Liveblogging The First Debate – Thread 2

Whew, that felt funny.

Dammit, what did McCain say when he held up his pen and made an angry face? My cable went all whack.

Dammit, what did McCain say when he held up his pen and made an angry face? My cable went whack.

The sheriff? Except for when he was in the Keating 5

I’m sure “Sheriff” isn’t the only thing McCain is called by fellow Senators.

I’m glad he cut McCain off with the closing the corporate loop holes

It’s the heroin, dontpanic…you’ll get used to it.

I’m sure “Sheriff” isn’t the only thing McCain is called by fellow Senators.

McCain is going to make spending bills famous! lol I bet he is.

He’s going to veto EVERY SINGLE SPENDING BILL that comes across his desk?? He’s lost his mind! The gov’t will cease to function ’cause the $$ to run it comes in the form of SPENDING BILLS!

Did we lose everybody else when Bob blew out the lines?

Ugh, sorry I did it again. Once I click “post” it acts like it’s stuck, then I have to go back to the main page. I will try to be more patient.

The pen! The Pen!

The corporate tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%, not 11, you fucking douche.

That wasn’t your cable, dreamy; that was my boys rolling on the floor laughing!

*poof*

He said his pen is old. But not as old as the quill and ink well he used as a high school student.

McCain: “Oh shit, I brought my pen but forgot that bottle of ink.”

McCain looks angry an testy.

“Festooned!” “Festooned” Gawd he sounded so excited when he said that. Whargarble!

Ya know what John, Ireland’s growth is forecasted the other direction this year too, just like a lot of countries. And that had nothing to do with their corporate tax rate.Lehrer keeps calling for them to respond directly to each other. Perhaps they need the commercial break so they can bring out the mud pit…since it seems like that may be where we are heading….mud wrestling!!!

Christmas tree ornaments? WTF is he talking about? I think we need a new sheriff in this town…Why didn’t Jim stop the insanity and move on?

McCain looks devilish sometimes.

He’s starting to run off the rails a little.

How did this become a conversation about earmark spending?

Carl we were stuck on the same page as we bottlenecked on in with the pen and ink.

IS THIS THE MATRIX?

McPOW is not looking happy. He’s seemed a bit miffed when Obama told him that what he was saying about Obama’s tax plan was “just not true”. Creepy grin time.

VERDICT, SHRED are these drinking words? I would have made them so had I any idea.(Did I mention my friend Kennedy in the hospital? Me sick but feel better)

What was that “far to the left” dig? What a fucking bastard.

CREST WHITE STRIPS..think about it Mcblame

Bob @9:14PMDoes McCain sound jittery? And why is Lehrer so anxious to get the candidates to talk to each other?That was the negotiated deal, though neither candidate is seeming to want to go there.So far Obama looks good, and is staying on point.QT

Actually the cost of the LCS (littoral combat ship) is more like 1 billion, not 400 million.

I think ‘fundamental’ should have been the drinking word. We’d all be in the ER tonight.

What the fuck did that have to do with anything, the Liberal shot? Asswipe.And thank you, John, for saying you’ll do away with Ethanol subsidies. I can take that act on the road here in the Red Midwest.

Why didn’t he examine any of Halburtons contracts?

So Obama won’t even have to take the lead in pissing him off. The crowd might set him off. POW!

Bob @9:14PMDoes McCain sound jittery? And why is Lehrer so anxious to get the candidates to talk to each other?That was the negotiated deal, though neither candidate is seeming to want to go there.So far Obama looks good, and is staying on point.QT

What is with McCain’s obsession with federal prison? Is he hoping he’ll get sent there so that he can be with his buddies?

“Did I mention I have friends?”

He saved us $6 billion! and then spent it in less than a month in Iraq! The gov’t's spending too much?? Look to the east, my friend. Look what you and yours have wrought.

McCain has been smirking from the start. Thats going to cost him with most people. No one likes a smirk faced prick.

spending freeze..jesus mary and joseph, hatchet instead of using a scaple..nice one

What are the drinking games words and phrases again?

Spending freeze on everything accept defense and veterans….yeah…what a dick

uh Ashby, Bush is a smirk faced prick and he got re-elected

Spending freeze??? Veterans??? Oh, yea…Johnny’s all about taking care of the vets

How dare he mention Looking After Veterans as a spending priority, after voting against virtually every veterans bill that’s hit congress…

Most republicans are smirk faced pricks, Ashby.

