10.02.2008 9:33 pm
Which of the candidates’ ‘zinger lines’ were the best?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Let’s face it: From “you’re no Jack Kennedy,” and before and since, we’ve all wanted to see the zingers in these debates. Was there a winner? Which of the candidates’ “zinger lines” were the best — and who won the zinger contest? Post your comments below or vote on the polls.
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Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
My favorite was Palin referring to the Senator from Delaware as O’Biden.
Palin’s zingers (and there were many) were her refusal to answer the questions being asked. Obviously, she’s never had debate training. The trick is to answer the question asked, and then twist it to your own purposes. But as others have noted, that requires a brain. I thought she was Dorothy with a toy husky. But it is obvious now we are being asked to vote for the Scarecrow. Beware the little man behind the curtain!
Has Biden ever said that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president?
Half the posters here are as mean and unfair to Palin as Rush Limbaugh is to Biden.
Bill -
When you said, “Half the posters here are as mean and unfair to Palin as Rush Limbaugh is to Biden.”, doers this meanb you think she should be treated any better than she has treated Senator Obama?
That is the problem with the “zinger” mentality it partakes too much of “your mama is so fat…”, and, not enough of actually speaking to the issue/question at hand.
No momama this Democrat is not blind. I have seen 8 yrs of republican rule and I am not sure I can make it another 4 yrs. Give me a break, McCain is about change, thats a joke. Palin is a joke, she couldn’t name one supreme court ruling when she was interviewed. Oh wait she was attacked by that Liberal media commy loving reporter. Guess what I remember talking about supreme court rulings as a freshman in high school. Wow keep sipping your Kool-aid. McCain wants to tax my health care insurance, so much for no new taxes–excpet for us working class people. Or is this really about Obama being black. I know one thing hes 100 times smarter than most of us on this blog.
The problem with Palin is that her speeches amount to nothing more than a series of “zingers”. She’s the Fred Mertz on I LIVE LUCY; she’s the Frank Barrone on EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND. No more than 3 lines ever comes out of their mouths at any given time. And in Palin’s case, I’ve never heard more than 3 substantive words ever come out of her mouth!
I’m just amazed at how the democratic voters believe everything that comes out of Biden and Obama’s mouth’s, apparently everyone is forgetting the years prior to Bush that they were in the White House and passed everything that has put us where we are today! As well as the last 2 years that have been the worst of the last 8 and look where the democrats being in charge have gotten us?! If we listen to Obama, Jobs in America come before our troops protecting us in these terrorist countries we’ll be hosed. What difference does it make if we create jobs, if we get blown to smithereens jobs won’t mean squat!