Joe Biden

And it's in the form of a website:

Obama and Biden have hit the ground running. If you notice, the site is barely finished.

OMFG!

This is why I love this man. When he minces with words, he totally cracks or shocks people up.

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.

This is just gold. Absolutely gold.

Tina Fey's Palin refusal to answer the question and when answering, always filling them up with non-sequiturs like "Maverick". Queen Latifah's Iffil surrendering her probing questions "to not appear biased towards Obama". And Jason Sudeikis' playing Biden as a contained lunatic was just full of win. This is a flawless skit.

Even though pollsters are saying that VP debates have little impact on outcome of elections, I have to say that last night it was Joe Biden's playground and he drank everybody's milkshake.

Mark (the father of my children) and I were watching the debate last night and were actually blown away by Joe Biden's performance. It wasn't that we didn't think he'd be good coming into the debate. It's just that compared to his performance during the primaries this may have been Biden's best debate performance yet.

Make no mistake though, it wasn't because he was against someone who was because he was against someone with less experience or intellect. Sarah Palin proved she could hold her own against Biden.

Biden had only one major opponent last night and that was himself. He needed to beat the image people had of him as being a bit of a bumbling idiot and it's for that matter that he totally knocked it out of the park.

It really was a great night for the boy from Scranton.

Biden was focused :

Now, with regard to the -- to the health care plan, you know, it's with one hand you giveth, the other you take it. You know how Barack Obama -- excuse me, do you know how John McCain pays for his $5,000 tax credit you're going to get, a family will get?

He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of you listening who has a health care plan through your employer. That's how he raises $3.6 trillion, on your -- taxing your health care benefit to give you a $5,000 plan, which his Web site points out will go straight to the insurance company.

And then you're going to have to replace a $12,000 -- that's the average cost of the plan you get through your employer -- it costs $12,000. You're going to have to pay -- replace a $12,000 plan, because 20 million of you are going to be dropped. Twenty million of you will be dropped.

So you're going to have to place -- replace a $12,000 plan with a $5,000 check you just give to the insurance company. I call that the "Ultimate Bridge to Nowhere."

yet at times folksy:

John McCain said there would be enough oil to pay for this. John McCain has been dead wrong. I love him. As my mother would say, god love him, but he's been dead wrong on the fundamental issues relating to the conduct of the war.

Yet the two most spectacular moments for Joe Biden came first when he tore into the "Maverick" meme :

CBS did a poll of uncommitted voters and asked the following :

Who won the debate? 46% say Biden, 21% Palin

Both candidates had their image improve with the debate but the two most important questions of the night were uncategorically in favor of Biden. 

"Who is prepared to be Vice-President?" Before the debate Biden had 81% but his numbers went up to 97% after the debate. Palin gates a passing grade of 55% (that would be a D- or F+) after the debate, up from 39%.

Yet it is the "Who has the ability to be an effective President?" question that is the killer : Biden was at 66% before the debate. He jumped up to 91%. Palin doesn't pass the test at all having gone up to 44% from a low of 35%.

The Iowa Independent hit the nail on the head when it comes to the Biden/Palin debate:

Palin’s forced folksiness falls flat in VP debate
By Douglas Burns 10/3/08 12:53 AM

For her part, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin – speaking with the programmed cadence of a GPS navigation system — used forced folksiness to deliver crammed material in the manner of a high schooler looking to score a good grade on a Spanish test. The kid may escape with a B-minus, but he wouldn’t be able to order a cup of coffee in Spain a week later...

With weird winks and homespunisms, Palin worked in several “you betchas” and “darn rights” and even a “shout out” to family in an effort to appeal to just folks.

As a small-town Iowan I didn’t find it genuine at all. She actually talked down to us, figuring that references to hockey moms and the hacknayed phrase “Joe Six Pack” and her self-application of the word “maverick” would hold more sway with than a discussion of the issues...

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Skepticism about Palin has been growing and for a good reason.

I've watched the segment where Sarah Palin talks about Roe vs. Wade and I have to tell you, I think it is one of the most insightful commentaries to come out of her mouth. I think she did a really good job at sounding level headed.

Yet listen to it very closely and what you can hear is an extremist taking her political views for a little mainstream spin and, fortunately for us, coming short.

So let me back track here a bit and go back to and issue that popped up a few weeks ago : Under then Mayor Palin, Wassilla was one of a handful of cities in Alaska that charged victims for rape kits. And what has been most astounding about this policy is Palin's response to the allegations : She claims to have not know about the practice. This from a woman that was voted into office in Wassilla by less than 7,000 votes.