Ok.. can we just call it a night? I mean seriously, could he look and sound any older? out of touch?

Ah…a Senator Clinton barb…

Spending freeze on everything except on DEFENSE, entitlements, and those veterans bills that he’s been voting AGAINST! He’s insane!

Bearswife you’re scaring me.

dick. Wad. say it with me. Dick. Wad. ok. Drink

McCain looks to me like hes mumbling “get off my lawn” under his breath.

Perhaps “cut spending” can be a drinking word too. That must be what they briefed Johnny boy on before he came out – he keeps going back to that something fierce.

CM-The drinking words have evolved. The new list is as follows:smirk-faced (online only)freeze (economic,not global warming, reference)…and I kinda like “shred”

Obama makes McInane look like a mental midget. Also, I don’t think he realizes that deregulation caused the problems. People are tired of being “trickled” on

I want to hit myself in the head when Mc cracky speaks.

Bob – I caught that too.. he said “we send 700 billion dollars per year oveseas and some of it ends up in the hands of terrorists”

I know 25-30% of this country will eat up everything McCain says, but for everyone else, how could you say you want that man to be the next President?I hope i don’t have too much faith in the american people

I’m not watching this on CNN…are they really keeping a score card over there saying Obama is losing, or is my friend just fucking with me?

Dick. Wad. Drink. easy. I can’t take much more of this, is there a way to just mute McWhine?

I think “Miss Congeniality” needs to be added to the drinking game.

McCrankyPants is really into the Miss Congeniality title…

can we also drink every time he does that scary fake grin?

“I wasn’t voted Miss Congeniality” again. Who WAS voted Miss Congeniality? Sounds like he’s jealous.

He needs another gag with the Miss Congeniality thing. Not cute, or funny.

Is that true? Obama has a budget of $800 billion in spending?? Why isn’t Obama jumping down his throat?And WHY does he keep bringing that he wasn’t Miss Congeniality? Is he jealous of Sarah Lou?

JM : He really wants you off his lawn. Now. And pick up that shot glass.

Bringing in the 90% voting record. Boom. The first major score for Obama.

Im a maverick! Palin is a maverick! Yeeehawww!

Oh noes he didn’t just call HIMSELF a maverick

Woo hoo! Go Obama! He don’t need no mud!Oh, no. Not the return of “maverick.”

Oh noes he didn’t just call HIMSELF a maverick

he said maverick twice, I chugged a beer!

C’mon, Barack. Smack him with Afghanistan.

“I wasn’t voted Miss Congeniality” again. Who WAS voted Miss Congeniality? Sounds like he’s jealous.

“We’re winning the war in Iraq.” McCain’s hitting the same heroin someone was passing around earlier.

McCain On Iraq- I realized that this strategy needed a new strategy. Um, ok genius.Great opener on the war by Obama.

SURGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C’mon, Barack. Smack him with Afghanistan.

So lets vote for the man with the best judgement, unless he had the best judgement about the war we should never have had…

Ooooh now I’m getting that candy cane tie effect. I think our fearless leader is partaking in the heroin too.

I don’t know, so far I’m scoring this pretty heavily in McCain’s corner. Tomorrow is going to be a bloodbath for Obama. He’s going to be eviscerated.

ooooh Obama is on step! Pass me the ‘step outside for a breath of fresh air’.

They should ask McCain to define the word “victory” as it related to the war in Eye Rack.

McMaverick is laughing at inappropriate times – we already have a president who does that. Don’t need another.

I so wanna slap that grin off his face. THANK for for cutting away to the one who is speaking. Shit.

Excellent summary of McDumbAss’s mistakes on the war!

The Necktie that went down in infamy.

Seriously, Elvis?

When your guy is the one saying “not true, not true” under the other guy’s talking points, you’re losing. Plain and simple.

I’m feeling the same way, Elvis.

ceu: no kidding. Scary shit.Dogpiss.

Carl’s right – Obama needs to move them off Iraq and get on Afganistan.

There was a comment surge and it succeeded

McLiar

Mark my words: Tomorrow’s consensus — BBQ media or no — will put the win in McCain’s column. Unless McCain makes a MASSIVE mistake or says something really, really stupid, he wins the night.

