Three things:
– Both candidates have actually been pretty good about answering the questions asked to them.
– The only “body blow” level rebuttal sadly goes to Palin when she totally flummoxed Biden on the General’s strategy in Iraq comment.
– You keep saying McCain is a Maverick. We get it.
Palin only read off the prepared comments she had. She ignored almost all of the questions.
The lack of fact, example, or supporting data really stood out to me. She’s a puppet.
Okay, so after posting this and on the drive home I actually thought about it more and realized that the warm fuzzy “Oh hey, they were actually answering questions” feeling was mostly from Biden.
I do have to say that whoever prepped Palin did a very good job, she seemed to have a response to most things (and usually on topic if not a direct rebuttal). Whether or not those responses were factually correct, however, is up to the pundits to decide.