General in Afghanistan says surge effort won’t work in there.

Now this exchange confused me abit. Barry has repeatedly said that he wants a surge of support for Afghanistan. Cent Command has repeatedly said that adding 40,000 or so troops would not be feasible and would put a serious strain on the logistics attempting to supply these new troops. So both are actually wrong. What they are wanting is the specialized military groups. Marine expeditionary force and 10th Mountain, which I do believe parts of are going there right now. Our plan in Afghanistan really included more help from Pakistan, which sad to say has been less than helpful. I know the Marines have been wanting to take a shot at Afghanistan for 8 months now, and have been told no. Afghan really is a UN mission now, and we have a responsiblity to the UN and the members who have troops there. I personally don’t like it when we turn stuff over to the UN, it always gets messed up afterward. – Lorica

But I doubt she convinced any leaners toward Obama to change their minds.

I’d guess the national polls over the next few days will show a slight McCain uptick, as the usual flibbertyjibbits flip their jibbits yet again.

And that’s about all.

I did get the feeling, for what it’s worth, that by the end of the debate Biden had developed some respect for Palin, and he appeared to actually like her.

She tried to get in some comments about Alaska’s energy and being a Gov of an energy producing state. Personally that is one of my biggest disappointments with the Bush/Cheney admin. Both have been oil men, and should know how and what to do to avoid this present crisis, but neither really did a thing. I remember Cheney talking about there being 66 different blends of gasolene, and that we needed to get that down to the top 6 or 10. That it would save a huge amount of refining time, and stop that bottle neck. Sadly nothing has been done. I do hope and pray that changes. – Lorica

VICTORY!

Our doctrine in war should be that our enemies will suffer only one of two ends to conflict; they may either unconditionally and immediately surrender, and barring that, their only other option is to be completely and utterly annihilated by the forces of Freedom.

Forget sending Romney to Michigan, unless he’s Sarah’s opening act. Get Sarah up there. Get her out to all the battle grounds. In fact, get her out to the same states and cities at the same time as Barack Obama and let’s see who the American people gravitate towards.

Without Sarah Palin on the ticket, I’d be voting solely against Obama on 11/4. With her on the ticket, I’m voting for one of us.

BTW, Kathleen Sullivan, I hear A-1 sauce goes great with crow!

But didja notice how Gwen Awful didn’t ask anything about guns, abortion, or energy independence – all subjects Sarah! coulda knocked outa the park

Instead, we get a non-issue like gay marriage, yawn.

Nope, no bias here, move along.

Going into this debate, the luster that had surrounded Sarah Palin had started to fade and her glittering aura a had begun to tarnish due largely to some unflattering interview performances. 
The interviews with Gibson and Couric both featured a Pa…

Governor Palin played to the camera and the people, put Joe on the defenisve almost from the start and rarely let up. It was fun watching Sarah slap him around for the better part of an hour with a smile on her face.

So much for the concerted, badly edited MSM attempts to paint Governor Palin as a blithering ditz! /

Jack.

I don’t think Governor Palin did as well as she could have. Maybe my expectations were too high. ST wishes she had hung Dodd and Frank around Biden’s neck when discussing the FM/FM problems, and I agree. But that’s not the only place I saw where she passed up an opportunity. I didn’t see the pit bull with lipstick as much as I wanted to.

Biden spewed out a truckload of lies or misstatements: that Obama never said he’d meet with the Iranians without preconditions, that Obama tried to head off the FM/FM debacle two years ago, that Obama supports more nuclear energy, and so forth – and seldom did she pounce. In a format like this, it isn’t enough to talk about what you’ve done right. You need to point out where the other side has been wrong. You need to spotlight those misstatements and lies. She didn’t.

I really didn’t see the claws come out until the last few minutes. Her comment that it’s not enough to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk, followed by a succinct contrast between the GOP and Dem economic plans, was excellent. I’d have liked to see more of that.

Any nonsense that Governor Palin isn’t capable of holding her own in a debate is now history. The leftists will have to rethink that idea. Just on accuracy, she won, but it wasn’t the blowout it could have been.

And I’m with Sev and Lorica. I want to see her at the top of the ticket and in the White House in a few years.

Frank Luntz focus group was overwhelmingly in agreement that Palin won this debate. She was confident, and totally blew the lid off the frame the media tried to put around her neck. She connected with the American people, and folks felt her energy wa…

Gwen Ifill did a pretty good job. – Lorica

Agreed. The only time I caught an obvious bias was early on. On the question about what promises the candidates have made that they won’t be able to keep, neither Biden nor Palin gave a direct answer. But Ifill went back at Palin, asking her again if there was anything she would take off the table. Biden didn’t get the same grilling there.

And I also heard the reference to the Bozniaks.