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Is this really it? The end of the debates, for this presidential race? It seems like only two years ago that these awful debates began — because that’s how long they’ve been going on, for two years. And now, it comes down to Two Men. One is an increasingly terrifying old lunatic who is probably going to hit the moderator tonight, and blame it on Bill Ayers. Also: Orange Squirrel Furries. This is an official tactic of the RNC today, these Squirrel Furries! The other is … well, we don’t really know anything about him, if he is a “him.” We don’t even know his name, if he has a name. There is literally no way anyone could possibly know anything about this “That One” character, except he is leading by about 107 points tonight, so obviously no matter what he does, we will all nod our heads with dignity and say that he lost. Wait, what?
9:00 PM — Our pre-debate liveblog, otherwise known as “Part I of the Liveblogging,” is right here!
9:00 PM — Oh, hey, it’s that nice old Bob Schieffer fellow. What kind of incredibly awkward and unwarranted attack will McCain make on this kindly CBS anchorman?
9:00 PM — It was super nice of McCain to loan Chris Matthews one of his old gay sweaters.
9:00 PM — “Grumpy old man in slippers.” — Joe Biden, describing Walnuts today.
9:00 PM — Oh dear christ, Olbermann and Matthews were just cackling and listing all the comical mean old men McCain reminds them of: Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace, Grandpa Simpson, etc. And with that, the 49th and final presidential debate! Oh and here is our slapped-together drinking game!
9:01 PM — Hello Bob! What are the rules? “Simple.” How long are the dealies? “Nine-minute segments.” Then what? “Then we’ll have a discussion.” Let’s roll, biatches!
9:02 PM — A warm greeting between the candidates, if by “warm,” you mean McCain gritted his dentures and faked a smile while shaking Obama’s hand.
9:03 PM — The economies are bad, oh noes! What will you people do? McCain is already busily scribbling notes, and now does his usual mention of whatever old politician is in the hospital tonight.
9:04 PM — Ha ha, McCain “won’t repeat” the parts of his economic policy that Bob mentioned, although he didn’t really list McCain’s economic policies. Anyway, McCain doesn’t know “his” policies, but he can mention this dingbat “I will buy your home” plan.
9:05 PM — Obama: “Worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” Bailout plan that “Senator McCain and I both supported” is a first step, etc., but the MIDDLE CLASS needs a rescue plan.
9:06 PM — Jeez, how did Walnuts again miss the chance to get in a “middle class” reference? Obama will have a dozen “middle class” mentions before this answer is over!
9:07 PM — We’ve switched to CNN so we can watch the squiggly meter which shows what the undecided bitters think of this. Ladies Love Cool Barry, as usual, but the men are close, and they are super positive.
9:07 PM — “Would you like to ask Senator Obama a question?” McCAIN: “No.” And onto some story. The squiggly lines just go straight down. Oh lord.
9:08 PM — Flatlining.
9:08 PM — Oh lord. Gibberish already, stumbling, talking to the camera, “What you want to do?” Huh?
9:09 PM — “Heh heh.” DRINK!
9:10 PM — The squigglies stay low until Obama says “95% of you out there will get a tax cut.” Ding ding ding the nice man will give you moneys!
9:10 PM — Then Obama corrects the Joe the Plumber story, and the squigglies go up up up, even though it is confusing, to this editor, who is trying to type, after all.
9:11 PM — Yellow teeth, snarling, creepy chuckling, “class warfare.”
9:11 PM — Add “Joe the Plumber” to the drinking game! That’s what, 15 drinks? Be careful out there.
9:12 PM — “Ordinary families” and the squiggly rises!
9:13 PM — Ireland! Drink, just because. God, he loves saying Ireland. McCain, we mean.
9:13 PM — McCain doesn’t seem to realize that “spread the wealth around” doesn’t actually sound so bad to, you know, 95% of people. How would he know this?
9:14 PM — Bob the Builder: “Aren’t you both ignoring reality, won’t some of the programs you propose have to be trimmed or cut back?”
9:14 PM — Boring yet important Barry talk on health care, Medicare, health insurance, etc. He sounds serious and stable, the squigglies skyrocket, “We’re not going to be able to go back to our profligate ways.” Squggly goes down a bit, as nobody knows what that word means.
9:16 PM — McCain: “Let’s get back to me talking about this I’ll-buy-your-mortgage scheme.”
9:17 PM — “What will you cut?” Don’t make Bob Schieffer mad, Walnuts!
9:17 PM — He lists a bunch of types of energy sources, women are going down down, “I know how to …” Then, again, the TOTAL SPENDING FREEZE, squigglies go down down down. Sugar cane! Brazil! “I know how to save billions” … men squiggly rises, then goes down as … it turns to gibberish.
9:18 PM — OVERHEAD PROJECTOR.
9:19 PM — Sara, where is the overhead projector link please?
9:19 PM — Obama: “Earmarks are the centerpiece of Senator McCain’s campaign. Earmarks make up half of one percent of federal spending. Bush spent all our monies!”
9:20 PM — Here, here is the tale of the “overhead projector,” which first of all has yet to be replaced. And second, uh, hey, science museum, public planetarium, education, for kids?!
9:21 PM — God, this fucking jabbering over the energy bill and whatever. Cutting spending.
9:23 PM — McCain will not look at Obama when he speaks. He seethes!
9:24 PM — “I got the scars to prove it,” says McCain with a cackle, and the squigglies go down, down in the tank.
9:24 PM — “Senator Obama, your argument that you’ve stood up to your party is not very convincing.” Mincing smile. Down go the squigglies.
