Good Evening and Welcome to Myrtlebeachbum and kadinsky’s live blog of the 2008 Presidential Debate! The candidates are prepped and primped and ready to spew forth all manner of electionese so let’s get this thing rolling, shall we?
For those of you drinking along, here are your bingo words:
BAILOUT (chug)
CHANGE (drink)
IRAN (drink)
IRAQ (drink)
SURGE (drink and roll eyes)
RUSSIA (drink vodka)
N.KOREA (drink, spit it back in the glass, then drink again)
FOREIGN OIL (drink something expensive)
McCAIN CALLS YOU HIS FRIEND (drink and swear)
ANY REFERENCE TO PRIOR JOBS AS ‘WAR HERO’(draaaaank)
CAMERA SHOT OF CINDY McCAIN (penalty, turn to stone for 10 seconds)
MBB: Historical factoid! Today is the 48th anniversary of the original Geritol v. Hope death match: Nixon v. Kennedy in the first-ever televised debate. Weird, huh? 60% of Americans may not tune in tonight like they did then, but if we follow Kadinsky’s simple rules, we can drink 60% of our body weight in alcohol, my friends. Yes, we can!
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kadinsky: starting with the financial fubar, excellent!
kadinsky: wow, Obama looks serious with that brow.
kadinsky: McCain gives a shout out to Kennedy.
kadinsky: he HOPES so?!?
kadinsky: it’s like therapy, “Now, Barack – tell John how you feeeeel.”
HEY Y’ALL, WE’RE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, MOVING THIS BLOG TO THE COMMENTS – OLD SKOOL!!
Thank You to my co-host, Myrtlebeachbum and fantastic job, Everyone! I think we’ll do it like this from now on.
September 26, 2008 at 7:57 pm
aww, Teddy Kennedy is having seizures, y’all.
September 26, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Wolf Blitzer is informing me of this.
September 26, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I am totally drinking Maker’s Mark out of my Ole Miss cup right now.
September 26, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ole Miss?
You go bitches. Ya’ll are gonna bring it.
September 26, 2008 at 8:04 pm
How much do I drink when I hear Wall St. vs Main St.?
September 26, 2008 at 8:05 pm
p.s. I’m elitist. I’m drinking red wine.
September 26, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Whoever did McCain’s “tan in a can” did him way-way wrong!
September 26, 2008 at 8:07 pm
that’s like 10 drinks already!
September 26, 2008 at 8:07 pm
but his dome is so shineh!
September 26, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Well, seems everybody’s all agreeable about what the bailout package needs now! Red herring, anybody?
September 26, 2008 at 8:08 pm
lots of talk about packages
September 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I just finished my bottle with McCain’s opening answer.
September 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Thumbs up on the set at Ole Miss. Damn, that backdrop is top notch! That deserves at least a sip, right?
September 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I can’t vote for a man with a combover. My decision is made.
September 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm
@Bowling: I’m drinking white, non-american white no less.
September 26, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I’m voting for Hillary. If I have to write her in.
September 26, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I hate a half Windsor, Meredith thinks it looks good…oh and they didn’t answer first question.
September 26, 2008 at 8:10 pm
@ Bowling (#16): ZING! Go, Hill, goooo!
September 26, 2008 at 8:11 pm
where have i heard this letter example before??
September 26, 2008 at 8:11 pm
For those not watching the CNN “Attitude-O-Meter,” McCain is flatlining! Oh GAWD! Would that make Palin the nominee for the Repugs!
September 26, 2008 at 8:11 pm
@Sparkle: and who needs a flag pin with a tie like that?
September 26, 2008 at 8:12 pm
damn, we should have used Main Street, too.
drink anyway!
September 26, 2008 at 8:12 pm
SPARKLE!!!!!!!!!! I miss.
September 26, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Rut-Ro, Elroy…Obama just pulled a “Wall Street/Main Street.”
I’m disappointed.
September 26, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Aaaack the eyebrow movement on McCain….I’m going to have nightmares about that one.
September 26, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I’m constantly amazed by McCain’s, and Palin’s, ability to talk so much and say so little.
September 26, 2008 at 8:13 pm
McCain’s wardrobe people flugged him: Stripes shot on digital video “strobe,” i.e., it’s called “the barber pole effect.”
Effing TV 101, people!
September 26, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Did Madame Tussaud do McCain’s makeup? I mean, I’m watching in HDTV and it’s frightening.
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
@Paisley, I know that, and I know NOTHING about tv.
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
gateway drug! NICE!
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I cannot bear to listen to McCain’s whistling dentures for the next four years.
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
“it’s a gateway drug, because it’s a……gateway.”
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
that’s a marker
September 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
@ Bowling: You have to admire though that they matched the Silly Putty ears to the Silly Putty face.
September 26, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Cindy did his hair tonight.
September 26, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I’d rather Congress spends $3million on studying bear DNA than hundreds of millions on the Bridge/Road to Nowhere in Alaska.
