The Official Ok Oh Presidential Debate Live Blog, October 15, 2008

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22:40

Shields and Brooks. What a couple guys eh?
Man, I could not have done this without you, my jive ass fellows.
Jack and Stacy, thanks for sticking with me until the battery ran out.
Curran, you are the best. Thanks for reading this later.

Um, yep, don't know what to say.
I feel hungover already. Man, Busch is bad beer.

22:31

McCain says "good job" a bunch.
Michelle Obama is hot.

22:31

Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.

22:27

McCain won't say Barak's name. He can't spit it out.
John is a fighter. He'll fight everyone. Fight fight fight.
Do we need a fighter right now, or someone who can understand how thing work in all their complexities.
Here McCain brings in trust. That has become a rather loaded racist word.
That is too much. Honored and humbled. Who wouldn't.
Obama talking deep negativity. Talking risk management.
That's smart. Fundamental change. Loses it a little, gets a little too folsky.
Now talking policy. A little all over the place.
Not easy, not quick. Coming together.
Shooting from the hip.
Great.
Great.

22:21

I think this has pretty much gone this way:
McCain assailing Obama on a number of issues, trying to crack his shell while putting forth as many proposals as possible. Obama fending off all the attacks while drawing strong contrasts and comparisons.
In the end McCain isn't doing much. He is not getting far.
He is agitated and vague.
Obama is calm and specific.
hard to call this in McCain's favour except in the sense that he came out full of piss and vinegar and tried to take it at Obama.
And Sarah Palin understands autism.
That's laughable.
Laughable.
McCain is even more irrelevant than he was before.
I don't agree with vouchers. I just don't. Marina's mom and I had this conversation once. I think I changed her mind on it. It is just silly.
Gad damn.
McCain is craaazy.

22:18

Education, blah blah blah.
Man.

22:16

Last question: Education=U.S. suckiness.
I am munching on Hawaiian King chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
Delicious.

12:12

This is a nice moment for McCain.
He is pressing a point. Hard.
Can Obama deal with it?
Seems like he just did.
Law on the books.
As long as there is an exception for the mother's life.
McCain is jumping mad. He is going nuts over there.
Ah, Cindy.
Cindy the second, cheated on wife.

22:11

"Trial lawyers dream"

22:08

Goddamn, abortion is tough.
Really.
It's tough.

22:07

This is a good one for McCain, admittedly.
The judge question, that is.

22:05

Litmus test.
Is that something you put on the tongue?
I love it when people say that.

22:05

Senator Government vs. Joe
That's tight.
Not bad.

22:04

McCain's plan is confusing. what the hell is he saying?
What does McCain want again?
Anger?

22:03

McCain hating what Obama is saying.
This is classic.
Joe, you're rich!
Who the hell is Joe?
I don't care about Joe.
I don't.
But McCain isn't talking to me.
He is talking to Joe.

21:58

Technical difficulties.
Just checked my fantasy football.
My oldest brother in some spat with the brother of a friend.
Can't we all get along? Fantasy sports are funny. Easy to get right in there and lose perspective. I do it all the time.
Oh yeah, fat kids are bad. There is a presidential platform.
Back to Joe the Plummer.
McCain is a one trick pony.
He is hoping Joe the Plummer goes down in history as the guy who saved his the McCain presidential campaign.
I wish I had more beer.
Obama is battling this one well with numbers. He doesn't usually do that well.
Usually he is godawful boring.
Bring it back to McCain. Ohp, there you go...
Obama is killing it here.
I think.
Does anyone else think so?
I can't tell.

21:54

Obama talking here.
Hold on, I just finished my Busch.
Damn.
McCain saying something ridiculous, Obama laughing at it...
Blah blah blah.
Is this the boring part of the debate or am I just boring.
Ha! Hoover!
Does John realize that NOBODY knows who Herbert Hoover is?
Jeez he is old.

21:51

McCain doing the eloquence thing. Thats a pretty good tact.
Scary tact.
I like watching these guy listen to each other. You can just read what they are thinking when the other guy says something. Like "oh man, here he goes on this thing."
How enjoyable to watch these massive egos collide.
I like it when politicos say things like "why don't you go there..."
As politicians you don't see shit. You are cloistered basically.
What you need is a history before politics of experiencing other cultures and realitie.

21:47

Obama needs to laugh at McCain more.
It makes him FURIOUS.
And it comes out badly.
Obama needs to smile, shake his head, start treating McCain like the goofball he has become.
I like when Obama talks about mortgaging our children's future.
Death gripping our children's future.
We can't drill our way out of the problem.
Obama just sounds smarter.
NAFTA.
There are sooo many drink combinations named NAFTA.
I like the Tecate/Makers Mark one.

21:45

Man, Blogger shuts down right when he said something about Sarah's tough husband.
Now John is talking about something cacamamie.
An interesting word. Does he know the etymology of that word?
I do.

Now I am having technical problems.
Maybe this is for the best.

21:42

Ah, the reformer tact.
Maverick.
Resignations.
Cutting government.
Faces down oil companies.
Reformer.
Fresh air.
Special needs families.
God damn, but do I want this idiot as president?
Is that presidential?

