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John McCain actually showed up! And, well, he did a bit better than we expected, if only because we expected that Obama would greet him with, “Nice of you to finally show up, pussy.” But that wouldn’t really win over the special people who just started watching the teevee to find out who is going to be the president next time around. And yet, Obama won!
Well, whatever, Joe Biden is on the Keith Olbermann show on MSNBC. Biden is laughing and, who knows, drunk? Ah they are still doing spin. Why isn’t Sarah Palin doing spin. Too dumb, right, she is drinking a Shirley Temple in Philadelphia somewhere.
Okay let us try another outlet.
CNN has nine people typing. Hmm we can sort of see that here, at your editor’s table, but it’s just one person typing.
Umm, Barack Obama called McCain “John,” which is not polite? Or wait, it is friendly. It is not being like a professor? Oh god these people have to be sober for another hour.
So at least we will not have to watch teevee again until next week, when Sarah finally gets her magic time!
And here’s a giant Fark thread of debate reactions, probably much better and certainly much funnier than the newspapers in the morning. Good night, friends!
Why does the chat room just talk about fat chicks and tea bagging each other?
What a bunch of Chat Mavricks.
…..meanwhile, back in the city.
Ummm, where was Sarah Palin? Joe Biden was there to take questions after the debate between Barry ‘n Walnuts!, so why did Rudy G. have to fill in for Sarah snowbunny?
Ken goes to bed. Jim heads out to the bar. The night must be over.
Good night sweet princes of snark.
According to CNN, the post-debate polls all show Barry wiped up the floor with Walnuts.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HECJLH4onZk
BillyClubb: She’s still in her bubble.
http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-declares-himself-winner-of.html
i didn’t have teevee or i-way for this debate, so i listened to parts of it on the radio, and i was feelin so bad for our man barry after less than twenty minutes, i had to turn it off for a while. it sounded like a fight between a pit bull (an old one) and a poodle (but a big one), and the poodle wasn’t doin so well. later he did better, but still…
Thank God. Delaware is +20!
slappypaddy: Don’t underestimate poodles, if they have some size… they’re smart and tough. Pretty cool, really. It’s their stupid owners that make them get those funny haircuts.
…maybe Barry should have referred to McCain using his biblical name Cain(or was it Able).
These blingees are special, special blingees!
slappypaddy: Just imagine angry McCain stomping around in a circle wearing a stripy elf costume with a pointed hat, repeating his stupid talking points while refusing to look Obama in the eye. Then, picture Hopey alternately laughing his ass off and/or scowling and calling McElfy a liar. This was pretty much the whole debate!
…ok ok ok, before the grammar police have an epileptic seizure I know it is “Abel” and not “Able”! Geez!
Walnuts! looked like Nixon in ‘60 minus the “Lazy Shave”, i.e., like a freshly embalmed corpse. His big ol’ squirrel cheeks kept pulsing in and out and he kept squinting at someone in the audience. He was pretty predictable: “Reagan veterans Iran Iraq nukleer hollerkaust veterans USA! USA! Iraq surge surge surge Iraq Iraq Saakashvili 9/11 Lieberman Petraeus maverick Iraq POW.”
And he never once looked at Barry.
That pic of McCain just reminded me that I need to schedule an appt @ the derm…
dilhavarti: Damn right we are. FiveThirtyEight.com gives Walnuts a 1% chance of winning our measly 3 electoral votes. Meanwhile Biden will be elected VP and re-elected Senator so he’ll be our very own Huey Long, holding both offices at once…
My unfunny take on the debates:
Overall I thought they both did well, though Obama seemed much more at ease, so I’ll give it to him (for some other reasons as well (style, knowledge, thoroughness, melanin count (jk..)). I thought McCain started off a little slow, then picked up pace. McCain was a tad more patronizing (”what Obama doesn’t understand…” .. yuck!), which is another reason I peg Obama a bit higher. Obama did a good job at not dismissing McCain as some old coot, whereas McCain occasionally talked about Obama like he was some young whippersnapper. Obama seemed to say some new things, whereas McCain, I think, said nothing new.
Frankly, it was boring to anyone who had been paying attention the last few months. No suprises, no gaffes, no farts. Good for the independents to watch, I’m sure.
Main question still standing (which I don’t really give a fuck about): Was Obama right about what Kissinger said?
Pakistan was a failed state before Musharraf??!! Wha’??
Does Buchanan have a new hairpiece? He looks a little thicker up top.
Heh, Olbermann just said, “Gene, finish me off here.” Eww.
Chris Matthews needs to smoke a doobie and dry up some of that “extra” saliva.
Where’s Palin? CNN said they tried but couldn’t get her. Meanwhile, Biden’s all over the freakin’ place. Either she’s totally dumb, or they’re trying really really hard to lower expectations for Thursday.
Comeon Tweety, the debate was already one hour longer than the average tv viewer can handle to talk about all that stuff.
facehead: Was Obama right about what Kissinger said?
