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Good lord, people, who even knew we would be doing this, tonight?! Just think, drinking and watching some crap on the teevee and maybe just cold layin’ down some blogs. Oh yeah right that is just the normal life in America every single day … or it was, before the Economy Collapsed. Anyway, who knows what Walnuts! will do — not wear pants? Pick his nose and wipe it on Jim Lehrer? A vaudeville softshoe? Everything’s possible when you are an absolutely crazy old idiot.
8:58 PM — It’s on, people … it’s ON THE TEEVEE. Newell’s pre-game post is here, please move your ice chests and handguns to this new thread.
8:59 PM — They should just show cartoons beforehand, like at an old-timey movie. A talkie!
8:59 PM — Ted Kennedy had a seizure. Yeah, McCain is driving us all crazy. But he went to the hospital, is reportedly home again, and is watching the debate. Don’t look into Lehrer’s eyes, Teddy!
9:00 PM — Christine wants you to know that French candidates are super smart and classy and have two-hour boring debates, in French. Come on, lady, this is AMERICA. We finish our debates with trucknutz smackdowns. (Probably this is the next stunt McCain will attempt.)
9:00 PM — Oh dudez if you don’t have cable, you can watch on your computer, CNNPolitics.com.
9:01 PM — “You’re looking at the back of Jim Lehrer ….” Thanks for that, Wolf. Thanks a lot.
9:02 PM — “No cheers, no applause, no noise of any kind.” Just like Lehrer likes it … he’s got lifeless eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
9:03 PM — No midget step for McCain? He must be wearing lifts in his shoes, but is still so leetle.
9:03 PM — Ha ha, so much for foreign policy, and right to the Economic Disaster.
9:04 PM — Obama: “Can’t think of a more important time to talk about the future of the country.”
9:04 PM — Barry drops the “g” on “struggling.” Southern style! (But otherwise sounds normal.)
9:04 PM — Well this is not the most exciting opening answer, but he hits the “helping homeowners” right away, and (zing) “this is a final verdict on eight years of the policies of President Bush, supported by Senator McCain.”
9:06 PM — Ha ha, McCain starts with an “update” about Kennedy in the hospital, even though CNN already said Teddy is home and watching the debate. Still, always a classy move to say howdy to your Senate buddy from the ’70s.
9:07 PM — McCain wants to make sure we don’t lose our credits! Can’t buy new ‘droid parts without credits!
9:07 PM — Oh jeez, McCain looks tired, and we can’t really tell what he’s talking about. “This isn’t the beginning of the end of the crisis, it’s the end of the beginning.” Is he threatening everyone again?
9:08 PM — HA, Lehrer says, “Let’s go back to the question, are you in favor of this plan? We’ve got five minutes, you can make a deal,” etc., Jim Lehrer hates everyone.
9:09 PM — Obama notes that neither of them have seen the plan, as it’s not done or anything.
9:10 PM — Lehrer: “You’re gonna vote for the plan, Senator?”
9:10 PM — McCain: “Yeah, yeah, sure, I guess, I hope.” What?
9:10 PM — But now McCain would like to talk about the stuff he loves, which is doing an invasion. Dwight “I Like Ike” Eisenhower wrote a letter right after the Greatest Invasion. That’s why McCain still wants to fire motherfucking Christopher Cox. Huh?
9:11 PM — Obama gets mildly populist, says incomes are down, etc. Now Lehrer is starting to piss off Barack and Juan, telling them to talk to each other, and maybe they will do a bipartisan action on Lehrer.
9:13 PM — Ha, Lehrer wants McCain to have a conversation. “Do you agree?” No, he says, and then repeats the same goddamned thing Obama said, minus the detail or knowledge, and starts talking about the “American worker.”
9:14 PM — Black-Eyed Jim is still trying to get McCain to say anything. The answer: Ergh, the talking points. Earmarks. Gateway drug. Like Ambien?
9:15 PM — Hey, Fucknuts, don’t be putting down million-dollar studies on Western wildlife ya bag of golf clubs. We will need QUITE A BIT MORE million-dollar studies on Western wildlife to fix the shit Bush and Cheney have pulled out here, in the West, which is basically timber deals. Don’t you fucking fuck with motherfucking Bears, you fuck.
9:17 PM — Obama notes that the Bush/Cheney corporate pals are getting hundreds of millions from earmarks and executive orders, while poor people get nothing, and Mountain Bears only get a million-dollar study after they’re all getting killed.
