Biden goes first. "Its simple fairness." 95% of people making under $100k will get a tax break. Simple fairness. This is not punitive. McCain wants to cut taxes billions of dollars to corporations and rich. Middle class is the engine of economy, McCain doesn't care about them.

Palin: I question that redistribution of wealth that you espouse. Obama tax increases will hurt small businesses.  Middle class paying taxes is not patriotic. Todd and I are middle class. Government should get out of way. Live long and prosper.

She is not answering questioning taxes on healthcare plan. Gwen asks her to respond.

Palin: Tax credits! Tax credits are budget neutral. (????) Wants to erase artifical lines against states. Competing across state lines. She doesn't answer question about taxing health care benefits. Ifill doesn't press.

Out there in the tv audience may be a little girl who will grow up to be the Hillary Rodham Clinton of 2050.  And we'll need one, because we'll probably still be cleaning up after a Bush.

Biden has gravitas tonight.  Which I think is more fitting for this week from hell than Palin's glittery pseudo-populism.  

McCain said greeted like liberators, enough oil to finance, no difference between Shia and Sunni, I love him but he's been dead wrong and Obama has been right.

Palin: no, but I am glad to see that we both love Israel!!!!  Too much fingerpointing about the past, you don't look forward. We're going to forge ahead, change is coming. McCain has been the maverick, he has ruffled feathers. Change is coming.

go back to Alaska Gov. Palin your family and your state needs you.

Biden: Cheney has been most dangerous vice president in the history of the country.

Biden: you are kind that my weakness is lack of discipline. I am who I am. I am not going to change. I am proud of my record. [enumerates] I know what its like to be a single parent, kids going to war, the idea that because I am a man i don't know what its like to take care of kids, to have kids that I don't know is going to make it (breaks down a little, talking about his two kids critically injured) things have to change, they can't stay the same.

I am so amazed with how much i like what biden is doing.

Palin: McCain's maverick position that he is in, Leiberman, Romney, all these mavericks, he is the man to win, we have to win the war, no more greed on Wall Street, and the partisanhip that is entrenched, changing is coming and McCain is the leader of that reform.

John is not a maverick __ wow, that was almost sad.

"Three weeks in Iraq, seven years in Afghanistan." Same amount of money.

Paln: In fa structure....

I would like to see the names and addresses of all the supervisors of elections on the internet and I want to see the Democrats give them a stern warning that anyone who tries to tamper with the election results will end up prison for a long time.

Joe answers a question about the bailout. It is long and ponderous.

Palin sets her answer in a playground, and average Americans worrying about the economy. The federal government has not provided the sound oversight we need.

McCain sounded the warning bell about Fannie and Freddie. No one listened to him. SHE TALKS ABOUT MCCAIN'S SUSPENSION TRICK -- putting the country first and bringing people together!!!!!!!

And there is no response. She gives the answer and it just sits out there.

She sounds more coherent.

Biden asked a question about bipartisanship. He asks if he can respond to Palin. He talks about fundamentally strong, shows McCain was out of touch.

Invokes Joe Six Pack and Hockey Moms, McCain will protect them. Americans need to live within their means.

She's still droppin' her Gs.

Biden: charge is not true. Obama did not vote to increase taxes. Procedural vote, McCain voted the same way. Note that Palin did not answer question about de-regulation.

She's the same way.

Biden: double aid to foreign countries. Can't support McCain tax cuts for rich and corporations. We can not afford to  hold up on commitment to create new jobs bu investing in alternative energy, or affordable healthcare.

that coupled with our right to privacy must mean that the War on Drugs is going down...

Palin: McCain doesn't say one thing to one group of people and something else to another. (I guess this is a dig at the "bitter" comment.)

Now she is talking about oil companies but it is incomprehensible. Big tax breaks not coming to oil companies anymore. OBama voted for energy plan that gave tax breaks to oil companies "that I had to undo." How the hell did she do that? (Ah, windfall profits tax.)

Ifill: so there is no promise you can't keep?

Palin: Well how long have I been at this, five weeks? So I have promised anything. Just reform, I will reform and support the people. (Then there is a silence --) "And John McCain hasn't made any promises he won't keep either."