9:25 PM — Bob: “Are you willing to say the shit your campaign says, but to each other’s face?”
9:25 PM — McCain: “It’s Obama’s fault for not having 10 town hall meetings with me.”
9:25 PM — John Lewis! Segregation! George Wallace! “That to me was so hurtful.”
9:27 PM — So, will John McCain say anything to Obama’s face? No, but he will look in the other direction, say “You didn’t keep your word,” “You didn’t tell people the truth, because you didn’t.”
9:28 PM — Barry will not go for the kill, because he doesn’t have to. But, “100% of your ads, John, have been negative.”
9:29 PM — McCain, weird smile, “That’s not true.”
9:29 PM — And back to economic polices, the economic crisis, squigglies go up again!
9:30 PM — Time to turn this over to your own Sara K. Smith, with a new liveblog, a new Joe the Plumber segment, let’s go! Ugh.
9:31 PM — Oh, first, John Lewis: Obama says John Lewis was troubled because Palin’s supporters were yelling “terrorist” and “Kill Him!” at Obama’s name. “Congressman Lewis’ point was we have got to be careful with our supporters.”
9:32 PM — And the American people have become so cynical about our politics, blah blah &c.
9:33 PM — McCain is FUMING! The skeletor face.
9:33 PM — McCain: “I’m proud of the people who come to my rallies.”
9:33 PM — They are patriotic! When they say “Kill him!” And … stunned silence.sss
9:34 PM — Sara? Please?
9:35 PM — Yes, here is your new liveblogging, Part III.
9:36 PM — Oh shit, now it is all here, ACORN, “washed up terrorist,” “destroying the fabric of democracy,” “all of these things need to be examined.”
9:36 PM — Obama: “Mr. Ayers has become the centerpiece of McCain’s campaign these past three weeks. Forty years ago, when I was eight years old, yadda yadda, and 10 years ago, we served on a school board CREATED BY RONALD REAGAN, somehow, and the Republicans. All Republicans. Mr. Ayers is not involved in my campaign, hasn’t been involved in my campaign.”
9:37 PM — “ACORN … paying bums to register votes, people just filled in names to get paid. I represented them alongside the U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. The reason it’s important to get the facts out, I associate with Warren Buffet, and Paul Volcker, and Joe Biden, and Dick Lugar (GOP!), and NATO, the supreme commanders.
9:39 PM — And the squigglies tank. And finally, Obama laughs at McCain.
Close enough to reach out and slap the shit out of the other one!
…damn it, Scheiffer stop being a pussy and ask about Ayers!
Here’s the mention of Nancy! Drink!
why is he peekig into Hopey’s face??
NANCY NANCY NANCY CANDLES LOVE FEST MAGIC
McCain loves the shout outs. Nancy Reagan! Ted Kennedy! Get well soon. People I’ve known for seven decades.
McCain is like the old lady who you run into with news of every other sick old person.
Nancy Reagan fall down, go crack!
dammit have i lost my privilages ??????????????????????
we’re all hurting, angry, hurt-mongering angsties
stop anthropomorphizing fannie and freddie fuck
Lol I love how McCain really lives up to the Old Man caricature by, for the SECOND time (first being Teddy), starting things off with an update about an old friend who’s in the hospital. Alright I’m out
McCain’s blinking at a furious rate. Like more than Pelosi does.
John McCain will update you on the hospital conditions of everyone. At the beginning of every debate. Ever.
“Our beloved Nancy Regan” hates you, Mr. McCain
…I wonder if he starts losing, if one of his hacks are going to pull a fire alarm or something?
Pleeeease, no bailout program for Nancy Reagan.
nervous pussy lol
no one wants mccain to own their house. you have enough of your own!
Is McCain wearing a wig? Guess Sarah is influencing him more than we previously thought!
Damn that’s a big cheek! This really isn’t his good side.
Isn’t Freddie Mae the airplane that dropped the Atom Bomb on Tehran???
Obama gets good coaching to look directly into the camera and not at the moderator.
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i’m not voting for either of these assholes because they’re making me miss baseball.
Hey, didn’t Walnuts! promise his base he’d kick Obama’s ass? They are gonna be pissed he didn’t take him down before the handshake.
OK, two things: 1. McCain LOVES to open with a mention of infirmity.
2. Who’s in charge of coordinating candidate ties? Oh, #3 McCain’s tie is awful.
woo just got off work and now its time to get unconscious. My friends, the fundamentals of our livers are strong, lets drink!
I’d watch, but Boston Legal is on. Wonkette is all I’ve got!
whooo whooooo Hopey 4 points vs Amerikans are ehngri
My gawd, John McCain is depressing. Here’s Hopey and he’s a tad more upbeat.
Ok I’m calling it now after 3 minutes: Obama wins the debate.
So what’s everyone else drinking? I went properly elitist and broke out the nice chateauneuf du pape and the big wine glasses. Might as well enjoy it now before the hobos take over.
every time BO says, “aaaaaand”, belt one back.
McCain has lovely posture.
…I really, really, really hope Barry picks at WALNUTS!, we deserve to see a complete exorcist style break down!
McNuts looks like he’s playing the Church Lady on SNL.
Where’s the wiseacre chat room??
Is Hopey going gray before our very eyes??
Loved the little fuck you ‘The fundamental’s were weak’ back there.
BO said “package”!
“Middle Class” is the new black. Or something.
WTF are they going to do to help the hobo class?
justshocking: Obama’s tie matches the stars on the set…
No I don’t want to ask him a @#$#ing question.. Lets talk about Joe Whatzaburger
Today we’re ALL Joe Wertsleburgers!!!!
