10:23 Biden is rolling again. Just hope people are still watching.

10:22 “[John McCain] is the man that we need to leave, lead…” –Sarah Palin

10:21 Joe Biden says maybe it’s his “excessive passion?” How self-flagellatory. (sp.?)

10:19 “Shining city on a hill”… attributed to Ronald Reagan by Gov. Palin. I believe that was John Winthrop… easy confusion, they were only… 300 years apart…

10:14 “A long talk with her principal” or “principle?” Did Biden just throw out the first type of ambiguity?

10:12 Can’t let that go: “Say it ain’t so, Joe; there you’ll go again; doggone it” and then a “shout out” to a 3rd grade class. Nothing against that but Palin is treating this like… the Emmys? **And the Reagan homage is a little weak when you misquote him.

9:45 I’ll write more after the debate. Biden is on a roll with Iraq, so I’ll leave it to him. I have a paper to write. More later.

9:43 One has to admire the restraint of any US Senator who can listen to that “white flag of surrender” line and not want to throw up all over his solid-color tie.

9:41 Prediction: things get progressively dicier for Palin from here on out. She has two major weaknesses: foreign policy and far afield.

9:39 Wow, was that the most intellectually dishonest discussion of gay marriage you’ve ever heard or what? Of course not–that’s sadly about as good as it gets these days.

9:38 Biden just de-answered the gay marriage thing, and replaced it with a superdupersubtle re-answer!–he said it should be left to different faiths! Without changing the civil definition, sure…but the second part of his answer removed the civil dimension from it entirely!

9:37 Sarah Palin is tolerant. Sarah Palin has a very diverse family. (Did she steal that from The Indicator?)

9:36 Here comes the gay marriage fudge. Still pretty forceful, though, from Biden.

9:32 I don’t get how, if humans are not the cause of global warming, we can so easily be the solution? Wow, Biden JUST said that…weird. Must be like, a really obvious point…

9:31 “I’m not one to attribute every activity of man to changes in the climate.” Me neither.

9:30 Climate change. Aw yeah.

9:27 prepositional phrase crutches (with the… with the… in the…) and more rearing of the head…. now we’re getting somewhere.

9:25 Five weeks….five weeks…five weeks… And then she commits John McCain to keeping every campaign promise… is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

9:24 Palin could not possibly describe a supposedly bitter fight with oil companies in cuter languange.

9:23 Palin responds with a reference to something Obama did…but I don’t get it.

9:21 “That’s what I call the ultimate Bridge to Nowhere.” Okay, I smiled at that one. And then he gave her such a look…

9:14 I’d like to say, 14 minutes into the debate, of course. Gov. Palin is actually pretty good at this. Biden ain’t no slouch either, but I’m imagining hoardes of Democrats sitting in the Red Room right now waiting to see Palin, I don’t know, drool on the podium or something. Doubt that will happen. And as soon as this is over the conservative media is going to go wild for this debate. Oh, well, crap.