9:18 PM — Gosh, McCain has learned that corporate money given to government corrupts. Come on Barry, give McCain some Keating Five.
9:19 PM — The light is sort of making Obama’s hair look … green? IS HE THE JOKER?
9:19 PM — Obama just missed a big chance to, again, explain very clearly that his tax plan cuts taxes on NINETY-FIVE PERCENT of Americans. That is kind of an important point, eh?
9:22 PM — Yes, now that is kind of important, too, right? How will you like paying taxes on your crappy healthy insurance?
9:24 PM — John McCain hates Christmas trees that are “festooned with ornaments.”
9:25 PM — Well, here is McCain’s attack. Obama is saying, “It’s not true, it’s not true John.” He is shaking his head with dignity. DRINK!
9:26 PM — Oh Lehrer’s hair looks green, too. Maybe your editor will replace this teevee he bought to cover the 2000 election, for $80, at Circuit City. It has a VHS built-in video tape recorder!
9:27 PM — Newell will soon take over. He will probably get the “good stuff.”
9:28 PM — Ha, Obama just noted how China is having exciting space missions and space walks, while we eat dirt and pay giant car-insurance premiums.
9:29 PM — McCain is chuckling and cackling about being the new Herbert Hoover, or Coolidge, probably. Whichever one he went to Top Hat Prep School with, at the Junior-Scamp War College.
9:30 PM — First-Third Recap: You dudes are boring. Lively it up a bit, while your editor refreshes his wine bottle, and here comes your D.C. No.#01 Pimp, Jim Newell, okay see you soon.
…It has BEGUN FIGHT!!!
Yay!
Niiiice Blingee!
…WoW, he is going right after WALNUTS! off the bat!
Why does Obama want to punish the rich? Doesn’t he know this crisis was the fault of the poor?
McCain politicizing Sen Kennedy’s health!
…it looks like WALNUTS! cheek pouch is dragging down his left eye.
Obama’s got his game ON and in HD, McCain looks like his face is made out of silly putty.
physical crisis?
His tie is making me trip-out.
Ha ha ha, Kennedy’s home! Probably already into the scotch!
Oh god — McCain kneecapped Senator Kennedy for a cheap political stunt?!
SystemError:
Yes, that was lame. Libruls ain;t voting for you Micke just because you called Kennedy the “lion of the senate.”
McCain would like some warm tea, not to hot please.
Did someone tell Walnuts that Kennedy is back home?
Hahaha, Senator Kennedy got home an hour ago he’s watching the debate giving the finger to McCain on the TV, take that WalTruckNutz!
They are currently saying the same freaking thing.
Booos.
…he is talking about “packages”, I wonder if he brings up Boehner?
Main Street should be a drinking point.
Bramlet Abercrombie: Goddamn blingee’s murdering my refresh rate.
end of the beginning of the end of the end of the beginning of the plan
WTF?! Foreign oil? Where’d that come from?
Man, this posting is slow tonight… drinking already?
House Republicans weren’t part of the negotiations?? Sorry, Walnuts, but they were. They just changed plans.
McCain’s nervous. What the hell? Oh yeah — the economy is Cindy’s department.
Is Walnuts! gonna sing “Sweet Adeline”?
Dig that tie!
bring the stakeholders home!
If I forget how I feel-IN REAL TIME-I’ll just consult cnn’s scrolling graph on the bottom of the screen. I just have to remember what color I am.
Is there a graph to remember what color I am?
obama is doing well. looking right at the camera, he seems confident and strong. He went right in to numbered points, that is important for the average bear… i thought walnuts was going to say, “well Jim, i haven;t been feeling too well… just yesterday i had a mild stroke” HAHA walnuts, says we all saw this coming…
Train wreck coming. Yup. Word.
“Sure” McCain’s going to vote for the plan, “sure,” why the heck not.
I hope he mentions Lurchson sat on this bailout proposal for months.
…am I the only one that thinks Barry is looking kinda mean tonight? Like he released his inner negro, by the end of the night we might have to upgrade him to WAR unicorn.
This is D-Day?
it is just me or did walnuts just not speak a word regarding the question that ass-clown oil wealth Lehrer simply put down on the SMACKDOWN to his old rival WALNUTS! whom failed to mention a single word regarding the question as barry continues to OWN him. I don’t need no disco this ain’t no party this is a train wreck that is coming out of my screen and into my heart treasure these moments my friends treasure the train wreck!
Walnuts! was for the bailout before he was against it…
Oh, don’t bring D-Day into this!
