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Tonight’s vice presidential debate is one of the most anticipated debate in a very long time. Actually, it might be THE most anticipated ever! At least in this lifetime. A lot of people are anxious to see how Sarah Palin performs tonight. Some hope she excels and others hope she fails. Either way, a lot of people will be watching.

Its being reported that her strategy for tonight is to go after Biden and stay on the offensive, emphasizing the differences between Biden and Obama stances on policies.

However it goes, it’ll certainly be interesting to watch.

If you’d like to participate in online discussions about the debate, you can find one in real time at Right Pundits.

Remember the creepy Obama Children’s Chorus? Well, now we have the Obama Junior Fraternity Regiment. I’m telling you, this stuff is getting creepier and creepier.

Its great that these kids feel inspired and aspire to greater things for their lives. Its great that they chant about taking personal responsibility. Its great that they are working on personal discipline. The creepy part is the worshipful rhetoric about Obama. He truly IS the Obamessiah!

Thanks to Daniel for saving the video and letting us put it back up after it got yanked

Urban middle school students uniquely display their understanding of the democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s health care reform plan. The chant “omega, alpha” symbolizes the end of the old way of thinking, and the newness in their ideas and thoughts. Barack Obama has invoked thought even in the minds of the youth.

The New York Times took on Joe Biden in my previous post, painting him as a great guy who just wants to give his family a good life in a pleasant, beautiful domicile. How do they treat Sarah Palin? Let’s check the headline: As Governor, Palin Has Focused on Developing State’s Resources. The underlying premise is “sure, she did well in Alaska, that state with the tiny population out in the middle of nowhere, but, does that mean she knows anything else? Can she really run a country? Does she have the right stuff? Does anyone really know anything about her?”

When Gov. Sarah Palin meets Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday in the vice-presidential debate, even her fellow Alaskans might hear for the first time some of her views on health care reform, education policy and other issues of state government.

Yeah, because that 80% + approval rating was based on the wind. Let’s go to the next two paragraphs.

In her 22 months in office, Ms. Palin has not addressed many of those matters in a significant way, pursuing a narrower agenda rooted in Alaska’s resource-based economy.

Ms. Palin has approved increased spending for education and the elderly, sued the federal government for listing the polar bear as a threatened species, and pushed for a bill that would have reduced state regulation of new medical facilities.

Hmm, that seems like education and healthcare policy. Here we go, though, the red meat for the liberals who read the paper

But by and large, oil and gas issues have dominated her tenure.

“You can’t think of another area where there’s been another drive or initiative coming out of the administration with the same level of intensity,” said Scott Goldsmith, a professor of economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Big Oil! Or, should that be written, Evil Big Oil! Obviously, she must be intimately linked with Big Oil, the destroyer of Gaia, the Bane of Liberal Existence, those evil people who jack gas prices up and harm the economy at the expense of the Middle Class! Yawn.

Interestingly, they actually do something they have yet to do for Barack Obama or Joe Biden, and delve in to several of the issues Sarah has been involved in, healthcare, education (remember, Alaskans do not know her positions, according to the Times), trade, environment, elderly, budget, and social issues. In each and every one, the Times attempts to put in a little rejoinder that spins what Palin did as not so good. Consider environment, which is not so subtle

Ms. Palin has taken positions that reflect her support for developing Alaska’s natural resources. Her views are largely in line with those of voters in her state, but not with environmentalists.

And, in Liberal World, to hell with the 80%+ people who support her, the environmentalists come first.

A good chunk of the story involves the oil industry, no surprise considering how important it is to Alaska, but, the constant mentions are, of course, meant to tie her to that EVIL industry, even when she is taking them on.

I’m waiting for the story on her house.

Ask yourself if you have ever seen an article this nice about Sarah Palin by the Grey Lady. Ask yourself why this artice just happens to come out the day of the VP debates. A bit of Biden Luv from the New York Times: An Everyman on the Trail, With Perks at Home

For the millions of voters getting to know him, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, portrays himself at times as an average guy who takes the train to work, frets about money and basically has led a middle-class life.

“Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine,” Mr. Biden said when Senator Barack Obama introduced him as his running mate. “You sit there at night after you put the kids to bed and you talk, you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills.”

