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Howard Fineman
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Oct 3, 2008 01:00 AM
I always wondered what a wolverine would sound like chewing through plywood. Now I know: like Sarah Palin “debating” Joe Biden.
First, let me say that I was wrong--ridiculously wrong--when I said on “Hardball” before the debate here in St. Louis that the event would be the longest 90 minutes of Palin’s life. No way. She loved every minute. And when Biden said at the end that he was glad to have finally met her, he was clearly lying. It was no fun for him.
Palin grew up a hunter in Alaska. She and her family often ate what they had just shot, so she learned to stalk and bag her prey. Here at Washington University she was stalking a pin-striped senator.
When David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, came into the spin room after the debate he didn’t bother arguing that Palin was not ready for prime time. Instead he argued that she had not successfully distanced the GOP ticket from President George Bush.
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