Blingee is makin’ me catch The Epilepsies.
is he really talking about fucking eisenhower?
I’ve been heavily criticized ’cause I wanted someone fired and blurted out the first name that came into my head.
Why isn’t Walnuts’ mouth moving?
Oh god. WWII reference alert. How many drinks is that?
WAR STORIES!
OMG, look at the tie!
…hehehehe, I like how this moderator is instigating!
walnuts just said Eisenhower wrote his resignation letters in 1994.
You were criticized, Senator, because you didn’t know what Cox did.
“That’s why I intend to fire all the finance industry lobbyists on my campagin staff.” Oh wait, I made that up.
As long as Obama remembers Poland, I think he’ll do fine.
lovin the blingees, guys. it reminds me of my ex-gfs from high school girlfriend’s myspace pages.
That Blingee made me drop junk in my trunks.
Afraid I couldn’t hear him? Good strategy. Remind us how old ya are.
I’m Barry Obama and I approve this mixed message! WalNutz just made a joke about his age but it’s his armz not his earz that don’t work.
Jesus, Jim Lehrer is doing an awkward job.
obama looks extra chocolaty… jim leher is trying to start some shit with his evil black button eyes of sorrow
AngryBlakGuy: yes, jim lehr has more cajones than any debate moderator, ever.
WALNUTS! tie is gonna give my Grandma in Missouri a seizure.
Is McCain just repeating everything that Obama is saying?
Mr. Leher looks a bit like Jessica Tandy. Agreed?
Since when did Jim Lehrer become a kooky old man? “I just want y’all to talk to each other yee hee hee!”
SayItWithWookies: So that’s what it is…
i wouldn’t want to look at Walnuts either…
In THE Wall St. Is that like THE INTERNETS?
what’s the drinking game rule for “wall street excesses and greed”? Walnuts has said it at least 5 times already.
Excess greed in Washington DC? What does Walnuts mean?
Nice shiv with the “folks who are rich and powerful and can hire lobbyists,” Obama!
I’m late to the game. What words do I drink to?
Is it my TV, or does Obama look darker tonight?
John, don’t use the word “fundamental.” It hasn’t been good for you.
WALNUTS! won’t dignify the debate by talking to Obama
Voyou Charmant: …and McCain remembers Constantinople, he did fight there after all.
Jim Lehrer’s eyes can see into the depths of my soul.
Uhu, here goes Wallnuts with the “American worker is he fundamentals I was talking about” bullshit.
VELCRO?????
“the Wall Street.” Such as.
They need to say things directly to each other — It’s the only way Jim Lehrer can get off!!!
Does anyone else hate that ‘audience reaction” thing at the bottom of the CNN screen?
Spending is out of control because of your people
Jeebus, Lehrer is 4 years older than Walnuts! Are there no young people who can moderate debates? I realize they have to be white but still.
McCain seems to be subdued — I was expecting fire. Oh we are not talking about war.
Yes, gov’t changed “us” and now we will change the gov’t.
whaaaa? Did Walnuts! just say “gateway drug”????
I blame Wall Street….More specifically, the tap room at Fraunces, and its weak-azz Sierra Nevada.
Gateway drug! Like Cindy’s painkillers?
Ear marking is a date rape drug.
Walnuts said “the Wall Streets” that is GOLD!
Skewgee: …it looks like he mugged the mayor of Candy land!
A “gateway drug”? Oh for the love of pete….
“Spending in Washington is out of control”, WALNUTS!? YOU REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN IN CONTROL FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS. Why don’t you ask Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens about Earmarking? You old coot.
“I still believe our best days are ahead of us.” Uh, what? Was that the argument?
Earmarking is a gateway drug to what? Pot? MDMA? ‘Shrooms.
I’m just tuning in. I got turned away by the elitist Obamatards who were having a debate watching party at a sports bar in midtown. The bar is too full, they said. Now I’m going to write in Hillary.
McCain bear joke falls flat. Poor Walnuts..
Bears owe child support!
He’s got a quill pen.
The audience reaction makes me realize how dumb people are. All you have to say is “america is great” and things go up.
No love for the bear line.
Skewgee: Bush wore a HYPNO TIE like that in 2000 to hypnotize everybody with bullshit:
HE’S GOT A PEN!
So did Dole, I’m not impressed
“We need less government”?
Like, less regulation of financial institutions?
::::Shaking head violently until brain ceases functioning, so I can understand this better::::
He’s got a sharpie! It’s kinda old! Like him!
