Hey, McCain just made eye contact with Obama!
SHR wonders if they are both lefthanded.
McCain sits funny.
Hooray, Obama won the coin toss!
Whoa, that guy in the first row that looks like Timothy Mcveigh's little brother looks really uncomfortable. Either that, or he has a buttplug in as part of the festivities.
9:12
Yes! McCain on the warpath. All of those cronies of Obama's caused our financial system to go down the toilet. Sweet.
9:16
Snap! Obama kicked him some curmudgeonly ass!
9:18
America's workers are the best in the world! Let's give them a chance! What does that mean exactly? How does that solve the economic crisis?
9:19
Obama putting the smackdown on Bush and the deficit. I can't wait to hear McCain talk about how he only looks to the past. The man who doesn't know how to e-mail is going to let us know that he's the candidate for the future.
9:21
I love when McCain reaches across the aisle. That's a nice bracelet Johnny is wearing. Hey John, have you ever thought that the reason that Obama hasn't taken on his own party and you've taken on yours is because your party sucks?
9:22
Obama looks like he's about to get out of his chair and take out the old man. I wish he would.
9:24
This isn't as much fun as the last time I blogged while watching a show. Or the time before it.
9:25
Tom Brokaw doesn't like rulebreakers. One minute each gentlemen. You fucking agreed!
9:30
You can take over health insurance and energy at the same time John? Really? Aren't you the one who couldn't campaign and think about the economy at the same time?
9:35
Yes! A scalpel not a hatchet. Love it. Love it.
9:35
I love that one guy's stache in the audience.
9:35
Nailing jello to the wall? Wha?
9:35
Obama = Hoover. Wha?
9:36
Is McCain really friends with all of the people there?
9:37
Nice, McCain is going to give me 5,000 bucks but take away my employer paying for my health insurance. I loved his smirk. He's so evil. He didn't have the balls to utter the $42,000 bullshit line though.
9:38
Straight Talk Express lost a wheel. An oldie but a goodie but still an oldie. Way oldie.
9:41
McCain keeps talking about how he reaches across the aisle but also about how unpopular he is in the Senate. Which is it?
9:42
Rhetoric and record? I wonder if McCain is going to lecture Obama about the differences between the two words.
9:43
Whoa! I think the 1990 Marc Balgavy time traveled to tonight's debate. Did anyone else see that guy?
9:44
Obama is opposed to nuclear power? Really? Let's see what he has to say about that Johnny.
9:46
That's what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up, Barack. 23 votes against alternative fuels. Oh yeah, bust that McCain!
9:47
Is it me or is Obama saying fewer Uhs?
9:47
Brokaw is getting feisty!
9:48
McCain looks like he's going to fall over. Now he's pointing fingers at Obama. You'll never know who voted for that one. Bam. That guy!
9:52
There aren't nearly enough you betchas in this debate. This sucks. Obama just said patience. McCain doesn't like patience! He hates it.
9:53
"Medical errors as they call em." ????? McCain wants us to be afraid of the black man fining us. Do you want $5,000 from him or to have a black man rob you? The choice is yours, mothafuckas!
9:54
1st hair transplant joke. Funny. McCain makes me afraid of the gov't! Yes, get rid of the gov't!
9:57
McCain doesn't want children to have health insurance? What an asshole! Obama needs to get more populist here. A little more impassioned. More stories about his sick grandmother arguing with the insurance companies. People will relate to that. Uh-oh, here comes Brokaw.
10:00
I wish that I had the same worldview as McCain. My life would be a lot more rosy thinking that we are the country that goes all over the world helping other countries because we are a nation of good.
10:02
I love when Obama puts the smackdown on McCain for making mistake after mistake in his judgement of the war. I do wish that Obama would talk about the surge though and explain that it is one of many reasons why things are going well but I guess it is arguable on whether or not that the surge actually has made a difference and then if he says that, he'll paint himself into a corner.
