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News Source: Radio Netherlands
| about 1 year ago
Initially the relatively inexperienced Governor of Alaska scored well in the opinion polls and breathed new life into John McCain's presidential campaign with a couple of impressive speeches. As a newcomer to the national stage, Mrs Palin made her...
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden didn't make any major flubs in their vice presidential debate that would hurt their party's ticket, post-debate reaction indicates...Palin won points for folksiness and Biden scored for competency on the issues, the Post...
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News Source: India Abroad
| about 1 year ago
Sharply divided over the financial rescue package, the American vice-presidential candidates agreed on Pakistan during a feisty debate with pundits giving veteran Democrat John Biden the first round against his novice rival, the glamorous Sarah Palin...
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News Source: SwissInfo
| about 1 year ago
Debates between United States vice presidential candidates rarely generate as much interest as Thursday's showdown between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. But while American audiences are unlikely to have taken away much to change their vote, a Zurich...
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News Source: The Nation
| about 1 year ago
Senate endorsed a $700 billion plan to bail out collapsing banks, and on the day before the U.S. House will be asked to do the same, the economy was going to be the central issue of the first and only vice presidential debate. Neither Sarah Palin nor...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
In their sole debate, vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin battled last night for the title of defender of the middle class, arguing over taxes, Iraq, and the mortgage crisis as each claimed to represent the force for change and...
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News Source: Des Moines Register
| about 1 year ago
Republican Sarah Palin came up short in Thursday's vice presidential debate...Before the debate, polls showed a growing number of American voters had concerns about her ability to be president. She did little to dismiss those concerns, and a CNN...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Sarah Palin stared criticism straight in the face Thursday, telling opponent Joe Biden and moderator Gwen Ifill that she would answer questions and address issues on her own terms during the vice presidential debate. "I may not answer the question...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
The first-term Alaska governor, a Republican, gave a sharper performance in her 90-minute debate with Democratic vice presidential rival Joe Biden than she has in recent TV interviews, which have drawn comedy show ridicule, scorn from some fellow...
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News Source: Russia Today
| about 1 year ago
They also differed on Iraq, with Palin praising the results of the troop ‘surge' and Biden vowing to 'end the war. Biden also said the economic bailout bill is evidence that the U.S. has had the 'worst economic policy we ever had.' Obama and John...