…he brought out the crusty old bear DNA talking point! Blah blah blah!
I’ve got a PEN-IS good for a veto. Cindy agrees.
McCain will veto every spending bill! Unqualified statement!
Wally Nutz accuses bears of crimes? He is now stealing Colbert’s bit.
What the fuck is WALNUTS talking about? “I will veto them. I will make them famous, and you will know their names.” Is he just quoting books he read in college in 1903?
MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET MAIN STREET
A POW pen! It’s old, and scarred, and . . .
New clause:
Drink every time mccain makes a lousy joke
Like the bear dna paternity one
drink x 3 if he laughs at his own joke awkwardly
I’ll eat my hockey stick if Barry mentions Keating 5
John McCain has a bridge to nowhere to sell you in Alaska, but he doesn’t want to pay for it
…and WHO gathered the DNA of the bears in Montana? Hmmmm????
McCain looks so old, tired and sick. I bet even Ted Kennedy looks better than him tonight.
Fuck, Walnuts mentioned our creepy Dr. Strangelove senator. Maybe he we all visualize together, rather than world peace we can visualize Walnuts stomping across the stage and grabbing Obama by the lapels and yelling “whippersnapper uppity kid.”
Opening for Obama–he did the earmark bill with Dr. STrangelove.
AngryBlakGuy: That’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Walnuts looks like he’s hyperventilating. Methinks Hopey should go for the jab.
mccain is still thinking he’s at the convention with all the USA! USA! stuff. speak, human. speak!
Oh — earmarks — lame recitation of a discredited line…. “they are gonna be famous.” He doesn’t believe a word he’s saying.
Say it, Hopey. 300 billion
bitchincamaro: Please make it so!
Oh snap. Barry’s nailing the tax plan…. DAMN foos
Jesus, McCain looks like he really, really, really needs a nap.
SPLIT SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Barry is so sexy when he’s mad, and this whole staring into the camera thing is really hot. When he walked on stage you knew he just wanted to throttle WALNUTS!
‘Grow the economy from the bottom up’ - good line, way to go Barry’s Debate Coach.
Ooh Obama just said he suspended earmarks for senior centers. That was pretty subtle. Now watch while McCain obliquely tries to point out the fact that Obama is BLACK! HE’S BLACK, PEOPLE! WAKE UP!
Nice point, Barry — earmarks amount to only $18B of the budget. McCain’s tax cuts are $300B.
Can we get back to D-Day?
I want to re-live the 101st Airborne’s historic assault on the rear of Fritz von Palin’s position.
Cross of Iron you fucking little goblin–that’s what Ike talked about, Humanity hanging from a cross of iron…and that’s how you like it.
That is a good makeup job though.
I don’t mean to go back and forth—honey that is the damn point of a debate!
Wally’s gonna bust an eyeball soon. I hope
I don’t care if Barry pork-barrelled, why don’t you ASK FUCKING CARIBOU BARBIE ABOUT HER PORK BARRELLING. Her podunk town got MILLIONS of dollars in Federal money. You didnt’ fight against anything.
Ha ha ha $930 million isn’t a lot of money to Cindy McCain either - he just appointed Miss Congeniality his VP.
I shot the sheriff…
I didn’t win Miss Congeniality, I married her.
I’m getting worried….
I shot the Sheriff
do you see a lump on his baack?~? maybe its just the cancer spreading?
chascates: and I hid it in my butt for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS ALAN!!!!!
agentstinky: Exactly. Geez, Jim, chill.
He may not have one “Miss Congenitality of the U.S. Senate.” But he did win the “Most Likely To Give It Up To Wall Street” Award.
…yeah you are right WALNUTS! you didnt win “Miss Congeniality”, that is your running mate. Caribou Barbie!
Sherriff is an Ay-rab word!
McCain totally called Obama on the Billions of earmarks that don’t seem like more than pocket change to him.
McWally said he didn’t win Miss Congeniality in the Senate.
OMGWTF!!!
I never knew he was with the gayers!
Ah hence Palin. To win Miss Congeniality as tie breaker of the Senate.
…did Barry just cut him off?! That isn’t very Democrat like!!!
yes! mccain=bush!
Respond directly to him, Walnuts, and use your inside voice.
“Don’t you fucking fuck with motherfucking Bears, you fuck.” Word.
Yikes. I’m watching teh debate with baby boomers. weird.
my teevee makes mccain look oranger than usual. maybe cindy sprayed him?
why isn’t Obama making a case for his earmark requests?
