VP Debate - Keeping Promises: Given recent financial trou...

MS. IFILL: So, Governor, as vice president, there is nothing

that you have promised as a candidate that you would -- that you

wouldn't take off the table because of this financial crisis going on?

GOV. PALIN: There is not. And how long have I been at this,

like five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot that I'm promised,

except to do what is right for the American people -- put government

back on the side of the American people, stop the greed and corruption

on Wall Street. And the rescue plan has got to include that massive

oversight that Americans are expecting and deserving. And I don't

believe that John McCain has made any promise that he would not be

able to keep, either.

MS. IFILL: Senator.

SEN. BIDEN: (Chuckles.) Again -- let me -- let me -- let's talk

about the tax breaks. Barack Obama -- Obama voted for an energy bill

because, for the first time, it had real support for alternative

energy. When there were separate votes on eliminating the tax breaks

for the oil companies, Barack Obama voted to eliminate them, John did

not.

Now, let me just ask a rhetorical question. If John really

wanted to eliminate them, why is he adding to his budget an additional

$4 billion in tax cut for ExxonMobils of the world that, in fact, have

already made $600 billion since 2001?

And look, I agree with the governor. She imposed a windfall

profits tax up there in Alaska. That's what Barack Obama and I want

to do. We want to be able to do for all of you Americans, give you

back a thousand bucks like she's been able to give back money to her

folks back there.

But John McCain will n