Yep. Remember Katie double-checked that fact — with Kissinger — after the 2nd Snowbilly interview to confirm that the Twatwaffle was calling Kissinger naive.
mirrorball: Either?
I don’t think expectations for Palin on Thursday could possibly BE any lower…
— Barack Obama called McCain “John,” which is not polite? —
“Johnny, Johnny asshole” would be inopportune. “Poitical whore during this nation’s fiscal crisis” would be impolite. Anything else must be called elitist indulgence in rhetorical restraint for the common good. “And thus with such words is how communistic godlessness was born.” - David Brooks, quoting his unacknowledged lover Billy Kristol, quoting Kevin Lay.
Yet, I digress.
mirrorball: She’s crying in her pillow after realizing how she’ll be dismantled next week. It ain’t gonna be pretty.
McCain: “The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy…”
S.Luggo: Shit. Kevin Lay was Ken Lay’s unacknowledged lover.
Walnuts! looked super tired. Like he’d been up all night with Sarah. Ew wait I don’t want to picture that. Then again, that would explain why Sarah wasn’t around after the debates.
I’m so sick of hearing about the stupid SURGE!
Why is everyone talking like Norman Mailer? I can’t take it. Even Gene Robinson. Who the hell is Joe Frazier? Should I know this?
S.Luggo: “Lookit, Methuselah…”
Blue Line: I can’t wait till she tells the mod, “I’ll get some examples and get back to you.”
Most people are half in the bag on a Friday night anyway, and will get their real news from talk radio or cable news tomorrow. So now who wins?
http://www.entertonement.com/tags/clips/4273?sort_by=date
Well, if you’re an Obama fan, you’ll like the Joe Frazier/boxing analogy that Chris Matthews was pushing. Frazier got his ass kicked by Ali.
Blue Line: Just in time for the Palin/Eagleton meme to be resurrected… in just about 30 days we’ve gone from “who the fuck is Sarah Palin? O yeah, she’s the hot governor whose face was in that Alaskan cruise guide I got” to “Damn, what a bold move! She’s going to wipe up all the bitter Hillary voters!” to “Shit, she’s full of weird white-trash baggage and Walnuts is gonna drop her in 10 days like McGovern did to Eagleton” to “ZOMGZ she is soooo hot and soooo self-confident and is going to clean up this election for Walnuts” to “Shit, she’s a fucking idiot and Walnuts is gonna drop her in 10 days like McGovern did to Eagleton”. Or something like that.
What a pile of disappointment. Let’s celebrate!!1!
Palin was missing tonight because she’s formulating her debate position that she’s now an expert on fueling cars with ethanol because her image has been created by a deranged artist in an Iowa cornfield.
wonkthis:
It’s because he was in DC saving America, bebop-hippie.
Get a job.
*******
I grow old, I grow old,
I show my pouch jowls told.
Now, Matthews is running all the clips where Obama said McCain was right, but without adding all the follow ups of “however…” It wasn’t like Obama ever whole-heartedly agreed with McCain without qualification. There was qualification! But the GOP is totally going to run with the agreeing thing.
Okay, I think Tweety’s drunk. He keeps using the word “ethereal” to describe Obama and explaining that the word “has to do with the ether.” DRUNK!
Why are we even discussing this? McCain already told us this morning that he won the debate. In fact, that fine Davis fellow told us that in between fellating Freddie Mac and giving oral service to Fannie Mae, he couldn’t stop drooling over our man McCain.
P.S. If this is what McCain looks like with makeup on (that pancakey, trollopy cunt) imagine what he looks like without. Did they hire the guy who did the wax work for Lenin?
Frank Lutz is again on FOX saying that the bitters that he is polling in Nevada broke nearly 2-1 for Obama. I can go to sleep happy with that.
Chris Matthews: is McCain too much of Troll?
HA!
Holy shit. If McCain invoked one more reference to Reagan, or corrupt pols in prison I would have hurled. And the talking point of limiting spending, which he brought up at least three times. In this climate?!?!?! Where we’re going to spend 700B on those assholes? Where is the relevence? Does he think we are retarded? Oh My God. All I can say is, thank the good Lard for alcohol and designer pizza.
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http://wonkette.chatango.com/
Walnuts’ postmortem biography (to be completed March, 2009):
“Reagan 9/11 Jihad was a terrible time in this country. ‘Reformer hard 5 and 1/2 years maverick remember me?’ fought hard for personal success, and yet the man kept shooting his plane down.”
did something happen?