McCain’s random tossing of a phrase into sentences — blah blah blah I was not elected Miss Congeniality blah blah blah — reminds me of a senile but tenured professor who used to give long lectures interspersed with random tidbits about tweed.
PoliTacky: Yeah but Dole’s pen is just a prop, now replaced with a viagra bottle, he woulda won if he had the viagra bottle because America wanted to elect a boner and Bill Clinton had it.
Deepthroat: …seconded!
My friends! drink!
i’m liveblogging here also http://theneoskeptic.blogspot.com/2008/09/liveblogging-obamamccain-smackdown.html
…he said “my friends”, take a gulp!
Right — everyone knows businesses toil under the onerous yoke of the government here. WTF is McCain talking about that the US has the second highest business tax rate?
Lehrer’s constant instructions to the candidates to talk to each other is a little creepy. It’s like he’s directing a porno.
Lehrer is like directing them in a high school play tryout… yes, now turn to him John, turn to him and kinda give me a feeling like you’re about a quarter of the way through your box of sun sweet prunes…
Ireland! Lucky Ireland! We’re all Irish now. I’m ordering a Guinness.
C’mon, Walnuts, what about all the INDEPENDENT children in America?
First “my friends”… time to do a shot.
Walnuts!:
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans should have the tax cuts, so they can buy $5,000 tax credits so they can send their kids to the college, or like such as, for the future of our children.”
McCain ISN’T Miss Congeniality! He’s hating on his veep….
So, McCain won his suit against the bear?
For what it is worth, I think both started out poorly. Obama is getting stronger. I’m amazed that Obama had to be goaded to defend his tax cuts, and did so so poorly.
Lehrer just wants them to wrestle naked. What’s with all this talk to each other thing?
McNervous’ pitch in his voice is higher than normal. He’s sliming Hopey with foolishness. Hopey needs to turn to offense, not defense.
…WoW, Barry with the BITCH SLAP!!!
Obama finally was able to work in his “95% of America won’t see a tax increase” line.
A $5,000 tax cut for insurance that costs $12,000 a year — does anyone think that’s a good idea?
Barry is going to lose because he is making good points and using facts.
Note to WALNUTS!: you can’t lie about Barry when he’s standing right next to you and can call you on it.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM, KEN. OBAMA DID SAY HE IS CUTTING TAXES FOR 95% OF AMERICAN. YOU ARE IN THE TANK FOR MCCAIN.
d4g33z: McSlut will mention everything HE DOESN’T DO!
Watching Lerh is like watching a marriage counselor. “No John, talk to Barry - really talk to Barry”
festooned!
point to Wally for fancy word!
…WALNUTS! looks like he is about to snap! Keep jabbing Barry!!!
Fuck you, Walnuts
Walkin’ the walk. LOL.
Festooned is one of my favorite old-tymey words. Plus he mentions Christmas. Fundies now have forbidden boners.
he called him shiftless. racist!
Aren’t we going to start talking about John McCain at the gates of hell soon? This isn’t fair to Walnutz until we know that Barry is a half breed Muslin.
“shifted” = flip flop?
“you can look it up”? on the googles?
Jesus, they sound pissed and testy. I’d love it if this just descended into a shouting match.
Walnuts almost called him Captain Obama.
Johnny is getting ants in his pants….
Grandpa might look nicer when he smiled if his teeth weren’t so disgusting.
AngryBlakGuy: Keep the heat on Barry!
AngryBlakGuy: God, I’d LOVE to see him rush Barry’s podium! He’s a mean old coot! And it’s what Jim wants…
“I was called The Sheriff heh heh heh heh” Eight years of POTUS snickering at his own lame jokes is enough!
What’s with McCain’s giggling?
‘Financial rescue thing’ thanks for showing up guy sitting at desk thing.
John has really great teeth. He should smile big and laugh a lot. People love people who’s teeth are made of oats.
SayItWithWookies: well, they can always go to the emergency room.
Wow — McCain’s shotgun approach. Obama should just hit back and not bother responding point-by-point.
audience in a coma
…um, wasn’t this suppose to be foreign policy?
HE’S GETTIN’ PISSED!
The little bags under Jim’s eyes are his pith-glands.
Voyou Charmant: win!
Hopey is getting too wonkey. Pull out the one-liners, put away the plan.
eekahil: does anyone in America besides freak wonks even know what the hell McCain is talking about re: festooned Christmas tree?