Also, he’s going to veto EVERY SINGLE SPENDING BILL that comes across his desk?
September 26, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I’m having flashbacks to archive footage of Nixon and Kennedy. Obama looks ready for primetime and McCain seems not so much.
September 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Ooh, packages! Wait…not the kind I’m hoping for, is it? Bugger.
Just got home w/ dinner fixins. M made me a giant shaker full of cosmos with our fattie California lemons.
I have a pint full of cosmo for this shit, yo.
Bring it.
September 26, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Can anyone explain to me how McCain can still look smug? Really? Well, then again, he’s already won.
September 26, 2008 at 8:21 pm
@Skinny: I was just thinking that I did not have enough scotch for this.
September 26, 2008 at 8:22 pm
“The worst thing we can do is raise taxes on anybody?”
I need vodka.
September 26, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Obama does look good tonight, don’t he?
September 26, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Obama has blue lips tonight, Bowling. Very Dem-friendly.
September 26, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Bowling: I like it when he looks at me.
I mean, when he looks at the camera. At America.
September 26, 2008 at 8:24 pm
McCain is putting his foot in his mouth over this business tax thingy. Hasn’t big business on Wall Street proven that the big cats are greedy thugs who just keep the windfall? They don’t create jobs, for chrissakes! Well, they do if it’s an underpaid homeland job that they can’t offshore.
September 26, 2008 at 8:24 pm
FESTOONED???
ahahahahaha
September 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Obama looks so thin…or is it me?
Shut up old guy. I cannot get OVER HIS MAKEUP. It looks like clay.
September 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
@LL: i know! it was like, festooooned
September 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
“…a tax system that is fundamentally fair…”
Uh, righty-Oh! It would be fundamentally unfair for rich people to have to give up their third, fourth and fifth houses under Obama’s plan. Image, people!
September 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Wait, who has the half-Windsor? Obama 4-in-hand, McCain Windsor, no? M & I are confused. She thinks it’s irrelevant.
I think it’s v. crucial.
They are SO interrupting each other! Rude.
September 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
ew, the skeleton smile. stop it, john!
September 26, 2008 at 8:27 pm
@Skinny: McCain = windsor, obama and Jim = 4-in-hand. Shouldn’t M know this?
@Bowling: That’s because Obama wears his suits just a teeny bit too big. And he has a skinny head.
I have stopped listening to the words and am critiquing the outfits. Jim Lehrer is winning Best Tie.
September 26, 2008 at 8:28 pm
wait, are we done with the stuff we have to give up??
September 26, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Question: How do you cut taxes for 95% of Americans when less than 95% of Americans pay taxes?
September 26, 2008 at 8:28 pm
mccain sounds so fuckin’ whiny that i’m finding it difficult not to tune him out entirely.
September 26, 2008 at 8:28 pm
BAILOUT – DRANK
September 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm
John hates corn. Un-American, I say.
September 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Okay, moderators, I’m not watching up above any more. Looking forward to your comments here.
I cannot get drunk fast enough tonight.
September 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm
McCain sounds like a whiny little bitch!
Oh, here we go w/ the liberal voting record – so far to the left you can’t reach across the aisle – did you write that John?
September 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm
ugh the most liberal voting record. what the fuck does that even MEAN anymore? now that the repubs are the big spenders, i just don’t know WHAT to think.
September 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm
john, what would you cut? still waiting….
September 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Million Dollar Baby is on.
September 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I busted out the Crown Royal for “foreign oil.” Cheers to the Canadians!
September 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I imagine JM has not had fresh breath since the early 80s.
September 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm
why does he keep talking about people in federal prison? is he thinking about Condi Rice’s disclosure about the torture meetings?
September 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Lehrer wins best tie hands down. That is one helluva knot!
Sparkle, in no. 17, mentioned Meredith hating a half, and we didn’t know where that came from!
September 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm
What’s McCain’s obsession with federal prison tonight? That’s at least three mentions already.
September 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm
@LL: does dust breathe?
September 26, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Tom?
September 26, 2008 at 8:32 pm
inchworm: “most liberal voting record” means “Democratic party nominee.” When we nominate Lindsey Graham as the Dem candidate, he’ll be the “most liberal Senator.”
September 26, 2008 at 8:32 pm
ha! get him with Google, Obama!!
September 26, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Oh Gawd, do we have to bring Google into government?
September 26, 2008 at 8:32 pm
yeah, Jim – get that shit.
September 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Oooo, here comes the Leher smackdown. Like scolding small children.
September 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
whoa. mccain said spending freeze on defense. someone check hell.
September 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Jim’s getting a little flustered with the boys tonight! maybe he should just say “answer the fucking question!”
September 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Iraq – DRANK
September 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
hell yeah! go at iraq!
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
We’re all good here in hell, Kadinsky! Thanks for asking!
I’m MBB, reporting live from South Carolina.
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
wait, didn’t he say spending freeze on everything BUT defense? did i totally hear that wrong? maybe my brain did that thing where it couldn’t accept the reality of something as fucking INSANE as mccain freezing military spending and just auto-edited it.
