I’m going to write about the debate as it happens, by popular demand. Not really popular, nor demand, but by personal preference at least. I’m borrowing Jason’s TV and internet feed as I’m still without both.
20:56- “Most anticipated debate in US history…” Most shortsighted promo in the last 20 minutes.
20:58- Newsflash: Bess is my popular demand! She loves me afterall!
21:00- I trust Keith Oberman to give me a fair and balanced opinion. I liked him on SportsCenter. Not as much here.
21:02- John McCain is the stiffest man on the planet. Does he have cartilage or did the Vietnamese steal it?
21:04- Barak Obama is looking skinny. He’s not nearly as good at unrehearsed speeches. And-and-and-and.
21:06- McCain is actually surprisingly good. What a scam artist; I can’t believe he just stole Ted Kennedy, on his deathbed, for the Republicans. He’s almost as good at speaking in debate as Obama is in speaking from a teleprompter.
21:08- No Barak, no, that’s not the question here. The question here is “do you support the current plan?” The question is not “do you blame George Bush?” Because that doesn’t matter right now.
21:10- McCain was there at Normandy. I forgot how debates worked. They ask a question, you answer whatever you feel like.
21:12- McCain made a funny. He also indicated that he can still hear, which is good, because he’s 83 years old. Thankfully his wife is 34, thanks to all varieties of “regulatory oversight”.
21:15- Read McCain’s lips: No new taxes. McCain just gave Obama a zinger, and Obama might cry.
21:17- Obama whacks him back, using math. The notation would be 18<<300. Obama looks a little haggard and agitated.
21:17- Laser beams from Obama's eyeballs! I thought McCain was going to be the angry one.
21:20- Ireland, that Mecca of industry. What is pork barrel spending? Does someone come up with a list? Do we all agree on it? It sounds like they both do.
21:22- I hope I never want to make more than $250K a year. Obama has a good point on the loopholes if it's true. I have no idea how to judge the accuracy on that, but he sounds like he's making a good point.
21:23- Glad we're having a debate about foreign policy.
21:24- McCain just swatted the moderator away. They're going to have to restrain him.
21:26- They both look like they want to fight. Jason wonders who would win, and we're discussing the tale of the tape right now. I'd take an old McCain over a young Obama - Obama's a pansy.
21:28- China just had a space walk. We did that about 40 years ago. I bet they're listening to the Beatles too. McCain needs to say what he’s going to cut. Whoa whoa whoa, wait, don’t stop cost-plus contracts! Those are good.
21:32- Obama is stumbling through his phoney dictionary right now. Wrongheadedness.
21:33- Holy crap McCain, 45 new nuke plants? Where are we going to put all that waste?
21:36- We need to get rid of all money below $1000 and bump everything back down. $800 billion? That’s too big. It doesn’t mean anything to me. Also, I’m pretty sure money is just a bunch of paper.
21:37- I can’t picture McCain in an “orgy” with Bush. Yikes. Thanks Barak. But Miss Congeniality, maybe.
21:40- So Iraq is official over now? Foregone conclusion?
21:41- Obama! Listen to me! We’re in a damn war in damn fool Iraq! Nobody cares about 6 years ago. Deal with the NOW! Ut oh, $600 billion! That’s like 600,000 games of Monopoly.
21:42- Good point John, yes, we are there already.
21:44- Quit your smirking McCain. And you’ll get to talk. Hold your horses. By the way, I would be awful here too. I’d be bouncing up and down looking like a three year old that has to pee.
21:47- Obama answered the funding question well. Timetable v funding. Good answer, quit trying to slip one past me McCain. I think Obama is getting into his grove.
21:52- Obama says country names like a European. Pak-E-Staun.
21:53- McCain just made a really good point about Pakistan. And I think the American people are going to agree with him. By the way, I want to give McCain a high five. How does he brush his teeth? His arms don’t move that high.
21:56- Obama was supposed to be the one that sounded patronizing. But it’s McCain who has that voice. He wants to take Obama on his lap and read him a book about Pack i Stan.
21:59- Don’t let that lady in New Hampshire dictate our foreign policy.
22:00- We all need bracelets! It’s all the rave on capitol hill!
22:02- Obama went to Al Quaeda training school in Indonesia, didn’t he? And you’re criticizing him for NOT going to Afganistan?
22:03- We need to get rid of oil. I want to ignore the Middle East. Go away! I don’t care about those lunatics. A League of Democracies! That sounds like a Cartoon Network show.
22:06- Somebody talking Somebody talking Somebody talking. Can’t hear TV, Can’t hear TV.
22:08- Ut oh. McCain can’t even say the Iranian guy’s name. He’s already talking about it in NY, what more legitimization is talking to them going to give them? Why do we pander so much to Israel again?
22:10- We don’t drink tea over here Barak. Go back to Europe. Though I do drink tea, myself.
22:12- Spain that’s crazy talk! Look at McCain’s contempt. Whoops, the seal joke didn’t fly. And McCain just flicked his tongue out of his mouth like a serpent. Maybe he’s the anti-Christ.
22:14- Wait, why are the North Koreans short? Huh? McCain looks so self-satisfied right now. Pat yourself on the back John.
22:15- Amy is home now too. We’re discussing Obama’s strange makeup/complexion. McCain is beating him up. Almost physically. Obama’s gonna need an aspirin. He’s looking skinny, did I say that? So was the missus.
22:17- 15,000 nukes is more than we need anyway. You don’t refer to Russia as a him when you personify her. Russia is a female bear, that is the only way you allegorize her.
22:19- We all agree that Russia is strange right now. What the hell is she up to?
22:21- McCain is showing his chops in the Black Sea fleet issues and the lease with Ukraine. Wait a second, we need to rebuild Georgian’s economy too?
22:25- Don’t we all oppose nuclear waste?
22:27- McCain reaches across the aisle, just an FYI. But he doesn’t talk to Obama, as he’s too far to the left.
22:28- We’re definitely safer from my shampoo. The War on Personal Hygene in airports has been won, I’d say. By the way, have you noticed how much some foreigners smell? Wow. Hurts your nose.
22:30- Also, Senator Obama doesn’t understand. Really, McCain has made that clear about 11 times. He just said “American blood and treasure,” in his best bed room voice.
22:33- McCain is about 40% more abrasive. I’d rather hang out with Obama.
22:35- If Obama’s father wanted to get to college from Kenya, he should have told them he could run a 29:12 10K Someone would have given him a scholarship site unseen. At least, it works that way today.
22:35- McCain was sad.
22:38- McCain and his wife just kissed, and I swear their faces clanged together in a metallic manner. It confirms one of my theories. She’s a robot.
10:43- Here’s a shocker, Pat Buchanan thinks McCain won. Who would have guessed. Meanwhile, Bess is also writing.