Vice President Debate breakdown

Can I call you Joe?-Palin


Biden- Not to let Wall street run wild. make sure CEO don't make money off the bailout, to watch out for the tax payers and homeowners.

Palin- refers to a kid's soccer game, fear in the parent's voices. McCain represents reform.
Shrink gap of polarization

Biden- has done a lot over his whole career. Comments on the economy that 9am the economy was good, at 11am the economy was in the crisis.

Palin- American workforce is the great thing, has a track record of reform, and 96% of his vote has been along the lines of his party. Thinks McCain is the reform.

Lenders or greed on wall street?

Palin- it was greed and the lenders tricking people into buying the homes that they couldn't afford. Need to demand oversight. tax relief for the people, says that 94 times Obama sided with tax increases.

Biden- republican response was deregulate, thinking that wall street could regulate itself. Obama was to deregulate health care. middle class needs relief. States that McCain voted 477 times for tax increases.

Raising taxes for people making over 250,000.

Biden- middle class is struggling and McCain is taking taxes from those making less than 250,00- but wants to add billions to tax cuts for the wealthy. Redistribution of wealth. The 5000 health care tax credit will be taken out of the taxes that the people pay for health care through their jobs, which will cause thousands to be dropped from the insurance -this is the bridge to nowhere

Palin- government is not always the solution but the problem. The government is to get out of the private sector. McCain wants to let people can purchase their own health care. 5000 health care tax credit is his solution.

Budgets and Energy

Biden- eliminate wasteful spending- like tax dodging/ McCain is adding billions for tax break for the oil companies. McCain does not support windfall profits tax but Palin supports the tax.

Palin- Energy plan that Obama voted for, but she broke up that plan in Alaska because it was not. She hasn't made any promises to do anything but stand up for the American people


Bankruptcy

Palin- there is the corruption and greed on wall street. goes back to energy- need to become energy independence is the key to getting the economy.

Biden- mortgage crisis needs to be dealt with

Climate change.

Palin- Alaska see the climate change more than other states. Clean up the planet. conserving fuel. drill baby drill. states that it is clean and safe to drill. capping carbon emissions .

Biden- climate problem is man-made but if you don't understand the cause of the problem then you won't have a solution. McCain voted 20 times against alternative energy sources and their only solution is oil. need to uses the clean coal has supported clean coal burning for 25 yrs.

Granting same sex benefits.

Biden- they support same sex benefits, don't support same sex marriage but civil rights should be the same.

Palin-no if it doesn't support the traditional man and woman. Should just be tolerant. she states she has a diverse family but does not support marriage of one man and one woman

Iraq and having a clear exit plan.

Palin- need a plan don't need to lose there so that we don't loose in Afghanistan. states that Obama did not support troops. States that the plan is a white flag of surrender. States that Biden supported McCain until he became the VP pick

Biden-Obama has clear plan- says that there needs to be time line for troop support both McCain and Obama did not support the end for troops. McCain voted to cut off funding for troops because there was a time line to end the war.

Nuclear Iran or unstable Pakistan?

Biden- Pakistan already has and used nukes but Iran does not need to get those nukes. McCain is only focused on Iraq

Palin- cannot be allowed to get nukes

secretary of state advocate engagement with enemies..

Palin- Those that hate America should not be met with we need to meet with the

Biden- allies have said that we need to sit down and talk with the enemies Bush only sate down to do this after 5 years of being in office, McCain will not sit down to talk with Spain who is one of our allies

2state solutions

Palin- no 2nd holocaust or support Israel. should stop playing the blame game on the bush administration. Change is coming

Biden- the policy has been a failure under bush administration. The policy will be changed must occur to support Israel. How different is McCain will be different from Bush because there isn't any change.

Should there be a trigger for the use of nuclear weapons?

Palin- be all and end all of the people and the planet there should be no nuclear proliferation, then jumps to Afghanistan, surge principles that have worked in Iraq should be used in Afghanistan.

Biden- surges will not work in Afghanistan. we spend more money 3 weeks in Iraq than we have in 7 yrs of rebuilding in Afghanistan. Need to do something about keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of the enemies.

Interventions is Bosnia, Iraq, Dar fur?

Biden- interventions saved lives and it worked in Bosnia, Iraq stated that it would be a mistake to intervene. we need to stop the genocide in Dar fur and get the world to act, support of the no fly zone. says that he did not support McCain military strategy

Palin- voted for the war but now you are against it. Doesn't understand how Biden support McCain's military strategy and not Obama's. Alaska permanent fund savings fund for Alaska but that legislation hasn't passed yet. Agrees with needing to help Darfur. says that McCain knows how to win a war.

Biden- A Biden administration vs Obama administration- Biden states that he will carry out Obama's policies. that the people in american has gotten the short end of the stick and there needs to

Palin- McCain vs McCain administration- agree to disagree, has never had to check her opinions at the door. Continue McCains work bring the government back to the people. Say it ain't So JOE. Need flexibility in NCLB.

What the vice president mean?

Palin- we know what the vp does, surprised that the constitution gives the vp that much power. do what is best for the people in support the presidents agenda

Biden- McCain is not supporting education programs, legislative initiatives, will be giving Obama advice. Cheny has been the most vp of the united states, vp is supposed to give the best advice, to think that vp is not supposed to be over the legislative branch and Cheny has made that

Discipline- What is your Achilles heel?

Palin- mayor, business owner, oil regulator are her experience, we have not got to allow, change is coming in McCain

Biden- thinking that he has a discipline problem but he doesn't. Talks about the maverick, McCain has not been a maverick on the things that are most important.

Policy issues to change a long view and the policy needed to change.

Biden- battled against a judge for civil rights and other liberties.

Palin- vetoed legislation in Alaska

Bringing the sides together.

Biden- not questioning other peoples motives. there is a need for fundamental change.

Palin- working together for the greater good- support the ticket that creates jobs. gonna fight for America and fight for freedom and thinks that her children will one day talk about a day when the people were free under McCain


I don't know a lot about Biden but the more I learn about Palin the more it makes me want to for more against her. The comment that stuck out most to me was that she said hat she's only been at the VP nomination for a little over 5 weeks. 5 WEEKS!!! I need people to wake up on this. voting for McCain is like putting Palin in office. We don't know his health status, people can lie all the time. Just think, McCain dies in office and GUESS WHAT, Palin is the new president and she has NO experience with this. Yes I can't knock the woman for what she may have done in Alaska. But Alaska is less populated than one block of New York so yea you can probably run a whole lot more when you don't have that MANY people to govern in the first place. I mean just think the next dictator to slap us back to the ice ages is Palin. She doesn't even know key issues in the US history. I'm starting to even wonder if she knows that the constitution exist and that they also created a Bill of Rights for a reason.

So the entire time I'm watching this debate I can't help but notice that Palin could not answer any questions unless she could some how relate them to what she has done in Alaska. She could not answer any question without talking about energy. It's not all about energy. There are some other things to help keep the UNITED STATES going into the 21st century. I think someone really needs to get her some more cheat sheets to look at other than just things about Alaska and Oil. I think cliff notes creates one for the Constitution.

Biden has the experience and he's even run for president before. I mean people I understand that Barack Obama has been short lived for his experience in the US Senate but geez, at least he has Biden to back him up, there is a balance there. McCain has nothing. I guess that Maverick was really planning on flying solo on this one but God help us if McCain starts slipping and he's the one the people will have chosen to deliver us in a hand-basket.

After tonight I hope all the people realize what a GREAT MISTAKE this will be if McCain steals this election.