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.