SAYING THAT!!!!! JOE BIDEN IS A IDIOT! FINALLY THE MEDIA GIVING HER PROPS! ITS SAD THAT JOE BIDEN IS SUPPOSED TO BE A VETERAN AT THIS AND SARAH WHO IS NEW TO DEBATES NOT POLITICS KICKED HIS ASS!!!! OF COURSE THIS IS THE SAME MAN THAT MADE A STATEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING A PRESIDENT SAID ON TV BEFORE THE TV WAS EVEN INVENTED! HHAHAHA GO SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone needs to send her happy Ass back to Alaska so she can take care of her children. Especially the pregnant one.
AGAIN SARAH PALIN WAS OK. BUT WITH THE DEBATE COURSE THAT SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN WAAAAAAAAYYY BETTER. SHE IS A CLUELESS AND YOU KNOW IT! The only ones that’s giving her props is the individuals who don’t want an African American in the seat!!! And you’ll say anything just so that want happen. Let’s be real!!! It’s SOOO OBVIOUS AS TO WHO NEEDS TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT….BARACK OBAMA!!!!! Point blank!
yes Joe I am. I am an educated American. I am starting to think Americans are really stupid.
People forget that Sarah Palin has ben middle or lower class her ENTIRE life. She know’s what she is talking about, and Joe Biden is a liar. He lied so much during this debate. Just liek he brought the facts, so did she. Weake up people, she is running for VP and she’s got more experience than Obama. She is the commander of the Alaskin National Guard, and they are year-round. She did a better job than Biden, his best was saying that we are getting another eight years of George Bush. That is the best Democrats have on these people have on them. We all know that! And when you actually sit down and look at Bush’s policies and John’s they have ALOT of differences. She is a Republican, she is Pro-life! Is that a shock? Because it shouldn’t be. We don’t need someone to cradle us and help us sleep at ngiht, and tell us all fictional bedtime stories. I can trust and know that John McCain will get the job done, plain and simple. Can we really say that about Obama. IF Obama gets in there, we will pull out of the war, and they will come after us on our own soil. Because this man knows nothing about war. Nothing. My brother is in the army and will tell you the same thing. They don’t speak of all the good that is going on down there. Sarah and John both have kids in Iraq, and when that happens, it becomes personal to them and they will put an end it, I’m sure. Joe Biden is an idiot, whow as laughing at this women. Just because Sarah Palin isn’t a liberal doesn’t mean she is going to fight for us woman.
WOOOW…Palin was great??!!
I sat in amazement as she just kept repeating her transcript and NOT answering question.
Even in HIGH SCHOOL just saying “YES I AGREE” to an answer is considered to be an insufficient answer.
Palin would say YES I AGREE to a question and then go ahead and repeat the messages she had on the q-cards that she had ALREADY repeated all night long.
This clearly reflects the fact that she doesn’t have views on MOST ISSUES that are very important to the American people, and the reason she doesn’t have a view is because she doesn’t even understand what the question nor what the issue is!
I mean last night my mouth just hung open in awww, I felt as if I could have gone up for VP.
This just KILLS THE McCane-Palin ticket for me.
I do not understand how some of you can say she did good when she clearly didn’t understand the questions most of the time.
Just because she spoke in “plain English” doesn’t mean that you should vote for her! We need some knowledgeable people who have good insight in a number of issues, understand the issues and who are capable of leading/guiding our senate in improving America’s future.
I’m still in disbelief here (just shaking my head)….
I think we have to all be honest, even though Barack Obama is viewed as a political superstar, most people are going to vote for McCain next month, even some of the people that claim to be undecided and who say they’re gonna vote Obama. If you remember, Bush was down by 10 points in all the polls leading up to election day and somehow he ended up President. Politics is all a sham.
Sarah Palin is awsome
Elle: Well I guess if you were her pregnant daughter You’d just have an abortion wouldn’t you??
Biden is ridiculous. Where is Hillary Clinton?
Clinton vs Palin. Priceless!
Obama sucks!
wink wink gosh darn it…I don’t know if she was winking at me or my husband! Sure Palin deliver her memorized cheers, If I want folky I’ll go to Cracker Barrel.
Biden looks like a sleaze bag!
May I ask you?? What VP Debate did you guys watch? Because Sarah Palin is clearly scrambling for what to say next and she’s very unsure of her points…That’s scares me TOTALLY!!! Yes, she may be Govenor in Alaska to about 300,000 people…But she does not need to be in the VP seat to the entire U.S of America!!! I have a relative in Iraq now and HE will tell you…it’s like fighting a loosing battle. We went to Iraq to get Bin Laden and to conduct a nuclear weapon search. Now is that what we’re doing???? Its’ obvious “NO”. Obama wants to slowing transition our soldiers out of this war and re-direct our attention on what we need to do in Al Quida. Look at the whole picture, not half of the picture!! Come on…let’s be real about this thing. Yes, the last 8 years have got us no where and I know you keep hearing that, but McCain/Palin are ‘obviously’ showing the same policies that Bush is illustrating now. WE NEED CHANGED WE CAN BELIEVE IN. So vote for OBAMA on Nov. 4th. or just vote early!!
I love Sarah Palin - VOTE SARAH PALIN !!!!
Biden IS a sleazebag.
Sarah Palin did amazing. In my opinion, I thought Biden was going to win but after watching this debate, McCain/Palin has my vote. Sarah Palin caught Biden on so many lies. She was just killing him. Many people say that Biden won like CNN but I really think that Palin kicked Biden! She totally dominated.
People…EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE???
ALASKA has almost 700k people, most of whom (mostly) govern themselves locally.
NEW YORK CITY, not state, CITY, has almost 8.5 million people.
CHICAGO were Obama was a community organizer has almost 3 million people. The state of Illinois has almost 13 million people.
Community Organizer of Southside Chicago, State Senator of Illinois.
Governor of Alaska. You can judge for yourselves who was/is responsible for more people. Don’t let a nice catch phrase like executive experience take your mind off of facts and the actual numbers.
I mean come on folks, don’t just listen and be brain washes, put things into perspective!!! You are smarter then they give you credit for…come on!
Oh and Biden sighed alot into the microphone. To me, sighing into the microphone is a sign of being defeated and aggravation. He knew Sarah Palin was killing him and catching him on so many lies.
I would like to thank McCain for choosing Palin as his running mate because now I can be more hopeful that Obama will win. If Obama wins McCain will look back and know his choice of running mate lost him the race. He thought he would pick up women voters like we are too stupid to realize that Palin doesn’t have any business in the white house. She might make a great newscaster–look out Katie, but she doesn’t have the experience for national politics. Just because I would have voted for Hillary doesn’t mean I’ll vote for Sarah Palin.
Although she did better last night than I expected her to do it was obvious that she gave her carefully rehearsed answers over and over. She did NOT answer the questions. When they asked about the subprime mortgages she couldn’t even talk about it knowledgeably. She had to change the subject. I’m betting she doesn’t have a clue what happened on Wall Street or understand how our economy works. She would be a disaster in the White House and for our country.
Because of her I have re-registered to vote and will be voting for the first time in 20 years. Fear of her shook me right out of my voter apathy. I don’t ever want to look back and say that I didn’t do my part to defeat her and McCain taking over our wounded economy.
Like how things are going for the last eight years? Vote McCain for more of the same.
Obama/Biden 08 please.
Biden couldn’t even look into the camera to the American people who it really matters. He was just talking to Gwen the whole time and looking down.
Palin looked at the camera to the American people and looked at Biden when answering questions.
McCain Pailin 0/8
only 20 percent of american population is black so a black president makes no sense !!!
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