The moderator’s job is to control their debate. If they have decided, as Joe Biden decided that he was going to debate John McCain, and she decided she was going to give a stump speech to the American people, there’s very little a moderator can do other than say, “No, no, no, listen, I asked a question. Please, please answer.”It's a pretty fascinating look at how the VP debate moderator viewed the event and worth watching the full exchange:
Not to beat a dead horse, but the notion that people only vote for the top of a ticket is wrong, at least when it comes to this election. Given the debacles of her previous interviews, it's unlikely that Palin will take unscripted questions from anyone who doesn't work for Fox News any time soon. By allowing her to evade Ifill's questions during the VP debate last Thursday, the American were deprived of their best opportunity to learn what a President Palin would really look like.
-Law Dude
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Here is an excerpt from the VP candidates debate from last week:
BIDEN: God forbid that would ever happen, it would be a national tragedy of historic proportions if it were to happen.
But if it did, I would carry out Barack Obama's policy, his policies of reinstating the middle class, making sure they get a fair break, making sure they have access to affordable health insurance, making sure they get serious tax breaks, making sure we can help their children get to college, making sure there is an energy policy that leads us in the direction of not only toward independence and clean environment but an energy policy that creates 5 million new jobs, a foreign policy that ends this war in Iraq, a foreign policy that goes after the one mission the American public gave the president after 9/11, to get and capture or kill bin Laden and to eliminate al Qaeda. A policy that would in fact engage our allies in making sure that we knew we were acting on the same page and not dictating.
And a policy that would reject the Bush Doctrine of preemption and regime change and replace it with a doctrine of prevention and cooperation and, ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest ticket item that we have in this election.
This is the most important election you will ever, ever have voted in, any of you, since 1932. And there's such stark differences, I would follow through on Barack's policies because in essence, I agree with every major initiative he is suggesting.
IFILL:Governor.
PALIN: And heaven forbid, yes, that would ever happen, no matter how this ends up, that that would ever happen with either party.
As for disagreeing with John McCain and how our administration would work, what do you expect? A team of mavericks, of course we're not going to agree on 100 percent of everything. As we discuss ANWR there, at least we can agree to disagree on that one. I will keep pushing him on ANWR. I have so appreciated he has never asked me to check my opinions at the door and he wants a deliberative debate and healthy debate so we can make good policy.
What I would do also, if that were to ever happen, though, is to continue the good work he is so committed to of putting government back on the side of the people and get rid of the greed and corruption on Wall Street and in Washington.
I think we need a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street there, brought to Washington, DC.
Neither candidate backed down from the question about how they'd react to the unthinkable situation they'd face if for some reason they had to become President after what would be a national tragedy of epic proportions.
Nevertheless, its comforting to think that a "President" Biden would sit down with foreign leaders and talk--leaders that have publicly stated their ill-will towards American ideals--because its definitely clear throughout American history that doctrine(s) of prevention and cooperation have worked well in our past.
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