CNN has a webpage called Debate Report Card where you can read what grades analysts gave the two Vice-Presidential candidates for their debate efforts. Sarah Palin got 2 A's, 2 B's, and a C from the analysts, while Joe Biden got 3 A's and 2 B's.
Then, at the bottom of the page, you can assign the grade YOU think the candidate deserved. The average of 43844 grades for Sarah Palin was a D. (I gave her an F.) The average of 36,001 grades for Joe Biden was a B.
CNN also has a page that analyzes the language of the debate in much the same way you can get a document analysis in Microsoft Office - ease of reading, grade level, passive sentences, etc. Palin used the passive voice more often, which the analyst says means she "deflected responsibility."
Here are some stats from CNN's language analyst:
Grade level: Biden, 7.8; Palin, 9.5 (Newspapers are typically written to a sixth-grade reading level.)
Sentences per paragraph: statistically tied at 2.7 for Biden and 2.6 for Palin.
Letters per word: tied at 4.4.
Ease of reading: Biden, 66.7 (with 100 being the easiest to read or hear), versus 62.4 for Palin.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Why Biden for VP?
Why, ultimately, did Barack Obama select Joe Biden as his running mate? I think we heard the answer last night, from the lips of Sarah Palin. She has repeated several times that John McCain is the only candidate who has fought for his country. Last night she was all over Joe Biden about his son in the National Guard, piling on the respect for him and his family. I think all other things being equal, this respect our country gives to people with military service, and Beau Biden's National Guard service, were what pushed Biden over the top and into the VP slot.
Happy Anniversary to Michelle and Barack
Thank God it is the Obama's anniversary. I'm sure I'm not the only one happy to see pictures of beautiful white roses and read about a romantic Italian dinner for two. This is much easier news to cope with than all the politics and economics we've been voraciously consuming. We all need some cheering up after the events of this week.
House Passes Bailout OOPs I mean the Economic Stabilization Act
Check here to see how your representative voted. Patrick Murphy (8th PA) voted yes as he did last time; same with Allyson Schwartz (PA 11th).
Krauthammer: Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry
Writing in the Washington Post, Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer endorses Barack Obama:
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self- definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president."
Best comment:
binkynh wrote:
Krauthammer, is that really you?That's twice in the last two weeks I agree with you. To celebrate, I'm having a six pack tonight. You becha!
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self- definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president."
Best comment:
binkynh wrote:
Krauthammer, is that really you?That's twice in the last two weeks I agree with you. To celebrate, I'm having a six pack tonight. You becha!
Sarah Six Pack
Palin said on the radio:
"Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that a normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it."
In his essay, Sarah Six-pack Needs To Put Country First by Stepping Down, Bob Cesca contrasts Sarah Six Pack's persona with George Bush's Six Pack persona (say that 5 times fast.) Whoever thought George Bush would come off favorably in comparison with ANYBODY?
Cesca writes:
"Here's the difference, though, between President Bush's Joe Six-pack persona and Sarah Palin's. For better or worse, George Bush -- and I can't believe I'm writing this -- had attained a respectable level of schooling while also coming from a family deeply rooted in American politics. In other words, be it the fake Crawford "ranch" and his cowboy drag, George W. Bush is mostly pretending. He's "Joe Six-pack" insofar as he's running away from his silver-spooned, cheerleading, Skull & Bones background. That doesn't mean he's any less ignorant. He's still a disconnected, incompetent nothing. But at least he possesses something resembling the heft required of the office . . . Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is, by all indications, a bonafide hooplehead -- so dangerously out of her depth and so delusional -- perhaps blinded by ambition -- that she is in total denial about the real-world ramifications of her ineptitude. Instead, she's excusing her embarrassing television interviews and farcical candidacy as an historical breakthrough for "normal Joe Six-pack Americans." "
"Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that a normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it."
In his essay, Sarah Six-pack Needs To Put Country First by Stepping Down, Bob Cesca contrasts Sarah Six Pack's persona with George Bush's Six Pack persona (say that 5 times fast.) Whoever thought George Bush would come off favorably in comparison with ANYBODY?
Cesca writes:
"Here's the difference, though, between President Bush's Joe Six-pack persona and Sarah Palin's. For better or worse, George Bush -- and I can't believe I'm writing this -- had attained a respectable level of schooling while also coming from a family deeply rooted in American politics. In other words, be it the fake Crawford "ranch" and his cowboy drag, George W. Bush is mostly pretending. He's "Joe Six-pack" insofar as he's running away from his silver-spooned, cheerleading, Skull & Bones background. That doesn't mean he's any less ignorant. He's still a disconnected, incompetent nothing. But at least he possesses something resembling the heft required of the office . . . Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is, by all indications, a bonafide hooplehead -- so dangerously out of her depth and so delusional -- perhaps blinded by ambition -- that she is in total denial about the real-world ramifications of her ineptitude. Instead, she's excusing her embarrassing television interviews and farcical candidacy as an historical breakthrough for "normal Joe Six-pack Americans." "
Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart (more humor for those who need it)
This came in my e-mail this morning:
In case you missed the winks
Here they are, with a little music to go along: ( I can't get a clip that has her speaking while winking, I'll keep looking.)
Troopergate - Judge upholds validity of legislative investigation
Just before Biden and Palin debated last night, Alaskan Judge Peter A. Michalski dismissed the lawsuit filed by five Republican legislatures that alleged the Alaskan legislative investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was politically motivated. Read more about it here.
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