Somehow, this is what I think:
http://image.blingee.com/images15/content/output/000/000/000/442/269835641_818368.gif
Palin leaving the ticket? Unlikely, but still, speculation is increasing: http://alaskapoliticsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/will-palin-leave-ticketbefore-debate.html
Eerie parallels between the way Palin debated her opponents in her 2006 debates and McCain debated Obama tonight: http://www.andrewhalcro.com/now_it_makes_complete_sense
Those are a couple Alaskan takes on things. From what I read, though, Obama doesn’t want to visit Alaska, even if that’s where he’d learn more about how Palin and McCain are fellow travelers.
slappypaddy: When I was a kid a cousin of mine had teacup poodle named ‘Pepsi’that weighed about as much as a loaf of bread. In spite of its size, the dog’s combination of intense, seemingly paranoiac, loyalty to my cousin and unflagging energy in a fight made her one of the nightmare creatures of my young existence. Years later when Lynda Barry put out her “Poodle With a Mohawk” print, I was bowled over with recognition. Had Lynda met Pepsi?
Which is to say, don’t mock the poodles until you’ve had to fight one off.
On substance, I think they were roughly equivalent.
On style, the angry white guy lost.
The coolly commanding black guy won.
He did not need to kick McCain in the groin, that is Joe Biden’s job.
stew: Walnuts was too busy pushing the schvoogie buzzer to notice the questions.
Biden better fucking bring this up:
One of the cultures you celebrate in Light at the Edge of the World is the Inuit. What do you most admire about them?
Davis: The Inuit didn’t fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. That’s when what they call the “shit knife” took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dog’s rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the shit knife in his belt and disappeared into the night.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/wade-davis-an-inuit.html
I put beer down now
Jonny Lieberman: I’m sure this is wrong, but I’ll try: Make custom Glitter Graphics
Btw, I’m drunk, too.
Smoke Filled Roommate: Oh, fuck me– can’t link a Blingee. I really am old.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/18/revealed.mccain.profile/?iref=hpmostpop
CNN Politics.Com
September 26, 2008
John McCain: A call to serve.
******
Namens Reichstag spreche?
amy amnesia: Just as long as Palin can’t be in a position to use her shitknife to disembowel the ‘Lower 48′ I’m happy.
The Man Who Would Be King
Sung by the Potted Cactus, a Senator, to the Mikado Lehrer
Have no fear
I have been to Waziristan!
Oh my dear
Victory’s near
I once bought a brassiere in the bazaar
Of Waziristan
It is clear
It is I who’s the man
For I am
Vizier
of Waziristan!
Why, I once had a beer with a Queer
in Waziristan!
Let’s see. Joe Biden was on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and everywhere else as far as I can tell. And Sarah Palin was on…….,
Hell, they are too scared to even put her on FOX.
CNN says they are getting emails. They keep saying “Hey, we would love to talk to her.”
I keep hearing pundits say “McCain changed the economic discussion from the bail out to spending.” McCain did no such thing, Jim Lehrer kept asking about spending. I think it was fair of Jim, but McCain just lucked out.
CNNs Flash poll of debate watchers:
1) Who Did the Best Job in the Debate: Obama 51% McCain 38%
2) Who would better handle Iraq: Obama 52% McCain 47%
3) Who would better handle the Economy: Obama 58% McCain 37%
4.5% margin of error.
Just remember this about McCain. McCain thrives on carnage, Tiger. He consumes, infests, destroys, lives off the death and destruction of other species.
A classic from John McLean:
Bye bye, miss American Pie
Bought a Prius for the Chevy
‘Cause it’s such a dry time
Them good old boys were drinkin’ Whiskey and Skyy
Sayin’ this is gonna be good times!
This is gonna be a good time..
She was a lonely teenager shootin’ buck
With a pro-life stance and a pickup truck
Knew I had to pick her ’cause I was outta luck
The Day the Country Died..
Do we really want a President who thinks John McCain is right about things?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Well he is a murderer who dropped bombs on poor civilians before crashing his planes.
When Crypt Keeper McCain was about ready to implode Barry should have blown him a kiss.
Then we’d see some real body language.
Ken: great picture of Walnuts! It creeps me out. Makes me wonder how Hopey could stomach getting that close to him. Congrats to you and the staff on a great job of picture-selection!
McChickenshit won’t be able to tolerate having to sit next to Barry at a table in the next one. Never looking at him is a defensive posture that allows McNasty to maintain a little self-control — if he has to physically be engaged he will lose it. I’m still hoping for him to stroke out on teevee.
Aurelio: He’s old.. (not that I’m supporting him or anything).. Congrats to the staff on selection of a picture of an old man? Something tells me you’re not aging well. Keep watching the TMZ.
Why did Chip Pickering (R-Miss) look like he was tweaking on antifreeze?
wavingnotdrowning: Because he was out of meth?
it was impressive to see how many folks were crowding the bars of brooklyn to watch this debate. old school sports bars, gentrifiers shoulder to shoulder with local sports fanatics. everybody intently listening. few real all one crowd shows of emotion. obviously the place was for obama but it wasn’t that strange sycophantic kind of group think or speak. i think obama put the knife in with the dig at mccain singing bomb iran. but middle age black gals were giving mccain props for his stabs at the populace. all and all, it’s gonna be a crazy month.
What Walnuts doesn’t seem to understand is that Hopey is really really smart and understands alot of shit better than Walnuts thinks Hopey does.
