I watched that live via the BBC website. I could hear several times Biden taking a calming breath, or possibly biting his own tongue as she waffled meaningless buzzword hollowness in response to his frankly marvellously pointed, minimally rhetorical articulations.
Obviously its not my election, and personally I'd prefer Obama to win, but what really really frightens me isnt that McCain will win, it's that he will win and then he'll die. Leaving that useless sack of skin Palin in charge of the most powerful nation on earth at a time when it is stretched as far as it is really does scare me.