Sarah Palin and Joe Biden's TV clash
Updated on 03 October 2008
Watch extended extracts from the US vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
"Hey, can I call you Joe?" So Sarah Palin began the much-anticipated vice presidential debate with her Democrat opponent, Joe Biden.
Selected extracts from the debate
Sarah Palin: "You know, a good barometer to figure out if this has been a good time or a bad time in the American economy is to go to a kids' soccer game on a Saturday and go to any parent on the sideline and ask them 'How are you feeling about the economy?'
"I betcha you're going to hear some fear in that parent's voice."
Joe Biden: "It was only two Monday's ago that John McCain said at nine o'clock in the morning that the 'fundamentals of the economy were strong'. Two weeks before that he said we'd made great economic progress with George Bush's economic policies.
"Nine o'clock the economy was strong, at 11 o'clock he said we had an economic crisis. It doesn't make John McCain a bad guy, but it does point out that he's out of touch."
