The Official Ok Oh Presidential Town Hall Debate Live Blog Tuesday October Seven, 2oo8

20:56

Totally digital.
I have no T.V.
This is all through the internet.
On a 12" laptop.
Pretty funny.

21:00

ok, the stream just started.
I gotta watch Katie Couric, as I can't figure out to watch Jim Lehrer.
A bit of a bummer.
There is Tom.
Marina used to teach him and his wife Pilates.
She says he is a bit grumpy, but charming.
His wife, of course, is delightful.
I am not constrained, Tom, no.
Ok, big moment, brief shake, McCain gives the arm touch, looks wound up.

21:03

Hi Alan.
Thanks, thanks thanks.
Blam! Failed economic policies.
Waitaminute, didn't Greenspan work for Clinton too?
Oh, man Obama is boring already.
Talking about the bail out.
He should have started talking about tax cuts.
I am eating General Cho's chicken by the way.
Oooh, scripted, looking in the eye of Alan, going for the good guy approach.
McCain starts stronger.
Talking right off about energy and people.
Home values.
Alan!
Pay attention!

21:07

My Friends!

21:08

My Friends!

21:09

McCain doesn't know the answer. Jabs back at Brokaw.
What a loon.
Meg Whitman?
A CEO of eBay?
Tom!
Warren Buffet.
Hmmm.
Ok Obama there you go.
Talk about people.
Barak loves talking about how McCain talked about a "fundamentally sound economy?
He just beats that to a pulp.
Tom hits the whip.
One Minute.

21:11

Hi Oliver!
More eye contact from McCain while he tries to cover up his insane trip to D.C.
No John, you are the only one who hadn't heard of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
Boy was that patronizing.
They are already buying bad loans John.
You didn't start that.
Nice breakdown, Obama.
Blam!
Not surprising that McCain doesn't know his history!
Obama lays his case pretty well.
Then scoffs at McCain. Sets him straight then brings it back sown to Oliver's level.
That is some tough boxing.

21:16
Obama should say twenty first century versus twentieth century eighty more times.
It makes McCain look old and archaic right there.
My friend!

21:17

I love it when politicians say Americans are the best workers in the world.
That always cracks me up.
Section F.
Shout out.
You guys rock.
Theresa Finch laying down the big trust question.
Obama on his heels. A little off balance.
But a nice turn around to the Bush admin.
Nice.

21:20

Live bloggin is a drag.
I have General cho's sauce all over my keyboard.
Obama just lost me.
This is a softball for McCain.
I mean, he is a maverick, my friends.
"Our records as well as our rhetoric" Good one.
Man, McCain is killing this one.
McCain is losing his breath though.
Looks and sounds tired.
Better than your average (MY FRIENDS!) 72 year old though.
Energy independence is his big ticket apparently.

21:23

Nice question Tom.
McCain dodges the question.
My Friends!
Oh how he pines for Joe Leiberman.
McCain is kind of doddering. A little bizarre right now.
Going pretty far afield.
And he wants to do them all at once.
Obama 's priorities:
1.Energy (Nashville pays "380" for gas, JFK plug.)
2.Healthcare
3.Education
Obama goes on offensive here, talking about spending.
Tom is beating the horse about time.

21:28
Email question.
McCain has no one eyes to bore into.
Blam, something about an overhead projector.
McCain turns up the heat over the overhead projector!
He talks a hell of a lot in vague hopes.
McCain drums the idiot "We're Americans! We get it done" beat.
What the hell is Obama talking about?
9-11? Bush telling people to go shopping?
He gets it. I don't
Obama has lost me on this one completely.
Marina is home.
This is about to get more difficult.
I think she is wasted.

21:34

Ok, she isn't too drunk.
Thank god.
But she is going to make me shut this down.
She smells like cigarettes.
Ok, she isn't drunk "at all."
Only half a drink and half a cigarette.
Shoot, what are they talking about?
Marina says she is sick of Obama.
Thats funny.
She is wasted.

21:35

"unfair burdenship"
"jello to the wall"
Big comparison to Herbert Hoover.
That is lost on most. But it will do the trick since most people will just say "ooooh Herbert Hoover. We don't want that again!"
McCain has the news, it's bad.
Tom Brokaw smack down!

21:38

Okay. No more live blogging.
Marina is home and is putting the hammer down.

21:49

I'm back.
Marina just wanted a kiss.
I didn't get her any General Cho's chicken.
McCain is an asshole.
Obama looks a little lost in this format.
Obama tends to get a little too specific in this sort of thing.
Although he has McCain by the throat on Healthcare.
He is believable on this subject.
McCain talks about putting health records "online."
He has no clue what he is talking about.
Oooooh, mandates!
That's a bad word for some people.
McCain is now getting lost in his own quasi-specifics.
He looks totally lost.
I don't do math John.
He is falling apart.
Hair transplants?
Weird.

