Debate Comments: The Sublime, the Funny, and the Astute

We live-blogged the debate over at m-pyre tonight - and I encourage you to go look at the whole thing (it's in the comments) . A smattering of the observations: Did she just wink at the camera? - Trevor Don't drink every time she says, "Maverick." You won't make it past 9:30. - Byzek We should start a pool about how many specific examples of *anything* she gives tonight. - Byzek If she says hockey, soccer, football mom one more time i am going to throw up - Susan Palin is good at speaking plain. That's her strength...she hasn't been around long enough to get the pol speak down. - Marjorie Biden is really effective correcting her... his tone is just right. - Maggie She's not going to answer your question, Gwen, because she hasn't prepped for that one. - Bethany You can't go out and get a private insurance policy worth crap unless you are under a group plan. If you do, they penalize you with preexisting clauses and it's a hell of alot more expensive and they can raise your premiums whenever they choose.... - Vicki I'm sorry, once again I can not keep a straight face as Republicans try and bash tax breaks to oil companies. Remember when McCain did that during the convention speech, and there was a confused silence in the crowd? - Maggie "Main streeters like me" When Biden says Obama pointed out the subprime lending crisis two years ago, I'd like to point out that this was an issue of the left 2 years ago. - Marjorie "I don wanna talk aboot bankrupcy, i wanna talk energy and alaaaaska" - Trevor He's so right, drilling isnt going to make any bit of difference... not for a very long time anyway. Yes I think we should to an extent, but obviously alternative fuels is where we need to put our bucks. - Kat & Jerry in the house She's standing up fine. He's gona have to get to her in the late rounds - Dean I used the Castro Brothers once when I moved. They were punctual, well-groomed, and quite polite. - Bethany "can we talk afghanistan? i have color coded flash cards for that one." - MaryBeth A "shout out"?!!?!? Are you kidding me?!? How about "Hi Mom"! Does she not realize the caliber of forum that she's in? - Heather She keeps saying "reform"... This word... I do not think it means what you think it means. - Jessie Well .. at the very least ... she's going to be tolerant of us gays (me). WTF. - Lyndsey Maverick = crappy Dallas basketball team that toys with people's emotions by looking like they'll win momentarily, only to choke on it when the stakes get high. I take it back. Maverick is wholly appropriate. - Bethany I love how Joe brought up our loss of creditably abroad. That's a very important issue to me. - Heather