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If there was ever a time for an old-fashioned community meetin’ at the old town hall, what with the world comin’ to an end and such, that time is now, brothers and sisters. But, we can’t even do a Great Depression right, so get ready for a lot of inane questions submitted via Twitter on the Internet or whatever, as McCain prepares to challenge Obama on the question of whether black people should even be allowed to vote, let alone run for president.
9:00 PM — Good morning, Asian stock markets! The NIKKEI index is already down 340 points. Australian markets are down about 4%. Hong Kong’s down 879 points.
9:00 PM — Hey here is a fun thing we hope to use tonight: C-SPAN debate hub! Make your own clips of embarrassing McCain moments, or when Sarah Palin rushes onstage with a noose.
9:00 PM — OMG this is such a clean, well-lighted town hall. Who knew we had such nice things, in the Depression?
9:01 PM — Rules: No rambling, no reading Sarah Palin’s old index cards.
9:01 PM — Oh hi, Tom Brokaw! You are looking sharp for a long-retired news anchor from “the past.”
9:01 PM — Brokaw picked the questions! He is in the tank for McCain because he wrote that book about “The Greatest Depression,” when McCain was a wealthy ne’er-do-well young bachelor.
9:02 PM — McCain waddles out, looking grim and terrible. You know how your Obama looks.
9:03 PM — “The world has changed a great deal, and not for the better.” That is Brokaw, dooming us.
9:03 PM — They flipped a coin! These rich elitists still have coins!
9:04 PM — And Steve Schmidt asks the first question.
9:04 PM — Solid start for Barry. McCain is stooped over his little child’s desk, grimacing. This is what Bob Dole did! (”Bob Dole doesn’t like that.”)
9:05 PM — McCain got out of his chair!
9:05 PM — Barack is sounding good, talking right at the guy, but is he connecting?
9:06 PM — McCain starts off by insulting Obama, “Senator Obama, good to be with you at a town hall meeting.” He leers and winks. Oh dear god.
9:06 PM — McCain immediately wanders away from the bald guy who asked the question. McCain says he would make the government buy all the bad mortgages in America. Wow, that is total socialism!
9:08 PM — “My friends,” three times in the first answer! Drink, drink, drink.
9:08 PM — Oh, and McCain answers, when Brokaw asks him about who would run this operation, as treasury secretary. McCain angrily barks, “Not you, Tom.” A bit of nervous laughter. Good god. Then he mentions Warren Buffet.
9:09 PM — Ha ha, McCain wants us all to make our living selling our possessions on eBay.
9:10 PM — Obama offhand mentions that Warren Buffet, you know, supports Obama. But we’ll deal with that later?
9:10 PM — This is what should carry over: Obama saying one problem is the decline in house prices, but the larger problem is that incomes are declining.
9:12 PM — Oh, did you hear that McCain “left my campaign, and suspended it” to fly to Washington and fuck up the bailout/rescue deal for a week, letting about $1.5 trillion in equity values vanish? Good work!
9:12 PM — Ha ha ha, now McCain is pretending he even knew there was an economy two years ago, and he was going to fix Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac! By, uh, having all their lobbyists run his campaign.
9:13 PM — Hilarious, how McCain tells the black guy who asks the question that he never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before. You know, blacks!
9:14 PM — “I’ve got to correct a little bit of Senator McCain’s history, not surprisingly.”
9:14 PM — Obama has actually been bitching about the subprime crisis when only YOUR EDITOR (and all the Housing Bubble blogs) knew this was about to fall apart.
9:15 PM — Ha ha, Obama kind of glances to his side and says, “And you know, McCain’s campaign manager is the lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie, but who even cares how he fucked everything up, let’s just move on.”
9:16 PM — The women are pushing the Obama Love Button! The men are positive, but still a little weird about loving a black man.
9:17 PM — McCain also is not going to promise the economy will get worse, first. But he will continue repeating his big idea he will repeat every answer: America will buy ALL THE MORTGAGES, in America! Is this even plausible, let alone possible? Ah but the fundamentals (workers) are innocent bystanders? What?
9:18 PM — Here is Sarah Palin’s mom, asking how she can trust either of the parties, when it is all the fault of Evil Washington Insiders?
9:19 PM — And Obama … uh, doesn’t start well. Okay, surplus, right, Clinton surplus. Bush debt, deficits, nobody’s completely innocent (except all working Americans who bought houses they can’t afford, according to McCain).
9:20 PM — Health care reform budget energy blah blah the Chinese, the Saudi Arabia, you need to answer the question, Barry.
9:21 PM — Lieberman! Climate Change! This is McCain’s answer. Jesus, can ONE of you do something here? And the Men and Women of Ohio agree that McCain is blabbering even more than Obama.
9:22 PM — Pork! Earmarks! It is a good thing McCain will not vote for earmarks, or stuff to educate children, like science stuff. Probably black children, too! (Chicago.)