Biden: something about why Obama voted for oil plan. Palin made windfall profits tax, he gives her credit for it, but Obama wants to do that on national level, McCain opposes it.

So this is how Palin is dealing with the moose in the headlights, I don't know what the frak the answer is moment: she just changes the subject.

And Gwen isn't always cutting her off.  

Now a question about climate change. She's talking very fast,  claims she is the first governmor to form climate change cabinet to deal with impacts. Have to deal with foreign countries who aren't as concerned about the climate as much as we do. We would never allow it.

I'm still thinking about that lip liner, is it or isn't it a tat ? :-)  Sorry but I like her suit! she's got great taste in clothes!

Biden, goes back to McCain voting 20 times against alternative fuels.

Ifill: do you support same sex benefits, as they do in Alaska?

Biden: yes, absolutely. Obama Adminstration will support equal Constitutional benefits. Not sure how they will make that constitutional if the Court doesn't agree.

Palin: doesn't support extending Alaska policy to the rest of the country because it might tend to get close to undermining traditional marriage. I am very tolerant. I have a very diverse family and friends. I am very tolerant. Gays can visit in the hospital, but I will tell America that I am for traditional marriage.

Biden: We don't support redefining marriage. But I take Governor at her word that she would not make any civil rights distinction between hetero and gay couples.

Ifill: is that true?

Palin: huminah huminah. I support traditional marriage, like he said.

IFill: so you agree! Let's move on.

Palin: the SURGE the surge is so successful. OBama voted against surge. We have a plan for withdrawal, but we don't need early withdrawal. We must have victory. The AlQaeda terrorists are still there. We need victory. The terrorists want to kill us.

Biden: With all due respect I didn't hear a plan. Bush and Maliki are now negotiating on terms that are consistent with Obama plan. McCain voted against any funding that had a timeline. So he did the same thing Obama did. Barack says it is time for Iraqis to spend their own money. We will end this war, with McCain there is no end in sight.

Palin: your plan is a white flag of surrender. Not what our troops need to hear. You opposed the surge and the surge works. We'll know when the war is over when the Iraqis can govern themselves and govern their people, Iraqis and the military will tell us when that is.

Iran hates Israel. Hey, she can pronounce nuclear. Obama would meet the Castro Brothers without preconditions. Dangerous and naive and wipe Israel off the face of the earth, should not be met with.  Rotting corpse.

Ifill: Secretaries of State advise some level in engagement. Do you agree?

Ifill: what has this administration done right or wrong.

Palin: two state solution. Bush and Rice still working on peace in these waning days. We will not let Israel be destroyed. We should build our embassy in Jerusalem. Israel has success in forging treaties.

Palin: we can't allow anyone else to have nukes. Our nukes are used for deterrence. Sanctions. Friends and allies. Kim Jong Il. Ahmedinejad. Can't let them have nukes. IFILL WAS ASKING A DIFFERENT QUESTION.

Can I talk about Afghanistan? We need to use surge strategy in Afghanistan and that would be a change. Obama says we are killing citizens. That's not true and to say that hurts our cause.

Biden: our commanding general in Afghanistan said TODAY the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan. Facts matter. We need more troops, government building, infrastructure. We spend more $ in three weeks in Iraq than we have spent in SEVEN YEARS in AFghanistan.

Nukes require comprehensive treaty. McCain opposed. Every other Republican supports it. Obama, first thing he did when he got to the Senate, reached across the ailse to Lugar and put together a piece of legislation.

Palin: McClellan did not say definitely that surge wouldn't work. We have allies working with us in Afghanistan. Different geography. But surge can work. McClellan said nothing inconsistent with it.

Palin: say it ain't so Joe, there you go looking backwards. OMG. OMG. THAT's her answer to how McSame is different?

Now she's talking about all the schoolteachers in her family.

her style has been turning more and more into a PARODY of herself.

because she IS a parody?

yeah, she's some role model for girls. the "you too can be an idiot, and if you manage to walk, chew gum, and not trip over your own two feet at the same time" female, you can be a token candidate.

Article I of the Constitution deals with the legislative branch, not the executive.