10:03
Obama is all like "Let's not be the Roman empire."
10:05
Do you think that Palin knows what the McCain Doctrine is?
10:07
McCain seems convincing on the Lebanon 1983 front. But the bullshit about caring about the veterans is making me mad. He knows Obama won't call him out on it. I wish someone in the audience would.
10:10
I like the way Obama says Taliban. Does that make me a terrorist?
10:11
Whoa! Whoa! I thought your hero was Reagan. Now, it's TR! I love when McCain tells me all of the places he has visited. When McCain mentions that he carries a big stick, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Shut up about Pakistan, dickhead.
10:14
I love the Bomb Iran retort and the next stop Baghdad and the annihilate North Korea retort. I loved McCain's creepy "Thank you very much" interruption.
10:15
McCain is all like "I'm not going to telegraph my punches." I know that this is a common boxing phrase but I'm not sure the old coot should be using the word telegraph. There must be a hair transplant joke on the way.
10:18
I love honor and victory. How about you?
10:20
No more Cold War with the Russians? I was hoping for a Spies Like Us 2.
10:24
McCain can reignite the Cold War by simply saying the word yes. Holy crap!
10:25
Seriously, how many more "My friends" can McCain fit in in the last few minutes.
10:26
A second holocaust? What? Can McCain make that happen by stating the word yes?
10:32
McCain's "What he doesn't know" ending is much stronger than Obama's. Oh wait, no it isn't. He just mentioned that he didn't know where Spain was on the map. Maybe he didn't. I don't know. I'm tired. Here comes the P.O.W. story. I mean, why the hell not?
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7 comments:
Love this post!
I caught the whole hero worship switch also.
The debate wasn't as intense as promised and there were a lot of unanswered questions. It was sort of like watching an episode of Lost when you think that this time you'll get some answers but you're still Lost. I'm sleepy. and I'm not making any sense.I just wrote that on my blog so why don't I just go to bed.
Goodnight
Nicely done. On your 9:22 comment, I also was hoping for an all-out fistfight. My friend Nick said he thought McCain would still win, even with his robotic arms that can't go all the way up. He does have a lower center of gravity, which might help.
My favorite part -- and by favorite I mean the best part I could actually hear, being in a bar where the TV I could hear was on CNN HD and the TV I could see was on plain CNN, so they didn't sync up -- was when McCain tried to defend himself on the Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran thing and sounded like a totally incoherent senile fool. I was just, uh, joking with a veteran friend of mine about Iran. Wha?
This is a great post.
It really bugged me that Brokaw made the Joe Buck mistake of thinking that the debate was as much about him and "the rules" as it was about actual discussion between the two candidates. Every time they started to directly respond to one another - and actually debate - he seemed to cut them off for another question.
I was watching CNN HD too just because I can't get enough of those graphics on the sides that show running "+/-" tallies and the chart at the bottom that moves up and down all night. By that gauge, I'd say Obama won handily. I also loved how all the town hall folks took out their cameras as soon as it ended.
thanks for the recap. now i don't feel bad about passing out shortly after wondering if the candidates are both left-handed.
Mondales' 08 experience thus far.
I read the weekend newspapers, Guardian and Observer, I get The Week (UK edition).
I watch More4 channel which has The Daily Show (GLOBAL EDITION) and heaps of good 08 related telly.
I listen to Radio 4 as much as possible unless it's another Icelandic bank gone bust.
I bought a tie with donkeys on it.
Frau Random Doubt is still waiting for her postal ballot.
Our town taxi driver has asked FRD about 65 times if she's voting for Barak Oohbarmah. He's got a thing for my wife.
But best of all I read Listmaker's fantastic blogging which saves me from having to stay up for the debate (being shown here in 29 minutes from now).
You da'man, get your own show.
Thanks for the report listmaker. Next time I'm overseas can you do a play by play of house hunters international for me? You're really good at it!
obama and mccain are indeed both southpaws.
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