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
we need offshore drilling, that’ll solve everything!
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
y’all, I left ‘nuclear’ ‘drilling’ and the like off the list on purpose. i don’t want us to DIE during this thing.
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Well John, how are you going to pay for all that new energy with a spending freeze? Of course the free market will take care of it all, just like health insurance.
September 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Oo, he just spoke of The One – HRC. Subtle, John!
September 26, 2008 at 8:35 pm
“rule the country”
mmm, i prefer “lead” please
September 26, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Roosevelt must’ve had hella second homes.
September 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Democrats Lead, Republicans Rule.
September 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm
@ inchworm (#80): Actually earlier this week in an interview with Charlie Gibson, McCain said that he thought there was room for cutting waste in military budgets. He did not elaborate, though. Hmph. The soldiers already don’t have body armor, can they go without those pesky helmets, too?
September 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm
families – or single women like me – can’t make the health care decision if there is no possible way we could ever afford it
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
mccain on healthcare: still waiting…
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
@ Kadinsky (#85): Niiiice catch there, lady!
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
@MsScarlet–Amen. A-frickin-men!
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
It’s like Palin is rubbing off on McCain, he’s just pulling random bits of prep out of his ass and shoehorning it in where he can.
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
“I’ve got plans” – well, what the fuck are they???????
September 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm
WHY YOU GOTTA BRING CHINA IN IT!?!? HUH JOHN!?
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
ORGY OF SPENDING!
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
orgy!
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Oooh, orgy!
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Tom, Jim – this is fun, I hope he keeps going with it
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
@paisley:
out of sight, out of mind?
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
@kadinsky : families should decide.
decide what???
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
ORGY OF SPENDING. I’ve been waiting my whole life for a Yen-MBB-Euro threesome.
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
We’re some horny bitches.
September 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm
OMG did he really mention “Miss Congeniality”?
MAVERICK 2x
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Miss Congeniality? No, but you brought along a beauty queen for a VP.
MAVERICK, TWICE – DRANK!!!
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
2 mavericks in one sentence! jesus!
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
@ Ms Scarlett: A-frickin-men.
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
@K/85 – I know, right? For fuck’s sake!
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Vietnam, Iraq – serious alkies now only please.
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
The Lesson of Iraq: Don’t go there.
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
#2 on the “Miss Congeniality” count…I do not need the image of McCain in a sash and tiara in my head. That’s Sarah Palin’s job.
I’m a horrible feminist.
September 26, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Uh, sorry, but I haven’t “celebrated” anything to do with the war, Senator McCain.
September 26, 2008 at 8:40 pm
can you define victory shithead?
September 26, 2008 at 8:40 pm
@Bowling: ha! jinx! drink :)
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
success! honor! victory! we’ve always been at war with eurasia!
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Blah-blah-blah “wider war” blah-blah-blah…
Yeah, but somebody else’s problem!
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
i love when they guarantee the win.
yes, but can you GAA-RON-TEEEE it? (ala Cajun Chef?)
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
he’s reminding me more and more of W. all sound bites that don’t even make sense but then they’re easy to clip and disseminated and somehow people LIKE it.
that and they say amurka the same way.
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
M: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sob.
September 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
what is this afghanistan you speak of Barry? is that viewable from Palin’s house in Alaska?
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Obama’s skin is so glowy! Can I give a shout out to his makeup artist?
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I’m eurasian. HAWT.
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
We prematurely withdrew from Afghanistan and engaged in an orgy of spending. Meanwhile, John was playing sheriff with the head of the appropriations committee.
And they said Repubs would wipe the “ick” out of politics.
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
surplus – he is feeding mccain to the sharks.
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I’m toggling between here and http://election.twittervision.com/ – it’s fascinating.
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Actually, I believe the American body count from the war is around 4,500, yes? Do I need to fuddle with The Google?
September 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@dictator4life : post-orgy glow
September 26, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Look it up on Google for Guhvment, Paisley!
September 26, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Not to damper your spirits, this is all a formality. GWB sucked in the debates and look what happened.
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
McPalin has mentioned that’s he’s not Miss Congeniality at least 2x, how much so we drink for that?
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@SBJ/122 – me too!!
hawt and spicy
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I’m voting for whoever Jim Lehrer punches last.
Unless Jim manages not to punch either one of them, in which case, my vote goes to Jim.
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@ Amoureuse (#129): Too true, too true…but he had a wire up his back, too. So far I’ve only seen suspicious, but explainable, puppet arms from McCain.
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Agreed, Amoureuse. I’m watching my Repub friends’ FB and Twitter updates. I’ve also got my evil eye on the Red State liveblog.
The two Americas, people.
September 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@amoureuse – possibly, but I think many more people are watching this one and are actually listening with their bullshit meters – I hope so at least!
September 26, 2008 at 8:45 pm
GET ‘EM, O
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
@K: ZOMG, we are totes race twinxxx!
