I dotn know why this is, but that is a strategy that people who are in debates follow.

Plus weren’t the ground rules of this debate very strict?

However bizarre and fictitious one of the examples was, the underlying case Biden was making, that the Bush policies in the Middle East have been so intensely focused on a military “solution” in Iraq and so misguided there and elsewhere that many of the unintended consequences have been diametrically opposed to the best interests of the U.S., is, of course, subject to debate. Certainly I believe it to be the case. Palin offered little to convince me otherwise. Our policies toward Iran, for example, have strengthened their hardliners internally and increased their influence in the region, including their support of Hamas and Hezbollah. It is precisely our belligerent insistence on Iran accepting ultimatums before we’ll negotiate with them that has lessened our influence and hurt the cause of internal moderates and secularists. We’ve paid insufficient attention to Afghanistan for too long and are beginning to see the negative results. The Bush approach toward Pakistan has left us in a precarious position with one of the known nuclear … excuse my elitist bias … ‘nuke-you-lar’ powers. Throughout the debate Palin offered little to suggest the McCain ticket would alter course in the region in any significant way. She made little more than the reflexive and ritualistic statements about Israel and jingoistic cracks about waving the white flag of surrender.

Neither VP candidate inspires much confidence.

If Palin had made up a story with that much detail that *never* remotely occurred it would be running until the day of the election.

That Biden either lied that much or was just that mistaken is egregious. If it had just been an offhand remark or just a single statement – but the detail in what he described given that it never happened was astonishing. If he was simply mistaken – how can a person be *that* mistaken and not have severe mental issues is pretty much impossible.

The ones on McCains voting were bad, but not really that bad (sadly they are normal in politics), one can even say he made a mistake. It isn’t that hard to find individual facts and get them messed up a little. However the Lebanon thing was, well, just incomprehensible in it’s detail and having never remotely occurred (or come close to occurring).

The point is that these are typical examples of political shadings and spin and interpretation. Biden’s misrepresentations, on the other hand, feature a surprising number of outright lies about things that can’t be argued about. How McCain voted. And the especially troublesome one about Lebanon. The most dreadful thing about that is that Biden is supposed to have worked in the field of foreign relations for umpteen million years (yes, that’s hyporbole), that his error was egregious and disturbing, and that the media is so biased it didn’t call him on it. Do you think for a minute that if Palin had said a thing so stupid it would not be highlighted in nearly every paper?

But what more concerned here is those who don’t care the liars leading WH and believing in their lies and leading them as what happened with GWB who elected by voters twice to WH.

So its US voter misery not candidates as such.

Biden wrong about McCain & Obama voting the same on a given tax bill. Biden wrong about McCain not sitting down with leader of Spain. Biden wanting to have it both ways on “clean coal”. Biden misrepresents McCain’s position on health care industry deregulation. Biden misrepresents McCain’s tax breaks to oil companies. Biden overstates Iraq’s budget surplus. Biden misrepresents McCain votes regarding alternative energy. Biden claims about “U.S. & France kicking Hezbollah out of Lebanon” downright incomprehensible.

Palin no less than Biden dissembles and distorts to make political points. Either she, too, is “a pathological, flagrant, unashamed liar of major proportions, or [her] ignorance is abysmal and unprecedented. Take your pick.” Then again, perhaps she is just a major party candidate doing what major party candidates do while courting votes. As is Biden.

It is only partisan nonsense to focus all the negative attention on either of these two politicians and all the positive spin on the other.

I haven’t finished with all the parts, I stopped at the Afghanistan question.

Your judgment is flawed. Given that premise, what else do you think matters? Socialist stooge? A person of good judgment that was a socialist stooge would be dangerous and not a stooge for much longer.

And the lie supposed “expert on foreign policy” Biden told about Lebanon is such a whopper it is stunning, as well as his flat-out lies over and over about McCain’s votes. Very material errora/lies, and not open to debate or nuance. Either the man is a pathological, flagrant, unashamed liar of major proportions, or his ignorance is abysmal and unprecedented. Take your pick.

And the MSM ignores it.