I think they’re going to think he’s senile…… (meh.)
James Lipton should moderate these things.
need some fireworks
Fuck the rescue plan. If McCain wants to make a political issue out of it, let investment banks die. I won’t weep.
DoctorCulturae: NoWireHangers: …I’d settle for a seizure like Vietnam flashback.
This is shaping up to be like 1-on-1 basketball. Take him to the hoop Hopesman!
Which debate is going to cover national security and foreign affairs?
Barry is currently pwning.
that’s it.. i’m robo-tripping.
Go for the jugular, Barak! Piss that old fuck off so much he tries and bum-rushes you… Let Secret Service finish him off
barry is waiting for his opponent to fail or “blow up” himself he just needs to keep this guy alive until the election otherwise he’s got no one to roll over the day of the election DON’T WORRY KIDS IT’S GOING to be a LANDSLIDE
Barry victorious and John McDonalds serving more fat to the pigs as long as he lives or as long as Arizona dies
Ireland went into a recession yesterday. Just FYI.
Math! Science! The Future! Hell YES!
“Keeping pace”
HAHAHAHAHA!!
Somebody needs to read The World is Flat.
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jagorev: Yeah, sadly even Obama is looking like he’s losing some of his cool and he NEVER loses his cool. He just has to hold tight until McCain hops over the dias and challenges him to a fistfight
DoctorCulturae: He should do well with the “What can’t you do ’cause there’s no more fucking money” question.
what about mass tran??
We should cut health insurance. Tuburcular waifs and consumptives add a touch of Victorian charm to our bleak suburban sameness.
my liveblog is like a transcript of a stoner party, made sense when I wrote it, now wtf did I mean
also, our drinking game has too many things they are saying
never gonna make it to the end without falling out of the chair
Walnuts has no plan other than “cut spending.”
Oooh MCCain called Barry the “L” work. It’s ON!
…I would love to hear Barry refer to himself in the third person, kinda like the Rock.
uh-oh the state senate. here comes the infanticide?
I’m drinking some shit with ethanol in it now
WALNUTS! blabs about cutting spending. You mean on that TRILLION dollar war? Oh, you want to keep that going, so what would you cut? Education? Well, I didn’t think America could get any dumber, but maybe you’re onto something…
LOL, McCain is complaining that government has gotten out of control? Uh, John, where you been working for the last couple of decades?
Barry is boring me. He needs to stop laying out his policies in a reasonable, concise manner, and needs to show more contempt and hatred of John McCain.
Cut spending… McCain just lied, what were we supposed to do again??/
Oh, nothing, he does that too often to make it a drinking game.
Cut spending, such as no-bid contracts?
McNutters opposes ethanol subsidies…there goes Iowa…
Has there been a national security or international relations question yet?
Building a little ship, eh.
Literal Combat ship?
I oppose ethanol subsidies and I also oppose the state of Iowa having 7 electoral votes. I’m John McCain and I support this message.
I’m gonna be wasted if McCain mentions Obama’s earmarks one more time.
Though I sort of agree with McCain on his ethanol cut idea, that shit aint playin’ in the heartland. Ask Ed Schultzzzzz.
Anyone notice Barry’s hair has gone gray overnight? Get a box of Just for Men, Barack. We need you to stay sexy!
I love when McCain laughs at his own jokes.
Barry going to federal prison?
Cost overruns?? Ummm HALIBURTON! BLACKWATER!
I saved 6.4 billion. . . and Cindy spent it at Tiffanys
junkscience: …yeah, I heard that one too.
Speaking of ethanol…where’s the Tom Collins mix?
Every agency of government must go according to crazy man.
Investigate every agency?
Oh my.
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FESTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
effin nafta givin jobs to ireland
Walnuts may blow
Cindy is a festooner.
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“I have looked into Lehrer’s eyes… and he has no soul.”
Oh noes! Barry’s struggling with CANT-DO it question! And he’s telling us ‘John’s right’ way too much…
goddamn i’m trying to liveblog this shit too, and i’ve only had two bottles of wine. layne, you are a force of nature. how do you do it?!?!
john is a lying bag of shit with a 5000 dollar make up job who LIVED IN A CAGE FOR FIVE AND HALF YEARS. lord help me. i’m going to pop my brain right out of my head.
John McCain is against Corn! Take that Indiana farmers.
AngryBlakGuy: Foreign Policy is the Global Economy FIVE AND A HALF YEARS
“change the culture” - i told you he was a muslim
opposing Bush zinger!