Like most senior citizens, Grampy spent an inordinate amount of time reminiscing about all the places he’d visited lo these many years. He taught us that all you really need to do to become an expert about a country or region is put those flight boots on the tarmac. Or better yet, have a meeting about it with General Petroglyph.
McConfused kept saying he is no Miss Congeniality. Why does McCain hate Miss Congeniality? Oh wait: Palin was named Miss Congeniality in 1984. Hmm. She’s gonna spank him with a hairbrush for that.
reading back over that i have to clarify a point, there were many black ladies not sold on obama. shocking, i know. being a white liberal i thought i had it all figured out but they seemed to be in that crazy double digit percent of undecideds. as an elitist, this surprised me. how could black folks vote for that old white man. they will, in minute percentages.
so creepy zardari calling palin gorgeous, i don’t care what i think of her. dude your wife was blown up. i bought stock in kawasaki though. frames made me a killing.
All I remember is that North Koreans are 3 inches tall and that Walnuts was never Miss Congeniality except in prison.
What a contrast in appearances.
McCain; an angry fossil in pancake makeup.
Obama; lucid, articulate, intelligent.
But of course that won’t sway the redneck crackers of Jesusland.
liveblogging the commentary on msnbc now:
mika presiding.
scarborough has regained sanity and composure.
buchanan has gone from wallstreet “capitalist pigs” to the financial saving of america.
barnicle being most lucid said most people were just watching to see that obama was presidential timber.
score tied. overtime to follow.
signed: averageguygettingtiredofthis
Blingee Nation!
For most Americans, the debate is now long forgotten.
By the way, in the photo above of McCain, it looks like he has a group of Wizard of Oz Munchkins napping in his cheek.
obama totally wooped mccain’s ass
and showed that mccain doesn’t understand much about politics
brown_recluse: ain’t mockin, woodn’t mock a dog, i’m jess sayin what i heard… christ, is it mornin already? hey, there’s a skinny little moon risin, time to go to bed…
All I remember is a protracted discussion about bracelets, McCain’s gross half laugh/half smile combo with butter-colored teeth, and migraine inducing neon-blingees.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: So basically, you’re saying that McCain is like the Bug from Men In Black? I’ll go along with that.
For anyone awake and not too hungover. CBS is going to examine the body language of Hopey and Grampy from last night in a few minutes on their morning show. If you missed it, I’m sure they’ll say failing to look at your opponent is a tell. Deep, isn’t it?
teebob2000: Anyone beside moi having a deep, dark way down on the down low fear that the R’s are just sandbagging us with the Snowbilly act? She’s really way smarter than they have let on, and will be able to hold her own with Joey?
I mean, based on the way the KC and CG interviews went (the parts I could stand to watch), my rational mind says “NO.” But this is the party that gave us Karl and McCain’s black baby, so I don’t put much past them.
Meanwhile, I think Bar did what he had to do. If he tied Walnuts in the foreign policy debate, it was a win, and he did at least that or better.
Vanity Smurf: I love some of the pundits saying that McCain is using his old, combative fighter jock tactics, etc. Obviously, they haven’t known many fighter pilots. No matter how PO’d, they never let you see it. The popping off the handle that JSMc is so famous for is the antithesis of FJ cool.
Cape Clod: I’m gonna have to go with: “Ballchinian”
Note to Hopesman from an edumacated elitist:
Next time follow through on the counter-punch with another. You had McAngry on the ropes several times and could’ve pushed him over or caused a conniption. You are not arguing or negotiating with someone you need to make an agreement with, you are 1-on-1 for the gold. You got the goods. We all know it. Go for it. Push him over the edge. I suggest the next time you have an opportunity to say “this is more of the same” you look McDoddering right in the eye and say it with frustration and impatience - like we absolutely cannot stand another day with these idiotic ideas and destructive policies. You clearly have more ability than anyone in my lifetime to do this job, even B.Clinton, and I think even he knows it too. So air out your game, give us some Michael Jordan moves, get in McNuts face, run a fast break now and then. Slow down when you see him huffing like he was last night and give him some of that Chicago ice. he can’t stay with you unless he plays dirty. “That’s just plain wrong,” or “Sorry John, but that’s a lie” said with bite makes McTeethy look like Archie Bunker. And as I recall that was popular back in the 20th century.
Where was/is Palin?
Has she been disappeared for a different VP candidate?
As a human being, I think that’s the best thing that could happen to her, her family and our country. As a bitter partisan, I want her to stay in because she brings the nail to McCain’s coffin.
Has anyone read anything about her whereabouts?
hockeymom: Don’t know, but the Palin withdrawal market on Intrade has been going hot and heavy since the interviews on Wednesday.
wavingnotdrowning: Because he was tweeking on antifreeze?
hockeymom: I believe she is hooked up to one of those auto-brain-learnin’ machines from The Matrix. They keep trying to jam topic after topic into her skull, but sadly for them you need to have some sort of brainpower to process once it gets in there.
Next week: 9/u11ani or vinegar joe in a wig pretending to be sarah palin.
