October 2nd, 2008
09:14 PM ET
14 years ago
Palin blames financial crisis on Wall Street
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ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blamed some of the U.S. financial crisis on Wall Street during the vice presidential debate.
"You darn right it was the predator lenders," said Palin. "There was greed and corruption on Wall Street."
Watch: Palin: Economy is hurting
Biden blamed some of the crisis on deregulation policies that John McCain believes in.
"He voted for deregulation and that is why we are in the crisis that we are in," said Biden.
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She says "darn right" ome more time I am going to scream. Just answer the question ,what she did as mayor has no bearing on McCain"s stand on deregulation ,what tey will do to get us out of this mess, and back on track.
Biden is doing great. He is game on.
Yes, she can talk, but she and McCains policies are not making much sense.
She may think it is cool and "mavericky" to not answer a direct question that somebody asks her in a debate.
Personally, I think it's obnoxious and arrogant. Whatever Palin may think of Gwen Ifil, her refusal to answer a simple question shows her disdain and contempt for the American people.
Somebody stop the fight! Palin is bleeding all over the ring.....
Wall Street is the ultimate cause of the economic crisis we are facing currently. Wall Street has lent entirely TOO much money to foreign investors and homeland based corporations who pay their CEOs nearly $200M each year. THIS is why we are in the situation we are in now.
Why are McCain and Palin so against tax on those who make over $250,000?
Has anyone noticed that the men are tougher on Joe and the women are tougher on Sara?
Does she even UNDERSTAND any of the questions she is being asked?
Strange watching the graph on the bottom. Women seem unfavorable to Sarah Palin, whereas men don't necessarily. I guess women either are afraid of another woman in charge, or they just feel the need to be subservient to men. So far from what I have heard, if Sarah Palin had to step in, it would be fine for me.
Who wants to bet whether or not she can keep that silly grin on her face all night. Does she think this is yet another beauty contest?
If she metions ANY type of american mom again......
She is doing better than i thought.
It is not fair what the McCain Camp has done to this lady. He only care about himself, not the american people
What am saying is that she is trying to sweet talk the camera and looking like a robot while doing it!
I support John, but shes not answering the questions directly. it also seems like shes memorizing a speech.
Palin clearly does not understand the issue and also contridicted herself. You can't blame Wall Street and then turn around and say, but we need to spend within our budget. A better answer would have been that both sides are too blame. Wall Street wouldn't have had a market for sub-prime loans if people wasn't a market and people weren't educated.
Why is Palin not sticking to what the questions are? Can anyone tell me? Is this some sort of strategy? If so it is not appealing to me. She is try to keep a happy face on for the whole time and it is not making me budge!!! Its all coaching and annoying.
does she think this is miss USA
given kisses
can i call you joe
ohh yea, Putin can i call you joe??
She is a HOT MESS! – I am so tired of her talkin about lil ole Alaska
this is comedy!
she just making speechs... doubt if she knows any facts
Joe biden gets right to the point and answers in detail you can tell how perople like what hes saying and as soon as Palin open her mouth the polls drop bombs over irak
She is such a lightweight. Nice lady,very personable maybe she should look for a job with Fox news. VP? NO WAY!
Wow, she is doing amazing.
...not good for the dems.
She seemed coached to mention "private sector" and "family" as close together as possible in all her sentences. Sort of like proximity-scoring in Google searches!
Someone from the FOX Chat room said that her bangs are on her eyes