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Full VP Debate 2008 from Cspan
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin participated in the only vice presidential debate. Gwen Iffil moderated, and questions focused on a wide range of topics that included foreign and domestic policy issues.
The debate was presented in a full-screen format provided by the network pool showing candidates as they spoke with few shots as they reacted to their opponents’ remarks. Questions posed by the moderator were also summarized in the lower third of the screen.
The C-SPAN player is pretty cool, you can jump around the timeline quickly, though it only embeds with that tiny screen.
Who Needs Tax Relief More?
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Segment of the VP debate - Rampant deregulation and tax relief for the super rich seems to be the McCain panacea. And deregulation, it’s now good for your health care too, according to McCain.
Biden sounds believeable. Palin reminds me of an infommercial spokesmodel, dispensing statistical quarter-truths. When challenged she responds with rehearsed talking points on some other subject, and a smile.
Keating Five - McCain’s Integrity - 1989 version
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).
McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981,[11] and McCain was the closest socially to Keating of the five senators.[27] Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.[25] Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.[28] In addition, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard Keating’s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.[7][29]
- pasted from wikipedia.
Biden Emotion…Palin Talking Points
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Fear not, this clip contains only 5% Palin. I couldn’t bear to listen or look at the VP debate tonight. But thankfully other folks did and are gathering choice clips for your YouTube pleasure.