Sully says that McCain said “horseshit” twice. I checked the video, and YUP: scroll forward to about 4:32, and listen to McCain right after Obama says “Spain is a NATO ally.” McCain says “horseshit” under his breath.
That’s definitely change we can believe in!
facehead: Yes, Barry was right. Kissinger spoke at George Washington University on September 15th and said exactly that. He also spoke in March on Bloomberg Television and said we should have direct negotiations with Iran. Now let’s get Hanks tired old butt on the Sunday wonk fests and pin him down on this thing once and for all.
In less than two months we will have the election that
will decide the next President of the United States.
The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just
the Democrats or the Republicans.
To show our solidarity as Americans, let’s all get together and show
each other our support for the candidate of our choice.
It’s time that we come together, Democrats and Republicans alike.
If you support the policies and character of Senator Obama, please
drive with your headlights on during the day
If you support John McCain, please drive with your headlights off at night.
Thank you for your participation.
Only the brainwashed assholes in the United States of Assholes would vote for
either Obama or McCain or any Republican or Democrat
shoeho: No. she’s an idiot.
vigilante: That’s right! Go Ron Paul! Or Ralph Nader! Or TRUCK NUTZ ‘08!!!!!11!!!!1
Fuck! Paul Newman died. He would have loved to have seen Hopey win.
Ron Paul isn’t on any ballot, Nader is on 45 states.
The assholes and stooges say shit like this.
“To show our solidarity as Americans, let’s all get together and show
each other our support for the candidate of our choice.
It’s time that we come together, Democrats and Republicans alike.”
The Democrats & Republicans love squandering our treasury in Iraq.
Do you have any clue why Bush attacke Iraq and got Hillary’s blessing?
Read this… http://www.overthecoals.blogspot.com
If you watched any ball game (football, baseball, etc.) would you need pundits to explain to you which team won the game? (After the fuckin game was finished.)
If you’re an asshole and a stooge you would.
Keep electing Republicans and Democrats to keep wrecking America.
Anybody caught voting for any Republican or Democrat should be arrested for treason.
Read this before you write another word.
http://www.overthecoals.blogspot.com
And where was Sarah? According to Politico Sarah was drinking pints on Walnut Street. Seriously.
Hard boiled eggs.
Word.
vigilante: Word.
vigilante: Hey- aren’t you the guy on the back of the ATV?
heeeeeeeeeey! he DOES say horseshit!. Shouldn’t he get fined or something? That’s totally ruder than an exposed nipple.
CNN/Opinion Researcn poll sez Obama won 49 to 38. Brian Griffin says “wa-WHAAH??”
Paul Newman disrupts the news cycle.
And who is the Twatwaffle agin?
Smoke Filled Roommate: Oh shit you should post drunk more often–genius! But listen I want to commission you to do the rest of the song. Let’s see, I’ve got 22.50 in the checking account–oh wait that was before the Carlo Rossi for the debate. I’ll have to get back to you.
Aw shucks, I forgot, the Republicans & Democrats keep calling Americans “smart”.
If I had millions of stooges sending me money who all knew I was bankrolled by
big corporations that keep firing stooges and replacing them with Chinese slaves
I’d call them smart every fucking day.
Don’t vote for Nader. Make sure you get fired and all other American workers get fired too.
Serj: Ooooh….drinking from BOTTLES now, are we? La-Di-Da! When you see Mother at the Country Club, please remind her to return my fig spoons.
Why can’t beer come in a box?
Buffalogal: Yeah, it’s in the Philly papers too. What, they think by having her drink in an Irish pub in Philly some of Joe’s smarts will rub off on her?
nurple: Oh damn your mama sold tha fig spoons for crack–tough luck. Oh but wait speaking of boxed beer, don’t they make party balls anymore???
In the immortal words of Senator John McCain on 9-26-08: “Horseshit.”
Actually, I listened closely to the tape. McCain actually said “horse piss”…(or did he say “Budweiser”?)
nurple:
As in: “What is this horseshit, Budwesier? It tastes like horse piss!”
A quick word on McCain’s makeup. Turns out he is metro-sexual too. He spends 5 grand on makeup jobs. http://www.usmagazine.com/news/john-mccain-uses-american-idol-makeup-artist. My daughter reads all the trashy mags. Came across great stuff on Palin in the National Enquirer.
MR. McCAIN: I will wear his bracelet with honor. And then his mother said, “But, Senator McCain, promise me that you’ll make sure that my son’s death was not in vain.”
MR. OBAMA: Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too, from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopeck, given to me in Green Bay. She asked me, can you please make sure another mother is not going through what I’m going through.
MR. McCAIN. Well, Jim, I also have an ankle bracelet. As you can see, it’s a fine silver chain around my ankle here, and the dying Marine who gave it to me said that I was right and Mr. Obama was wrong about the war.