Barry needs to move away from the wonk and content. We need you to put McDirtydiapers in his place!
shortsshortsshorts: Hell Yeah.
I don’t remember McCain doing much about that Boeing tanker contract. Did he lead this? I know he was head of the Senate Finance Committee, but it was a Trent Lott baby, so I think DOJ or DOD had more to do with the prosecutions.
OMG GOOGLE FOR GOVERNMENT! AHHHAAHAHA
PoliTacky: Littoral..meaning, if we fight ‘em here on our shores, we don’t have to fight ‘em there.
Google for Government
Barry for President
don’t give up the earth, barack!
I love the red carpet! Very Holiday Inn in 1975!
…gawd, that split screen just makes McCain look decrepit!
Rush: mmm. nice.
Oh buddies, new thread, go here with Newell! PART 2 of the LIVEBLOGGING!
A brave wonkette commenteer once suggested to me that John is made of roaches with a human skin covering. You can really start to see them squirreling around in his neck skin folds when he giggles and teeters and starts to lose it.
Jim is shaking his pen at them now. Boys, whatcha gunna do?
Give it up Jim. They’re politicians ferchrissakes.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: He looks like a fucking loon.
hey…you’re right…his eyes are DEAD BLACK.
WALNUTS! is really resorting to the GOP code words of 10 years ago “liberal” “spending” “taxes” “liberals” BOO! Every other word is “spending.”
NATIONAL DEFENSE IS ALL THE SPENDING! Stop the war and we’d save TRILLIONS!
JIM LEHR: One of you is going to be president come next January.
NOT if the ECONOMIC CRISIS forces us to CANCEL THE ELECTIONS ZOMG!!!M1!!<!<
Eisenhower? Is that why he brought up Ireland?
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Go Barry. Get out the scalpel!
OOOh barry special ed funding! Yes!
“spending on our veterans”??? really, WALNUTS??? like you have been against for EVAH?
Oh snap! A scalpel bitch! You got served!
YES BARRY! YES! YES! End the war, we had a surplus before Bush…good stuff.
hippie chick tried to drink and poured it down her shirt…
NICE
…”Hatchet” vs “Scapal”! BITCH SLAP!!!
Why not a spending freeze on the military. Sarah said the war in Iraq was done, because of the surge.
Hey - our federal tax dollars are going to terrorists! Way to go Bush.
Bob said: “One of you two is going to be President”
you mean Bob Barr won’t win??? OH FUCK!!! I quit!
Yay nukes–build ‘em in Arizona
Spending freeze on everything but war? First, it’s going to be seen as a crazy idea by most people, but even the “fiscal conservatives” who might be turned on by it will know that he doesn’t mean it for an instant.
Is McCain even trying to win this thing?
WALNUTS! is reading a script; he’s not listening to Barry. Offshore drilling? WTF? Where’d that come from in regards to ending the war?
Serolf Divad: Walnuts says Far-in oil and Warshington
Dear God. Leher actually goaded McCain into proposing a spending freeze. Can’t wait until he goads him into nuking Iran.
CLINTON!?!? shutthefuckup.
“Spending freeze!” Johnny Walnuts just laid down a talking point that can’t actually be made to work, but sounds GREAT…fairly good recovery by Barry, with the hatchet remark (in someone’s back?)
Why the fuck did he just mention Senator Clinton? Does he even know that he’s debating The Unicorn and not Pantsuit?
Walnuts: “…and maybe someday, we’ll put a man on the moon.”
When do they start talking about bombing the shit out of Iran, dad gummit?
please….for the love of god..someone make McDufus stop dithering!!! my ears are bleeding.
what jim is exhaustingly trying to get at is whether or not he should pull out his stocks and buy a safe… just ask it already!
Lehrer just won’t be satisfied. Ask him about the early days of PBS.
John McCain would use a hatchet to remove growths on his torture cheeks.
Families make decisions with doctors, except for abortions you mean.
all I hear is “old old old” Untie the onion Wally T. Nutz
We can’t turn over the health care system to the federal gov’t. We’re busy turning over Wall Street greedheads to the federal gov’t. Socialized plutocracy–good. Curing your pneumonia with gubmint help–really bad.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? I’d rather do without insurance. Oh wait, that’s where I’m at now.
The HD just makes Lehrer’s eye look more doll-like.
Barry wins with “orgy of spending”.
