First – I know I am a total slacker and haven’t posted a link to photos from Oktoberfest yet. Because I fail (and I don’t use my desktop computer, where the pictures are, very often these days). I will get to it, I promise!

Now, on to the real entry:

Ryan and I watched the debate last night. I wanted to see how both candidates did. Biden has a reputation for going on so long that he gets himself in trouble, and Palin…well her recent interviews speak for themselves (I watched the full interviews on the TV’s websites-not just the worst clips floating around the internets). And the debate went much better than I expected. But the fact that Palin avoided answering so many of the questions and basically refused to come to the defense of McCain’s health care plan (which I can’t even begin to list the negative aspects of – seriously) or anything else was extremely disappointing. She kept returning to the few things she’s comfortable discussing. And that kind of defeats the purpose of the debate. But people were so impressed because she didn’t make a complete fool of herself. What does that say about her qualifications? Really?

There are a lot of blogs out there commenting on the debate, and so I’ll leave it at that. I find all of this interesting, and I was honestly happy that neither candidate came out looking like a complete fool. That being said, Sarah Palin, as likeable as she may seem to many people out there, is totally unqualified to be Vice President. And I didn’t see any evidence to the contrary last night.