More people tuned into the 1st vice presidential debate last Thursday than are expected to tune into this week’s 2nd presidential debate. This seems surprising to me, how about you? The media is implying that people weren’t watching because they really wanted to know where Joe Biden and Sarah Palin stand on different issues, but rather because people were just hoping that Palin would make a complete fool of herself or that Biden would have one of his all-too-frequent “speak-os.” Does it really take that to get people watching debates?

Some “highlights” of the debate for me:

1) Both Biden and Palin spent their 90 seconds in response to the question about their achilles heels talking about all of their achievements.

2) Palin seemed to be spouting off memorized lines that often were not related to the questions she was asked. Don’t get me wrong, Biden did do his own share of topic changing, too!

3) At different times during the debate, both vice presidential candidates gave answers that were a bit difficult to “tap into” and pull a STANCE out of. I think one did this more than the other, but we might not agree on which one.

Well, I’m not the only one who found the debate humorous: SNL did their spoof of the event this past weekend, and I thought you might get a kick out of it. If you weren’t able to see the real thing, you can get up to date by the fake one. However, if you, like me, DID see the debate, I think it’ll be even better for you!

Here you go, a huge thanks goes out to Tina Fey and her writers…you, as Washington outsiders and mavericks, are really speaking directly to the American people. Click here to watch the hilarious fake debate!

Image credits: Google Images

We’re down to the last stretch of the 2008 campaign and I hear that Republicans are winning the media battle. My good friends at The Guardian have also told me that the Obama campaign believes in field work more than TV time. For Obama supporters out there, you’ll just have to imagine a new kind of scoreboard and not lose faith.

Now that the ballot tickets have been chosen, voters really seem to be getting behind their candidates and people don’t seem to be shy in declaring why the other ticket will ruin “our great nation.”

One thing that has surprised me is the degree to which the public has blindly thrown itself behind McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin. We really don’t know much about her and each day something new and rather disturbing keeps cropping up. Her “thanks but no thanks” to Congress’s BRIDGE TO NOWHERE wasn’t exactly how she painted it. It appears that she originally supported this bridge in her campaign for governor and only said no to it later when it started tainting her national image. While mayor, her city charged rape victims for the rape kits police used to help identify rapists. Despite saving money on rape kits, she still left her hometown $20 million in debt by the time she left office in 2002.

Watching Sarah Palin’s RNC speech a few weeks ago, I had to pinch myself to make sure that all that outpour of support for her was actually happening in real life. Once I realized I was awake, I checked my computer’s DVD drive to make sure I wasn’t watching a movie. This woman seemed too well-composed in front of the thousands and thousands of people she was speaking before not to be an actress. As she spoke of her humble beginnings in the PTA and told her hockey mom joke, I began to think I was watching Legally Brunette: Sarah for Vice President. How were these people rallying behind this previously unknown Alaskan governor? What made them think that someone they would like to sit next to at the hockey rink could run this country in the event that 71 year old McCain were unable able to finish his term? Seriously.

I’m not alone in these worries. Who knew Matt Damon and I were so similar?

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