Second Presidential Debate Live Blog
by tom at 6:00 pm on October 7th, 2008 in 2008 Presidential, Obama Uber Alles, Republican Clown Show, St. John McCainWhat’s going on???!?! Tonight’s live blog will feature matt and myself, two people who will not be voting for EITHER candidate in this election, cutting up and talking shit. I have doubts that this one will be as entertaining as the VP debate last week, but with tensions high as McCain’s campaign goes down the drain there is a distinct possibility of some fireworks. Let’s do it.
Jamie Beth may be dropping through as well!
jamie beth - 9:01 - if you want to post this, feel free: jamie should NOT be around normal people minutes before the debate. i amost had a fight in the gorcery store check out line just now!
matt - 9:03 - do we really need to hear tom brokaw’s voice all night?
matt - 9:06 - i’m blogging from a spa retreat
jamie beth - 9:07 - when did “over-sight” become a good thing? it just makes me think of, “oops, it was an oversight!”
matt - 9:07 - mccain just lifted his arms plenty high enough to type on a keyboard
tom - 9:09 - if trust is going to be mccain’s talking point, i dont think that’s gonna go very far.
tom - 9:10 - i wonder if mccain buys his viagara online?
matt - 9:09 mccain’s breathing is weird
jamie beth - 9:11 - did mccain just feed obama and answer….you’re not supposed to do that on a debate, are you?
matt - 9:11 mccain is line-stepping
tom - 9:12 - habitually. hey john, not everyone is economically retarded, some of us have heard of freddie and fannie before last month even if you hadnt!
matt - 9:14 obama rightly calling out mccain on regulating banks
tom - 9:15 - DEREGULATORS!!!! mount up.
matt - 9:16 obama is “confident in the american economy.” sounds quite a bit like the current president.
tom - 9:17 - Mccain: “21st century? it isn’t 2100 up in this bitch”
jamie beth - 9:18 - is it just me, or is obama not doing so well?
matt - 9:18 mccain wants to buy mortgages in addition to the $700 billion bailout and the commercial paper facility? hmm, lot of money
matt - 9:18 john mccain is an importer/exporter
tom - 9:20 - you would think that the entire country is getting a boner for obama based on his pegging the ticker every time he opens his mouth.
matt - 9:20 obama with the first ticker peg on economy
matt - 9:22 every democrat that runs for president is the most liberal senator EVER
matt - 9:22 mccain flatline. MORE VIAGRA MY FRIENDS!
tom - 9:23 - mccain is like kiefer sutherland, he gets a rush from flatlining for as long as possible. he’s been doing it for weeks now, crushing keifer.
matt - 9:24 john mccain knows how to fix the american economy. i think it has to do with suspending his campaign.
tom - 9:24 - i wasn’t sure that cross burning counted as campaign activities!
jamie beth - 9:24 - he said NUCLEER! he said it! i heard it!
jamie beth - 9:25 - great kiefer ref, tom!
matt - 9:26 some in the live audience look like they burn crosses on the regular. moustache man, i’m looking at you.
tom - 9:27 - i was just looking at my records earlier. i bet john mccain doesnt have Last Poets or Gil Scott-Heron like i do. obama on the other hand……
jamie beth - 9:27 - point to barack for the jfk/man on the moon ref. nice one.
matt - 9:27 obama wants to go line by line. funny, that’s exactly what arnold schwarzenegger ran on in cali. that hasn’t gone all that well.
tom - 9:28 - line by line worked well for Paris Hilton though!
matt - 9:28 - 2 minutes ago mccain said we could have it all, now he says we’ll have to cut everything except defense
tom - 9:30 - GIT R DUN
jamie beth - 9:30 - going out on a limb here….i’m not sure they’re really talking about an “over head projector,” are they? really?
tom - 9:31 - do we need a nullus on “overhead projector”??!?!?!?!
matt - 9:31 obama brings up 9/11. i’m waiting for one of the cross burners in the audience to ask him if he was in on the planning.
jamie beth - 9:31 - 9/11?!!!!! who does barack think he is, rudy?!
matt - 9:32 - jamie beth, wouldn’t an R.E.M. man on the moon reference been better?
jamie beth - 9:32 - as a girl, nullus doesn’t pertain to me, right?
matt - 9:33 - can we get a sarah palin or tina fey cameo?
