Sarah Palin sure did wink a lot during the debate.
My question is, why? Was she trying to woo America?
Or is she trying to pull something over on us?
Here's some video:
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I guess I'm an elitist. I dislike being WINKED at.
Absolutely !!
I interpret a wink as: "I'm really kiddin' ya ! "
Instead she is kidding herself.
Know what I mean nudge nudge ?
wft was THAT all about? Flirting with America? The McCane camp probably told her to do that.
Yeah Sarah if you get stuck on a question wink at the camera. I was waiting for her to start blowing kisses.
I guess thats how she is going to get other countries to go along with us. Winks and kisses.
Actually she did. Watch her entry to the stage again.
Palin may have finally disproved H.L. Mencken's famous maxim: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
You really can go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Palin did just that in the debate.
As they said on SNL, is it true when cornered you just become extra cute?
All that folksy stuff and winking may play well in this country, but every time I listen to her or watch her even when she is at her best, I wonder how she could ever be sent overseas to represent this country. Wow!
It shouldn't play well in this country. This country has a country full of women who have to work as equals on police forces, ,military bases, operating rooms, court benches and in every position a man has , where she would be run off her job on the rails if she went around behaving like Palin did, smiling, winking and using country homilies in answer to serious inquiry.
Be serious.
Thewinking and smirking was disgu$ting. I don't want anyone winking at me, especially a p0litician! That is c0ndescending and unpr0fessional.
Don't you want a vice president that you can get drunk with, listen to her problems while her husband is away, get winked at, andscru, while the kids are busy attentively occupying themselves by playing with crystal meth in the basement during those cold and dark Alaskan winters?
Nudge, nudge...wink wink...say no more.
How I wish Tim Russert had been moderating that 'debate'.
I miss Mr. Russert.
:-(
Russert still had to go by the rules. It was big headlines last week that the McCain campaign foughtto get the rules where the moderator nor Biden could redirect wuestions back to her on what she says.
Look up the VP debate rules and see. That's why Ms Ifill could not redirect her to clear up her screwed up answers.
Over here on Huff Po we should know better than to jump to conclusions.
Isn't that the same eye that McCain has been having a problem keeping open? What is it with that ticket -- are they really "soul mates" after all?!
The only thing that I could think off when I saw this was a Pipboy, you know, the person that smiles and winks in Fallout similar to 50s like politics, showing complete disconnect to the danger of Nuclear devastation.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Palin_s_Change_Equation_Fallout
Excuse me, while I finish throwing up. Please Sarah, your folksy, all-shucks, winking bullsh-t may work on the red neck meth crowd up in Wasilla, but your not running for Ms. Alaska, so save the winking for your boyfriend. Biden did an awsome job, and was factual, attacked McCain, effectively link them to the failed Bush policies. She came off as a twit from the backgcountry and who is denial about her party and their President W.
Bravo, bravo...my thoughts exactly..
Let's hope the 'folks' who would be enamoured by her down home schtick were all watching reruns of My Name is Earl, and not watch the 'debate'.
Spot on!
Name 1 Female leader who winks--Margaret Thatcher, Lady Diana, Indra Gandhi, Chancellor of Germany? What is she gonna do wink & smile at The President of Iran? This is not a f*ck me contest.
Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Christine Todd Whitman, Olympia Snowe... next?
I don't get it. I do not understand why they say people are taken in by this huckster. She is so transparently a con artist. A used car salesman would be a step up in compliments.
I'm sure I'm not the only mother in America who spent the first half of the debate saying, "For God's sake, get that hair out of your eyes!"
That was weird.
You didn't have to be a mother to have that reaction. The bangs in her eyes was distracting,
That said, what I found MOST annoying was her constant and inappropriate use of the world 'also'. At one point I was sure Miss South Carolina had put on a brown wig and glasses.
It's a crying shame to think that all of that winking is supposed to sway the voters into thinking that it's an intelligent thing to do to try and make some kind of connection to them. I thought she had something in her eye.
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First Posted: 10- 2-08 10:56 PM | Updated: 11- 2-08 05:12 AM