Two Fourths of July ago?
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
mccain needs to shut the fuck up about going to iraq! i want to punch him – not waiting for jim!
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
2/4th’s of July, is this a math equation?
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’m really hoping McCain loses his temper any second now. He’s ready to blow.
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
they don’t want their kids coming back there – according to your 100 yrs plan, their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids will be there!
September 26, 2008 at 8:46 pm
2004 was the year that hope died for me. I dain not hope anymore, I just go out and vote.
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
“That’s not true. That’s not true.”
Awesome. What next? MOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, I’M TELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
@SBJ/137 – jinxie twinzzz!!
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
@BowlingForDollars: he will call obama a cunt!
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
“Peace and prosperity, that’s what’s happening in Iraq.”
O RLY?
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx
Depressing, but we’re at 4487, the 2 most recent have not had their names released yet.
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hey MsScarlet, Got any pimento cheese?
September 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm
What is McCain writing with his sharpie when Obama is responding?
September 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@ amoureuse
I’m longing for the days of a Place Called Hope. Where’s Brother Bill?
September 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm
we just need Obama to call him ‘Joe’, maybe ‘Tim’
September 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@M: I think Obama’s really more of a painted trollop, you know?
September 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm
have there ever been any left-handed presidents?
September 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
@MBB – hee hee! making some tomorrow – but we did the South proud w/ homemade country fried steak, mashed taters, gravy, and asparagus! basically a Schlatter foodgasm!
September 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You bitches made me change the channel. ooh there is a lump in McCain’s right arm, hmm cheating device.
September 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
@M: Bill Clinton!
September 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
@myrtlebeachbum: racial!
September 26, 2008 at 8:49 pm
mccain: OMG HE ASSOCIATED PETRAUS TO BIN LADEN
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I’m left-handed, bebe. I’d be a FAB prezzie.
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Skinny, I’m hoping for a Moded!
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
@ Bowling – he’s writing “why the hell did I chose Palin? what am i doing here? where is the exit?”
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
@ Bowling: He’s scribbling the sign of the beast to invoke the overlords.
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
@Bowling: He’s vetoing spending bills. Because he already won.
@MsScarlet: Please adopt me.
September 26, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Also George H.W. Bush, James Garfield, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford.
I love the Google.
September 26, 2008 at 8:51 pm
taaaah-lee-bahn
it’s growing on me, the way he says it.
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Great, you heffers made me change the channel.
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@ paisley – I thought the anti-witchcraft spell was covered by Palin’s minister!
@ single-malt – consider it done!
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@myrtlebeachbum : thank you. that seems disproportionally high!
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I’m waiting for that eagle to swoop down and swallow everyone whole.
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@K: I just told M it sounds like a fancy new hairstyle. “For the perfect tahh-lee-baaahn, lift and twist…”
September 26, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Bowling, I believe I know what he’s writing.
September 26, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Amoureuse, go back to “Million Dollar Baby.” It’s Friday; keep it light.
September 26, 2008 at 8:54 pm
a new strategy, but one that was already condemned…where it failed.
September 26, 2008 at 8:54 pm
@ Ms. Scarlet (#167): What Palin doesn’t know is she’s sold her soul to the dark side mwuha-ha-ha!
September 26, 2008 at 8:54 pm
@LipstickLibrarian: must be serious, he usually just pisses himself
September 26, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Till Maggie hits the chair
September 26, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@LipstickLibrarian: Hilarious! I had forgotten about that!
But McCain wears Depends!
September 26, 2008 at 8:55 pm
i like that in order to be elected president, you have to stand up and talk about killing a man and crushing his movement. and now johnny boy is talking about pulling the trigger.
this is some brutal, basic shit. they should just whip out their dicks and beat the shit out of each other, and then we’ll know for sure which one’s the manliest potential mate.
September 26, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@M: Oops! I pissed my pants.
September 26, 2008 at 8:56 pm
@ paisley
hee hee!
I think she knows she sold her soul – and is proud of it!
September 26, 2008 at 8:56 pm
@ LL (#171): That is freakin’ HILARIOUS! I think I might have to make it my screensaver when my computer goes to sleep.
September 26, 2008 at 8:56 pm
yeah, i don’t like it when someone threatens my extinction either.
September 26, 2008 at 8:57 pm
the audience has flatlined.
September 26, 2008 at 8:57 pm
@inchworm : wow
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
RONALD REAGAN! FINISH YOUR DRINKS!
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
i don’t give a shit what mccain think obama does or does not understand.
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Wonder if Palin can see Pakistan from her house?
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Then we had Somali-the first Gulf War-a.
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
@ M (#185): Aw, hell, no…I just poured. I’ve lost every drinking game I’ve ever played since high school. *sob*
September 26, 2008 at 8:58 pm
we have entered the WAR chapter people, bathroom breaks and top offs now.
September 26, 2008 at 8:59 pm
That’s “Pockiston” to you, Bowling.