21:55
Healthcare as a privilege.
McCain doesn't seem like he is sure.
Its a right! Thanks Barak.
Barak Obama is a handsome man.
Marina is a beautiful woman.
My son is darling.
I digress.
Obama is doing a fine job on healthcare.
This is a home run.
And he is not stopping.
Nice.

21:59

McCain is thanking everyone for their questions.
He really practiced that.
Damn this is boring.
And I am afraid I will be embarrassed about it when I read it.
I gotta stop.
I am bored to tears.

22:07

I'm back.
McCain is saying "never again to holocausts."
Obama is doing better than he was.
McCain is getting tired.
A terrific question from Katie.
Obama knows how to pound the Afghan/Iraq thing.
Nice.
Obama gets a little lost on Pakistan.
But damn that is a hard topic.
No one doesn't get lost in Pakistan.
Wait, McCain said his hero was Reagan a minute ago.
Now it's Teddy Roosevelt.
Pick a hero John!
PICK A HERO!
This whole "don't tell your enemies what you'll do" thing McCain talks about is pretty wacky. Maybe we ought not to say we are going to stay in Iraq for a hundred years?
Holy moley, I think Obama and McCain are going to fight!
McCain is crazy man. Crazy.
"Green behind the ears."
Obama calls McCain out on Iraq and North Korea.
McCain looks like he is going to spit.
Then Obama goes into "vague specifics" and loses everyone.
Damn.
McCain hates to go "into this."
"This" being joking about Iran.
Whats the joke?
My friends!
Punches!
Man McCain wants to fistacuffs!

22:16

I am done again.
I just got bored a third time.
I am so glad I am not a real journalist.

22:18

There are only so many times I can point out that McCain is a little unstable here.
I wish I had thought of this for the VP debate.
That would have been more fun.
"Petrodollars"
"Aperachiks"
"Ukraine is in the sights of Vladimir Putin"
This is shit McCain gets. He KNOWS the cold war.
I'll give him that.
Detente mother fucker, detente.

22:21

"Resurgence of Russia"
"Moral support not enough."
"Pootin"
"Anticipating problems"
Obama steps on his words but is being far more intelligent in his discussion.
But he doesn't KNOW THE COLD WAR!
And now back to Iraq.
Really going for McCain's head on Iraq.
And a little energy strategery to boot!

Damn, Obama said they evil behaving.
That is lame.
McCain does quite a bit better.
Hope it doesn't end on that note.
This is McCain's hot hand right now.

22:26

Damn tough question Terry.
Damn tough question.
Marina is going to take over here for a while...
Here she is, she will be better than me, that's for sure...
My Friend!
Lots of talk about second holocausts.

Ok, Marina. . .

basically mccain is like "fuck yea we're going in there without the un's approval, but it might be hard cause china and russia will have all our petro (when the hell did this term come back into the political lexicon? its like petro-dollar, petro-economics, petro-values-morals . . .. anyway, obama is like" of course we will ask the un's approval based on the countries filling out the following questionaire. we're civilized. we're civilized people. nit barbarians". hmm

22:31 (we're military around here folks)

todd: "marina, what do you not know and how do you find out?'

marina: "lots of things, sigh I wish I knew french better, and spanish, and german and russian and maybe evan mandarin. I wish I understood petro-value-economics, and lots more about neuromuscular movement and why I hate sarah palin, its all so grey. You?"

todd: "I don't know what happens in the present".

Marina: " . . .steady hand @ the tiller. toddy, did you know Tom Brokaw has really really weird feet? weirder than yours, but he is really good at downward facing dog".

the end

22:46

Ok, I'm back, one last time.
Thank the lord Marina took over.
She really saved me some blushes.
Postdebate pundits aren't going one way or another.
This damn liberal media is obviously on Obama's side.
And of course Marina found the Lehrer feed.
She is one darn smart little filly! Wink.
(I miss Palin tonight.)

I reckon Obama did better.
Marina is sorry she didn't do more spell checking.
She was trying to go fast.

Thanks for listening.

22:54

If you don't know Mark Shields and David Brooks, you ought to.
What a swell couple of guys. They are welcomed in our home often.
Sorry about missing out on so much.
I took a break right around the time McCain said "that one," a moment any self respecting live-blogger would salivate over the commentarial possibilities.
Anyhow, McCain looked wasted.
Obama looked like he needed a drink.
End of story.

23:36

The more I think about it, the more John McCain seems totally irrelevant.
And the more apparent it becomes that I am awful at live blogging.

Finally, really, this is it.