"But why is all the rum gone?!"

[serinde]

I have consumed rather a lot of Plymouth gin, and must retire now.

Summation: Biden utterly pwn3d Palin on a lot of factual points, but had a couple chokes that I am sure did not help him fly with the voting base, and occasionally prosed on past the American baseline TL;DR point. OTOH, his momentary small breakdown on the topic of one's own child's death probably played very well in Peoria. Palin came off far, far better than her recent public exposure led us to expect, but it's a sad day in American politics when a candidate is lauded for only making a partial ass of herself.

It is worthwhile to note that, although spoken language is perforce a slightly-separate animal from written language, the partial transcript shows that Biden's remarks are generally pretty sensible in either context, where as Palin's generally come out as gibberish if you see them written down. As I remarked to shechameleon, "if you try to diagram her sentences, they look like bugsplat."

Comments

[eagle]

Had you already seen http://www.slate.com/id/2201158/?from=rss ? Alas, not enough diagrams and it's pre-debate, but I quite enjoyed it.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I had not!! Oh, that is full of delight.

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

Odd, you'd think a communications major and a freakin' sports caster would use more active verbs.
"I appreciate this privilege of being able to be here and speak with Americans." Guh...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I swear, communications majors have some of the worst writing and grammar skills. I get them every so often, and reading their prose can be painful.

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

This just about sums it up...
http://pics.livejournal.com/wylde_writer/pic/00004zb0/

[briony530.livejournal.com]

We watched CNN with the approve-o-meter thingie, and Biden totally blew her away with that audience. He would peak and stay at high approval through his statements, and she tended to have shorter bouts of YAY.