September 26, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Oh here he goes with the bracelet.
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
does mccain know we lost vietnam?
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Dear god. This bracelet story is the equivalent of Edwards’ “Mill Story”.
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
does he notice that ever soldier he is referring to has been killed? maybe if we weren’t over there . . .
oh, but then he wouldn’t have anything to talk about!
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Oh shit O has a bracelet too.
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
this sounds like one of the anonymous short stories in my middle school “reading” text book.
a moment of silence for the bracelet boy.
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
@MBB/191 – FUCKING LOL
Green Bay! Whoo Hoo!! Go Pack!
September 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm
“I’ve got a bracelet too.” BURN!
September 26, 2008 at 9:01 pm
i’ve got a bracelet too – it’s a gold charm bracelet – does that count? can i enter the debate?
September 26, 2008 at 9:01 pm
chiming in late here, but wanted to say hello buttercups!
McCain’s tie is giving my head a preview of tomorrow’s hangover.
September 26, 2008 at 9:02 pm
“We took our eye off Afghanistan…”
That was really generous of Obama not to just blatantly state what everyone knows now: THE WAR WAS NEVER ABOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN!
September 26, 2008 at 9:02 pm
mccain is looking very, very angry right now!
September 26, 2008 at 9:02 pm
@ M (#193): He does, indeed, and is prepared to bomb Hanoi City on DAY EFFING ONE.
September 26, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@paisley
do people even KNOW that we’re still in afghanistan?
September 26, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Yes, TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor, McCain’s tie + hydrocodone + Maker’s Mark = spin.
September 26, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@TBWYSAT: hi!
Jim attempts to jump start the audience.
Charging 200..
September 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
@ MsScarlet (#203): I’m really hoping for a McMeltdown. Come on, Obama, you can do it!
September 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
STRAIGHT TALK!
FINISH YOUR BOTTLES.
September 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
JM’s tie is hypnotizing viewers into believing he’s making sense.
September 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
no holocaust you guys!
September 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
He blinded me with tience.
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
FUCK IZ DRUNK
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
A “League of Democracies”????? is that like A league of their own? or 10,000 leagues under the sea? WTF?!
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
don’t you DARE mention the holocaust when your fucking veep has jews for jesus, you fucker. FUCKING FUCK YOU.
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
MBB: Tience!
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Bracelets are the new magnetized car stickers.
Today I saw one that said “Save Our Belts” and the belt was twisted into the recognizable ribbon shape.
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
@ LL (#210): Between the tie and the morse code eye blinking, we’ll find ourselves voting Repug on November 4th and not knowing why…
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
O hai Katastic!
September 26, 2008 at 9:05 pm
did he just mention the holocaust? oh my. it’s like a history lesson. What about the futureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
September 26, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Hey john – we don’t have any friends or allies to act with anymore – maybe you missed the last 6 yrs!
September 26, 2008 at 9:06 pm
@Skinny: My brother has a brown one that says “Support Farting.” It may or may not have been a gift from me.
September 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
@Bowling/220: yes, but that’s when john was just knee high to a grasshopper
September 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
@ Katastic (#215): When did you sneak in? *hug*
September 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
@MsScarlet : just a little friendly-fire! no one can take a joke anymore!
September 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
O gives a shout-out to Israel!
September 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Every time McCain tells a lie, I’ve been drinking. I’M DRUNK.
September 26, 2008 at 9:08 pm
ack ma who?
September 26, 2008 at 9:08 pm
is mccain drunk? pronunciation!! can’t wait for crazy aunt sarah to try!
September 26, 2008 at 9:08 pm
mccain is so wordly. mcmademajohn!
September 26, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@ Katastic (#227): If the Repugs fix the election again, being fall-down drunk will be the natural order of things for most Americans.
September 26, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I totally thought JM just said “more creeps in the world arena.”
September 26, 2008 at 9:09 pm
@kadinsky
I think he’s got a fur ball in his throat!
September 26, 2008 at 9:09 pm
REAGAN – DRANNNNNK
September 26, 2008 at 9:09 pm
@ MMB (#226): And where is Paul McCartney to lead the crowd in “Give Peace A Chance” when you need him?
September 26, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Dudes. He’s going to have a stroke onstage, y’all. ZOMG. DR. KATE! He’s stuttering and slurring his speech and has to pee! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!
September 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Ahamadinejad… not Akmadinejad
September 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Tea? I want tea w/ Barry!
September 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
@ Skinny (#236): Okay, NOW we know what he’s writing: Somebody please, dial 9-1-1.
September 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
For the record, M has the 1.75L bottle of Jameson just right here on the coffee table.
Such as.
September 26, 2008 at 9:11 pm
@Paisley: I’m thinking we need Bob Dylan to lead a chorus of “We Are the World.”
I’ll get my harmonica.
September 26, 2008 at 9:11 pm
@ skinny
i am confident in my diagnosis of old as shit angry dude who’s gonna die and leave the free world in the hands of sarah palin.
