Watching the US Biden-Palin vice presidential debate was as riveting as watching paint dry, but one thing was strangely fascinating - neither candidate seem to acknowledge that there really was a working class in America.
What was equally fascinating was Joe Biden's constant assertions that McCain was in bed with Exxon and that this example of Big Oil would get nothing from an Obama administration, especially not a $4 billion tax cut.
Can't see either getting a dance at the next B&S ball.
Transcript of the debate found here. It probably reads better than it sounded on the day.
Sarah Palin used the term "working class" twice and Joe Biden studiously ignored it.
In this election everyone on Main Street seems to spring Topsy-like straight from some idealised middle class.
I'm still wondering what is so socially taboo about belonging to the salt-of-the-earth working class in the good ol' US of A.What was equally fascinating was Joe Biden's constant assertions that McCain was in bed with Exxon and that this example of Big Oil would get nothing from an Obama administration, especially not a $4 billion tax cut.
I'm sure that the Exxon board found that somewhat surprising as the company (which gives away nothing for free) is on record as donating $61,050 to Barack Obama - almost $16,000 more than the company gave John McCain.
The donation to Obama is the most it has given to any 2008 election cycle individual candidate. So while Sarah Palin's dogged determination to stay on message rather than answer the adjudicator's questions showed just how little she was across many issues; Joe Biden's failure to be honest over Exxon meant that he came across as manipulative and cynical.
Can't see either getting a dance at the next B&S ball.
Transcript of the debate found here. It probably reads better than it sounded on the day.
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