Ah no, I don’t want to ask him a question. I want to talk about a Czechoslovakian plumber.
Holy shit? Something happened to the Republican Party’s Patron Saint Mother Nancy “just say no bitches” Reagan was injured? WTF didn’t Mccain talk about Ted Kennedy in the first debate? why does John Mccain hate people that are nearly as old as he? Whose next? is McCain going to suffocate Bob Schieffer if he asks another question about why McCain is playing dirty?
Did Obama not say his condolences to Nancy Reagan? What does Obambi have against old white former First Ladies? Was he the one who killed Lady Bird Johnson too?
cool story, horrible old man!
obama looks a lot older/grayer tonight.
Barack is actually answering the question - citing differences between the two plans.
Is Walnuts activating the Manchurian Candidate through his rapid blinking?
Haha, answer one to Hopey. Please don’t give the Black power salute and you own this bee-yotch.
oh McCain…lol ok I am already high from this fuck
Um, Jim, I think we ARE there. I hope?
Raising the scary demon of TAXES!
…is WALNUTS! now stalking Barry?!
What’s with Mac’s crazy eyes tonight? Have I just not noticed this before?
the focus group in ohio knows joe and hates him. they don’t want mccain giving him any more attention.
McC willl help Joe clean out your sump pit, Joe the plumber.
Joe the plumber? Who ‘dat? Joe Biden? Teh plumbers who worked for Nixon? This Joe…more about him please. If it’s McCain’s plumber, then it’s Jose.
oh lord. it’s the joe whatsaburger story again. well at least it’s not joe sixpack.
WTF is McCain rambling about?! Hopey looks amused.
McCain TOTALLY dyed his eyebrows, and badly. Looks like someone colored half of them in with a grey sharpie.
Joe the Plumber….does he really exist?
Is Walnuts wearing frosty pink lipgloss?
Jim Newell: YOU ARE CONFUSING ME JIM
Joseph Sixpack Plumber, The Third
Jim Newell: I’m stuck in a terrifying loop! Help!
Jim Newell: OH RIGHT ha. WRONG THREAD. Thank you for being here.
McCain, you’re not at a town hall. Joe is not there.
(Blink-blink-blink-blink. Blink.)
Cookie Guggelman: blinking=nerves=about to tell a big ass lie.
Johnny-Mac loves Plumbers…. and so did Nixon!
Don’t people who blink a lot, lie a lot.
Joe the Plumber!
McCain is just rambling and repeating his words tonite. Is the ritalin wearing off?
The Joker called. He wants McCain’s jacket back.
noidiotsplease: On HiDef tv, you can really see the bags under Obama’s eyes. Poor guy– I hope he gets at least a vacation or two before he (hopefully) moves into that big white house
joe sixpack, the plummer
OK, I have to be honest.
I hate that smug look on McCain’s face.
…douchebag…
noidiotsplease: You’re right, he’s a little grayer in the temples. BTW, fuck Joe the plumber.
shut up about joe f-in wartsandburgers … the man’s an imbecile
…I wonder if WALNUTS! is going to tell one his HILARIOUS jokes?!
Is everyone enjoying the heartwarming device of Joe the Plumber?
McCain’s head is about to explode.
i think Joe the Plumber is the only McCain is going to get to vote for him
OH FUCK JOE THE PLUMBER!
New drinking game…plumber=drink.
Seriously - all this about Joe the Plumber?
ok the grave has been dug…just fall into it Joe FAIL
the plumber, the nurse…what about the candlestick maker????
noidiotsplease: I think Walnuts! is sucking at Hopey’s life force…and storing in his cheeks.
CLASS WARFARE!!
McCain’s tanking. BAD.
JOE THE PLUMBER!!
oh dear god thank god joe the plumber wasn’t a drinking cue. i would be dead.
does he not know anyone not named JOE?
buddha_barbie: No, he had a big strawberry cupcake before coming out tonight.
Great. The entire debate is going to be about this one plumber named Joe. Joe Plumber should just walk in and pick his president and then we can all go to bed.
jagorev: Baileys here.
…uh-oh, is McCain starting to crack under pressure?!
On CNN, Martin has already granted five points McWalnuts and nine for ObHopey…and its only 10 minutes in!
I’ve had it with Joe the plumber. liked him more as joe 6 pack.
Joe the Plumber is wasted by now.
JoetheplumberJoetheplumberJoetheplumberJoethepluber.
Joetheplumber. Heh-heh.
We’re talking about Joe the plumber!!!! Go Joe, you can be the savior of the McCain campaign
This is now officially the “Joe the Plumber Debate.”
Screw Joe The Plumber. Give me a tax cut.
Sue the Stripper should spread her wealth around.
God forbid that anyone should increase taxes on golden parachutes, Senator McCain.
JohnnyMac Hearts Plumbers, JUST LIKE NIXON
McCain looks like Nixon did during the Kennedy/Nixon debate.
As IF a plumber’s kid will be going to college.
Is Joe the Plumber a metaphor for ‘economy in toilet’?
They oughta cut to Schieffer who’s outside smoking a cig.
McCain is spreading the bullshit around.
Angry Squirrel
Why does McCain want to start a class-warfare plumbing business? Can’t he already afford a plumber besides Joe?
The supercilious smirk ain’t workin’, John.
So it was Joe the Plumber who really knocked up Bristol?
Ireland also has better beer!
Has anyone mentioned “Joe the Plumber”? I think he deserves some discussion tonight.
