04 Oct 08 The Non-Debate

Thursday night’s performance was a series of sound bites, not a debate. There was no real interaction between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, just short answers to simple questions asked by the moderator. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone that some of questions weren’t answered at all.

Juan Cole’s Informed Comment link:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/10/non-debate.html

Judging “how the candidates did” is rather like weighing in on the wittiness of the libretto of “Big Brother” or the pace of character development in the latest episode of “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” The genre of the political review assumes that both candidates are credible in their roles. It becomes self-parody when one candidate is a ditzy nonentity cynically foisted on the public in the same way a ‘reality show’ is, based on a targeted demographic and without regard to quality.

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