Biden / Palin VP Debate, Oct 2nd @ 9PM EST

[texas*princess]

... but I will say, for the most part, that didn't seem like a debate.

A debate is someone asking a question, allowing Person A to answer, then allowing Person B to respond to that on the same line and then possibly Person A responding to that response.

A debate is NOT asking a question, allowing Person A to answer, then Person B say "I know I'm not answering the question, but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about THIS instead".

[pinksirfidel]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

... but I will say, for the most part, that didn't seem like a debate.

A debate is someone asking a question, allowing Person A to answer, then allowing Person B to respond to that on the same line and then possibly Person A responding to that response.

A debate is NOT asking a question, allowing Person A to answer, then Person B say "I know I'm not answering the question, but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about THIS instead".

She didn't say that she wasn't going to answer the question. Everyone keeps saying this...but what she actually said was "I'm not going to answer the way you want me to answer" (something to that effect). I guess it back-fired, but I thought it was pretty clever of Palin to look into the camera and say that she was going to answer straight to the American people! I actually thought that may be something she snagged from Hillary Clinton's playbook.