New drinking game rule: One beer for each hypothetical voter.
halliburton knows where to go to create jobs…iraq!
not ireland again. is this record broken?
Joe the Plumber is probably finding this exchange surprising, assuming he’s watching.
Hey Johnny! Ireland has low corp taxes, but something lik 50% INCOME TAX!
Joe the Plumber will be tomorrow’s internet meme.
http://www.joetheplumber.com is available?
G-d he won’t SHUT UP about the Joe story………..and yes he is very creepy with the blinking. Also the whites of his eyes are practically non-existent. Like two black coals in a snow bank.
Shit my toilet is leaking - what’s Joe’s number?
12 minutes in and I’m already fuckin’ sick of hearing about Joe The Plumber.
McCain’s blinking means: H-E-L-P-M-E-I-H-A-V-E-B-E-E-N-K-I-D-N-A-P-P-E -D-B-Y-T-H-E-F-U-N-D-I-E-S
mmnothanks: hahahahahahahaha
fuck the wealth! just spread joe the plumber around.
Oh God, The New McCain™ brought up Ireland again. Because that is where all of our businesses are rushing off to, Ireland.
he’s gonna crack. plumber’s crack?
c-freak: Actually, “the plumber” is just his nickname. his family name is “Sechspach.”
Class Warfare… Honestly? Old Man you don’t need to be scaring the racist old pigs in Ohio with thoughts of a violent proletariat revolution.
Ireland! Ireland!
And it’s not 11% Johnny, it’s 12.5%, ya big eejit. Also, our economy is in recession and taxes were raised for everyone in the country yesterday. So don’t look at us, please.
choinski: Yeah, he’s just pressing random buttons because he’s playing along with our drinking game. Apparently he forgot that he’s not supposed to count when you’re drinking on the CNN “scorecard”.
Does WALNUTS really believe that business actually pay that 35%? Pretty sure they get all kinds of loopholes, etc. and pay way less than Europeans. STFU already about taxes.
Mac-Daddy is getting cranky!! MORE METAMUCIL! MORE METAMUCIL!
And what’s up with McCain’s Al Capone jacket?
Why are all these moderator douchebags trying to back HERBERT HOOVER FISCAL DISCIPLINE in the middle of a fucking recession?
WHO THE FUCK TOLD THESE MODERATOR FAKE JOURNALIST DOUCHEBAGS THAT THEY ARE ECONOMIC EXPERTS IN HOW TO BE HERBERT HOOVER?
Joe the Plumber? is he related to Jake “the Snake” Plummer? T
Obama is like, the sugar that makes the truth medicine go down.
Castellanos on CNN is also crazy. 8 for McCain and 6 for Obama. And Martin told me I need to drink again.
is the plumber hot?
Here comes PORKBARREL from JohnnyMac… get your glasses ready!!!
mccain is so osteoporotic that he has no visible neck
tunamelt: love it!
McCain looks like he’s about to spontaneously COMBUST.
OMG, did McCain have a stroke back there with the “spread the wealth around” stuff? Sorry to be late to the party. Network was down.
Obama is stalling on what programs he is going to cut.
Barry will go line by line for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN!
McCain is totally playing hangman while Obama’s blah blah blahing about helping the country
furious scribbling - what i would give to see mccain’s pad
-shit
-uhoh
-goddamn negro
-tube socks
“screw Joe the Plumber” — I think that is what Palin does when Todd is out on his snowmobile.
Based solely on flag lapel pins, we’re talking 400+ EVs for Hopey.
Just ask each one to raise his hand if he want to be President. Show of hands, raise ‘em high. That would settle everything.
getting sober..he hasn’t said my friends yet
Ooops…. Johnny goes off-question….
Ha Ha, Homo Noership
McCain knows what he’s talking about in the Great Depression. He was there. Brother can you spare a bottom five ranking at teh Naval Academy?
…WALNUTS! just pulled a Palin! Completely dodging the question!
Next topic: Plumber’s Crack!
McCain is reviving some ideas he offered during the Civil War…
Back to these mortgages??? Who the @#$@ was talking about mortgages? The question!!
So THAT’S why McCain consulted Hillzbot on economic policy….
All countries don’t like us very much.
…McCainey scribbling with his old pen…
wallythepug: Talking about the Irish makes me drink.
McCain <3’s Hillary
may we please have a leader that speaks english with eloquence this time?
he loves talking about countries that don’t like us very much….wouldn’t that be everyone?
Canada gives us a lot of oil… they hate us?? FUCKEN Canadians!
McCain remembers the Depression, HA HA… God he is old.
McCain is wired up.
Advantage to McCain: He LIVED through the Great Depression. That’s not fair. He remembers when they were rebuilding after the Civil War for god’s sake!
hatchet then scalpel, that’s how the best surgeons operate
bob’s going chola on mccain.
oh no! now walnuts! is a surgeon. we’re fucked.
McCain is way out of his league tonight. It’s like he’s answering questions with the brain of Palin.
Use a hatchet to hack off the limbs then use a scalpel to clean up the dangling bits. Maverick!
…no subsidies for ethanol?! There goes Iowa!!!
Schiffer just asked if they’ve ever considered “trimming their program”. I tried that once and it just made me appear freakishly huge.
EARMARK… DRINK UP
OMG, is he going to say “you will know their names” again?
Oh, McC knows sweetheart deals alrighty!
McCain will cut taxes and send the entire AIR FORCE TO JAIL????
Walnuts just looks scary. And then there’s the shit he’s saying…
Joe the Plumber effed up my water heater. Eff Joe the Plumber.
