Boring Debate Considered Inconsequential By Many!
That debate was more boring than, uh... more boring than a Nordic opera singer being interviewed on Charlie Rose ! More boring than the short-lived Pat Sajak Sunday night talk show on Fox News! MORE BORING THAN DAVID BROOKS SPARRING WITH ELEANOR CLIFT ON PUBLIC TELEVISION. Meaning, Obama didn't say anything nutty, and Walnuts just made a bunch of jokes about Jell-O and green ears and colored people. Let's see how other "people on the Internet" are reacting. Hint: Sullivan has a strong opinion!
First, the CNN instant poll had Obama winning the debate 54-30%, with 59-37% saying they trust Barack Obama more to handle the economy. Game over. Unless Barry rapes someone!!
Ya see:
Kathryn Jean Lopez of The Corner has a sharp reaction, which is that it probably wasn't a good idea to open a third bottle of blush: "You Have Got to Be Kidding Me: John McCain just manically pointed out that McCain incorrectly said Petraeus is chairman of the joint chiefs. No one in his right mind thinks McCain doesn't know who Petraeus is. Which is why Olbermann pointed it out." WTF?
TPMgives us what we always want from TPM -- a funny clip of Walnuts. Here he is not shaking Obama's hand; he just points Obama to Cindy. "Here, you want a hand to shake? Shake the cunt's."
UPDATE: Andrew Sullivanchecked his DVR of the debate (to be used for his masturbatory purposes later) and finds that there was, in fact, a handshake somewhere. Typical case of the "gotcha media journalists." We'll keep this clip up though because why the hell not.
Andrew Sullivan, who debated in college, says this was a DEVASTATING MONSTER NUKE in favor of Obama: "This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it. I've watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxofrd. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out.It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don't really see how the McCain campaign survives this."
Oh screw it, that's enough. Most other people are just quoting the same two people too.