Thanks mang. I respect your point of view too. I agree in part and disagree in part. I agree that she didn't always answer the question being asked. She actually admitted she wouldn't answer every question. I agree that at times she wasn't specific enough. There were also times when she seemed to be reading too much. She also stared at the camera too much. Made her look robotic at times.
That said, overall, she was engaging, smart, funny, had a good grasp of issues, and had great poise. As she said during the debate, she's only been at this for five weeks. She went toe to toe with a man who was been in D.C. for thirty years. I thought that was pretty impressive.
After watching it I also listened to part of it on the radio and had the same opinion. She was just better than Biden overall.
Biden did better than I expected. He didn't put his foot in his mouth. He was confident, even when wrong. I think part of the reason I don't like him is I don't like his policies. That did admittedly color my opinion a bit.
I'm sorry Beach... I disagree in a lot of ways.
Is she likable, certainly... She's definitely "down home", but to not answer those questions because she didn't feel like it, wasn't about her answering what she "wanted" to, it was about her answering what she knew... the questions she didn't answer and I'd say it was easily half of them, were simply questions she didn't answer because she didn't have a clue about them.
She was given the format of the debate ahead of time and could only muster out prepared statements.
Those questions were questions being asked by the American people... You think it's ok for a VP candidate to decide to not answer questions which are important to the American people?
He answered with factual statements, even if sometimes incorrect. She certainly didn't debate his correctness on many of his points, which is what she SHOULD have done had she had any idea what the heck she was talking about.
Myself and my buddy waited for a good 30 minutes for her to actually answer a question, and the question she answered was the one about climate change... Aside from that it was the same rhetoric as I've always heard.
I didn't find her impressive at all, and the fact that the hard line conservatives are applauding her mediocrity is astounding.