9:24 PM — Brokaw says what is your priority, health, energy or entitlements? McCain: “What were those again?” Brokaw repeats them. McCain says, “I, uh, think we can work on all three of those.” Reagan! My Friends! I know how to do that! Lieberman!
9:25 PM — So, no answer.
9:25 PM — What is the $700 billion dollars he’s talking about? The bailout bill he voted for? It’s for TERRORISTS???
9:25 PM — Obama: Energy is at the top of the list. Fucks up foreign policy, makes you more poor.
9:27 PM — Barack: “Sen. McCain likes to talk about earmarks a lot …. But understand this, when Sen. McCain supports a $300 billion tax cut that he’s going to give to big corporations and big oil companies,” blah.
9:28 PM — Brokaw threatens both of them for talking so goddamned long.
9:28 PM — Somebody from the Depression somehow came back from John McCain’s childhood and got inside the Internet! Jesus this is so scary. Anyway, she has a question. Why is nobody ever asked to sacrifice anything, ever, in this fat fucking country of fat fucking losers?
9:29 PM — McCain will have a spending freeze! This is how Hoover ended the Great Depression!
9:30 PM — “We’re not rifle shots here, we’re Americans.” What is Walnuts talking about?
9:30 PM — Obama: 9/11! Oh right, we all were so bewildered and terrified that we wanted to come together, and do shit, for the country, but Bush told us to go shopping. “That wasn’t the kind of call to service that the American people were looking for.” This is true! Your editor was ready to join the CIA or whatever, but he was … oh, some damned thing. Too old? Too high? No money for shopping, though, plus your editor hates motherfucking shopping. Unless it’s for wine.
9:33 PM — New liveblog here, with your Jim Newell!
OK, here we go. Walnuts crosses his legs, girlie style.
Drink anytime Brokaw mentions the Greatest Generation.
Section A? - damn, I lost the lotto.
…uh-oh, Barry coming out swinging!
Don’t ever start with a southern speaker!!! (I’m a southener and I know!)
OBAMA WINS! The coin toss.
Can we have someone liveblog the CNN-squiggle? Please?
Wonkette is behind real time. Please, do NOT crash! Leave that to Wall St….
WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK! HELLS YEAH!
wow 30 seconds in and we already said worst since great depression. Drink HARD people
Sharked: Well, right now the squiggle is almost off the chart with Obama’s answer.
mirrorball: I’ll never get a buzz if that’s the key word….
Fire AIG! It’s my company now, beeatches!
Barry speaks and CNN Happy-meter fixes Happy-ness from the audience.
Did he sneer at his ‘thank you for finally doing this damn town hall debate that I wanted’ line?
Ken, where are you all finding these lovely Grapes of Wrath photos? I’m feeling so positive about my future in the dust bowl now!
Walnuts: I feel your pain. NICE TRY. Bubba is laffin.
WTF? Tennessee? Isn’t that the home state of Nathan Bedford Forrest? I think that’s an ominous sign for our buddy Hopey.
McCain’s blinking is distracting me . . . when he’s facing the camera, that is.
You know how your Obama looks.
Like buttah?
Thank you Alan. I don’t know shit about the economy. But Phil Gramm has one.
Oh, energy independence. Of course. Fail.
No tax cuts! Just print more of those Reichmarks!
…is Palin rubbing off on WALNUTS!? The guy asked about jobs and the economy and WALNUTS! comes back with energy?!
I would order the Sec of the Treasury to get me keatings on the phone… my friends.
He wants to stand closer to Alan, he cant figure out how.
Shit, I bet Alan wants to cry with Walnuts in his face like that.
I hate that tone that Walnuts does!
God love him, McCain still giggles at his own jokes. At least someone does.
McCain kinda looks like Grimace with his stiff walk tonight
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First “my friends.”
2 “my friends” in the first answer….drink up, Shriners!
boy if walnuts was three feet from me yelling i would pee my pants
John McCain does NOT look good from behind.
…damn, 3 “my friends” in the first response!
Could we please drink to “my friends”? I wanna get buzzed.
hoo boy! i can see why mccain’s been begging for these town hall meetin’s. he wanted to show us all how he could waddle about in a circle… also, is he panting??
Sharked: The wimmins be more ‘motional than the dudes on the CNN squiglay
Oh lordy — McCain’s proposing to renegotiate the amount of the loans? Uh — that’s mavericky.
Obama stood in front of the voter who asked the question and spoke to him. Why did McCain wander around the stage like a drunken Roomba?
Okay, McCain’s proposal is solid (better than what Paulson has proposed at any rate), but he looks like he’s getting in the audience’s face a little bit. Needs to step back a bit.
McCain is such a weird little troll. Energy independence is his answer to the current economic crisis?
MY FRIENDS!!! *gulp gulp gulp*
MY FRIENDS!!! *gulp gulp gulp*
Can he really order the Sec Treas to buy up all the bad mortgages and then refinance?
who’s the dreamy boy in the white shirt with the crazy eyes!? his crooked smile will haunt my dreams tonight.
