02 October 2008

grading the vice-presidential debate

Senator Biden: you were disciplined and didn't come off as condescending. Your task was pretty easy, but you didn't raise the bar. You can't coast at this level. Final Grade: B

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Governor Palin: This debate was all about you. Unfortunately, even in the "unfiltered" format in which you could smile into the camera and address Joe Sixpack and Hockey Mom directly, you still appeared to be in test-prep mode. When your cue cards didn't address a question, you rambled on about something else you knew by heart, even when the answer had nothing to do with the question. Is that what it means to be a maverick? Where I come from, the refusal to answer a question that is asked politely is considered to be rude and evasive. Too often after giving an answer, it appeared you were waiting for a pat on the head. I'm afraid you're not in Alaska any more Governor Palin. Final Grade: C

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Is this the best the Republican Party has to offer?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought Biden did really well, given the dangers of the task; I would give him more than a B. Palin... besides repeating "darn," "heck," "tap off," and "energy" twelve hundred times, what did she talk about? You see, she should be used in rhetoric classes, as a vivid example of how to speak a lot and say really nothing.