5:54PM EDT
You can cut the vice presidential debate electricity with a knife -- or whatever replaces a knife if the knife becomes incapacitated. I'll be kicking into high gear around 6:30. Let's do this thing!
6:01
Again, just post your comments like usual. I'm using this thingee so we're not simultaneously bogging down the server.
6:04
Stretch just played that Palin clip in which she says, "I've been listening to his speeches since I was in, like,
second grade." Sorry -- vice presidential candidates should NOT be reading prepared remarks that have the word "like" deliberately inserted into the text.
6:11
Just posted a poll. I have no idea if I can delete it or replace it with another poll.
6:17
Regarding the poll, Josh:
The McCain camp tells Mike Allen that Palin will go after Joe Biden tonight, trying to catch him out on old foreign policy positions that didn't pan out. Right. I don't buy that because I don't think they want to risk getting her into any detailed discussion of any foreign policy or defense issue.
6:19Oh, and I didn't feel like making this its own post tonight, but... -348.6:23Somebody tell Stretch that Biden's FDR thing is nowhere near the magnitude of Sarah Palin's obvious hoopleheaded ineptitude. Stretch is more guilty of this fake notion of 'balance' than just about anyone on cable news.6:51 Hey look! Lieberman said something stupid and cynical:
"Whether she can answer every detailed question, I don't think that ultimately matters to the American people so long as they think she passes those other personal thresholds."
You mean that if she totally blanks on a question that Americans don't care? Wow. They might as well cancel the debates.6:53McCain fidgets with his hands a lot. What's wrong with his ring fingernail that makes him always pick at it?6:55Shocker! FOX News is talking about Gwen Ifill. Bill Kristol thinks that Gwen wants Senator Obama to win. And you know, maybe she does. Privately. But when in her career has she projected her bias? Like Brit Hume does all the damn time.6:59McCain said today that he's "not a rich man." In a related story, Senator Obama said that he's not black.7:06Sorry for the delay. Monkeying with the width of the window -- so as to fit YouTube videos.7:07Scarborough crowing about Palin's approval rating in Alaska. He clearly doesn't want to admit that Palin's approval rating in Alaska has dropped precipitously since she agreed to be on this hyper-spaz ticket.7:11I made a YouTube clip today for use during the debate. It's cathartic.7:16McCain's fingers look like little white traffic cones.7:23The CIL website appears to be down or something. This was an awesome idea. Reliable!7:28 Actually, I think it's Comcast that's taking a crap. Must destroy!7:29Okay folks, stand by with me as I bail out of the CIL thing. Too unstable. I'll just try to keep up with opening new threads.Stand by...7:36PMNew thread! Join me here.