Did McCain sleep with Brokaw too?
Philip Gramm?
NOT YOU TOM??????? Dead silence.
Breaking: Tom Brokaw will not be Treasury Secretary under an McCain administration.
I hope Hopey says, well, Bill Ayres would be good with our money.
McCain sidling up to the poor bastard who asked the question is too creepy for words … get away old old man, get away!!!
CivicHoliday: Really, i used to live in OK. These Joad pics are bringing back unhappy memories.
I might husky vomit if gramplez starts to wink.
Ooooh. Insult Tom Brokaw. That is a way to get into everyone’s heart.
“Not you, Tom.”
Do you get points for offhandedly putting down the moderator?
You are not my friend, Walnuts!!!
Yeah, like McCain has any fucking idea what eBay ‘does’.
Crap! I was stupid enough to agree to a drinking name where the phrase is “My Firends.” I’m already in trouble here.
Drink when McCain says trust
What the eff was that? Brokaw asks an important question - who will you appoint to the most important economic role in American government - and McCain comes back with a sarcastic little “Not you, Tom.” Does he think that contempt is popular?
Warren Buffet v. Meg Whitman
Hmmmm.
Hopey: Gets to the point, not the names.
…”Meg Witman”? For Treasury Secretary? Why not just Carly Fiorina?!
MCains breathing is a distraction to me..someone turn his mic down.
ATTACK Barry. ATTACK. Excellent.
Barry is taking an axe to that trickle down theory. Good for him.
If Walnuts has to remember the name of every questioner his head will explode.
Doesn’t John McCain realize that 99% of all sales on e bay are from Meth addicts selling stolen goods?
Oh god, the CNN meter is distractingly awful.
Walnuts: COULD WE HAVE A DO-OVER????
Ah, if only I could afford wine, I’d be playing the drinking games. This battery acid is nice, though.
BARRY, STOP SAYING THAT MCCAIN IS RIGHT. STOP. HE IS NOT.
“Prosperity’s not just gonna trickle down.” Oh yeah? Then what’s that raining on me? Oh — nevermind.
1.3 million amuricans make their living off of ebay? really? where do i sign up?
Ooo, Brokaw is bitch slapping them both about going over time!!
Brokaw: Shup, Hopey
Everyone wants to fuck Warren Buffet. A Middle Class American.
Wall street/main street in same sentence now requires at least two oz of pure grain alcohol. And now a question from Section F!
SayItWithWookies: renegotiating loans? That should go over well with everybody who is keeping up with their mortgage payments and got a fixed rate….yeah, I know…I’m 30 questions behind
I hate Tom Brokaw. Never trust a man with thin lips.
HEY A BLACK MAN IS ASKING A QUESTION.
Oooooo. Bailout? No, I call it a rescue. HA!
Shut up, Tom. I want to hear the other people talk, and you’re taking up precious seconds explaining how little time they have.
They letz a blackz ask a question? TERRORIST!
Gramps can really work that room. Is there an oxygen tank nearby?
Oliver Clark: Incoherent Question Award Winner!
John McCain’s solution to the economic downturn? Sell your stuff on E-bay.
Voyou Charmant: Does Drudge have a siren up yet?
A black dude named Oliver? This is a set up!
i left my campaign and suspended it…. lmao
OMG they let a black ask a question!!! The Commission for Presidential Debates is in the Tank!
I am ROTFL at that “suspend my campaign” bullshit again….
A PERSON ABUNDANT IN MELANIN = drink? Please?
Rescue not bailout!!! Thanks for the clarification Walnuts…
Oooh, the bailout vs. rescue debate. Controversial stand there, McCain.
Sen. Obama and his cronies are going to bust your knee caps!
Seriously, does WALNUTS! even know any other phrases besides “the greed and excess in Washington and on Wall Street”?
Wow, he just dissed Oliver.
Blahblahblah streets. I am so fucking sick of Main Street. I wonder how many American cities actually have a Main Street.
Oh, so the black guy never heard of May and Mac, eh? Fuck you, old man.
who is this fannie mae to whom McCain is referring? possibly a childhood acquaintance from the 20s?
Breaking: If McCain says to just one questioner, “That is a shitty question, why the hell did they let your stupid ass in here,” I will vote for him.
Holy shit this has gotten ugly fast.
I want to sell my baseball cards!!!!
HEY, where did old crankypants find that colored guy to ask a question?
worst debate ever… no money for booze, and this listerine is burny
Er. Maybe your supporters had never heard of Fannie/Freddie before this crisis. Joe Sixpack indeed.
Are you saying a black man doesn’t know about Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac?
…what, a black man wouldn’t know what “Fannie Mae” and “Freddy Mac” are?!?!
John, don’t correct the questioner. If he wants to call it a “bailout,” let him.
Damn the poor; they’re responsible for all this.
Anyone surprised that McCain didn’t tell Oliver to “sit down, boy!”?