MR. OBAMA: Well, Jim, I have a charm bracelet on my other wrist, and each charm is from a dead marine. They are all engraved. Listen to them jingle. Here’s one that says “That idiot Bush might as well have shot me himself, the bastard, and McCain is his waterboy.”
MR. McCAIN: Jim, I have tattoos and rings and piercings and a tongue stud from dead Marines. And I’ll show them to you right now.
JIM LEHRER: I think we can move on.
I tried to do a blingee avatar but I don’t think it worked.
I have nothing to say about politics. Not today. I’m having a love hangover after the debate.
archer: Top ten all time. Excellent.
vigilante: Shouldn’t you be jerking it whilst reading an Alex Jones website or something?
vigilante: Ohhh, did someone forget to take their happy pills today?
Look at all the blingee, that makes me happyyyyyyyyy!
Did Paul Newman still own The Nation? So renowned for his charity work…
shoeho: Wow, that’s really paranoid. If Palin was sandbagging w/Couric then she deserves an academy award, not the vice presidency.
Weeping Jesus: It’s not blinging.
nurple:
He was asking for horse piss to wet that gauze in his mouth that I kept hearing him suck.
SnakesAlive: Hey, Snakes, need Brooklyn bar to watch Veep debate. Please wire money.
Smoke Filled Roommate” I was admiring McCain’s walnut cheeks seen in glorious profile. Do you have something against aesthetic appreciation?
I think old Sarah is going to have to take one for the team (translation: have her appendix taken out unnecessarily and, boo-hoo, resign as the VP nominee).
From the Next Day Neanderthal reporting we have David Broder over at the Post saying that McCain was the ‘Alpha’ Male of the evening. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701357_Comments.html
You know I thought I caught McCain throwing a piss shiver or two from leaking on the podium - but I didn’t put it down to him marking his territory as much as just plain ol’ terror.
Once I was done wiping the laugh tears from my eyes I realized that Broder did succeed in giving us a new definition of ‘ALPHA’:
Ancient
Leprous
Pancake’d
Hoary
Anachronism
loquaciousmusic: Lest this moment be lost to history: McGramps gets all mccranky last night - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rZBmk0DYU
Send me more dumb shit.
Aw shucks, the assholes love those Democrats & Republicans.
voyetra8 says at 12:30 pm, September 27th, 2008 - Replyvigilante: Shouldn’t you be jerking it whilst reading an Alex Jones website or something?
WagTehGod says at 12:44 pm, September 27th, 2008 - Replyvigilante: Ohhh, did someone forget to take their happy pills today?
Look at all the blingee, that makes me happyyyyyyyyy!
Go Barry. Great debate. Now take action!!
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vigilante: You forgot to label us “sheeple” and “shills.” No Alex Jones Action Center Points for you today, Vigilante!
Sarah’s undisclosed location, still trapped in the pod:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CukuwxkMk5A
WadISay: Or Sarah could say she has to spend more time with her monster spawn and bastard grandchild–a suggestion made, believe it or not, by National Review columnist Kathleen Parker. “Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first. LINK
vigilante: Honestly, you’d get more traffic on your blog if you enhanced it with Blingee. We’re irresistibly attracted to bright shiny objects.
archer: It was interesting, in the year 2008, in the most technologically advanced civilization, magic amulets (bracelets possessing the spirits of dead warriors, or lapel pins honoring the spirits of our collective ancestors) still hold a lot of juju.
Aurelio: She could also save her party if Johnny ate her heart to gain her strength. Then Todd could give him a bracelet.
vigilante: Can we send you a ticket to Australia.
Aurelio: “No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.”
And by the way - Country First! Family after nap time.
Lascauxcaveman: Thanks, I try. Often, I’m distracted by the voices in my head and the gremilins that live in the basement though.
vigilante: Re: clicking the link that leads to your blog:
If I want to jump into an endless black hole of negativity, I’ll go to the Franco-Swiss border and ask them to fire up the Large Hadron Collider.
Question: If you’re so devoted to… ahem …Nader, is it? then why aren’t you out registering people to vote for one of the 3 parties he’s running for?
vigilante’s Answer: don’t vote for Nader vote for Nader assholes stooges brainwashed assholes dumb shit don’t vote for Nader vote for Nader
Oh, that’s right… because trolling is much, much easier.
vigilante: STOP EMAILING ME ON TEH WONKETTE INTERWEB EMAILS!!1!
One of the candidates looked kind of cool and presidential last night. The other candidate looked like he was about to jump over the podium in righteous anger because North Koreans are short.
snig: makes methink of jethro tull
Andrea Mitchell said McCain has been rehearsing for the last three days. He said he was working with Congress but he lied. She said a feww insiders knew he was never going to cancel,he’s been holed up in a hotel prepping for the debates. Mika and Joe just blew her remark off. WTF?
lilblackcorvette: She said a feww insiders knew he was never going to cancel,he’s been holed up in a hotel prepping for the debates.