21:40

Running mates. Great. Softball. Hardball.
Everyone knows I like Joe Biden.
I mean we are practically the same guy.
Hardscrabble Scranton.
Yes.
I wish I had more beer.
I can't wait to see what John says about Sarah.

12:39

Obama smack down.
McCain comes back pretty weak.
This is going pretty well.
Is this going well?

21:36

Bill Ayers.
God, would you look at McCain?
His eyes look like they are rolling around in his skull.
Goddamn. I mean goddamn.

21:33

I think, tonight if I keep going like this I'll just keep getting worse with my McCain hate.
Hmm, what can I write that is NOT boring and obvious.
Haven't found it yet.
Where is Marina when you need her?
McCain gets back to attack dog here.
Man, he is looking bad to me.
Does he look bad to everyone?

21:31

Go Obama. Go with this.
Oh boy. McCain is craaaazy.
And Obama just got this thing under control.
Obama just won this thing.
Cool, calm collected while McCain looks agitated and crazy.
Craaazy.

21:30

Marina is not here, she would be way funnier right now.
She would be all swearing and shit.

21:25

Urgent request?
Man, McCain is not answering the Obama as terrorist question at all.
He turns this thing around.
This is a messy messy question.
Tough campaign. Tough campaign.
McCain is playing this well though.
McCain is a paternalistic dick.
Obama...
needs to come out harder than this.
He needs to look into the camera and use the word terrorist and comment on that directly.
He needs to scoff at that. He needs to put that to bed. For pride's sake. Come on.

21:24

Damn, he is really reaching. McCain has always eschewed using his Vietnam experience in his campaigns. And there, he uses the word "scars."
He is reeling.

21:23

Eight more years of the same thing.
New directions.

21:21

Man, there is real animosity there.
I love it.
Obama has a nice little run there.
Even Fox news disputes it. Ha ha ha. chuckle chuckle.
Bring it back Obama. Bring it back to Bush.

21:20

Sure John does.
Ohhh, that was something.
Getting himself far away from Bush.
He was waiting to use that one.
Obama had better keep hammering that though.
More anger.
My friends.

21:13

Blam! Bob! Ignoring reality! Blam!
Obama talking about proper structure of bailout.
Straight talk here I hope.
Getting a little muddled here.
This is not Obama's setting here.
McCain looks like he is going to bite his head off.
Man, McCain looks crazy. Obama is pretty milquetoast tho.
Ah, depression years. Something John remembers well.
What John doesn't say is that he scoffed at Clintons proposal a couple weeks ago.
Offshore drilling is gay. (sorry gay people.)
Hatchet then scalpel!
Government spending on your watch John. Government spending under your own party's rule.
Man, he is a maverick though. He knows that one sweatheart deal well, I have heard about it many times.
And there is that pesky overhead projector.
I am interested in Obama's taking the wind out of McCain by using his own words and drawing comparisons. Will it feel strong enough?
Democrats talk about history too much.
Republicans don't think about it enough.

21:12

Man, I fucking hate John McCain now.
If you are voting for John McCain, you are an idiot.
Unless you are older than 70. Then you get a free pass. Vote for whoever you want.
Anyone else?
Idiot.
But he got the last word on that, and he did it strongly.

21:10

Nice comeback on Joe the Plummer.
But here is McCain talking about spreading wealth around.
head shaking. Hating.
Man these guys do not like each other.
Just say "how do you pay for everything John?"
Just say that Barak.

21:09

Ha! Obama with a zinger.
Mentions McCain's attack adds.
That is a nice tact. Just keep the pressure up.
Every time, this is what Obama needs to do. Every time he needs to come back hard then get to the proposals.

21:07

Here comes the attack.
Planted plummer? Joe?
Obama hates McCain. Its there, in his face.
But man, McCain just seems slimey now.
This whole Joe the Plummer thing is lame.

21:03

Obama looks serious.
McCain looks pretty swinging there. Beloved, crazy Nancy Reagan.
Hurting, angry, twice. Angry. Four times.
Maybe John is angry.
John is angry.
He is getting Obamastyle here, explaining things for once. Oooh.
Starts out with hard ideas, real working ideas. He is going to go with ideas.
Real hard ideas. Obamastyle.
Dude, check out McCain eyeball Obama.
Obama talking middle class.
Man, this is all proposal time!
I like how Obama is making connections with McCain.
That is smart.
Close the idea gap. Neutralize that.

12:01

Bob Scheiffer. This guy looks like one of those rubber puppets we used to put our fingers in and make scrunchy faces. Oh, nice audio on the greeting. John McCain, again tense, Obama, warmer.
Lets get to it.

20:59

I hope this feed works. oh, there is is!
Campaign oheight! big voice there.
Katie is looking nice. Nice looking woman.

20:56

So, I am 36 ounces into my nightly allotment of delicious Busch beer.
Why Busch you say? Because it has the mountains on the can guy. Mountains on the can.

20:51

In sixth grade I made it to the school wide finals of the spelling bee. I was the only sixth grader. I lost to Aaron somethingorother, a seventh grader. I lost on the word presidential, which I spelled presedential.
I wonder if Aaron somethingorother is smarter than me now?
Man, I wish I could remember his name.
How can I find out his name?