Biden Time for Palintology

The Battle at WashU
Luke, it's a trap-Star Wars

Pregame Comments: Until I got old, my passion was pickup hoops. Anywhere, anytime. We'd play in the heat of the sun and chip ice off the courts to play in the winter. Between working the morning shift and night shifts at restaurants, whatever. I played with a lot of big guys, tall guys, generally where I used a lot of elbows and shoulders and pushing around. Of the probably thousands of pickup games I played, I played maybe a dozen or so with girls/women that were actually competitive games. Not shooting around with your girlfriend or sister but actually competitive games.

There is nothing worse than having to guard a woman playing hoops, particularly a woman who can play. I go back probably to the early 90's playing a game on the Cape. As the luck of the draw would have it, I was guarding a girl. Oh, but this girl was good, she could sink jumper after jumper, she was a college (D3) player. Eventually, you had to play your game, go to your strength, despite how embarrassing it may look to push a girl around.

Here's the issue that Biden faces tonite, he could be stepping into a trap underestimating his foe. Certainly the bar has been set very low for Sarah Palin here, any modicum of success will look like victory, Jumbly Joe need to go for every rebound, every put back tonite. Joe has got to be the knowledgable adult, not make up any stories and be prepared for the attack dog. My bet is that Palin's strategy is to come out with 4 or 5 zingers or soundbites for the next six weeks. To be repeated and drilled into people's heads. Outside of that, Palin needs to just cede her time and let Biden talk himself in circles. This debate is Biden's to lose, unless Palin just says something crazy.

AND WE'RE OFF
9:00 pm: Gwen shows her bias, a blue shirt Gwen, a blue shirt? "Can I call you, Joe?" See she's just a regular person. Governors are just like us, they call people by their first names.

9:06 pm: See a regular person, go to a soccer game. Right now the Governor looks scared and just keeps saying "John McCain". The Senator applies the "out of touch" retort

9:08 pm Palin celebrates the American worker again. "A team of mavericks?" Is that even possible, is that like an army of anarchists?

9:10 pm Palin celebrates the American worker again for being swindled by evil predatory lenders. Joe Six packs and hockey moms need to band together. Never again will we be taken advantage of. Okay that's a direct quote, that stuff is just awesome.

9:15 pm Fifteen minutes in. Palin keeps on the standard Republican talking points, Biden is attempting to bore people to death. Palin wins the flag contest, and gets extra points for the family service star.

9:17 pm Is there any particular reason that I'm not drinking whiskey, I feel like an in an AA meeting at a Grateful Dead Show. Everytime anyone mentions the middle class the CNN Ohio voters survey shoots up.

9:20 pm Biden is also middle/working class just so you know there are 100 US Senators and 50 state governors, regardless of income none of y'all would be considered middle class. I'm thinking of looking to see if there is a zoning board meeting on cable access, I'm on a charisma jones.

9:23 pm Say it Sarah, say it, say straight talk, say straight shooter. For the love of God.

9:28 pm It's the Wonk against the Hockey Mom. I'm pre-quoting Ed Rollins on CNN, "What the Governor said really resonated with the middle and working class those that are really struggling, she really knocked it out of the park" Look, Ohio voters, oil, cheap shiny oil (paraphrasing Mrs. Angry Middle)

9:31 pm The Sarah Palin science hour. Nice, we are legislating by chant now. For what it's worth, Biden seems to have disappeared and Palin is just swinging all over the place, hitting occasionally. Biden's pancake makeup seems to be taking over his face.

9:37 pm Biden uses the "m" word around same sex benefits (marriage). He's either an idiot, a maverick or is setting a bigot trap. Okay nobody likes gay marriage.

9:40 pm Obama hates America and hates the American troops. Barack Obama wants to wave a flag of surrender. OK, lets be real, no one is cutting off funding for the troops, geez.

9:48 pm More Kissinger love. "They hate freedom" is back.

9:53 pm OK, we all love Israel, let's move on. It's like kissing your sister.

9:55 pm I wish I had an Ed Rollins cam right now, 5 bucks he can't keep his hands off himself. Sarah is tripping all over her words about nuclear weapons, she has to go back to her notes about Afghanistan and building schools for children. Biden can't put her away on foreign affairs, he's got no killer instinct. Throw the elbow, get the rebound, Joe!

10:02 pm Biden starts to talk about his McCainesque travelogue. Finally 64 minutes in, Palin uses the "straight talk" line. Oh did you know she's an outsider and has a state that is rich in resources?

10:09 pm A team of mavericks. Sweet. "Say it ain't so, Joe, dog gone it" Wow, she's a fricking nut. I want to get hammered with her at a BC-University of Alaska hockey game.

10:16 pm This is my last whiskey-less political event. Hey, Joe take Article I and stick it up your @ss, D. Cheney. Sarah Palin is the stepford governor.

10:24 pm Joe actually shows a little energy and reminds me he hasn't overdosed on Lieberman's charisma medicine.

10:30 pm Fighting for average families, like those of a state governor? Is freedom going somewhere? Did I miss the memo?