September 26, 2008 at 9:11 pm
ooohhh— he’s pissed. He’s probably doodling to calm down his nerves.
September 26, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Obama: let me show you how to say it, say it like this…it’s “ahhhhh”, relax your throat
NORTH KOREA – drink and spit, bitches
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Is anybody else totally creeped that there isn’t even a *cough* from the audience?
:::crickets:::
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
@Amoureuse/237: only terrorist-huggers learn foreign languages. mcadamian nut is close enough.
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I do love a nice high tea.
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
mccain is clinching his jaw so tight, it’s making my face hurt!
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
@kadinsky/244 – you are crackin my shiz up!
September 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
i’ve been in the car listening and am just now on the couch with my gin. it looks like i best catch up.
September 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm
hey, what did Spain do here?
“I don’t have a seal….YET.”
“Ahamadinejad. Bitch.”
September 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm
This is all just frustrating. I am not enjoying myself. Maybe the problem is that I’m not drunk.
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
i feel 3 inches shorter right NOW
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
From election Twitter:
Sarah Palin nicknames, “Bible Spice” and “Caribou Barbie”.
HA!
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Oh and thank you ladies for putting up a thread. I couldn’t deal with anybody talking about “totes” and swooning for Obama. Thank you for a funny, intelligent, adult conversation.
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
3″ taller!
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
@Paisley, Jim put the fear of God in them before the debate started. Even I’m quiet.
C-SPAN: cable’s gift to America.
PS WTF, did McCain just start talking about how someone’s taller than the north Koreans?
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
and i am about to lose my shit every time the old cranky dude tells the young whippersnapper that he doesn’t understand something.
grrrrrrr.
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
what the fuck is he talking about the avg height of north koreans vs south koreans? am i in an alternate universe?!
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
oh shit, North Korea AND REAGAN.
brace yourselves, remember to breathe
September 26, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Everyone wears heels in S. Korea. Booking my ticket now.
September 26, 2008 at 9:15 pm
@K/244: Now is not the time for deep-throating instruction. Dirty!
September 26, 2008 at 9:15 pm
OMG SHIT IS GETTIN HOT
i heard the audience and everything!
September 26, 2008 at 9:15 pm
@ MsDirector (#252): Alcohol does seem to help. I imagine them saying swear words, like you know they want to:
taxes = shit
war = clusterfuck
American people = mofos
September 26, 2008 at 9:15 pm
LOSE IT MCCAIN
September 26, 2008 at 9:16 pm
(P.S. I meant the debate is just frustrating, not this thread. This thread is fabulous! Just wanted to clarify.)
September 26, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Russia: Okay for a world leader to flash his tits or not? Discuss.
September 26, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Barry – tell Jim you can’t see Russia from your house like Sarah!
September 26, 2008 at 9:16 pm
@Paisley/264: bwahahaaaa!
September 26, 2008 at 9:17 pm
if obama mentions seeing russia from palins house ill pee my pants
September 26, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Cold War! Russia! Do IT!
September 26, 2008 at 9:17 pm
@Paisley (264): That’s it. I am officially voting for whichever one is the first to say “When I am president of the mofos.”
September 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Depends on the leader: Putin, Sarkozy, Mugabe, not so much.
September 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm
@ MMB (#267): As long as he does not suffer from moobage by all means, flash away!
September 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm
staring in his eyes and seeing his soul! Classic! kisses Barry!
September 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I got yr loose nukes right here, baby.
September 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Obama: listen to me tauk, this is how the Presidahnt should sound. Oh-BAH-MAH, ah.
September 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Obama doesnt understand anything, we get it mccain. he is just a dumb kid that made it all the way there by pure luck.
September 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm
hey john, they’re not called the KAY GEE BEE anymore.
jackass.
September 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I can only imagine what-tf the network analysts are doing behind the scenes – trying to make sense of McCain’s rambling so they can explain it in a coherent manner at 10:45.
September 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm
mccain is a witch! stone him!
September 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I raise my 4 gallon tub of cheese balls to you, Kadinsky.
September 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Does he even know what the apparatchik is? and that Putin is/was part of it?
my fucking 10th grade students knew that shit!
September 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
i think he just spoke in tongues there.
or he’s having a stroke.
paging dr.dyke!
September 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
@ Ineffable.Me (#278): Yeah, without the help of his father or grandfather’s legacy, riiiight, McJunior?
September 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm
@ineffable: That is driving me crazy! Grrrrrrr.
September 26, 2008 at 9:21 pm
CNN rapid poll..McCain 34 Obama 52
September 26, 2008 at 9:21 pm
mmm… Ice Kremea
September 26, 2008 at 9:22 pm
McCain just called Jim “Tony”? Good lord.
September 26, 2008 at 9:22 pm
SBJ is so drunk she lost her bread in the olive oil pool. tsk tsk.
September 26, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Did McCain just give a geography lesson? I felt like he was just listing names of places to show he’d heard of them. “Look! I know stuff about Eastern Europe!”