If, after McCain’s wah-wah ‘I’m not debating’ attention whoring/publicity stunt, any reporter had investigated the raw logistics of getting a presidential candidate to a debate, i.e.: secret service protection, air travel, accommodations, etc., with a few phone calls they probably would have been able to discover that he never intended to cancel his appearance. Hopefully they will be more proactive going after the dirt behind the inevitable Palin cancellation!
Snarkfest: Unable to look Hopey in the eyes = McCain was the BETA!
via TPM, and a MONKEY SCIENTIST:
“I study monkey behavior–low ranking monkeys don’t look at high ranking monkeys. In a physical, instinctive sense, Obama owned McCain tonight and I think the instant polling reflects that.”
MONKEY SCIENTIST FOR THE WIN!!!
Well, I guess it’s up to me to make the call, because I (like you) am a Wonkette commenter…and you know, the screen name and all. Debate is a lost art and has been since speech writers were invented. Mc Cranky was around for the last debate involving politicians that weren’t prepared for a month to handle softball questions, but he either can’t remember it, or he hasn’t the stones to attempt it. Even Barry rarely got off of his prepared responses. So, I guess we will have to wait for Palin v Biden for real, hard hitting, spontaneous, answers. Please God, if you love us, let the first question go to Sarah!
I expected The McPalindromic McCainiac to off Barack “more wine?” All that twitching and grimacing madness needs to erupt so he don’t implode.
offer
“Which of us needs $5000 in makeup so we don’t appear to be the stinking rotting corpse that we are?” -Barrack Obama
I was kinda disappointed by the debate too. I was also disappointed by my nephew’s pee wee football loss. But I’m happy to have my ol’ man and my nephew taking naps on this rainy, Saturday afternoon. I’m all safe and secure.
Oh DAMN, tucker bounds on msnbc
btw,
at the supermarket service desk today i was told an item was not in stock. after saying that it must be because of the financial crisis the employee said, “oooh, i’m going to use that”.
thank you, gwb, for a new world.
i got nuthin on the debate. we need paul or barr or spongebob to liven it up.
1ofUS: FTW: +30 points.
Obama: Siiiingin’ in the rain!
McCain: (aneurysm)
McCain: FOOD ALRIGHT???
Obama: Great, sir, great.
McCain: TRY THE WINE!
3:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI1rWZD2WJI
Perfect.
Oh someone from:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11439
…pointed out why McNasty hates Hopey so much:
http://obama.senate.gov/letter/060206-sen_obama_and_sen_mccain_exchange_letters_on_ethics_reform/
Interesting!
Wow, the picture on this post really reminds me of just how fucking old John McCain is. Which is very.
jimh: It’s the huge WALNUT I like!
graceless:
(not that anyone will read this, but here goes:) Plus, poodles don’t shed!!
WALNUTS! totally has vagina neck in that picture. Make it stop!
It was pretty much a draw and I sat through the whole thing with nothing else to do. I liked that BHO called him “John” to kind of a) agitate him and b) bring him down to size. If Walntus would have had his wits about him, he would have called him Barrak and made him sound like a ferriner. But, I never realized that McCain really doesn’t like this guy. He was grabbier with Mittens than he was with Hopey last night in the handshake “nice jobs”. McCain can’t hide his emotions, which has made him an interesting Washington insider/outsider. In a town that’s as bad as Hollywood with the “kiss, kiss bang, bang”, McCain’s discomfort/displeasure with someone he doesn’t like (GW Bush, for example) shows in every newspaper photo and television appearance. Plus, say what you will about the debates, McCain’s been roasted in the Saturday print media over his attempts to blow up the bailout deal on Thursday. “His campaign’s ploy to bring McCain to the White House backfired.”
smellyal8r: OK. I know. Barack. Sorry.
McCain=20th century angry man
Obama=21st century thoughtful man
For anyone interested, here is Palin in a 2006 debate.
She’s certainly much better in this than in her recent interviews.
Interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI
I think one of the potential mistakes the Obama campaign has made in all of this was agreeing to a
“structured” Biden/Palin debate format. Time will tell.
voyetra8: She is good as long as the answer is “life” and “gays are bad”. Basically, she is a culture war Republican mostly concerned with social issues. If you gave her a question on the economy or foreign relations or anything that requires nuance rather than a yes or a no I’m pretty sure she would sink.
voyetra8: Part of me - the paranoid part - thinks that Palin’s awful interview performances were part of an elaborate scheme to lower expectations for the debate so even a mediocre job will seem like an improvement. She sure did a lot better in those debates than she did in the interviews.
My friend called me after the debate to get my opinion (first one for her, she’s 45!!!!) Thinking of the conversation makes me cringe, but best part is SHE THINKS GB IS A DEM !!!!!!!!!!
WadISay: “I think old Sarah is going to have to take one for the team (translation: have her appendix taken out unnecessarily …”
Or, even more likely given her past fertility, she’ll be knocked up again!
Barry’s guys are going off about how Walnuts never mentioned the ‘middle class’ and only mentioned ‘change’ once. I’m trying to think of things Bible Spice won’t mention on Thursday.
