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Palin's 10 Commandments What Sarah Palin is being told by her handlers: 1) "Play to your strengths." You are not Henry Kissinger. You're a small town hockey mom. Emphasize your freshness over Biden's 40 years of experience. Stay true to your conservative values. 2) "Keep it short and sweet." No garbled, rambling sentences. 3) "If you don't know the answer, don't BS." Don't pretend to know what you don't know. Admit you don't know, or talk about something else. Politicians usually choose the latter route. 4) "Stay on point." When you are asked about Iran, you talk about Iran, not hunting and fishing, the children, and Fall in Alaska. 5) "If you lose your train of thought, picture the relevant index card, and the subject heading, then repeat the talking points." Don't panic, keep a cool head. Repeat the talking points over and over again. 6) "Defend by attacking". For example, Washington experience is bad; voters want insiders not outsiders; Biden has served six terms in the senate, look at the mess we are in today. 7) "Use feelgood lines whenever appropriate". Call the audience and viewers your friends. Talk about love and family in between tough questions. Talk about people you have met on the campaign trail: the McCain bracelet approach. 8) "Deploy zingers." Sarcastic, hard-hitting one-liners can win a debate against a more experience opponent. 9) "Don't drop the ball". Silence is never a good response to a question. Keep your head, keep smiling, keep talking. 10) "Imagine you are talking to friends who need to be convinced." This is called the Bill Clinton Approach. Be informal, clear, and to the point. Don't meander, keep the sub-clauses to a minimum. Don't confuse voters with long names, lists of dates and foreign countries.
At Palin Boot Camp it wasn't all verbiage, obscure facts and presidents of countries ending in stan. Downtime gave the opportunity to sample Cindy's chicken wings doused in John's hot sauce. Palin is a fun-loving prankster when she's not cramming. She hangs with the jocks and pokes fun at McCain's stuffy Ivy League staffers. There was no time for slacking as Palin led them on early morning, 5-mile jogs round McCain's ranch, while Cindy stayed out of the sun on her Nordic Walker.
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What Sarah Palin Must NOT Do Sarah Palin's handlers threw up their hands in desperation when she bungled question after question on finance and foreign policy. Palin must not give answers like the ones below:
Why is a Wall Street bailout package needed? "There's so much we can do but our hands are tied so we can't do so much we want, and Washington has been sitting on their hands, not doing their jobs and some people have gotten so rich out of this mess, but Joe Six Pack can't pay his rent or put gas in his truck and we have to ask why is that? These regulations didn't work and you know, regulations aren't good, they don't work but you need rules to make sure the game is fair. We want less rules but some rules you have to have, some guys are just plain greedy and crooked and they take what isn't theirs and you have to have a broad discussion about health care reform and energy and foreign policy and education, it's all part of that. John McCain and I are bringing a fresh approach to this so no one is caught sleeping while the baby is crying for help." On the principles guiding her approach to foreign policy: "It's about good and evil, not evil like bad but about American interests in the world and who is on our side and those who want to, y'know, take away our freedoms because they hate our freedoms. That's why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan searching out those terrorists and even searching deeper for them because we don't know where they are right now, but we might in the future and that is tied to -- you see our allies have to come in on this and cooperate on this important job. We can't leave empty-handed, the job half down, and we have to take this to the United Nations and like, y'know, you guys you gotta come in on this and help because our freedom is your freedom. You have to look deeper than evil when Russia rears its head and Putin is lookin' at ya. You have to see past that because deep in there is some good somewhere and you connect with that, not the bad side, but it's not easy and we don't expect it to be easy -- but it's a job I want and John McCain too. I will help him on these issues, bring what I have to the table."
Biden has given nearly 100 interviews since being picked as Obama's VP on August 23.
ZINGERS Palin and company has yet to perfect her zingers. Late into the night, she was still polishing the ones published here. "Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 years but at least he found the promised land at the end of it. After 40 years in politics, Biden hasn't found or achieved anything." "I'm from Alaska so unlike Joe I know when it's time to shut my trap." "I was in second grade when Joe Biden started his first policy statement. I was 44 when he finished it." "Ninety percent of the guys on Wall Street are Ivy Leaguers. That's an education the country can't afford." "Senator Biden's looking tired. Don't worry. John McCain and I will send him on a long vacation after the vacation." "Poor Joe has tried a couple of times to be president. But if his own party doesn't want him, why should the rest of the country trust him?" "Joe says there are no easy answers. I have one: elect John McCain as president of the United States."
Reliable sources say that Hillary and Bill Clinton wept with laughter when they watched Sarah Palin's hilarious performance on Katie Couric's CBS Evening News. It was a heck of a lot funnier than landing under sniper fire in Bosnia. What the Experts Say Put 50 pundits in a room and they won't agree on anything. They shoot with a scatter gun, missing as many targets as they hit. A political pundit is someone with a PhD in "It's so obvious, my senile grandmother could have thought of it". And independent experts are just people who can't make their minds up, even when all the facts are right under their noses. Greg Mueller, a GOP strategist, says, "If Biden does not achieve clear victory, Palin wins just by talking issues with a veteran Beltway politician." In other words, Palin wins by just turning up and not being an idiot. Michael Feldman, an adviser to Al Gore, says "This is not the time for point-scoring." We wouldn't pay a dime for that advice. Must be why Gore did so well in his campaign. We want to see a cage fight, no holds barred: the Delaware dingo against the Wasilla pitbull. Seconds out, round one .... LAST MINUTE NEWS FrICTION will provide blow by blow commentary on this evening's debate. Use the Guestbook to contact us anytime during the debate. We'll update our text commentary every two minutes, with plenty of opportunity for us to respond to your thoughts.
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