September 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Red State Poll: Do you have a seal?
Yes 20%/No 32%/Moose Hunting Awesome 48%
September 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
the audience has been lulled by the soothing sounds of Barry O. yeah baaaybee.
September 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
@MsDirector: hm.. it did sound a lot like an old person bus-tour..
September 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
@ Bowling (#125): WOW! That TwitterVision is the most awesome thing since flip-flops!
September 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm
@MBB/292 – LOL!
September 26, 2008 at 9:24 pm
@paisley – try this one too – doesn’t make you as dizzy
http://election.twitter.com/
September 26, 2008 at 9:24 pm
oooooh, Obama hits him with walking – low blow.
heehee
September 26, 2008 at 9:25 pm
mccain needs to quit interrupting jim
September 26, 2008 at 9:25 pm
No offense, I laugh at wind energy too. I was trapped in a 2hr debate/conversation about energy efficiency & coal power.
DRILL BABY DRILL– Repubs, stop talking about bridges.
September 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Anyone know of any conservative liveblogs? I’m curious to see what they are saying. It still blows my mind that people take McCain seriously, I’d like to peek into their deluded world.
September 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
way to go, O – be the bigger man!
September 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Oh, God. We’re closing with 9/11-like attacks.
September 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
From the Red State comments: even my mom says obama is getting killed her and she sia speech profesor
My mom can beat up your mom!
September 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
September 26, 2008 at 9:27 pm
This is a god-fucking-awful last question. FEAR! FEAR! WE WILL BE ATTACKED! FEAR!
Ugh.
September 26, 2008 at 9:27 pm
it’s his code for ‘911, I need to change my shorts’.
September 26, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Monday on AMC: The Alamo.
September 26, 2008 at 9:27 pm
dictator: http://www.redstate.com/
Glenn Reynolds has a roundup at http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/ as well.
September 26, 2008 at 9:28 pm
wtf about not torturing prisoners? I thought Palin was for that? I seem to remember her making fun of Obama for considering people’s human rights….
September 26, 2008 at 9:28 pm
@ Bowling (#297): It appears, after perusal of the Twitter Vision and Twitter Scroll that we are not the only drunky-drunks playing drinking games to keep from weeping, Buttercups!
September 26, 2008 at 9:29 pm
“airport security”????
oh come on now…
September 26, 2008 at 9:29 pm
More specifically, dictator:
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/26/the-debate-live-blog/
September 26, 2008 at 9:29 pm
BREAKING!: I just licked chocolate off my boob.
Carry on.
September 26, 2008 at 9:30 pm
@LL: Braggart.
September 26, 2008 at 9:30 pm
@MBB/309: Are they watching a different debate? I do not understand these people!
September 26, 2008 at 9:30 pm
lookit the audience line drop
September 26, 2008 at 9:30 pm
@LL: More fascinating than anything McCain or Obama has said tonight.
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
MBB: I give the people what they want.
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
McCain’s tie is tacky. Like eating candy canes in september.
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
@paisely/311 – I love me some Twitter/Twittervision. It’s like a live messageboard from the USA & beyond.
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
@ Dictator (#316): You are braver than I.
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
So what do we drink when Walnuts says O “doesn’t understand”?
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Fragile sacrifice of American blood and treasure!
September 26, 2008 at 9:32 pm
okay, what’s the deal with mccain and petraus? who’s fucking running for the job here?!
September 26, 2008 at 9:32 pm
@ARHUV: a Shirley Temple.
September 26, 2008 at 9:32 pm
@ Bowling (#321): Hell,yeah. It keeps sweeping across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It’s got a dizzying effect, but not as bad as McCain’s barber pole tie.
September 26, 2008 at 9:32 pm
@Dictator: I know, right? I can’t look away.
September 26, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Amazon: Draino.
September 26, 2008 at 9:33 pm
@ Amazon (#323): Toilet bowl water, ’cause we’re just a bunch of dumbshit redneck voters and someone left the lid up.
September 26, 2008 at 9:34 pm
is anybody winning this fucking thing? i think it’s a draw.
September 26, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Obama: We’re the only country rotting from cancer and only worried about the size of our dick instead.
Amen.
September 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm
HE JUST COMPARED OBAMA TO BUSH. FUCK OFF, WALNUTS.
September 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm
@M/320 I said the same thing about the damn tie.
September 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm
CNN says O is winning 52 – 34, about 30 min ago
September 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I know that they know that I know I crapped my pants.
September 26, 2008 at 9:35 pm
SURGE – drink and roll eyes.
September 26, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Single Malt: I win!
Where’s my seal?
September 26, 2008 at 9:36 pm
home from prison! makes me sad!
September 26, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Again with the PRISON! Good times.
September 26, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I know what it is like to be a warrior. I feel like I should pound on my chest now or something.
September 26, 2008 at 9:37 pm
So what are you bitches doing next Thursday? And do you put out on the first date?