Obama has to keep the story going on the fact that the war shouldn’t have been fought.QT

Elvis..what else is he supposed to when McCain is lying and misrepresenting his positions?

New drinking word: “explectations”

I disagree Elvis, I guess im not the BBQ Media… but I think McCain has looked like an angry smirked old man so far. Totally shit-eating grin.

Elvis..what else is he supposed to do when McCain is lying and misrepresenting his positions?

I don’t think Obama’s being strong enough. I want him to pound the shit outta McMaverick every time he lies.

Elvis, you saw his ad today, din’cha! I’ll get a copy, and I’ll bring it to ya!

Obama just won points in Canada (like it matters) with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the issue and he is dead on.

sorry for the double post…cant tell if my posts are going thru sometimes

I think the tide may be turning with these Afghanistan questions.

Cminri – There’s nothing else he can do, but it means McCain is on the offensive and Obama has to mutter in opposition. That makes McCain the strong one, the aggressor, regardless of whether what he’s saying is the truth.

did he just take credit for the Taliban reforming after Russia pulled out? sweet.

cmini: I recently discovered if you bring up another tab or browser you can hit post then go to the other tab and refresh and it gets there faster.

lol McCain is a fucking idiot..We are ALREADY striking inside Pakistan

I think McDrunk has been playing our game with us? is he drunk? and why can’t he get his teeth whitened? I don’t understand. I don’t

Now all I can see when they show McShame is that goofy wacko grin, and that damn tie!

McCain wants an Afghani surge?

Yikes, McCain is snarling.

Elvis..just typical Republican attack first strategy…

thank god our drinking word wasn’t General Petraus..we’d be passed out

TaliPon? Isn’t that a line of non-stick cookware? Or an extra-large tampon?

NO NO NO, Warshington starts with WAR….. FUCK YOU CUNTS.What an a hole…. Pakistan is firing on us right now. What the fuck is this man talking about.P.S. I see candy canes too.

McBomber doesn’t understand that the Pakistanis don’t want to help us in Afghanistan! Does he not know that the US is already launching cross-border attacks??

NICE – Call McCain on his rhetoric bullshit!

oh yea…bringing up bomb bomb bomb iran..

Ohh…nice…Obama just snarked at McCain about bombing Iran…I likey.

Sweet! North Korea extinction and Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran. O-BAM!-A!

Wow, I never though Obama could work in the “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” reference. Good work!

OUCH! Watch McCain’s face darken and shift and change after that shot Obama just took about Bomb Iran and his little songs. That’s the avenue to The Nathan Jessup Gambit. Keep hitting him there.

aawww YEAAHH, obama just mentioned that mccain has “sung songs about bombing Iran”

Marbare is a dentophile.

bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb iran, thank you for bringing that up!

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REAGAN!

There it is!!! (Ronald Regan.) Hahah.

Reagan reference…Its almost sad really

Oh… an Olympic moment.Can’t win a gold without one.

wow, 5 people just mentioned “bomb Iran” at the same time… must have been a good line

i hate to admit it..but mccain is more lucid than I thought he’d be

I’m with Elvis so far. McAged swung hard with the 932Mil earmark issue and landed with it. And he’s even deflecting the “bomb bomb bomb Iran” albatross.

McBush’s nostrils were just flaring big time.. Yikes!

Henceforth known as the “bombbomb” bomb

McCain just lost me and im actually knowledgeable on the subject”I gotta tell ya”What a hack

didn’t mean to double post.But here comes the town hall reference, DRINK!!!

Oh… an Olympic moment.Can’t win a gold without one.

oh yea…bringing up bomb bomb bomb iran..he is so full of shit.

Can McCain stop with the stories from back in the day?! This is so obnoxious

oh yea…bringing up bomb bomb bomb iran..he is so full of shit.

ASK HIM TO DEFINE WHAT VICTORY IN IRAQ MEANS!!!!

Hey!!!! The POW card!!! I was waiting for that one.

Is the audience still alive? It’s eerily quiet in the background.

I’m with Elvis so far. McAged swung hard with the 932Mil earmark issue and landed with it. And he’s even deflecting the “bomb bomb bomb Iran” albatross. Battle of the bracelets now.

If McPOW uses the word “understand” one more time, you’ll hear me screaming in NYC!He talks like Bush – as though he’s the only person who understands anything; the rest of us are too stupid to get it.

