De eerste commentaren zijn binnen:
Washington Post, Chris Cillizza: "The Fix": Biden is on point: In each
of the first three questions he banged on McCain. Keep your eye on the
fruit... LINK <http://twitter.com/TheFix/statuses/944105776>
First Read (Domenico Montanaro): Biden is hitting his stride on foreign
policy. His nuance and directness on this subject is what made him so
good in those Democratic primary debates. LINK
<http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/02/1482278.aspx>
TIME: [Donna] Shalala on Biden's health care answer: "Nailed it." Women
in this room erupted in cheers. Who knew there were so many Democratic
CEOs? LINK
<http://www.time-blog.com/election_debates/2008/10/the-vice-presidential
-debates.html>
CNN (Candy Crowley): "How long have I been at this? Five Weeks?" I'm not
sure that's the greatest line for Palin to be using. LINK
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/02/crowley-palin-might-wan
t-to-avoid-this-line/>
ABC News (Rick Klein): Palin is falling into meaningless platitudes:
"Change is coming." "We're going to learn from the mistakes of this and
other administrations." LINK
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/liveblogging/2008/10/live-debate-blo.html>
Washington Post (Chris Cillizza): It's a hard argument for Palin to
make: we need change, we need new faces, we need John McCain? LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/>
TIME: John McCain "knows how to win a war." Has anyone told her he was
in Vietnam? LINK
<http://www.time-blog.com/election_debates/2008/10/the-vice-presidential
-debates.html>
TIME: Sarah Palin boldly vows to not answer the moderator's questions.
LINK <http://www.time-blog.com/election_debates/>
Politico (Jonathan Martin): The Palin response to Biden's Bush-bashing:
Too much looking backwards. She acknowledges that there have been "huge
blunders throughout this administration as there have in every
administration." LINK
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Huge_blunders.html?sh
owall>
Politico (Jonathan Martin): Now we know why Palin is trying to stick to
her message and avoid the questions and conversation at hand. That
climate change answer was rushed and uncertain, more like the Palin we
saw with Katie Couric than the Palin of the first 30 minutes tonight.
LINK
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Nearing_Couric_territ
ory_on_climate_change.html?showall>
TNR (Michael Crowley): A pre-emptive strike from someone who clearly
plans to spend the night dodging: "I may not answer the questions the
way that either you or the moderator want to hear..." LINK
<http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/02/going-meta.
aspx>
Washington Post Fact Check: Palin "Flatly False" on Biden Attack. Sarah
Palin just asserted that Sen. Joseph Biden backed John McCain's military
policies until this presidential race. That is flatly false. Biden was
an outspoken opponent of President Bush's troop increases in Iraq as
soon as Bush announced them after the 2006 elections. As Foreign
Relations Committee Chairman, he led the most heated hearings before the
troops were actually deployed. LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/first_presidentia
l_debate_oxfo.html>
New York Times: Gov. Sarah Palin boasted that Mr. McCain "sounded that
warning bell" about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, echoing some of Mr.
McCain's recent comments in which he portrayed himself as being on the
vanguard in warning about the impending financial crisis.
But the legislation was introduced more than 16 months earlier and the
debate over the issue had been going on for some time. He also only
added his name after an oversight agency issued a lengthy report
condemning practices at Fannie Mae. LINK
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/check-point-the-vice-pres
idential-debate/>
Washington Post Fact Checker (Michael Dobbs): Sarah Palin repeated John
McCain's claim that Barack Obama voted to increase taxes for every
American earning more than $42,000 a year. This is a considerable
stretch. LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/first_presidentia
l_debate_oxfo.html>
USA Today Fact Check on Palin Claim that Obama Voted 94 Times to
Increase Taxes: The facts: Non-partisan Factcheck.org called that
count, which has been cited before by Republicans, "inflated and
misleading." Examining the 94 votes at issue, Factcheck.org found that
23 were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all;
they were against proposed tax cuts. The 94 tally includes two, three
and even four votes on the same measure. LINK
<http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Fact
+check%3A+Context+of+key+debate+claims+-+USATODAY.com&expire=&urlID=3142
9234&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felection
2008%2F2008-10-02-fact-check_N.htm&partne>
New York Times Fact Checker: Ms. Palin castigated Mr. Obama's health
care plan as one that would be mandate a "universal government-run"
system in which health care is "taken over" by the federal government.
This is inaccurate on several levels. LINK
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/check-point-the-vice-pres
idential-debate/>
USA Today Fact Check on Palin Health Care Attack: The claim: Palin said
Barack Obama wants a "universal, government-run program" and "health
care being taken over by the feds." The facts: Obama's health-care plan
does not call for a government takeover. In fact, it isn't even
universal. It would only cover all children. Obama's plan would give
Americans the opportunity to have government health insurance, but they
also could pick a private plan. LINK
<http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Fact
+check%3A+Context+of+key+debate+claims+-+USATODAY.com&expire=&urlID=3142
9234&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felection
2008%2F2008-10-02-fact-check_N.htm&partne>
Washington Post Fact Checker: Palin Attack on Obama Iraq Record. Sarah
Palin oversimplified Obama's vote to stop funding U.S. troops in Iraq.
Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against the bill on the grounds
that it did not set a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Iraq. Obama made clear that he was in favor of funding the troops, but
could not agree to an indefinite extension of the war. The previous
month, most Senate Republicans voted against a Democratic bill
(supported by Obama) that linked funding of the troops to the
establishment of a timeline for withdrawal. McCain missed that vote.
LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/first_presidentia
l_debate_oxfo.html>
Washington Post Fact Checker (Jonathan Weisman): Gov. Sarah Palin was
erroneous when she claimed U.S. troop levels in Iraq are now at
"pre-surge" levels. LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/first_presidentia
l_debate_oxfo.html>
Washington Post Fact Checker (Jonathan Weisman): Palin repeated a
standard line offered by the McCain campaign--that Obama has not
admitted the "surge" of additional troops in Iraq worked. But in a
September interview with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, Obama said "the
surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. . . I've already
said it's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Obama has not, however,
retracted his opposition to the surge, and he has said political
reconciliation still needs to take place in Iraq. LINK
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/first_presidentia
l_debate_oxfo.html>
Auteur van de boeken "Van Rotterdam naar het Witte Huis" (Obama) en "Project Homerus" (DSB)