The good news is that Sarah Palin lost the debate to Joe Biden. The bad news is that she didn't self-destruct in the way she had in the Katie Couric interviews. It was observed by many of the post-debate analysts that she basically repeated the same talking points regardless of the question at hand -- but of course if we got rid of every politician who did that we wouldn't be able to muster up enough folks to fill the House and Senate.

What I wished I had done to make the debate more entertaining--although I'm not really drinking these days--is to have played a drinking game during last night's debate, in which everyone would have to take a drink whenever one of the candidates said a key word like "Main Street" or "Wall Street" or "middle class."

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