Definitely agree, Geoff.  In going from the spoken to the printed, there's a degree of lack of understanding, borderline panic and "If I talk long enough, something that sounds like an answer will come out." mentality that's lost.

Thanks for that info, Todd. It helps a lot. Watching the debates while chasing around a two-year-old means I miss a few things!

Try it with a four year old and five month old, my friend! I missed part of the debate puting Kaitlin to bed (bedtime is 9 pm, which means prayers, storytime, and various sleep delaying tactics my oldest must have inherited from me)!

the VP is an Executive Branch job, not a Legislative one, except in the very specific instance of breaking a tie in the Senate.

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The Vice-President is the President of the Senate. They can only vote to break a tie but that is not all they can do. They rarely preside over the Senate these days but it used to be much more common. The Constitution grants them no executive powers apart from taking the place of a dead or incapacitated President.

Missed part of it, myself, going to get some dinner for the family, so we're all in good company.  Coincidentally enough, wasn't back more than 5-10 minutes before the part we're talking about rolled around.

It's a shame that McCain supporters can't be this classy.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/angry-left-protest -cnt-sarah-palin-in.html

Geoff, I won't dispute that Palin may have a lack of experience. But isn't Obama equally inexperienced?

As we have stated I think the experience thing is so vague, on both sides, I am going with intelligence and ability to lead. I can boil it down to simple terms on Palin vs Obama experience thing

Obama wrote a book, Palin wants to ban them.

Obama prays, Palin believes you can pray gay away.

Obama is steady and stays the course, Palin didn't like the course so she quit that college and went to another, several times.

Obama helped his community get jobs, Palin abused her power to try to put one more on the unemployment line

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Well it is the City of Brotherly Love . . . .

But that ain't right.

Obama is steady and stays the course, Palin didn't like the course so she quit that college and went to another, several times

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You're aware that Obama went to three colleges, right?

Since "official" ID's as the only way to "legally" recognize a voter was cooly received, apparently contesting votes and their legitimacy could be the next strategy of a flailing GOP. It is a serious issue if the challenges are GOP-related, and not part of the natural process. If it is, then it's just another sign of how legal-eagles are being employed on a purely-political basis in a way that continues to undermine an already eroding system.

If I had my way and a "official ID" option wasn't possible, registration to vote would be 30 days (or however long it takes) before the election to give time to verify all new registrations.  Any non-verified voters who used early voting or mail in voting would have their ballots quarantined and labeled with a code that would tie the ballot back to them.  Then, as they were verified the ballots would go into the pool of valid ballots.

Currently, even if voter fraud occurs, it becomes too late to do anything about it because the invalid votes have already been mixed in with the valid votes.

It's a shame that McCain supporters can't be this classy.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/angry-left-protest -cnt-sarah-palin-in.html

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Ah, but they can:

Obama prays, Palin believes you can pray gay away.

Jodi, this annoys the hell out of me every time you say it.  I don't like Palin but that's an invalid statement.  It's the same thing as saying:

Obama believes everything that Wright believes.

You are smarter than that but you keep using a bit that ranks up there with people who say Obama is an "Aay-rab"