Thursday, October 2, 2008

VP Debate Preview




As everyone stateside should know, the Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin takes place tonight. While the VP debate in any other year is not a big draw, the show down this year is understandably hotly anticipated, not just in the US but worldwide. In fact, it wouldn't be a stretch to say Asif Zardari is probably setting up candles and mood music in a special room with a year's supply of Jergens.

Anyway, while we wait for the debate to unfold, here's a preview to what we can look forward to tonight. After watching the clip, we recommend reading this article from Vanity Fair detailing the media's coverage of the Bush / Gore race in 2000. Sure it's 7 pages long and it takes valuable time away from scouring ratedesi.com for the love of your life, but you can make the time. Plus there are some artsy NSFW images on the side of the page to keep you visually entertained.

It really is interesting and quite relevant especially now that the GOP is pushing the whole Biden makes gaffes too angle. There's a difference between being a loudmouth and just being incompetent and they should not be equated in an effort to give off the image that they are being fair and balanced, when they are just being lazy. Watch the clip and it's obvious. One candidate is just more qualified, and it's not sexist or elitist to point that out. Sure Palin has her strong suits too such as the ability to connect with Middle America or Horny Subcontinental Asia. But being adorable isn't what the country needs from a VP right now, if it was BihariShabab would endorse Nick Jonas for president. Or maybe even Joe Jonas, but definitely not Kevin. That dude is creepy.

Of course all of this is irrelevant if Biden loses it and let's a C-Word slip into one of his answers. That would just be totally awesome.

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