The Palin-Biden Debate.

I was disappointed by the debate, which I was able to watch on the TVU player here in China. Palin did not look like a conservative to me. She was bascially me-too on the Global Warming debate. She went along with the notion of reducing carbon emissions. Doesn't she realize that going along with AGW, threatens the freedom and prosperity of so many people in America and around the world? Why didn't she have the courage to challenge Biden on that bullshit? And her take on the Finanical crisis: greed on Wall Street. Greed runs through the human heart. It is the source of booms in the economy; it is also the source of busts; and it has under the guise of capitalism, made the life of the average man so much better. It was truly the greed of all the population by living on credit that caused the crisis. It was a lack of courage of politicians from both parties that started the problem and kept it going. A leader sometimes has to scold the people but she didn't do it. She could have also talked about how the dirty hands of the Democrats were in the sub-prime mortgage including Obama who as a community organizer sued banks for not giving mortgages to his voters, for the redlining as it were.

She did not seem to be the Reaganesque Conservative that her proponents had been saying she was. She didn't seem the Sarahcuda that the foaming-at-the-mouth left claimed she was. No, she was McCain's running mate and having to go along with McCain's wrong-headed positions on AGW and the Financial Crisis, she look compromised. What a shame.

But then some initial sampling of opinion, says she won the debate on style.

I will have to ask the students about Biden saying that China is building 1 to 3 coal plants a week and so polluting the atmosphere and America.