Oh not the damn overhead projector again.
Hahahaha McCain is using his planetarium line again. That is the best he’s got.
“I know how to save billions.”
Drink!
Planetarium projector!!!
Oh baby, McCain wants to use a hatchet and a scaple. Scary.
SystemError: taken, dammit!
the projector again obama say something about the goddamn projector
Walnuts remembers when “money” was a pile of dried buffalo chips.
Overhead projector 2.0 = five shots. Get to it.
Nothing stinks like desperation, John. I’m surprised you haven’t dropped from your own stench.
You hear that, heartland; no more ethanol subsidy.
(Riiiiiiiiight.)
Sorry John, You are too old for Grey’s anatomy. This is ER’s Final Season. There will be no old school hatchet and scalpel for you old man.
I don’t know how much longer I can shtand Walnutsh’sh “S”–one million dollarsh…Shenator Obama, shpending freeshe…
There goes the Zeiss vote Grampy.
Joe the Surgeon wants to spread the hatchet.
el smrtmnky: Ask Cindy. She’s the one who “pays” Joe the Plumber.
McCain went negative and his lifelines on CNN went INTO THE TANK
Obama said “screwy”. That’s a cuss.
McCain: “I know how to fix the budget” just like “I know how to win the war.” Just not tellin’ us unless he gets elected.
McCain just sat up a little taller in his back brace on the mention of earmarks….
EVERYONE! I introduce to you: JOE THE PLUMBER (really).
oh no he didnt!!!!!!!!!!!
oh gaaahhh the squigglies - nice work cnn - you packed the tank with drunky white dudes
I would not give Senator John McCain a hatchet or a scalpel. He is frightening me. I think he wants to cut off my earmarks.
…the way WALNUTS! sits while Barry is talking is reminiscent of a corpse in rigor mortis.
OH MY WORD.
I am not President Bush….. No, but you SMELL LIKE HIM
Hopey can’t do math.
oh snap! gramps ain’t bush!
“Hatchet and a scalpel…….two bits!”
…hehehehe, call him Bush again Barry!
McCain’s getting mad! I’m not Bush!
Bite me.
More violent metaphors!!
Man, them pink lips on Jamakane sure do reflect the lights, don’t they. Is it some kind of bubblegum sparkly that he found in Bristol Palin’s purse?
WTF?! He’s not President Bush!?
OH SNAP- I AIN’T PREZ BUSH - you shoulda run against him. oh mah gaah
That damn observatory again. Doesn’t Walnuts realize that nobody gives a fuck.
Ooh, Walnuts going all offensive now on Hopey’s ass. Because America loves mean old bastards.
I’m NOT President Bush… I’m… I’m… damn it, give me the damn scalpel.
himalayancorpseeater: Phillies score twice with two out in the top of the third; now up 3-0.
McCain hearts Bloomberg… he wants to be a dictator for life too
WALNUTS is a prick if he thinks he can balance the budget in 4 years. What, no more social security? Oh, we all have to go out and find a trophy spouse to support us in our old age.
Jesus, my wife just fell asleep at the table.
Do I have to nod my head with dignity when the pundits announce that Hopey, having swayed everybody up to and including Limbaugh, still lost the debate? Can I bob back and forth, or do the Running Man?
McCain: “yeah, shut the fuck up Bob”.
Count the number of times he says, “I’m not Bush. You want to run against Bush? Turn the clock back to 2004…or 1988….er….wtf….mumble….bleeble….”
echoroc: Well played, sir. (on the pad also, of course: endless tiny cock and balls drawings being attacked by hatchets and scalpels)
McCain looks embalmed
Superman couldn’t balance the federal budget in this economy.
I smell a new thread comingggggggg
walnuts has fought the whole world.
Martin’s giving points out like a fuckin’ whore on CNN! Gerger and King are keeping it conservative and neutral with a few delicate, well-placed points here and there, Martin’s just haphazardly jamming fingers on the plus and minus buttons, drunk with power. His final score’s gonna be like, 549 to 394 Obama.
azw88: Not true, we have the lowest income taxes in Europe - until yesterday, when we realized that really low taxes = no money for Govt spending.
I miss Joe the Plumber. They haven’t mentioned him in 5 minutes. Why don’t they mention him some more? That guy was so great, and now he’s just a statistic. Typical.
McCain’s ready to take notes…got his pad out. “I’m writing this down Smartypants and I’m going to hold you to it.”
I’m so sick of this discussion of the Boeing-EADS tanker competition. This is just another example of “I was for it before I was against it Bridge to Nowhere” lie! WALNUTS! trashes the bullshit sweetheart tanker deal and wants to get props for this “REFORM” but at the same time he and his cronies are raking in the big $ lobbying for EADS/Northrup - - bullhonkey Monsieur!
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN OBAMA! John Mccain isn’t GW! No he’s actually Mr. Wilson and your ass is Dennis the Menace….
Wow, even when McCain gets some good hits on Obama, the female bar tanks. The Ohio bitter women don’t like him attacking their pretend boyfriend Barry at all
Oh no, Obama just alienated all his supporters who watch Fox.
Excellent Fox News double-jab!
Even Fox News dispiutes it…. Oh Man, hit McCain upside the head with his own PIMP!
“I know President Bush….President Bush is a friend of mine…..and *I*, sir, am no President Bush.”
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“No, really.”
McCain hates planetariums because he didn’t get to see any stars for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.
Barry got in a good “fuck Fox”.
I support dirrrrty coal.
Man, *I’d* let Barry reach around the aisle…
Rrrr….
