Can I Call You Joe?

Look closely. Not that it's all that important, but, where is her wedding ring? But, I digress.

Sneaky Sarah. Somewhere in her script was the quip, "There you go again, Joe..." a la Ronald Reagan. But, no one can accuse her of being condescending or too familiar, when she got his permission to call him Joe. Too bad the ploy didn't go over the way she thought it would. Gentleman Joe kept his cool throughout the debate and unfailingly referred to her as "Governor Palin".

It's a sad day, indeed, when a person can claim victory in a debate where all she did was stay upright, remember her lines and avoid appearing brainlocked.

When is the last time you heard a candidate inform the moderator and her opponent that she wouldn't answer the questions asked if she didn't want to. One wonders, would Jim Lehrer have let her get away with that? Or, would he followed her home, if necessary, asking the question over and over until he got an answer?

For some reason, Gov. Palin seems to think the framers of our Constitution left some wiggle room for the future expansion of the powers of the Vice President. Actually, it seems pretty cut-and-dried to me. The Vice President has one duty in his job description. Preside over the Senate in order to cast a vote if it is necessary to break a tie. Only if the President dies or can't carry out his duties would the duties of the V.P. expand, and at that time, he would have been sworn in as President. Watch your back, John.

Wouldn't you have loved to see John McCain's face when he received the e-mail that Sarah "fired off" scolding him for pulling his campaign out of Michigan? Could she possibly have been questioning the old maverick's judgment? And, why did she have to find out about the pull-out by reading the papers? Is she that unimportant to John McCain? Watch your back, Sarah.

And, what, exactly, was the purpose of all that giggling and winking and aw-shucks folksy talk? Is that the way she thinks she can relate to "her" voters? That, and wearing a flag pin that is three times the size of her opponent's? Is that how she got elected in Alaska? By sounding like she just fell off a potato truck?

Shudder. I'm glad that debate is over. Now, Sarah can sink back into oblivion, giving us only the occasional glimpse of her for the next month, since she has said she won't be appearing on Meet the Press, etc.

By the way, Biden won.