Who hasn’t heard of Fannie and Freddy? ONLY PEOPLE WITH 18Bajillion houses
McCain didn;t learn his lesson in the first debate. NO ONE BUYS HIS LINE OF BULLSHIT about “suspending his campaign”
and is that line his performance rating or his EKG or EEG??
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Is it ok if I just go back to masturbating to these autographed photos of Keith Olbermann?
Obama was 2nd highest……first highest? Rick Davis.
C’mon, Hopey - tell the nasty old man where to stick it.
WALL STREET…MAIN STREET…FANNIE…FREDDIE…GASP….TWITCH….
Why is McCain so gaspy tonight?
Oh man, McCain is wandering around and around, I fully expect him to start in on how he wore an onion on his belt, as was the fashion of the time.
There he goes again on “buying up bad loans.” Again, would the President have the authority to tell the Treas Sec to do that?
Uh, who gets the equity when we buy up the bad loans, McCain?
More wine, please.
re freddie and fannie: i think walnuts is answering a gay marriage questions in his mind
This is funny. McCain doesn’t even believe his own spin. He’s so out of it….
Why have all the men in the audience shaved their heads?
“You’ve never heard of Fannie & Freddie, because you are stupid and black, Questioner. Like someone else I know.” -John McCain’s Id.
Can I just say that the “Town Hall” style does nothing for me. It seems more like a bad Roman thing. Except you can’t throw shit at the tunics if you don’t agree.
Barry is sitting there so smug and AMUSED. My cat looks like that after vomiting behind the couch.
when fannie met fredie…walnuts sucks.
Seriously a drink for every “my friends”??? I hope you have 911 pre-dialed into your phone…
Damn, black dude is not in kindergarten.
Barry is just moving on, not taking the bait.
WALNUTS’ head explodes in 5, 4, 3…
McCain is so awkward I can’t barely stand it
Heh, “Frannie and Freddie”.
My friends = moran
My good friends = dumb fuck
my very good friends = I will water board your sorry ass dumb fuck-stain ass hole mother fucker
ooooh ‘not surprisingly’ take that john mccain
God, listening to McCain talk takes me back to my childhood, when my pervy uncle would tell bed-time stories…. Sorry, TMI.
Puh-leeeze, Hopey……control the “uh”….
Ha! Ha! Obama and his cronies - is he F*&$%# kiddin?!?
Walnuts is PACING!
Attack! Attack!
God I wish the VP debate had gone this direction.
McCain looks old. Has anyone mentioned that?
Snap! Hopey zings again! Is McCain a deregulator? Didn’t the Demmycrats deregulate, back during Jimmy Carter, when they weren’t busy failing to keep Osama from becoming a moosleem in Afghanistan?
Oooo. No surprise that Hopey has to correct Walnuts history.
And he wrote letters! Lots of letters!
correcting McCain on history……. pretentious !!
Ooooooh first strike to the Old Dude. Come back Barry! No pointing fingers!
AnnieGetYourFun: Mae, you dumbass. Not May.
Sharked: Bwah! That’s more Palin’s style.
AnnieGetYourFun: Ebay is that place you sell old private jets you don’t need anymore.
AngryBlakGuy: I had that exact same thought.
Obama slightly answered this question. McCain didn’t answer it at all. Hmmmph.
McCain’s eating a hot dog.
Barack wrote letters??
“He mailed it in!” - random RNC staffer
AnnieGetYourFun: Carry on
I wonder if the classic “boxers or briefs” question will come up and, if so, will McCain have the guts to answer, “it depends.”
Barry is in bed with the American people.
Is Brokaw holding a stopwatch!? I hope.
OK, no more shots of Hopey from behind…he looks like a taxicab with the doors open.
I can’t take my eyes off the stupid meter!
Oh look, Barry’s voice made CNN undecided women meter hit the ceiling. Collective orgasm?
Walnuts: It depends. DEPENDS indeed!
who the fucks idea was that stupid stolen traffic light laying on its side? and why does it keep blinking? do they think these idiots are going to take ques from a high school dance prop?
Brokaw: Is the economy going to get worse?
Both should say no fuckin shit it is!
Oh, ick! Walnuts just called Obama “my friend.”
Enough with the buying up of houses. He already has 7!
“We’re gonna have to coordinate with other countries?!” Obama is an international terrorist!
McCain doesn’t think the black guy had ever heard of Fannie or Freddie mac.
Again with the buying up of bad loans!
Oh, and also get rid of cronyism, and he wrote a letter, too, which Obama’s name wasn’t on. Nyah nyah.
What letter…I wanna see it…
McCain still trying to sell his ‘workers are the fundamentals’ thats what I meant!
Barry’s squiggly lines are looking better than Walnuts.
We’re the best importers and exporters!
Yeah, yeah, we’re the best workers in the world. But we’re not the cheapest! That’s the problem.
But John, if we get rid of croneyism, you’ll have no more friends to come over for trucknutz tupperware parties!
I LOVED “To Raise A Finch”!! GREAT book!!
“How can we trust you with our money?”