I think I’m going to be an Undecided Voter…. I’m a Maverick…can’t help it!
i’ve got scars, too.
Angry angry squirrel.. I’m worried for his health
Oh, McCain liked that Fox News joke from Obama. He perked up like a little girl overhearing her crush mentioning her name.
even fox news agrees!!!!!
I got the scars to prove it….hahahaha!
Scars! Yes, he said “SCARS”!
the fucking scars to prove it
Get ready for another “I’m not Bush” blast….in 4..3..2..1…
Fuck you Walnuts.
oooh. scars? wtf!
…I think WALNUTS! is concealing a transmitter in his cheek pouch.
“I got the scars to prove it.”
McCain is all catch-phrases tonight.
CNN HD: Scoring war between Martin and Castellanos, like 4 times more than any other panelist. Gergen scored 2 ponts. I think he’s been locked in the men’s room for the past twenty minutes.
Scars from fighting the GOP? Where did they fit with all the POW scars?
Cut his mike.
Feingold gave him scares?!!? Are they bite marks on his back???
ronaldpagan: All three of them.
McCain reminds me of the preacher from Inherit the Wind….
the good stuff!! Go Bob
SAY IT TO MY FACE TIME!
mattbolt: 25 points. MUST MASH BUTTONS!
Here it comes!
Oh Man!! HERE COME AYERS!!
Did obama just admit that he’s in fact a secret “Republican”? He supports Chartered schools? Coal? merit pay? Tort reform? holy fuck…..why didn’t the clintons jump on this fucking DINO back in the day?
Town Hall Meetings = 5 shots.
Great question. Do you believe what your campaign is saying about the other guy?
HELL WE COULD AHVE DONE A HUNDRED TOWN HALLS
seriously? fucking town hall meetings? mccain—you lose
…lol, WALNUTS! is such a shit bag! “Its been a tough campaign”
“It’s been a tough campaign…..FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS, BOB! Oh, and I have the scars.”
effing town hall meetings, pout, pout :’(
Walnuts has his notes at a debate, I have a text phone at parties where I know no one.
OMFG, yeah, the problem with the tone had to do with town hall meetings. God, Grandpa, you’re so fucking stupid.
If only Barry had done town halls there would never have been all this nastiness.
oh i see, so it is okay to call barry a terrorist because he didn’t want to do town hall meetings? i see.
John Lewis!
Methuselah misses the boat AGAIN!!
I may put my foot through teh teevee now.
there you have it folks. townhall meetings solve everything.
Yeah, town halls would have kept Palin from dropping the “terrorist” blasts.
Wait. Oswald intervined in Dallas in ‘63?
GideonGlib: It means that if he’s elected he can’t work with the Republicans who will be in the Senate cause they all hate him.
he wants to cry it was so hurtful
Oh good fun sh*t-stirring question, Bob. Let’s stick to the personalities and not this tedious “policies” angle that ruins so many electoral campaigns the world over.
Segregation was the worst chapter? Kinda puts that whole slavery thing into perspective, no?
how about the fucking nut mobs that cry “kill him” ….didn’t repudiate that
FreshCliches: No shit. Does McGrumpy hate America?
Jesus Fucking Christ. YOUR OWN CAMPAIGN, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE. YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT OLD MOTHERFUCKER. YOU DIDN’T TELL PEOPLE TO STOP SHOUTING ‘KILL HIM’, SO GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Wait, how did I start watching this without a drink in my hand?
We had one town-hall meeting, and you didn’t do a lot of sitting-down Senator McCain.
Seriously, if Senator Obama charges Senator McCain to his face, this may be the blow-up we’ve all been waiting for.
Obama, I’m mean to you because you won’t do town hall meetings. Boo Freaking Hoo!!!
MO’ MONEY, MO’ ADS!
Oh, blame Obama for YOUR FUCKING BULLSHIT! Blaming Obama for Cong Lewis’s remarks…
McCain will run a truthful campaign???
J Lewis did *not* say that. You asshat. I really wonder if JM has actually *read* what J. Lewis wrote…
THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER
I repudiate this remark.
Somebody give McCain a couple of steel balls to roll in his hands.
When is Palin doing a press conference, McStrain?
Repudiate your OWN FUCKING VEEP YOU OLD FUCKER
Walnuts is bitterz about that financing.
I love how Barry goes to his happy place when McCain talks trash.
Enough with the pouting over the freaking town hall meetings!
I’m sad because that black guy has more money than me! BooHoo!
HOLY SHIT HE THREW THE SMACK DOWN WITH THAT QUESTION. SAY IT TO EACH OTHERS’ FACES, BITCHES!!
A piece of paperhaha
Sen. Van Winkle, please remove your mask. Allah u akbar.
Castellanos is also drunk. 16-11 McCain.
Dramatic McCain has smirk, so he’s lying. It’s time for Martin to PUSH MOAR BUTTONS!
GO HOPEY!!!! The hurt feelings line! IN YOUR FACE, MC NUTS!!!!!
a hundred percent, John. a hundred percent.
that’s your only hundred, buckaroo.
i miss joe the plumber.
There you go. Hurt feelings, waaaah. Preach is, brother.
Oh oh. Mommy and daddy are fighting. Bob Schaeffer, marraige counselor.
Wah!!!! He got money from regular people instead of corrupt lobbyists!! Wah!!!
Kudos to Hopey for keeping his cool. Walnuts is going to ’splode, though.
Hey!
McCain chickened out on bringing up Ayers!
Bwok bok bok bok!!
