Drinking and debating
Poured myself a jameson, trying to liveblog this shit but Hulu fucked up the first five minutes...

8:0somethhing - Mccain blames the entire crisis on freddie and fannie. IZ MOR COMPLICATED THEN THAT K? duh

8:08 - mccains blinking at least 3x a second. Sounds nervous. Stuttering about tax breaks and small businesses.

8:11 - enough about 'joe the plumber'. FACT CHECK ON TEH SMALL BIZNESS THING PLS

8:13 - mccain: us small business tax rate is high, compares our 35% to Ireland's 11%. No mention of where ireland makes up the difference - I suspect the actual tax rates are ultimately pretty similar, just structured differently. MORE FACT CHEKCS KTHX

8:16 - obama's talking about investing in education. All well and good, but if everyone's got a college education, someone will still end up working in fast food right?

8:16 - 'profligate' is a bit big of a word for amurrcans to understand, mr obama sir.

8:17 mccain's all stuttery again - "well, first, second... ok, wha-what would I cut"...

8:17 - did M say this is the biggest goverment since "the great society"? uh, you mean the great depression?

8:18 - mccain sounds a little ADD - jumping from talking point to talking point, picking bits and pieces from the last two debates.

8:21 Mics are set up poorly. Too much suit rustling.

8:22 Is M trying to make O look like he's avoiding questions by throwing 3-4 concepts at him at a time?

8:22 - O just appropriated the mccainism of 'reaching across the aisle'. His voting record's pretty clear on this one though. Hint - it's along party lines.

8:23 remember when M said he 'doesn't understand economics?' http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=40334&sectionid=3510203

8:24 Getting tired of that forced smile thing obama does when mccain's talking.

8:26 Did M just intentionally let his voice falter or crack while talking about an 'emotional' issue - something about 'congressman lewis' alleging mccain/palin association with racism?

8:29 If I wanted to get drunk I might think about following DebateDrink - http://twitter.com/debatedrink

8:30 M obviously pandering to the sports crowd with a comment on arizona vs. some other team. Why am I not surprised?

8:31 oooooh! O plays victim with the 'terrorist/ kill him' remarks!

8:34 Obama looks down when mccain throws back 'there have been some unflattering remarks about me at your rallies'. Looked guilty.

8:35 AYERRRRRRSSS! ACOOOOORRRRNNNNN!
8:36 what? acorn 'destroying the very fabric of democracy?' christ

8:37 Nice defense. The question is, do swing voters buy it (and do they matter anymore?)

8:38 O namedrops Paul Volcker. that's an economics win

8:39 Mccain keeps pushing the ayers issue. Is it time for O to bring out the Keating Five bit?

8:42 Palin's a role model to women? please

8:43 M: 'breath of freth air'

8:43 M: "autistm"? really? is it on the rise? maybe it's bisphenol A.

8:47. New topic, blah blah blah energy. O may have missed his chance to nail M on the Keating Five.

8:49 Not happy O capitulated on the offshore drilling thing.

8:50 O said 'incluze'. hehe

8:52 M - is it a hundred or a billion? Slight difference.

8:55 I kind of stopped caring for a bit. Maybe it was the whiskey.

8:56 O: Controlling healthcare costs... yeah. it cost my insurance company over a thousand dollars for me to be hooked up to a heart rate/blood oxygen monitor and have a nurse make sure it didn't start beeping for an hour. RIDICULOUS

8:58 DIABETES! OBESITY! OMG!

8:59: M jumps from health care to 'joe the plumber' again, with an incoherent half-sentence foray in mentioning the capital gains tax. What?

9:03 STFU about joe already

9:04 - average cost of a health insurance plan in america? O: $12k. M: $5.8k. Which is it?

9:05: M: calls O "Senator Government" FREUDIAN SLIP?

9:06. I'd forgotten M wants to repeal roe v. wade. NO THX, IZ STEP BACKWURD FR WOMENS RIGHTS K?

9:10 Obama officially wins the feminist vote

9:14. Wonder if M's strategy involves making oversimplified accusations to have O spend time explaining the details?

9:14 O - sex is "cavalier activity"?

9:15 O just got done saying he's not pro-abortion, then M immediately uses the phrase. underhanded

9:26 blah blah education, vouchers

9:27 mccain's even stuttering his prepared closing statements

annnd i'm done. Verdict? who knows. I'll watch the news tomorrow.
- posted by vcmc @  10/15/2008 08:07:00 PM