He’s a swell guy, eh?

Although he is among the least wealthy members of the millionaires club that is the United States Senate — he and his wife, Jill, a college professor, earn about $250,000 a year — Mr. Biden maintains a lifestyle that is more comfortable than the impression he may have given on the campaign trail. A review of his finances found that when it comes to some of his largest expenses, like the purchase and upkeep of his home and his use of Amtrak trains to get around, he has benefited from resources and relationships not available to average Americans.

As a secure incumbent who has rarely faced serious competition during 35 years in the Senate, Mr. Biden has been able to dip into his campaign treasury to spend thousands of dollars on home landscaping and some of his Amtrak travel between Wilmington, Del., where he lives, and Washington. And the acquisition of his waterfront property a decade ago involved wealthy businessmen and campaign supporters, some of them bankers with an interest in legislation before the Senate, who bought his old house for top dollar, sold him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new home.

Hmm, that would seem to be problematic. Is yardwork the reason people donate to his campaigns? As for the waterfront property, that seems to be exactly the kind of issue that Obama rails about (though we know he doesn’t mean it.) I bet the Times has something to say on this obvious lapse in ethics

There is nothing to suggest Mr. Biden bent any rules in the sale, purchase and financing of his homes. Rather, he appears to have benefited at times from the simple fact of who he is: a United States senator, not just “Amtrak Joe,” the train-riding everyman that the Obama-Biden campaign has deployed to rally middle-class voters.

Ah. It’s OK, then. Sarah Palin fires a guy who refused to fire a trooper - who happened to be her ex-brother in law - who tazed a 10 year old, drank before and during shifts, illegally shot animals, etc, but, according to all the Liberal media, there is a problem with that.

Interestingly, throught the who article, which is about telling us what an average Joe Joe is, we get a look at Joe’s finances, and realize that this guy just isn’t very good with money. Good thing he is just running for the job of VP, eh?

So, where is the article on Palin? That post is up next.

The headlines of both articles gives a good idea of where the Times wants to push the reader. We’ll start with Sarah Palin, then get to the Gaffe Master after the jump

Past Debates Show a Confident Palin, at Times Fluent but Often Vague

Not since Dan Quayle took the stage in 1988 have debate expectations for a major party candidate been as low as they will be on Thursday for Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.

Setting the stage for calling Palin a lightweight

A newcomer to the national scene, Ms. Palin has given little indication that she has been engaged in a serious way in the pressing national and international issues of the day.

Sorry she couldn’t have been in the Senate since 1972 like Biden, and having failed 3 attempts for the Democrat nomination, or having been chosen as a VP with more experience then the top of the ticket. I doubt Clinton was real concerned with national or international issues while governor of Arkansas, either.

But a review of a handful of her debate performances in the race for governor in 2006 shows a somewhat different persona from the one that has emerged since Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, named Ms. Palin as the vice-presidential nominee a month ago.

Ms. Palin, a former mayor who had become a whistle-blower about ethical misconduct in state government, held her own in those debates. (There were almost two dozen in the general election alone; she skipped some, and not all were recorded.)

Some pleasantries thrown in to give an appearance of journalism, rather then opinionation

Her debating style was rarely confrontational, and she appeared confident. In contrast to today, when she seems unversed on several important issues, she demonstrated fluency on certain subjects, particularly oil and gas development.

But just as she does now, Ms. Palin often spoke in generalities and showed scant aptitude for developing arguments beyond a talking point or two. Her sentences were distinguished by their repetition of words, by the use of the phrase “here in Alaska” and for gaps. On paper, her sentences would have been difficult to diagram.

John Bitney, the policy director for her campaign for governor and the main person who helped prepare her for debates, said her repetition of words was “her way of running down the clock as her mind searches for where she wants to go.”

These tendencies could fuzz her meaning and lead her into linguistic cul-de-sacs. She often used less than her allotted time and ended her answers abruptly.

Um, uh, um, well, you see, Jim, ah, what I mean is. No mention of The Messiah’s constant and consistent speaking manner when his friend Mr. Teleprompter is off having a drink after a hard days work from the Times, or any other Credentialed Media outlet.

But, you can tell what the Grey Lady wants to do: paint Palin as a bubble headed lightweight. Period.

And on to Biden

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