palin v. biden: my thoughts

The highly anticipated debate between Palin and Biden is over.  I do take a deep breath as I was worried that somehow Palin would come across the way she did with Katie Couric, naive and misinformed; however, Governor Palin did an excellent job at rebounding.  Thank goodness.  There were many things about the debate that I did not like.

• Overuse of the word maverick.  We get it.  McCain is a maverick.  Palin is a maverick.  Then along comes Biden to use the word more times than Palin in one paragraph.  I suppose Biden noticed it as well and wanted to taunt.
• BIDEN: When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it." Now what's happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.  I hate to say it.  Hezbollah is STILL in Lebanon and is stronger than they have ever been.  Seriously?  I thought he was the foreign affairs expert?
  
• Biden said that McCain and Obama voted the same on the controversial funding bill for troops.  Not true.  They voted the opposite.
• I do NOT like the health plan Palin mentioned - the 5K check, etc...  
• McCain has never said he wouldn't sit down with Spain.  Why the dems keep using this one is beyond me.
• Biden's comment about clean coal taken out of context was in fact NOT taken out of context.  You can find this through any search engine the exact words spoken.
• Biden said that Obama never said he would meet with Iran; yet just last week in the debate Obama plainly says that he would meet with them.  

Anyway...  they both misspoke and stretched the truth at times.  Typical of most politicians.  I do have a BIG problem with giving rights to same sex couples living together.  Let's throw out the argument of the norm, that it's a sin to be a homosexual.  Let's look at it like this.  Suppose I am living with a boyfriend for a month.  We're not married.  We are not given that same right of benefits, etc... unless we marry.  However, if we were homosexual, we would have the right.  I realize that the boyfriend and girlfriend can marry to have those rights, but isn't this a form of reverse discrimination?  There are no rules on how long a same sex couple have to be together...