Just Another Debate Post
Like many of my colleagues I attended a party last night to watch the Vice Presidential debate. The crowd was a group of liberal New Yorkers, there to boo and bemoan Sarah Palin, and pray that Joe Biden remained relatively gaffe-less.
The host of the party created a “Sarah Palin Bingo” card, where every time Palin said one of her catch phrases (Joe Sixpack, referring to John Mcain as a Maverick, using a folksy story) a chip was placed down on the scorecard. It took maybe 20 minutes before someone screamed BINGO! and the game was over.
Here is Matt Burke, 37 talking about bingo, and his expectations for the debate:
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There were boos and cheers and even some tears. The debate seemed to conjure the best and the worst in us.
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Jonah Burke, the host of the party, felt that Sarah Palin had done nothing to impress him, despite sounding more competent than she had sounded in previous interviews. A fervent Obama supporter, Jonah’s only complaint with Biden had to do with the state of his hair.
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Not everyone who attended the party was as partisan as it’s host was. Mikkel Hogp is a journalist from Denmark. He was delighted to watch the debate with some of his American friends, and was able to watch Sarah Palin with a more unbiased perspective.
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Mikkel went on to talk about some uniquely European perspectives on the candidates.
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