8:00 CT: Everybody seems to think Joe Biden will make some big blunder. This will not happen.
8:01 CT: Glen Ifill with the introductions. Debate will focus on domestic and foreign policy affairs.
8:02 CT: "Can I call you Joe?" Sarah Palin's first words at the debate.
8:05 CT: You don't need to go to a soccer game to know that the economy is terrible, Sarah.
8:08 CT: Sarah says, "John McCain sounded the Fannie May and Freddie Mac warning bell two years ago." Biden responds with the classic "McCain said the economy was strong." Did Sarah Palin just wink?
8:09 CT: 96% of the time Obama has voted with the Democrats. That is not a good Republican talking point. Sarah should have known not to mention that.
8:10 CT: Joe Biden is going to recall quotes all night long. Sarah Palin cannot match Biden's references. When she starts telling a story or analogy the facts Biden just presented solidify in people's minds because they are not opposed.
8:14 CT: Joe just destroyed Palin's tax increase line. Then he destroyed her by directly stating that she did not answer the question. Joe smiled big.
8:15 CT: Oh sorry Sarah, we're up against the clock. To bad you couldn't make your point in a responsible amount of time.
8:20 CT: How does giving $5,000 tax credits to citizens not cost the government money. This is not "budget neutral," the government is not able to tax that credit, therefore they generate tax revenue on that $5,000.
8:21 CT: "[McCain's health care plan] is the Ultimate Bridge to Nowhere," then Biden turned and looked Palin in the eye as the crowd laughed.
8:23 CT: Sarah Palin is just talking about whatever she wants to talk about. The topic was health care, lets talk about energy because I come from a state that produces oil.
8:28 CT: Sarah Palin goes back to energy again.
8:30 CT: I legitimately have no idea what point Sarah Palin was trying to make.
8:32 CT: The debate started out with each candidate targeting the other parties presidential nominee. The tide has changed and it seems that instead of going after Obama, Palin is spending most of her time saying John McCain did...
8:34 CT: How is "Drill Baby, Drill" funny? Palin though it was.
8:36 CT: Joe just said the Constitution upholds same sex marriages. Is Palin going to play the trump card, the Bible?
8:38 CT: Nobody cares if your friends disagree with your stance on gay marriage Sarah.
8:40 CT: Sarah Palin claims that there is an exit strategy. Please tell.
8:42 CT: Joe wants to hear it too, but he stated, "With all due respect, I didn't hear a plan."
8:44 CT: She was speechless, then called [Obama's] plan a "White flag of surrender...al-Maliki and the Talibani [that is legitimately what she said, exactly as it is written] will work with us."
8:48 CT: Sarah's going back down the "without preconditions road." It clearly didn't work in the presidential debate, why would she bring it up?
8:50 CT: "[Henry Kissinger]'s passion for diplomacy" has nothing to do with your thoughts on meeting without precondition. You regurgitated a talking point to avoid the question.
8:51 CT: Why does Sarah Palin continue to refer to the Bush administration. It's a terrible strategy.
8:53 CT: "Nobody in the Senate has been a better proponent for Israel than Joe Biden."
8:55 CT: Palin has gone back to the Bush administration, again.
8:56 CT: "Change is coming," you are correct Sarah, look at the polls.
8:58 CT: "Can we go back to Afghanistan," looks like she ran out of Nuclear talking points. She then again supported the Bush administration in regard to Afghanistan.
9:04 CT: Joe Biden just told you why he voted for the Authorization Bill. He just gave you that straight talk. And there is no way Sarah Palin watched any of the Democratic Debates.
9:08 CT: How does McCain know how to win a war? What in his history proves this position?
9:09 CT: Does Sarah Palin know that John McCain will eventually die? Is she aware that she will eventually die?
9:11 CT: Joe Biden just subliminally asked the question: "Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?"
9:14 CT: "We need flexibility in 'No Child Left Behind,'" if she's close to the three of four teachers she previously named she would know that no teacher supports 'No Child Left Behind.'
9:19 CT: Palin is the Governor of a huge state. That was good enough qualification for Bush, so it must be for Palin as well. Paying for health care has nothing to do with experience, sorry Sarah, but it doesn't.
9:22 CT: Any women on the fence just moved over to the Obama-Biden ticket after Biden mentioned his authoring of the Violence of Women Act; he then astutely pointed out that McCain voted against it.
9:23 CT: Why did Sarah Palin just reference Romney, Giuliani, and Liebermann. Could she be setting up a VP swap. Very curious.
9:24 CT: Biden just cut in over Sarah's babbling to call out McCain's "Maverick" status. "Maverick he is not, on the important critical issues that effect people at the kitchen table."
9:25 CT: Biden just dropped Roe v. Wade into the discussion. Watch for Palin to close with a mention to this decision.
9:28 CT: Joe Biden's lesson on bipartisanship: "Don't question their motive, question their judgment."
9:29 CT: Sarah Palin just gave her closing statement, and then realized she has to make her closing statement. She blamed the mainstream media and said the "John McCain and I will fight for America." End on a Reagan quote.
9:32 CT: Joe Biden's final statement presented himself as the everyman.