Wallace Wallace Wallace! you made me say it! Town hall! Your fellow black senator called me a racist! I just called you a terrorist! apologize or I’ll hold my breath!
I want to see what McCain’s Proof is that Obama has sepnt more on Negative ads???
And Obama’s statement about McNutz 100% Negative came frm an indepentent group
Awww….poor John…John Lewis hurt his feelings….
Let them shoot hoops…13 free throws, loser has to perform oral heart surgery on Darth Cheney.
bama’s lips look less purple tonight.
ha ha no one cares about your hurt feelings John - go cry in your Metamucil
Barry is made of something stronger than diamonds, less sticky than Teflon….it’s ….it’s…. Cool.
I’d like to shove that Sharpie up Walnuts’ swollen sphincter if I could be assured I could get past the pollips.
Ewwww.
but really, Barry WAS/IS THE Child King of the terrorists and did order what-is-name to blow up shit - therefore mclame isn’t negative - he’s truthy
mccain stayed awake during a WHOLE FOOTBALL GAME?!?!?!?! i was wrong, he is the man for me!!!!
They are starting to sound like whining children.
Haha, congrats, Johnny. **big smile**
Do you think McCain is grinning in that ridiculous way to stop from losing his temper?
McCain smirk = Gore sighs
it should have been an attack ad on HIS HEALTH!
Senator McCain is a Pro Football Dad.
…there is a difference between attack ads on POLICY and personal attack ads!!!
Joe again
His money you old bastard, he can do what he wants with it.
Why should Obama go against his party? They aren’t the douchebags. Prick.
Joe the Plumber AGAIN. Leave the poor guy alone McSame…
Holy shit I bet that squirrel had a boner that cracked through his skin when this picture was taken.
oh no Joe the Plumber. DRINK!
How dare Hopey run ads that criticize Walnuts. On the Teeevee and everything.
SWEET JEEBUS, McCain is now in the PeeWee Herman “I know you are but what am I?” Debate Zone
I really hope Joe the Plumber runs in 2012.
Attack ads aren’t ones that attack issues, McStain.
/s/ Joe the Effbag
WTF Cares About Joe The Plumber?!?!
how the hell did we just navigate from the arizona cardinals to joe the plumber again?
Oh, man, I just heard my 81-year-old mother yell “bullshit” at McLame. She doesn’t like that HE’s the one whining about negative campaigning. She loves her Hopey even though she’s almost as old as Nancy Reagan.
McCain’s not gonna says Ayers….he’s weasled out!!
Just in! Walnuts to announce NEW VP pick after the debate: “Joe the Plumber”
c-freak: WORD.
Thank you. Obama. Say it. Say it.
He said Joe the Plumber. I’m going to just shoot alcohol into my eyeball now.
I though that Congressman Lewis’ opinion was one that you respected, Senator McCain.
SMACK DAT GILF, HOPEY!
And somehow America’s most senile candidate manages to bring up the Cardinals/Cowboys game-which is of the utmost importance in the context of this debate…
Yay!!! Oh, I’m so glad he went there with the kill him part
oh no he de-ent
McCain looks like an asshole. Tight fake smile. Barely controlled anger. It just comes right through the screen.
I can’t wait until WaPo hunts down Joe the Plumber and gets him on the record endorsing Obama
WHY would he repudiate the truth? Sorry?
I’m gonna kill this Joe the Plumber guy. Is he a porn star?
I want to find this Joe Plumber and fuck him up so bad he won’t be able to whine to anymore politicians ever again.
ego not massaged ….methuselah has a sad
McCain thought it was something that happened during the “Civil War Movement”
im new to this. how does it work, do i just refresh?
“Terrorist” and “Kill him”. Good for you, Senator Obama. You did right to name that out loud. This shit is serious.
Oh god, not the cynics.
Cynical — and BITTER!
TIT!!!!
Joe The Plumber will pay many Tats to see Sarah Palin’s Tits.
tit…yes..stripper boots..yes…but tat?
An ad attacking his plans, that is just so mean.. boohoo.. boohoo
Nice comeback on the Lewis bit…
John Lewis is gettin’ LAID 2nite!
Wow, McAngry is fuming!
McCain is thisclose to losing it
That’s the same smirk he used on his North Vietnamese interrogators for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, jim!
Liquid: That’s what my 75 yo dad looks like when he’s trying not to reach across the table and hit me “upside the haid”
McCain is PROUD of the racists FUCKS!!
Yep…I’m proud of my racists
boobaloob: Thank you, I couldn’t type fast enough to say that.
I haz a sad because that mean negr… I mean, Black man has used attack ads aginst my health plan.
Whenever you have a crowd of 10000 people you’re going to have a few neo-nazis!
fringe people, oh, ok
walnuts! I’m proud of the people that come to our rallies. Why, because
they leave their klan robes at home?
Walnuts…OMG…just die now. My brain is trying to escape from my head, it hurts so.
grampy’s proud of hillbillys!
McCain is cranky - “fiesty” at 72 comes across as “cranky”
Barry smacked that ball out of the park. McCain is back on his heels.
he’s proud of the fuckwits what come to his rallies
Let me just say that I am proud of our wingnuts who threaten your life and hold up monkey dolls these are dedicated patriotic racists
It is PATRIOTIC TO HATE!!!!
On the same note, I’m proud of Metallica fans.
Hey Joe the Plumber, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
I’m going down to shoot old Walnuts, caught him messin’ round with the facts again…
“Fringe peoples”?
liar liar liar
Where can I get one of these t-shirts McCain just referenced.