September 26, 2008 at 9:37 pm
OK Is it time for some college football now or what?
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
LURVE Michelle’s dress.
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
AHHHHHH, CINDY McCAIN
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
(dammit michelle obama is wearing the thakoon dress that i’m obsessing over! aah!)
ok, done being superficial
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Here comes the analysis…
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
omg y’all, it was supposed to be 90 minutes and it was 97. it is SO impressive that they could fill those extra 3.5 minutes with catchphrases.
September 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I really need a Cindy McCain Barbie. Badly.
September 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
@Paisley: depends on the dude. Don’t put out for motivational speakers and Italians.
September 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Fix Chuck’s mic, idiots. It’s national TV.
September 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
haha skinny, twinz!
September 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
MBB: John McCain already has one!
September 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Whose more First Lady-esque?
Cindy McCain with the sausage curls?
or
Michelle Obama who missed her calling as a style icon?
Discuss…
September 26, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Natch, inef! Air kiss.
September 26, 2008 at 9:40 pm
What did McCain say when he compared Obama to Bush? I missed it.
September 26, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I give Cindy mad props for the Nellie Olsen homage.
But Michelle is the next Jackie.
September 26, 2008 at 9:41 pm
You know, they didn’t talk about foreign policy because Palin was able to “fix” all of those probs during her interview with Couric. It’s an internet factoid.
*snort*
September 26, 2008 at 9:42 pm
@ Amoureuse (#350): Well, it’s a date then! We all need to do this again for the Veeps!
No Italians or motivational speakers allowed.
September 26, 2008 at 9:43 pm
He compared Obama not agreeing that the surge is working to Bush’s stubbornness for the past eight fucking years.
Fuck you, John. Fuck you right in the ear.
September 26, 2008 at 9:43 pm
@ MBB (#357): Nellie Olsen!!! LOL
September 26, 2008 at 9:45 pm
@paisley – yes – we must get the BCP gals to do this for all of the debates – Prez & VP! I’ll be here.
September 26, 2008 at 9:46 pm
*Snort* Fox News talking heads call it for Walnuts (except for my man Juan Williams, who calls a draw and says can he buy me a drank.)
September 26, 2008 at 9:46 pm
we can do them naked….ooo said too much.
September 26, 2008 at 9:48 pm
@Amoureuse – now yer talkin!
September 26, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I don’t know why I bother to watch Fox News. It raises my blood pressure.
September 26, 2008 at 9:48 pm
My poor sister in Arizona is surrounded by Republican co-workers who are calling it in for McCain, she faked a potty break and asked me who really won the debate.
I told her that Obama handed McCain his ass.
September 26, 2008 at 9:50 pm
@ Amoureuse (#364): Then we can all lick chocolate off our boobs!
September 26, 2008 at 9:51 pm
NBC said they invited both VP candidates to comment. Notice Palin’s not there, but Guiliani is in her place.
Oh my.
September 26, 2008 at 9:54 pm
oh yeah, we’re doing this for every debate.
September 26, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Not enough answering questions, too much personal attacks.
September 26, 2008 at 10:05 pm
According to a poll by CBS, undecideds picked Obama as the winner over McCain by about a 20 point margin.
September 26, 2008 at 10:16 pm
B4D: I laughed at her absence, too. It speaks volumes about her that she “declined” to comment and they sent Rudy instead.
September 26, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Wolf Blitzer said, “I wish we’d heard from Sarah Palin tonight…” Anderson Cooper said, “Don’t hold your breath.”
LOL
September 26, 2008 at 10:29 pm
@BowlingForDollars: she’s busy out in her backyard keeping an eye on russia
September 26, 2008 at 10:39 pm
@M: practicing how to say, “Ahmadinejad”
September 26, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Or waiting for Putin to “rear his head…”
September 26, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Or keeping the KGB at bay.
September 26, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I slept through the debate, alas, because I was tired and it was a long-ass week, but thinks for this, ladies. Reading over the comments now is cracking me up.
Reading fivethirtyeight and time.com (I’m not sure why, as Mark Halperin is a doofus), it seems like Obama “won.” Even doofus Halperin gave Obama an A minus overall and McCain a B minus.
September 26, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Also, Halperin says Obama was “firm, focused and prepared” whereas he called McCain “firm.” Firm? Does he mean Cindy McCain, fresh off the Botox?
Pat Buchanan annoys me.
September 26, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Best line from Bill Maher tonight – “I don’t want to say she’s a ditz, but last night my stripper’s name was Sarah Palin.”
September 27, 2008 at 12:39 am
@MSDIRECTOR: Fuck that. Fuck him in the EYE.
September 27, 2008 at 4:40 am
AAAAHHH!!! I could not watch the debate as it was on at, like, 4:00 am, and was all set to Google it this morning, but now I feel like I was THERE. Drinking.
Very nice liveblog, ladies. So one thing I took away from reading this, is it sounds like last night was something of a style-over-substance circus, from both candidates. Any revelations from either party, or same old shit, shinier package?