Vice Presidential Debate: Reaction, Analysis (VIDEO)
Below is a round up of reaction to Thursday night's vice presidential debate: The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder called the debate a wash in terms of who w...
Below is a round up of reaction to Thursday night's vice presidential debate: The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder called the debate a wash in terms of who w...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011
The post-debate reaction has predictably fallen along party lines. But what universally agreed upon was that Palin did not answer moderator Gwen Ifill's questions, while Biden did.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
Likely most of the media will call the vice-presidential debate for Joe Biden. But Sarah Palin is that voice small town America has been yearning for, and her voice's reach, beyond the current election, has yet to be measured.
Rick Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
A well-regarded fact-wonk, it must have killed Biden inside not to chide his opponent for confusing a Civil War general with one in the Afghan crisis. But outside, cool as a cucumber.
James P. Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011
With our nation facing two hot wars abroad and an economic melt-down at home, substance matters. And when it came to substance, Senator Biden had a good night indeed.
Paul Reiser | Posted 05.25.2011
The moment when Biden talked about the death of his wife and child, and raising his sons himself was tremendously moving and genuine. It was a bold -- and very relevant -- point to make.
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
Thursday's debate was a serious and substantive affair. With superb moderating by Gwen Ifill, the conversation stuck to policy-driven sparring, but the footage is already taking a different shape on YouTube.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
After watching the debate, I am convinced that if the country somehow has a collective mental meltdown and elects Sarah Palin, she will be even more dangerous than Cheney.
Suzy Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is this child up so late every time there is a camera op? Why isn't this baby sleeping in a crib or bassinet somewhere with a sleep sheep or some other sound apparatus lulling him into night-night?
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
In Sarahland, answering questions asked to you is optional. You say what you want to say, regardless of what that old-school questioner has to offer.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011
Her performance wasn't the disaster that some in the GOP have been fearing. But cliché was piled upon cliché as Palin sought to paint Obama as a goofy radical who would end up running America off the rails.
Nora Ephron | Posted 05.25.2011
CNN had a graph running along the bottom of the screen during the debate, allegedly representing the moment-by-moment feelings of a group of independent voters. This is no way to watch a debate.
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Biden did more for the equality of the sexes with his honest display of paternal emotion during the vice presidential debate than Sarah Palin's presence on the executive ticket has or will ever do.
A.J. Bockelman | Posted 05.25.2011
It was very interesting to watch Palin when the camera was on Biden. On foreign policy and other points where she gave light answers, she was intently reviewing her notes on the podium.
Joseph Romm | Posted 05.25.2011
Palin told Katie Couric "I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate." The debate transcript reveals she still can't get her talking points straight on this issue.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Madeleine Albright: Senator Biden's Night: Given the challenges our nation now faces, we need a vice president who can be persuasive with foreign lea...
Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011
Here was Joe Biden who's been in government for 30- plus years who never had laid eyes on this woman. Don't let them tell you this is a good thing.
Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times has an article on the preparations Senator Joe Biden is taking for his debate tomorrow night with Sarah Palin: One danger for Mr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011
Sarah Palin can win the vice presidential debate before she even hits the stage, and the McCain campaign knows it. The plan is risky, but their aim i...
AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
LANSING, Mich. — Democrat Joe Biden has tapped Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to be the stand-in for Sarah Palin as he prepares for next month'...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011