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I saw excerpts of it meanwhile. Terrible. What a humiliation to a political culture.

Palin did not perform as bad as expected, but she certainly performed much worse than Biden. Little schoolgirl that learned her words for the yearly spelling competition well - and was proud of it. I just waited for her starting to hop in place in excitement. No pigtails, though.

I could imagine that many american women who were for Clinton feel offended by McCain's plump expectation to get their vote by throwing something unripe like Palin into the match. She is almost the antithesis to Clinton.