tom - 9:34 - i’d pay $5 for a palin-fey sex tape
tom - 9:35 - high on the hog. with lipstick on it. i mean sarah palin.
tom - 9:36 - mccain knows a thing or two about jello, its all his old ass can eat.
matt - 9:36 - hatchet or scalpel? in fairness, obama did well on fairness.
matt - 9:36 - nailing jello? mccain skipped debate prep and watched american pie
matt - 9:37 - is this a ticker or mccain’s ekg?
jamie beth - 9:37 - barack, PLEASE correct the small business thing before matt’s head pops off!
matt - 9:38 - tom brokaw “…but we negotiated….waahhhh.”
tom - 9:39 - negotiating is for wimps. obama’s first term? i guess he’s looking forward to facing off against Palin in ‘12…..
matt - 9:39 - obama doesn’t care about correcting republican lies that aren’t about him
matt - 9:40 - HOLY SHIT! he did it!
tom - 9:41 - i wonder why we don’t hear about private accounts anymore???
jamie beth - 9:41 - he may be correcting it, but it doesn’t sound like he really knows what he is talking about.
tom - 9:42 - joe six pack should relate to him then, right?
matt - 9:42 - mccain has a weird tip o’neill fascination. nullus and no necro.
jamie beth - 9:42 - “our wonderful ronald regan?!” are people buying this?
tom - 9:43 - the only thing wonderful about ronnie is how dead he is.
matt - 9:43 - mccain knows how to fix the economy and social security. i say we elect this guy. unfortunately the ticker is not going along.
matt - 9:44 - my “my friends” counter ran out of digits.
matt - 9:45 - obama just said computer when he meant internet. senior moment i guess.
tom - 9:46 - if he had said “teh interwebs” id have changed my mind and voted for him
jamie beth - 9:47 - HILARIOUS: he’s bitching about washington for the last 30 years and he’s been there for 26 of them. love it.
matt - 9:47 - well done on energy from obama
tom - 9:48 - so mccain will look at brokaw? why, because he is a white guy?
tom - 9:49 - “that one”????!?!?!!!!?#$#@% if obama doesnt sock him, he’s a punk.
matt - 9:49 - mccain referring to obama: “that one.” wow
jamie beth - 9:49 - do you think you john thinks “silicon valley” has something to do with fake boobs?
tom - 9:49 - he thinks its cindy’s cleavage
tom - 9:52 - obama sounding strong again on healthcare
matt - 9:52 - this is the first time i’m thankful for what all of the obamaniacs call “his legendary cool.” if mccain refereed to me as “that one,” it would be a wrap on that dude ever drawing another breath.
tom - 9:54 - wow, maybe i can drive to ohio to go to the doctor. sounds fucking awesome. is he fucking retarded!?!>?!?!?
tom - 9:55 - mccain needs a brain transplant, not a hair transplant
matt - 9:55 - i guess mccain’s campaign didn’t work out a signal for “ayyo, you’re flatlining, change it up!”
matt - 9:57 - ohio undecided women do not like obama calling out mccain’s SCHIP vote. wtf?
tom - 9:57 - pegging the ticker again
matt - 9:58 - ohio undecided men want to go on a mandate with obama. nullus.
tom - 10:00 - 4 corners of the earth? here i thought it was a sphere.
matt - 10:00 - mccain is up on the ticker for the first time tonight, and it was just after he pointed himself when he said “america’s greatest treasure.” strange.
tom - 10:03 - if people think obama is weak on foreign policy, it isnt showing on the ticker.
matt - 10:04 - i wonder if sarah palin knows what the obama doctrine is
tom - 10:05 - stress multilateralism. that is pretty much the antithesis of the bush doctrine.
tom - 10:06 - he is promising victory in iraq? didnt we already have that? mission accomplished?!?!
matt - 10:06 - mccain is probably cornholing petraeus. what other explanation is there?
matt - 10:08 - i don’t want to exacerbate our reputation either. it sounds bad whatever it is
tom - 10:09 - i think that exacerbating our reputation is exactly what would happen if mccain gets elected.
matt - 10:10 i feel a lot better after seeing the secret service agents standing behind the bleachers. some of these bald dudes could be packing. nullus.
tom - 10:11 - those afghan freedom fighters like osama bin laden. is anyone buying this?