Walnuts: you can trust me, I gotta rich wife.
Oh, Ms. Finch. You should have let someone else do that. I wasn’t even sure you asked a question.
AnnieGetYourFun: Hey, glad you made it!
…geez, can you say hooked on phonics?!
Sentaor Obama this is a question from you? Get with it Tom.
Sit down you stupid bitch!
Jeebus, not ANOTHER southerner!
Ha. Oh Theresa, you can barely read.
Oh My God! McCain wrote a letter!
Wait until he turns that strategy upon Iran!
That woman has a really nice voice.
Good lord, what an accent!! Scary scary accent for a black man to hear!
teresa finch is a paultard!
Barry, uh, for some people, it’s more serious than not going out to dinner.
loganmo: badda bing!
Maybe you can’t max out at Marshalls anymore, lady…
OMG Teresa Finch for REPUG VP!!
Go Barry! From surplus to deficit!
Lady, learn to read your own handwriting!!!!
New Idea for McCain…. Americans Put all their shit on Ebay - if it doesn’t sell in seven day or the reserve is not met, then the Government buys it and sends it to China to be used towards our foreign debt.
He can use this for free!
if there really are any “undecided” voters in this audience they should surely be quietly taken out the back and shot
Worse Question Ever!
I’m in the tank for McCain tonight. I’m sick of Washington crony Obama, who has no experience because he’s spent no real time in Washington, ruining the economy. If you think of it, the economy was doing just fine until Obama ran for office. QED.
Barry to Angry White Woman: both parties are to blame, but the party in control for the last 8 years has dug us deeper into debt. YES.
You know, I really hate this format. The town hall format, not the drunken commenting.
Yea, fuck you Chi-NEEEZE!!
McCain insulted Oliver, by saying “you probably never heard of fannie and freddie before this”. Gee, maybe the guy, like other regular people, actually reads books or newspapers, or maybe even The Economist.
Hahahahaha that lady can’t read
AnnieGetYourFun:
you’d be the only one…
‘Freddie Mac’? Isn’t that a song by Curtis Mayfield??, no wait, that’s ‘Freddie’s Dead’.
and I’m a MAVERICK!
Ohh.. men seem to HATE the word cut….. a bunch of recent/former vasectomy??
Oh oh, Johnny is gettin mavericky
Uh, reform? Keating Five and a Half Years-type reform?
Undecided = retarded.
9:00: “when Sarah Palin rushes onstage with a noose.”
Oh, *n*oose. I totally misread that.
chascates: Jeebus, not ANOTHER southerner!
it’s nashville. i’m waiting for some rhinestone cowboy to sing
his dumbass question.
Oooh! The CNN bitters hate borrowing from the Chinese. Men hate taxes, Women are OK with them.
Theresa is taking the drinks too
special interest…reaach across the aisle…yawn…yawn…..
He’s going to ask Sarah Palin and Jed Clampett to oversee the mortgage crisis.
“I have a clear record of reaching out to big money and taking their contributions.”
System is broken! And I’ve been there 26 years, helping it. Be broken.
Why does the female squiggle love EVERYTHING?!
McCain : Blonde chick :: moth : flame
“Well Theresa, it’s like this….”
“Sen. Obama has never taken on the leaders of his party on any issue”
Uhhh, maybe because HIS party doesn’t SUCK!
Obama’s touching a love button?!
“I have fought the VC in DC.”
Unrelated to the debate: My enjoyment of the proceedings has been marred by the sound of my neighbors fucking.
McCain said Leiberman and his rating (CNN) DROPPED……
fuck… mcCain started low and drops the more he talks….
“Obama has never taken on the leaders of his party on a single issue…”
Erm, maybe because they’ve fucked up slightly less than your party?
McCain’s running out of steam…
Weren’t the republicans in charge with all that spending going on?
Again, the man needs some oxygen fast!
McCain can’t even remember his talking points, my friends.
The CNN Bitter Meters are fun. Men could care less that McCain calls himself a reformer, and both dipped down when he mentioned Lieberman.
Reducing earmarks didn’t go over well so far, nor are the attacks on Obama. Interesting so far.
What does the funny looking old dude have against overhead projectors?
McCain: I’M A MAVERICK, GODDAMNIT. That’s all you need to know.
PORK! *drink drink drink*
$3 million for an overhead projector for a planetarium in Illinois? Projector? I hardly know her!
Fuck those planetariums. Liberal hot beds of space learn’n.
too much fuckin work mccain!!
…where the hell is WALNUTS! wandering too? It looks like he is trying to get the hell off stage.
Can anyone explain how cutting government spending and earmarks, yadda yadda somehow results in good jobs with good pay and a stable economy?
I can’t for a second figure out the connection.
If Barry’s the smoker, how come McCain’s the one who sounds like he has lung cancer?
I’m going to go borrow a ridiculous amount of money against my house so I can go negotiate with the government to keep it from going into foreclosure, you know, at half of what I owe on it. That equity’s goin’ to coke, hookers, and truck nutz.
