WIT AND HUMOR – A FUNNY SITE BY BOB WAYNE

Sarah Palin didn’t implode tonight and I’m sure Joe Biden was glad to see it. It’s hard to debate someone who can’t put a coherent sentence together. And it certainly wouldn’t help the cause of women in politics if she’d made an utter fool of herself like she did in the Katie Couric interview.

However, it was perfectly obvious that she was hanging on by the skin of her teeth in this debate. You could see she was scrambling to remember what the McCain camp coaches told her to say, especially in the foreign policy questions. And when she ran out of steam, she would fall back on political sloganeering and sound bites.

Joe Biden sounded presidential. Everything he said sounded like he was speaking from experience or from personal conviction. And unlike Sarah Palin, he actually answered the questions the moderator asked.

Questions such as “What’s your personal Achilles heel?” or “What conviction change have you made in your time in politics?” Joe Biden showed a confidence that demonstrated he didn’t mind showing that he was human. He openly admitted and joked a bit about his well known personal issues, and that he had learned and grown as a person and a politician over the years.

Sarah Palin seemed so insecure and afraid to show any weakness that she ignored the questions. Also, she’s obviously had so little experience as a politician, she hasn’t had time to change her mind. And maybe she’s just unaware that she has any personal failings.

Joe Biden also had a personal moment talking about losing his wife and child in the accident. We really got to see beneath the iron exterior and I really got the feeling that when families talk about their pain, he gets it.

I actually enjoyed listening to Sarah Palin when she would talk about her experiences and choices as Governor of Alaska. Those times I got to see Sarah Palin the executive. she looked and sounded sure of herself because she was on comfortable ground. But she’s definitely not ready to step from governor of a backwater state to a “heartbeat away” from Leader of the Free World.

But the worst was when she started getting folksy and began sputtering about “Say it ain’t so, Joe” and “Gosh darn it, we need…” I was embarrassed. I can just see her walking up to the German President and saying, “Gee, I was just sittin’ around the table with the kids this mornin’…”