Althouse: Live-blogging the VP debate.
8:02: The 2 candidates stride out, both dressed in black. "Hey, can I call you Joe?" we hear Sarah say. y that was likeable

9:31: Biden gives his closing statement. He seems like a nice man. y. moving wh he choked up after saying he knows wh it's like to have a child th might not make it. seemed he might be overtaken by emotion, gathered himself well, looked up (at Gwen I think): "..I understand."
Did he ever attack her? No. they were pleasant w ea other, wh I liked. he did as was the advice, he attacked McCain not her
9:34: Huge crowd of family on the stage.

I found this much more pleasant, more hopeful than Obama - McCain. cld actually feel two ppl on the stage. McCain d n seem like a live presence, d n engage w the others. & he did not seem to say much of substance. Palin d n say much, but more th him & more of a person.

I do dislike how she always uses 'attribute' backwards.
noticed it w Charles Gibson: "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now." she 'attributes man's activities to causing some climate change'. vs: attributing climate change to man's activities. you attribute [the effect] to [the cause]. she attributes the cause to causing the effect. oh boy.
tonite one instance was re her being picked. (rather than attributing being picked to such&such qualification; she says.. oh boy it's convoluted.)
I've heard her say attribute several times & it's never right. she gets other bits turned around backwards too: "the corruption on Main Street affecting Wall Street", like that. would not bother me if she seemed to know it was mixed up. but stands out as a distinct symptom of generally convoluted speech, throwing words out there without clear what is being predicated of what. so that: I don't believe you. (Keith to Veronica Mars.) can't trust that she means what she is saying, that she is even trying to say what she means.

I came away confident that I like Joe Biden.