Drill, WALNUTS, Drill!!!!
Look at both of our proposals and HIS MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSEIN!!! HE HUNG AROUND WITH TOURISTS
McCain just dissed planetariums…fuck him.
New spending? Just for bridges that don’t fail? Pork barrel spending for kids’ education? What about the millionaires that have been hurt so badly these past few weeks?
$3 million “overhead projector”? Umm, does McCain mean a *Spitz projector*?
McCain’s for middle income Americans. Unfortunately he thinks “middle income” is around $5 million a year.
How could Obama spend money on overhead projectors when Senator McCain can’t lift his hands over his head? What an unfeeling bastard.
McCain still hasn’t looked directly at him yet, has he?
God he is tired, old Walnuts.
How wasteful, Barry! Black kids don’t care about outer space!
OMG 3 million smackers for an overhead projector for an observatory..what was Barry thinking..Jeez, Walnuts come up with something that makes sense..an overhead projector???
“Which three, Tom? Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo, catch a ni….” D’OH!
Doesn’t McCain walk like he is auditioning for ‘The Mummy’?
Walnuts is creepily like Ozzie Osborne, his staggering erratically around the stage. Oh and I am still appalled that he told the guy he’s “probably never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” Holy mother of god.
Walnuts can’t remember what the question was.
SuperRounder: people fucking and mccain fucking up… what a combo@ turn on the camcorder and share you fun with us!
Did Walnuts just say “Reacharound’ the aisle?
Hopey voted $3 million for a planetarium projector?
And NOTHING for the Audioanimatroic Dinosaur/Caveman diorama at the Phoenix Museum of Creation Science and Witch Hunting?
Gesh.
Talk about misapplied priorities.
As a major proponent of overhead projector rights I am insulted.
he has to write them down!?!? there are only three things he’s been ask to prioritize lol
If the CNN meter is any indication, that slurping sound you’re hearing is McCain’s chance to win Ohio circling the drain.
“As to Medicaid and Medicare — my friends — shut up and keep rowing.”
Joe Lieberman is not ‘reachin’ across the aisle’.
TIP O’NEIL???
McCain’s pulling out all the stops now.
He’s barely got his talking points memorized. I never thought I would say I was impressed with Dubya’s performance in these town hall formats, but damn, McCain is worse.
25 mins after and no reference to the vietnamese prison. nice work.
If he doesn’t stop saying “my friends”, I’ll have to go get more PBR.
Reached across the aisle to Joe Lieberman? That was just a plain reach-around. Sir.
…geez, I feel so sorry for the people in the front row. Every time WALNUTS! starts answering a question he begins to creep into their personal space.
Is Walnuts going to pass out? He seems awfully out of breath…
Adding Tom bitching about time constraints to the drinking game …
Good thing they have that minute time limit. Or does Wally’s watch run sloooooow.
Wind fuels? What the fuck is John McCain talking about?
Fuck you and your ‘friends you ignorant piece of shit.
Brokaw’s on the rag big time.
Brokaw needs to drop the stopwatch and chill a bit about the time.
“….just like a family has to prioritize……”
Well.
Fucking.
Played.
Did he just say that some of this 700 billion bailout will end up in the hands of terrorists?
Thanks to Walnuts! one of my actual friends is going to say “My friends” and I’m going to beat him to death with a lawn gnome.
I forget, what is the over/under on “My Friends”?
his combover is getting worse.
I will put all three at the highest priority. McCain has no idea what he’s talking about.
Look at Hopeys lines, way up there!
joe lieberman? oy!
Why does McCain hate science and science education? Complaining about government funding the studies on bear and worse yet planetariums. Scientists need jobs to!!!! NASA is welfare for the overeducated.
NoStyleHere: But Ozzie has so much more on the ball!
This has nothing to do with tonight’s debate, but it’s the greatest Palin-alia I’ve ever seen:
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q42/kitryne/sohot.gif
Is McCain conscious? Slap him Tom, get him up. Cheezus.
Obama: “I propose we eat the rich.”
Barry: If JFK…. Yeah! take that, thousand points of light shining whatever on a hill Palin/Bush/Reagan!
Bringing out the JFK analogies, are we?
Wow, McCain stays at the midline, and Obama jumps up when he starts talking….. CNN’s uncommitted Ohio voters are no longer uncommitted…. Johnny-Mac has lost Ohio
Whoa, the ladies love the black man!!!!!
Fuck, no attention span McCain could not even remember ‘healthcare’, ‘energy’, and ‘education’..so he says..”ummmm all 3?”
More numbers Barry! People like numbers!
the cnn bitter lines also dropped when brokaw reminded these candidates of the rulez.
Johnny Zhivago: she and i are up to the task, baby.
where’s cindy and the retard? i only have the sound on. i can’t watch mcdrifties face.
One minute time limit: who fuckin agreed to that shit?? mcCain’s alzheimer not allow longer time??
SayItWithWookies: Glad to be here! Are you totally sloshed yet?