-Walnuts?
-Bush (referring to W only, I expect other uses of the term)?
-Trig (referring to grandson only, I expect mathmatical uses of the term only)?
I’m fearing on overabundence of Noocleer, Lipstick Libruls, and Hussains though.
I’ll watch the VP debate on Thurs., should be entertaining. I think that when all is said and done, the debates won’t make much of a difference. Brandine and Tanqueray in East Bunghole, Pennsyltucky will have already made up their “minds” to vote for Panama Jack and the dimwit. Anyone else with half a brain will vote for O’Bomber regardless of his performance in the debates. Let’s just hope there are more of the latter. The middle of the country scares me.
BillyClubb: I think she was being fitted with her fake-tooth cyanide pill just in case Thursday gets reaaaaaaaaaaaallllllly heavy.
PoliTacky: Wow…i was just thinking of the twitching mad hate thing…but revenge…but for what? There were Americans of African heritage who served in vietnam yet never spent 5+ years in a prison? Therefore obama embodies the essence of the enemy and must be made to drink poison wine and be tied down and made to listen to beautiful music that he’s been conditioned to hate? Wow. The Clockwork Orange analogy is not perfect. Let’s hope not, anyway…
AngryBlakGuy:
Ummm, not able without a cain, or not abel without a cane?
Sounds like something sexual’s been hidden in that sentence,
but then again most everything does these days.
ruby!:
I suppose that if I could have one wish, it would be to get a print out
on McGeezer’s blood test just a few minutes prior to the debate, a panel
that would cover all the regular OTC picker uppers of the caffeine family,
and any of the favored Alaskan crop of Meth products.
I so regret that Hunter Thompson died before this campaign. After reading “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” I realized how much we lost when his voice was removed from the discourse. He would have found this all so fertile.
I’m just back from door to door canvassing for Hopey in, of all god-forsaken places, Kenosha, WI. (home of THE BRAT STOP… need I say more!).
The vast majority of the undecided Bitterz I talked to said they thought WALNUTS! was cocky and arrogant in the debate and they were now fairly sure they were going to give the Chocolate Savior their vote.
Also:
Had a long conversation with a middle-aged guy who had an NRA sticker on his rusty big ass truck and who kept referring derisively to Guv. Glasses as “that Mayor of Wasilla” and telling me what an incompetent joke she was and how McGrumpy was too old to be running, etc. He had some great snarky remarks on the whole McFailin’ campaign. He concluded by angrily saying that anyone who didn’t vote for Hopey was an complete idiot!
HA Strange Days, indeed!
Weeping Jesus: HST wrote “In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” Remind you of WALNUTS & Co.?
helenaHandbasket500: Nice work, Helena. And thanks for your report. (Not snarking.)
helenaHandbasket500: You made my morning. Thank you.
Well, I just flew in from Rome last night, and are my arms tired.
Been away so I long hardly know the place. But there are several seeming eternals, which are oddly comforting in a depressing sorta way:
1. Sarah Palin is still a smug, dumb bitch. (Upside: Rudy & Rita Redneck seem to be aware of it now.)
2. John McCain is still a pathetic old asshole. (Upside: haven’t heard 5/5 yrs in a while.)
3. Bush still smirks but in a less confident way. (Bar probably told him that Jeb wouldn’t have fucked up this way.)
4. We still have Tina Fey.
5. JFK still seems like a Third World airport dump. On the other hand…
6. Ugly Betty is clearly filmed in NYC now! I feel proud. Viva Nueva Yorque!
1ofUS: Oh, I’m painting with a broad, broad brush there, for sure, it’s just that the crude characactures of the old insane guy and the young upstart guy seem so apt. I can see McSpaz playing out some sort of grudge match in his head, is it over Hopey one-upping him on ethics reform in ‘06, frustration over being the most crotchety man on earth being ‘forced’ to run against the young, likable whippersnapper and not getting “his due,” or perhaps the fact that the majority of his support right now is only along for the ride because of his token vagina? Who knows, but he does seem petty and vengeful for whatever reason!
Strappo: So how are they restraining your arms on rendition flights these days? I used to prefer plastic handcuffs as I found those tie wraps cut into my wrists too deeply
Debate analysis shows McCain strengthened his support with key groups like Old Coots, Grumpy Grannies, and People Who Avoid Eye Contact
http://megasizzle.com/politics/mccain-successfully-locked-up-the-key-old-coot-vote-on-friday/
Pre-impeach Palin
http://palinmustgo.blogspot.com/
god, it looks like McCain is storing Truck Nutz in his cheek
After the debate, my mom said my step-dad (after his, like, 14th beer) stumbled into the living room and asked how he can register to vote (he’s 52 and has NEVER voted) because “that McCain is a crazy asshole”.
Go step-pops!
I could have done much better but a courious thing happened, when I looked over at John my nipples became firm.
I tried to cool the thought but I became sweaty,and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him, my man hood was starting to seep,I caught my self babbling, I was glad when it was over.