Hey I got winked at by the Vice Prez tonight! How many times was that? Seemed like a lot. Was it a wink or a tick? An affliction of some sort?

My thoughts on the debate:

1. Joe Biden did not get angry. Palin was nasty and tried to attack him personally many times–she smiles though so I guess that makes it sweet–but Biden never responded. Like all journalists do he stuck to McCain’s record record record.

2. Biden knows more about McCain than Palin does. Ha!

3. Palin didn’t answer many questions. She is an expert at classic Orwellian double-speak. She could speak for hours I am sure on nothing with the most superficial generalities. . . . Help, I am getting possessed by Palinspeak: “As President Regan said in the sunset years of our lives we take the freedom from our fathers and give them to our children and our children’s children and as our children’s children’s children play in that playground built by President Regan then we will know what it means to be an American to live in this blessed land of milk and honey and the holy ghost who dwells in our hearts and memories and in the arms of our mothers and fathers and behind the blackberry bush in the wide open range under a starry sky in the warm summer swimming in the river in this oil-rich state of Alaska with its hungry market out in the main street of Wasilla and all over Washinton D. C and wall street the joe-six-packs of America are saying yes to flatter stomachs and cases of beer and yes we can to the only man who can lead our country out of debt and into permanent twilight through the principled surge of American exceptionalism in Afghanistan . . .”

Theoretically you could go on like this forever!

4. Biden controlled the discourse. Palin was on the defensive — hence the attacks.

5. Like Cheney Palin wants more legislative power given to the VP office.

6. Palin was blabbering towards the end. You could tell Biden was choking up talking about being a single father and wondering if his son was going to survive the car accident that killed his first wife and daughter. (Palin opened it up by talking about sitting at the kitchen table discussing with the family how they are going to pay that bill, how they are gonna afford sending little Joey to school and how they are gonna pay for little Mary’s health insurance. We, the Palins and McCains are just like you, heartland America, with just your problems and worries even though I wear 3000 dollar designer Valentino suits, and Cindy McCain wears 300, 000 dollar Oscar de la Renta dresses. But we are just like you, living in that run-down house with no money for heat when it snows. Vote for us.) Right after that Palin went on this Stepford wife scripted routine about America the beautiful. Very surreal.

7. Sometimes this is so bizarre that I think I am inside the matrix as in that movie and that any time now someone would pinch me and wake me up and all of this would be gone. The McCain-Palin campaign was just a bad dream! Oh, what is the meaning of all of this my God?