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Well, we’re here at Mama’s Pizza watching Gwen Ifill see if she can get more of an answer from Sarah Palin than Katie Couric could do.  Durn right, we are!

 Well, to start with, let’s admit Sarah does look like a grown up tonight.  Basic black, high heeled pumps, almost looks like she knows how to put a subject and verb together to make a sentence. 

Woops.  Spoke too soon.  She still can’t.  Nope, she and Joe Six-Pack are still as grammatically challenged as ever.  Awe, shucks.

Whew, when it gets to tax relief, we go all the way to DARN!  Hope her preacher isn’t listening. 

Looks like they forgot to coach her on where McCain and Obama voted alike.  She just dissed Obama for voting the same way her guy did on the budget resolution.  But golly, gee whiz, she’s only been at this for, what?, 5 weeks, so we shouldn’t be expecting so much of her, durn!

Let’s see, if the oil companies have made 600 billion dollars profit in the past 8 years, and we need 700 billion to bail out the banks, why aren’t the oil companies bailing out the banks?  What am I missing here?  Let’s just change the subject, shall we?  Being the governor of the state feeling the climate change she won’t argue about the causes but she’ll form some committees to figure out what to do.  Just drill, baby, drill, all of Alaska and we can be energy independent.  Of course, then Mr. Palin can lobby for Alaska to secede and form its own nation, and then the U.S. can buy its oil from Alaska instead of from Saudi Arabia.

Ok, let me figure this out.  We can get all the energy we need by drilling Alaska, but she supports a zero carbon emission policy.  Has she found some clean oil that doesn’t create carbon emission?  Has Alaska figured out something new to do with all that oil?

Let’s see, 39 minutes into the debate, and Gwen has given up on getting a straight answer from Palin.  She must have seen how useless it was when her colleague on CBS kept pushing.  Gets too hard for the interviewer to keep a straight face.  But the audience in St. Louis wasn’t able to keep from laughing, despite their pre-debate promise to be silent until the debate ends.

Both men and women in CNN’s uncommitted Ohio focus group go over the top when Biden says straight and clear, “Barack Obama and I will end this war in Iraq.”  But they sure didn’t like Palin’s claim that planning an exit strategy with a certainty of exit was throwing down a white flag of surrender.  Neither the men nor the women are buying it.  Score one for the intelligence of the Ohio uncommitted voters tonight!

The uncommitted women are loving Biden.  Wow!  This is beyond even fondest hopes!

Is Cuba getting nuke-le-ur weapons now?  Sounds like it from Sarah’s answers.  She doesn’t think diplomacy can be sitting down on a sofa.  Yuh gotta be on the line with your friends and allies backin’ yuh up before yuh start talkin’ and all that stuff with bad people like Spain.

I’m not sure now, is she saying Secretary Rice sat down with Israel or Palistine the other day, also?  Did she mean both?  Or neither?  Or does she not really remember?  Doesn’t really matter, since her church is just waiting for the chance to push the nuke-le-ur button and bring on Armageddon in Israel so Jesus can come back and take all the Republicans to heaven and send us Dirty Democrats somewhere else.

“Please, Gwen, can we talk about Afghanistan now? I learned an answer on that one and I’m afraid I may forget it before you let me give it.”

Joe, of course she’s against extending arms control agreeements.  We can’t hurry up to get to Armageddon if we don’t get plenty of bombs in the world.  But you’re Catholic, so you wouldn’t think of trying to help Jesus hurry up and come again.  Catholics would see that as a bit like taking things out of God’s hands, wouldn’t they?

Oh, good.  I’m so glad to know that Sarah watched those Democratic primary debates, so she knows where Biden disagrees with Obama.  Wonder if it was yesterday or the day before that she watched them?

Update from CNN, 9:05 p.m., it took a while, but the uncommitted Ohio men have come around to Biden once we got into foreign policy.  The men are getting tired of hearing that McCain knows how to win a war, because he knows war.  The way I remember it, McCain lost 5 planes before he was taken prisoner, and then he spent the rest of the world in a prison camp in North Vietnam.  There’s a debate over how many of the 5 he was actually responsible for losing, but he lost them.  And would he really have gotten all those promotions if his dad hadn’t been an admiral?  Remember, George Bush graduated from Yale too, but Yale promises to graduate the sons of all its alums.  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_aircraft_did_John_McCain_lose_during_his_naval_career 

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_mccain_crash_five_planes_did_he.html

   He knows PTSD, I’m pretty sure of that, but war?  I don’t think he knows anything about war at all.  He sure didn’t know how to fly a plane very well!  What I want to know is how many crew members he lost or took down with him in those planes?  My uncle flew a bomber in the South Pacific in WWII, and he had quite a crew he was responsible for bringing home safely, and he did, with his plane, every time.  But that doesn’t make him qualified to be president and he never claimed it did.

Dog-gone it, and God bless your wife who’s been a teacher for 30 years, she’ll have her reward in heaven, and by the way, my gramma is a teacher and she’s in the audience right now, and if you are in my son’s class in Alaska, you get extra credit for watching this debate……  What was the question, again, Gwen?  Oh, everybody gets extra credit, awe shucks.

Whew, Gwen, didn’t you know that Sarah Palin wouldn’t know what an Achilles Heel is?  They don’t teach mythology and metaphor in Alaska.  Good for you, Gwen, and Joe, not pointing out that Sarah answered the wrong question.  She thought an Achilles Heel was her strong point, not her weak point.

What do you think?  Let me know!  Who won this debate?  The Democrats called for God’s blessing tonight, but Sarah forgot that line.  Woops!