WHY WON’T YOU LOOK AT SENATOR OBAMA, MCCAIN?!? LOOK AT HIM! LOOK AT HIM!!!!

WTF is up with the jewelry comparison? McGrumpyOldMan is starting to look angry now…

(self censoring)

Jane LOL bombbomb I cam’t brteathe I’m laughing too hard. Serious now.Can’t do it.

He cannot hide his rage at times..

Hey, I have travisited a lot of places!

I need a break

I think McCain talking about Vietnam was not a smart move. It makes him look like an old war-whacky hack.

A League of Democracies?? Is he taking creating the UN??

Existential threat to Israel?

McBush’s nostrils were just flaring big time.. Yikes!

The League of Elderly NationsHe enjoyed saying Painful a little too much referring to Iran.

This site is well wonky.I have to quit the site to refresh now….. anyone else feeling it?

McCain keeps doing some weird snake tongue thing.

A League of Democracies?? He proposed that? Is he taking credit for creating the UN??

Oh God, not the “League of Democracies” thing again. Sounds like a really bad comic book that would have been an insert in “Weekly Reader” during an election year back during the Cold War.

@ceu….that’s exactly what I thought when I heard that.

me too gallery….

you know what is provocative? Me being vetted!

Hit him on the big corporations that stand to benefit from construction of nucular facilities.

CNN is measuring reactions from Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. It seems like Obama is winning the night, most of the time.

Oh God, not the “League of Democracies” thing again. Sounds like a really bad comic book that would have been an insert in “Weekly Reader” during an election year back during the Cold War.

gallery..i have to refresh the page after i hit post…

Shriek!! did he just say holocaust?!A league of democratic values? did he just say something to that affect?- is that like the justice league of america?

stay strong, pony boy! refresh!

Yup gallery, very wonky. New browsers all round, not just tabs.Accchhhmminnnaaaajad?

McCreepyGrin doesn’t want to wast time talking when he could be bomb, bomb, bombing

Talking to people is bad apparently.OBAMA, BRING UP SPAIN RIGHT NOW.

Two Reagan’s!

AH-ME-DIN-DIN-DIN-E-JIHAD

Your website is dying Bob.

point-point-peristroikalet’s keep a list of this sputtery shit

ak ma din a ak mah den a akh meh dine a jad

“CNN is measuring reactions from Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. It seems like Obama is winning the night, most of the time.”Thanks, Amaraya, deserves repeating.

I just laughed out loud listening to McCain stumble over Ahmadinejad. And Chavez….and peristroika…

ak ma din a ak mah den a akh meh dine a jad

I have a loooong record! And a tiny arm!

Oh, Christ! What an asshole!

Sen. Obama just said the word “tea”. GASP ELITIST

New thread started! Join me in thread 3.Movable Type is being slow and stubborn.

McCombover doesn’t like that Spain reference! Maybe the rage will come out now!

recruit he just said spain!

SPAIN! Bingo! The rain in Spain–said PERFECTLY.

Shriek! Did McCAin say holocaust?! Fear mongering.And what is this League of Democratic blah blah blah McCain is talking about- is that like the Justice League of America?

How about all that fear mongering by McCain? Hope that this makes it into your book, Bob.QT

POW! SCORE! KISSINGER! OWN ADVISOR! POW!FUCKING POW AGAIN! CUP OF TEA! BODYSLAM!And look at McCain squirm when he’s taking jabs. It makes him furious.

McCain is such a gutless hack for not looking at Obama.

OK – this is not good at all, the way he couldn’t get a word in. That didn’t look strong. And McCain took the aggressive stance of being dismissive – to crowd approval. Obama needs a comeback.QT

McCain looked into Putin’s eyes too?? Is there some kind of manlove trio going on between the three of them?

HAHA! Putin’s eyes! KGB! Sooooooo funny that 2000 year old man.

OK – this is not good at all, the way he couldn’t get a word in. That didn’t look strong. And McCain took the aggressive stance of being dismissive – to crowd approval. Obama needs a comeback.QT

Notice that every time Obama slams McCain with something that is true, McCain responds with an exasperated sigh and a smile. What a tell.

omg McCain looks so fake and in love with himself

Oh fudge. Obama can’t keep ceding to McCain’s belligerence.QT

O’s gotta slam him on torture and voting against banning waterboarding.