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Huffington Post Ex-Bush Officials: Biden Won The Debate: Said Torie
Clarke, who worked with McCain back in Arizona and with the Bush
Administration's Department of Defense, had the following remarks on
ABC: " I think Joe Biden had his best night tonight. He came with one
mission, and that was to go after John McCain, and he did it, backed up
by facts. I think he did a better job tonight of tying McCain to the
Bush administration than Obama did last week. Matthew Dowd, who worked
for George Bush's communications team while in the White House, followed
Clarke and he too agreed that the Delaware Democrat took the evening.
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ABC Dowd 10:52 PM: "I think fundamentally the American public came away
with this tonight, just like they came away with the debate last night,
saying, you know, I'm leaning in Obama and Biden's corner, and this
didn't change my mind."
Gibson: I'm amazed that we have agreement from all three of you.
CNN David Gergen 10:05 PM: People underestimating how good Biden was
Biden "was really good"
CNN Alex Castellanos 10:38 PM : "The second part of the debate, you
know Republicans aren't going to win debates on Iraq, I don't care who
you put on that stage tonight, we're not going to win debates on Iraq
and we didn't tonight. But overall, we've had a rough week as
Republicans. You know, this has not been our best week."
CBS Bob Schieffer 10:35 PM: "I must say, I thought Senator Biden had a
very good night. He seemed comfortable with the facts, it was clear he
has dealt with these issues over the years, I thought he put his
experience on display in a very good way."
MSNBC Chris Matthews 10:35 PM: "Not only did she say I'm not going to do
any more interviews, it seemed, but she was saying, I'm not going to
listen to uh Gwen Ifill tonight. She said I'm not going to uh give the
answers the moderator wants to ask for. What an extraordinary
statement. I'm not going to play by the rules and when I get elected I
want more power in the office than it's had before. Hmm.. Not too much
humility here."
CBS Bob Schieffer 10:35 PM: "I must say, I found it a little
disconcerting, time and again, Governor Palin would just choose not to
answer the question and launch into some dissertation, sometimes talking
points, and not really address what Gwen Ifill had asked her."
PBS David Brooks 10:39 PM: "When he talked about his family and the
death of his wife, that is a moment people remember, what they remember
about the debates is the moment when you think you see the person and
that was a moment where I thought you saw Joe Biden."
MSNBC Andrea Mitchell 10:38 PM: "She didn't answer the questions. And,
in fact, she would say, I want to talk about taxes, which hadn't even
come up."
FOX News Frank Luntz 10:44 PM: With the Luntz Polling Group was in the
Anheuser-Busch Headquarters, When Asked Independent Voters Their
Reactions One Voter Said, "she had a presentation about her, but that
also annoyed me, too. She catered to kind of an adorability and lacked
substance."
Washington Post (Eugene Robinson): Exactly an hour into the debate, Joe
Biden began an answer by saying, "Facts matter, Gwen." To him, maybe. To
Sarah Palin, maybe not. The pattern, so far, has been one of Biden
presenting facts and Palin countering with... saying stuff. Sometimes
she throws in a fact, but mostly she seems to be offering a string of
approximate policy positions, encomiums to the American spirit, disputed
interpretations of Barack Obama's record and anecdotes from Alaska.
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Washington Post (Chris Cillizza): Go Biden Go! Again, very good moment
for Biden. The more he talks "Bush=McCain" the better. LINK
Philadelphia Inquirerer (Will Bunch): Biden points out that Ahmadinjad
isn't the surpreme ruler of Iran -- how come people don't bring that up.
Hammering McCain on the Spain issue -- the McCain camp really screwed up
on the way it handled that one. LINK
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Salon (Joan Walsh) How Sarah Palin blew it: Joe Biden and Sarah Palin
were talking to two different Americas Thursday night. Actually, that's
unfair to Joe Biden; he was trying to talk to everyone. I can say for
certain, though, that Sarah Palin was talking to - and winking at - her
own private Idaho, and for long stretches of the debate, it was an
unnerving experience.LINK
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Washington Post: (E.J. Dionne Jr.) McCain's Dicey Gamble: Gambling with
his presidential candidacy is McCain's right. Gambling with the country
McCain says he puts first is another thing entirely. And last night's
vice presidential debate took place at precisely the moment when a
majority of American voters decided that having Palin in line for the
presidency is more than a little bit scary. LINK
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CNN (Bob Schneider): Palin's answers do not lack confidence, they lack
coherence. LINK
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Washington Post (Chris Cillizza): She pivots to executive appearance
but her answer on the role of the vice presidency was REALLY bad. LINK
TIME: Palin didn't make any big mistakes, but she also didn't reassure
that she could handle the presidency. LINK
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Washington Post (Chris Cillizza): Palin: Worst spot in the debate.
Looking down at her notes a lot. Really struggling. LINK
TIME: This closing statement sounds like she's giving a speech to the
College Republicans. It's really amateur hour. LINK
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Politico (Ben Smith): As this debate has gone on, Palin's gotten more
abstract, Biden more concrete. LINK
ABC News (Rick Klein): Palin: "So Joe, there you go again." Anyone else
over that line? Couldn't it have been retired with Reagan? Shout-out to
third graders at her brother's elementary school? What world were we
just in there for a few minutes? LINK
CNN (Bob Schneider): Palin needs to define the terms she uses. Reform,
corruption, maverick...these are words that Palin often uses, but she
needs to define them. LINK
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FOX News (Aaron Bruns): Palin calls the supreme NATO commander in
Afghanistan, Gen David McKiernan, "McClellan." Does it twice. LINK
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Politico (Jonathan Martin): Biden explains how McCain is not a maverick
On voting for Bush's budgets, health care and education. No dispute from
Palin. LINK
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TNR: Palin's final quote was from Ronald Reagan, warning that without
vigilance, "you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our
children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America
when men were free."
In fact, Reagan was not warning about a general lack of vigilance about
freedom, he was warning what would happen if Medicare was enacted. LINK
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Auteur van de boeken "Van Rotterdam naar het Witte Huis" (Obama) en "Project Homerus" (DSB)