Yeah, Barry, remind McCain touted himself as a Bush-Republican in 2004 so no one would think he was supportive of Kerry.
But Palin was Miss Congeniality!
I really have to wonder if McCain has anything but “cut spending.”
A spending freeze on everything but defense???!!!!
What the motherfuck is this old shit talking about?
Fuck you and your Miss Conginiality Shit!!!
Is there some kind of drinking involved with the ‘Miss Congeniality’ thing? Is he trying to make us think of Palin?
mccains new name is miss congeniality
Oh Snap! the Bush tie-in!
Ew. WALNUTS! please don’t smile. Grossness.
Go for the JUGULAR, BO!
hoping Walnuts delivers that creepy laugh …. a drink should be taken for everytime he says the word Maverick
McCain said he wasn’t miss congeniality for the SECOND TIME. HE’S A MAVERICK. drink everything in your liquor cabinet until you need your stomach pumped.
WALNUTS! looks like he’s going to cry.
Maverick says “You cannot have a failed strategy.” The man is a master of words. I never would have thought of not having a failed strategy. Its genius.
He brought up Miss Congeniality again.
A new drinking game?
“An orgy of spending…” is “hard to swallow?” Well played, sir.
OK, he brought up Palin and her MAVERICK WAYS… so she is FAIR GAME!!
does mcwalnuts sound like he was going to cry for sec there to anyone else?
Iran, Iraq, Ireland
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Walnuts, there are a lot of things more important than honor.
His voice is starting to sound a little shaky, don’t you think?
His tie is still giving me a headache.
MAVERICK MAVERICK, NO POINTS FOR SECOND PLACE, THE HARD DECK IS SOO TOTALLY DISREGARDED. WHEN I FLY MY CREW AND MY PLANE COME FIRST GENIUS IN YOUR FLYING MAVE
On Wanuts!!! plus side, at least he pronounces “nuclear” and “strategy” correctly.
YES WARS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE. Also, we apparently need to put Al Qaeda down for a nap.
Barry just served WALNUTS! on Iraq. Cry WALNUTS! Cry.
God, that split screen on ABC is GOLD. WALNUTS! looked like he was in the process of soiling his Depends while Barry whooped him.
You were wrong!
You were wrong, Grandpa! Cry in your metamucil.
B-Rak!
He has begun to ratchet it up and address Wally.
B-Rak! B-Rak! B-Rak!
WALNUTS! loves these bullshit troop sob stories.
Barry will out-good-decide the fuck out of McNutz
They said (weeping)
Please don’t let us invade Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’re BEGGIN!!!
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McCain is for snitching.
Barry calls WALNUTS! on his shit without resorting to lies. This troop funding thing is good. WALNUTS!, again, you can’t lie when Barry is standing right next to you.
we’re gonna capture and kill osama
When Wallace P. Nutz smiles it feels sleazier than an invitation into a white van.
Good good, keep equating general Petraeus to Osama Bin Laden.
Everytime Grandpa says “wider” it just sounds like “WHITER,” like when he said “we’ll have a whiter war”
McNutts is a very bad liar … does 8 hairs make a comb-over?
He was around with alexander the great
he referenced the bomb iran song. wow. still, mccain is winning.
Ouch. Nice burn with the credibility comment.
Reagan! Time for the Heroin!
Is it my tv or does Mcshame blink every syllable?
i WEAR YOUR BRACELET!
“No soldier ever dies in vain.” Way to catch him on that one Barry!
Oh..your nameless bracelet that you are not wearing? Did it look like this?
Alright. Both candidates, it’s time to whip out your passports so we can see who’s been to more countries.
He blinks so much it is distracting me from his bad makeup.
He threatened a Holocaust if he isn’t elected…..
Jim’s eyes look like he is well into a great mushroom trip.
Did he just call Iran an existential threat to Israel? Isn’t that an elitist philosophy?
Did McNutter just say the Republicans are sponsors of terror? He finally got one right.
So wait…If we talk to people, we will understand them better? Whoah! My mind is totally blown.
If you don’t talk to Ahmadinejad, he’ll just do it anyways. Whether McCain legitimizes him or not, he’ll still have the capability. Whether he is legitimized by McCain or not, he can still fuck up Israel. Isn’t it better to just talk to them?
But McCunt can’t understand such recent human developments as diplomacy….
naievatay?? is that french Mcnutts?
“Vladimir Putin: Our President” Written in English so McCain can bullshit about it later.
Wow, Walnutz just admitted that we torture. That’s a bit of a coup.