Obama, leave John McCain alone. He’s just trying to pay back the middle class oil executives for all their hard work.
kitryne: Oh Great, now I won’t be able to get THAT out of my head!
Another collective orgasm for the undecided women of CNN meter. I think Barry is flooding the building with pheromones.
the question from the intrawebz sounded like it was punctuated and spelt correctly … clear fake imo
McCain: I have queer, I mean clear priorities.
Oh, what a giveaway!
Ladiez go wild when Obama says “line by line.” Men flatline by line.
Who knew chicks dug accounting wonkery?
Fiora from Chicago = the Obama girls playing the the computer
Walnuts: We have to eliminate some programs, like social security, pell grants, early childhood ed, etc.
McCain: sacrifice means no medicare and medicaid.
Fiora? Is that a Buick?
…FAKE!: how the hell did a 78 year old figure out the email. Secondly she is just 5 years older than WALNUTS!, probably was his baby sitter.
let’s eliminate old fucking shit head losers.
Seriously, could McCain be any more obscure tonight?
Hey, he’s serious about the spending freeze?
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an overhead projector. GET WITH THE TIMES, OLD MAN. It’s a planetarium projector. For science education.
Mr. Freeze!
…waiting for Palin’s striptease to start. Do they cut that part out for the networks?
Oh, NOW you’re concerned about veteran’s affairs…….
Johnny Zhivago: if only i could actually stand to listen to her for more than 20 seconds….
McCain talking about cutting waste @ pentagon yt plans on INCREASING defense spending…
Why the fuck should the military get MORE $$$ and my kids schools get FUCKED even MORE??!!!
I haven’t seen this much obsessing about overhead projectors since I had a college job as an AV geek.
Jesus, McCain is really hammering Obama on how he supports teaching science to black kids.
Oh my goodness, I need to take more Ativan before I can continue watching the debate. How anyone would vote for McCain, at this point, if fully beyond me. Not only can the man not answer a question clearly, but he can’t even remember the question. McWalnuts obviously doesn’t do as well when he doesn’t have a throng of supporters jumping out of their chairs to drool all over him (and to ask him snotty questions about his opponant).
no spending cuts for defense
So…”spending will have to be cut.” Except for EVERY MORTGAGE EVER…right? How many drinks for when Walnuts directly contradicts himself?
earmarks….aaargh.
McCain “I propose that Americans sacrifice by fighting defense contractors……I will not cut defense spending.”
What?
Old man hates the Navy. Spread it.
Walnuts really has a hard-on for earmarks. I was going to drink every time he said earmarks, but I’m afraid I’ll end up in a coma.
we are americans!!
Wait - we freeze defense spending except for defense spending? At least he admits he’s attacking health care…
McCain brings up his noble performance stopping Boeing’s tanker contract and giving it to his friends at EADS. His campaign co-chair is an EADS lobbyist. Total coincidence.
McCain is trying to put the audience slowly to sleep .. so he can eat their babies
“We’re not rifle shots here.”
What does this mean?
“we’ll get to work right away on health care. you’re not going to have any, and we’ll be sure it stays that way.”
a spending freeze? like no botox?
I am a rifle shot.
Sacrifice?
I’m ready to start doing a bit of human sacrifice right damn now.
Ohmigawd…Barry said 9/11! And will hopefully actually talk about personal sacrifices from real people. Individuals.
Boy, is McCain off. He’s spouting platitudes. Barry is starting to feel toward him as Biden did toward Palin…. slightly indulgent, baffled, sad…. and triumphant!
Barry, take a page from 9udy and say 9/11 with some fucking feeling. Jesus.
So, is Obama king yet? Or do I have to keep watching this?
9/11 is in the Tank for Obama.
McCain in HDTV is a real treat. All greasy and loose and whatnot.
what did he say about overhead projectors? if I don’t have an overhead projector then, I have to use chalk!!
Did McCain answer that question? I didn’t hear an answer. We are not going to be asked to sacrifice anything, apparently.
YES Walnuts! work on all things at the same time! Multitask!
John really hates overhead projectors.
Americans will have to sacrifice earmarks and pork???
You’ll have to sacrifice roads and bridges and infrastructure and schools and telescopes to nowhere.
McCain is kind of a close-talker. I’m terribly afraid he might reach out and put his cold corpse hands on one of the people asking a question, and they’ll turn to stone…
no more shopping?!!! i am shocked!!
For this we are missing the Biggest Loser??? Oh the humanity!!!!
Obama invoking 9/11, even complimenting W, and then telling them they squandered the opportunity to unite. Great move.
GO TO LIVEBLOGGIN PART 3, Ya’all!
SayItWithWookies: Hm. Gamey.
Who said Obama’s not good in the ‘town hall’ format? The same person that said McCain’s gloves would come off tonight? Maybe they meant his colostomy bag.
Yay! Young people! Like me! Obama likes me!
After we get the clean coal, I hope we get started on the calorie-free chocolate.
Barry rocking the vote with the young peoples!