matt - 10:11 - 5 minutes ago mccain said his hero was saint ronnie, now it’s teddy roosevelt. my friends, that is hero worship you can believe in.
tom - 10:13 - massive nullus on carrying a big stick
matt - 10:13 - i might be slipping into a coma
matt - 10:14 - jesus, could brokaw be more in the bag for mccain? i haven’t heard him interrupt mccain once, but every time obama tries to talk there’s no time left. wtf?
tom - 10:14 - now obama isnt fucking around anymore. he is taking control of this.
matt - 10:15 - bomb bomb iran. that is the knockout.
tom - 10:15 - the beach boys suck anyway
matt - 10:16 - mccain knows how to fix the economy, fix social security, and get bin laden. it would have been awesome if he had been in a position of power in for the last 30 years. oh wait.
matt - 10:17 - brokaw just crushed my hopes when he said that one of these guys will be president next
tom - 10:18 - he really does have a hardon for petraeus. very weird.
matt - 10:20 - fantastic grinning by obama. i really don’t see how this hasn’t degenerated into violence yet.
matt - 10:20 - both of these idiots want georgia in nato. war with russia would be so hot right now.
tom - 10:22 - thank god they cant just wave their hands and have them be in there!
tom - 10:22 - georgia is in florida, dumbass
matt - 10:23 - obama wants moral support for poles. with positions like that, he should really be for gay marriage.
matt - 10:24 - a very firm united states of america.
tom - 10:25 - if firmness is what we want, maybe palin is the right person for the job? she gets most guys at least at half mast.
matt - 10:25 - “preconditions” is a word i have heard about enough this campaign
tom - 10:30 - giving these guys a shot at philosophizing is a win for obama, no question.
matt - 10:31 if obama is doing as well with other men as he is with these ohio undecideds, you can stick a fork in this election right now.
tom - 10:33 - countries we don’t know where they are on a map. you mean like Spain, john? i think he is talking about known unknowns right now, but i am not sure.
matt - 10:34 - thank heavens. i was hoping brokaw was going to announce his retirement
tom - 10:35 - i dont think this performance is going to do anything for mccain’s campaign. i think we are going to continue to see his numbers dropping. i think there is going to be some serious analysis of mccain’s demeanor tonight that is going to hurt him further.
Kayla wrote:
Watching the debate on Current right now where people are twittering their opinions and they are being played underneath the candidates. FONT IS ANNOYING. And mostly Republican.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:15 pm ¶
tom wrote:
1115 >>>>> Twitter numbnuts
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:16 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
our comments are funnier, right?
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:16 pm ¶
doug wrote:
i was watching on hulu and the stream froze. now on cnn.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:19 pm ¶
matt wrote:
ayyo, what century do you think this is?
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:19 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
i am watching on cnn live and i’m bummed there isn’t an ohio undecided polygraph whoosie-whats-it.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:21 pm ¶
doug wrote:
same old attacks on each other. This is getting irritating.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:23 pm ¶
doug wrote:
lol I don’t think congress can chew gum and walk at once, John.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:25 pm ¶
Kayla wrote:
Obama nailed it with the “Shop to beat terrorists” plan!!!!
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:32 pm ¶
Kayla wrote:
Is it just me or is this debate actually boring? Wait a minute, jello reference….
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:35 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
@kayla - yes, boring, same ole same ole. so, so boring
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:37 pm ¶
Kayla wrote:
QUESTION FROM THE INTERNET FOR JOHN McCAIN- do you think he thinks that’s code for outer space?
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:38 pm ¶
Kayla wrote:
SOCIAL SECURITY’S NOT THAT HARD TO FIX? ARE YOU EFFIN ME, MCCAIN? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY EFFIN ME? YOU’RE EFFIN ME!
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:41 pm ¶
Kayla wrote:
When McCain put his hand on the officer’s shoulder, it reminds me of a bad uncle. A very bad uncle. I want to take a shower.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 7:27 pm ¶
tom wrote:
ewwwww
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 7:28 pm ¶
matt wrote:
it reminded me of the bad lieutenant
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 7:29 pm ¶
jamiebeth wrote:
i’m watching now from 9:55 on …. i just realized how horribly this debate was filmed. oof.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 10:39 pm ¶
jamiebeth wrote:
dear lord, you two got sexual once the lady left the room. sheesh. nullus. whatevs.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 10:45 pm ¶