10/03/2008
Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin acquitted themselves well in the debate between candidates for United States vicepresidency.
For Palin, the challenge was, above all, to make no mistakes. In the few interviews she has given, her inexperience has been shown, but she was very self-confident in the debate and she defended very well the four ideas she has learned during the five weeks of campaign.
Joe Biden is supposed to have experience, as he has been in Senate for forty years; his challenge was not to adopt the tone of a professor who is speaking to one of his students, and he achieved it.
Both of them made a real effort to present themselves and their leaders, McCain and Obama, as the candidates for change. Biden emphasized the disasters of Bush era, giving to understand that McCain would continue with the current president’s policy. Palin did not find any defense but saying that Biden always speaks about the past, and he should look to the future.
The clearest and easiest differences to explain to the electorate were those about Iraq. Biden said that Obama is the only one who speaks about a 16-month withdrawal timeline, while McCain’s strategy does not set any date for the withdrawal.
There were also big differences in economy, mainly in the taxes matter. According to first surveys, Biden has won but Palin did better than expected. So, everyone, Republicans and Democrats are happy and ready to prepare the next face-to –face between Obama and McCain.
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