FreshCliches: Yes, HD teevees come first. Bread is for pussies!
PEACE CORPS, MOFOS.
Hopey is hitting his stride now. McCain’s on platitudes.
…George Bush got drunk!
McCain’s nervous shuffling makes it look like he really has to pea…or it already has and its doggon warm’n'wet down his leg.
mirrorball:
backed 100%
I’m getting drunk now! My friends!
What is Walnuts scribbling? Is he making doodles?
ok, this talk about a spending freeze .. i don’t understand why no one was laughing. it was funny! guys? guys?
Obama is waffling on the question of what sacrifices he would ask of Americans. He didn’t give a direct answer. Boo!
America got drunk…. and is getting drunk right now!!!
Hey, we are ALL JOE SIXPACKS today!
Brokaw: Everyone got drunk on debt, everyone.
We all got drunk. Time to head to AA America.
Who dressed Walnuts. It looks like his tie is caught in his zipper.
LIVEBLOGGIN part 3 is UP, ya’ll! Go there!
mccain’s writing on pad things to do.
buy another house.
slap that cunt trollop.
rape the land.
screw the poor.
Scalpels are sexy again.
Hatchets? Scalpels? THERE WILL BE HUMAN SACRIFICE IN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!
Old Man speaks of his fondness for jello. And nails. And Herbert fucking Hoover.
New liveblog, my friends! It is right here: Liveblog III
trader joe’s is made for wine shopping. three buck chuck.
(…this iz jess amazin, peeps… doan wadderbored me, ah confess, ah cooldn touch enny more o’these debaity thangs wit anyone’s pole, so th’only tunin in ahm doin is rat her wit th’wonketties, an it’s ten er more tams bedder’n than sufferin thru th’televized actuality in reel tam… gawd, ah luv this cuntry…)
As a doddering old coot, McCain should stay away from discussion of jello.
AngryBlakGuy: Got?
senator obama’s secret that you don’t know is to raise taxes on small business!
….and what about those of us without children??
Kill him on this tax question Barry!
I don’t HAVE a child so I am penalized. Fuck you McCain!
Walnuts if a mean old bastard and Hopey just smiles at him indulgently, the way you do the crazy homeless guy on the next park bench.
So far, the only gloves McCain has taken off are Isotoners.
obama: the straight talk express lost some wheels
Obama should ask for a show of hands - how many of you make more than $250,000 a year? Get the people involved!
Entitlements. NOT FAIR.
Oh, no. The CNN squiggly line sucked me in. Resist, resist, re. . . .
mccain: soc sec is not hard to fix.
then how come you did not fix it before???
I know why Mccain is so grumpy. He’s still pissed that he lost the lead roll in “Happy Feet”
mcsame: our best days are ahead of us!!
America’s future belongs to the mavericks!!!!
The squiggly lines plummet the second he began attacking Hopey. Win!
CNN scorecards so far:
O +47
O -6
M +26
M -21
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Senator McCain is going to respond to the question!
Maybe Senator Obama didn’t have to stand against his party because he was standing against yours! Somewhat.
In the interest of adhering to the agreed-upon rules, I will be limiting my contribution to the Wonkette hive-mind miracle this evening. Not that my input has ever been statistically significant. Kind of like my vote in the All-American state of Idaho.
That and the need to raise my blood alcohol level.
And, of course, I wouldn’t want the Wonkette supercomputer to warp into the 666th dimension again like last week.
I’m Ozone Tom and I approve of this message. Now returning to your regularly-scheduled programming.
Oh well, Snator McCain didn’t really respond to the question either, after all …
Thank you , uhh, Shaniqua, or whatever the fuck your name is
mcsame: joe lieberman and i. joe lieberman and i.
then why didn’t you select him as your running mate????
PEOPLE: GO TO LIVEBLOGGIN 3!!!
Every time Walnuts shuffles around the stage he reminds everyone that he’s a thousand years old. Meanwhile, Obama is moving around with the ease of Dean Martin circa 1960’s.
my husband wants to know if McCain is doing the crossword…kind of looks like it
Crankypants has mentioned Jew Lieberman at least twice tonight and hasn’t mentioned the Toddster
wife, is there an announcement coming soon?
THAT one. THAT one. Pronouns are in the tank for McCain.
McCain sounds like a dirty ole Times Square flasher
Hair transplants??? WTF is WALNUTZ talking about?
thank the lordette that barry is telling a few anecdotes…
what’s up walnuts ass?
we’re not peacemakers walnuts we’re warmongers–
…and as for health care and education, how ’bout EVERY child left behind??!
no wonder cindy is a drug addict…
NIVR AGIN!!!!!
last question: what don’t you know? and how will you learn it?
“The women are pushing the Obama Love Button! The men are positive, but still a little weird about loving a black man.”
I’d like for Obama to push my… damn you, Wonkette, you made it too easy.
Hee Hee, I keep a tube of Anal Lube handy if I get a chance the big man will enter McCains love tunnell.