Neither candidate seems to get it. When they were talking about families sitting around the kitchen table wondering what to do about healthcare:

I understand, as well as, with all due respect, the governor or anybody else, what it's like for those people sitting around that kitchen table. And guess what? They're looking for help. They're looking for help. They're not looking for more of the same.
So where are they looking for their help? The government of course? The great Charity, the new Church-state which forces offerings from everyone to redistribute as they see fit to solve everyone's problems. Please leave my kitchen table out of this, is nothing sacred to the politicians!?!? Get out of my house!

Anyway, I only listened to about 5 minutes straight of the debate, and this took the cake:

IFILL: Everybody gets extra credit tonight. We're going to move on to the next question. Governor, you said in July that someone would have to explain to you exactly what it is the vice president does every day. You, senator, said you would not be vice president under any circumstances. Now maybe this was just what was going on at the time. But tell us now, looking forward, what it is you think the vice presidency is worth now.
PALIN: In my comment there, it was a lame attempt at a joke and yours was a lame attempt at a joke, too, I guess, because nobody got it. Of course we know what a vice president does.
BIDEN: They didn't get yours or mine? Which one didn't they get?
HAHA! And Biden, icing on the cake,

Oh, and one more if you'll allow me, this is great:

IFILL: Your conventional wisdom against you is that your Achilles heel is that you lack discipline, Sen. Biden. ... What is it really for you, Sen. Biden? Start with you, governor.
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BIDEN: You're very kind suggesting my only Achilles Heel is my lack of discipline.
Others talk about my excessive passion. I'm not going to change.
I have other achilles' heels, but it doesn't matter; I'm not going to change. Even though that's what my whole campaign is based on - I don't need to change, it's everyone else that needs to change.