OhYeahAlright: I want to see his plumber’s butt
For example, barack, your supporters have t-shirts with cotton not picked by slaves…wtf is up with that? -Johnny mac
McCain’s PROUD of the racists that come to his rallies. Yep. He said it.
And, McCain just doesn’t get that Sarah Palin said “pal around with terrorists,” not just some random NRA-member yahoo at one of his rallies.
Walnuts is less than happy about the youngsters with their “tee-shirts.”
McCain is totally losing it.
Christibyte: he is in his happy place right now. McCain is rambling on about military wives and veterans coming to his rallies.
LuckyJim: Ten Whore Diamonds if you bring in a “Manic Depression” reference.
Who has the T-shirt! I want one!
nonstory: I thought he said “French peoples”. “I was there when the French and Napeleon were strong.”
ACORN, drink!
Watch it !! Watch it!!! McCain’s HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE!!!
And HERE’S the Ayers reference!
I can say from personal experience that ACORN is way too disorganized to be responsible for the downfall of our democracy.
Ayers is a “washed up old terrorist”. Funny line. “ACORN”. Christ. McCain needs to read yesterday’s Wonkette to understand how “voter registration” vs. “voting” works.
ACORN -Drink!
wait, do we drink when barry talks about ronald reagan?
Apparently Walter Annenberg was some sort of terrorist mole. Very interesting.
Don’t forget to mention that McGramps did a keynote address for ACORN.
This could be it. McCain is looking dyspeptic and he can’t control his facial muscles. This could be a historic night. Candidate dead on the chair.
Yeah it’s important to get these questions out of the way do we can have a discourse on things that actually matter. Oh, sorry Senator McCain, you don’t actally have anything else do you?
YES!!! “It says more about your campaign then it does about me” OOOOOH SNAP!!!
McCain is goooooone!
fuck it… going out to look for acorns
Call him a liar HOPEY.. doit doit now, now now!!!
ACORN!!!!! Obama, do not let this get under your skin!!!!
So, McCain is lying his ass off! Lying! CNN ain’t liking his bullshit.
Obama hooted at the economy line to follow up all that Ayers crap. I laughed too. I’m like Barry.
mccain madlibs
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ acorn _ _ _ _ and I was a POW _ _ _ _ Ayers_ _ _ _ trickle down.
You know, McCain might be exhibiting early/moderate symptoms of dementia; inappropriate anger; rambling; confusion……….short term memory loss
McCain really IS the preacher from Inherit the Wind. This is the final courtroom scene all over.
Hahaha, McCain’s screwed on this segment. It’s about what happened if your RUNNING MATE became president.
knock it out of the park, barry! biden v. palin is a no-brainer!
lmao Scranton is a shithole
My head his spinning, How did McCain spin that back around to the economy? Is Bill Ayres working on the economy?
BWAHAHAHA role model for women BWAHAHAHAHA
Sarah Palin is a role model???? I see her as a playboy model.
haha Sarah Palin is a reformer to Flutist who at one time at band camp shoved a flute up her …. and then alaska voted her governor for it.
she’s a ROLE MODEL to WOMEN!?!?!??!? as a woman, i want to cockpunch mccain for that one.
money back to taxpayers = steal from us give to alaskans
Hey dudes, new liveblogging thread right here!!!
Obama is showing super-human restraint in not laughing about the comments about Palin
All that you need to do here is point out that McCain’s pick was a cheap political stunt that endangers America, the world, and our children’s future.
Not that I have any children.
Fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be.
Lewis=Black
Ayers=Terrorist
A mention of a Muslim makes this equation complete.
Godzilla: Roland has button turrets
Okay so McCain’s issues are autism, a projector, a washed up old terrorist, and Joe the Plumber. He is really gonna win this thing you guys!
This is a farce!!!! Sarah Palin???????
wow…wow…he brought up the downs syndrome crap again.
Oh, yeah, special needs children, that’s an important issue!!!
This whole Bill Ayers thing is just promotion for the Weather Underground Documentary lol McCain is on the payroll. Cool political short film…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KzbJtG9V2E
Man-Squiggle: clearly in the tank for WALNUTS!
I want to tax your healthcare!!! O
AAARRRGGGHHH! Obama! Hit it! Palin! Qualified? Up to the people? The people are f’in idiots! they like their idiots!
Why does McCain interrupt every time Obama speaks? Why does he get away with that shit!
I love me some tasty Venezuelan oil, i pour it on pancakes and use it as a sexual lubricant. its like KY but more passionate
did mccain just say “nuclear power PANTS?”
“We’ll sell our shit to china”…. great username…
Community colleges? Like the one you couldn’t get into?
McCain uses entirely too many Herbert Hoover references.
I thought he’d forgotten all about JTP!
Can we just have Joe come in and pick the president for us?
McCain’s $5000 will do NOTHING! I’ve bought my own insurance before…it’s way more than that and it was for me and my teen son!
$5000??? that will do nada!
joe the plumber should structure the business as a one man partnership, forming an LLC as 1% general partner, with joe the individual being the 99% limited partner, the LLC would be make an entity election to be taxed as a corporation, allowing joe the plumber to be treated by default as a limited partnership, thus paying NO taxes at the entity level, and perhaps avoiding certain state business taxes! tax problem solved.
McCain made “air quotes” look like a creepy vulture digging into fresh road kill. For sure, a gesture I will never use again.
This just in..Joe the PLumber has rec’d an equity stake by the United Socialists of Amareicka Treasury. He’ll be getting his mortgage taken over, as well as regular cash injections for his wife in the usual areas that get plumbed. Go Joe GO