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Commence The 2012 Debate Prep!

  • Both Barack Obama and John McCain told awful repugnant lies about healthcare during the debate, so here, compare and contrast! [Newsweek]
  • George Stephanopoulos says, Well America now that you sat through your last dull 90-minute March of Hell, we can reveal to you that debates don’t matter, and you should just watch the money and the map in the last days of any campaign. [ABC News]
  • While they all agree on the banking crisis, nations of the EU disagree about how best to deal with climate change (mainly because Poland and Italy are terrible polluters who hate trees). [BBC]
  • Voter registration challenges in Ohio could result in hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots, major pains in the ass, red tape, recounts…You know, the usual way they “vote” in Ohio. [New York Times]
  • Even the Swiss have to bail out their banks. The Swiss! [Washington Post]
  • John McCain was meaner in last night’s debate than in previous debates, which was a good thing and a bad thing, so Obama magically won. Again. [New York Times]

8:52 AM on Thu October 16 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Larry Fine says at 8:56 am, October 16th, 2008

    Good make-up job done on McCain to hide his hideous deformed Frankenstein-like cancer surgery scars. Will this perosn get an Oscar this year for best special effects?

  2. 2012 Race: Sarah Palin vs. Mickey Mouse!

    You go Mickey!!!

  3. Tommy Says Soooo says at 9:00 am, October 16th, 2008

    Sorry, my DVD froze up watching Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment yesterday? Did I miss something?

  4. Itsjustme says at 9:06 am, October 16th, 2008
  5. Looks like the Swiss have some holes in their chee$e!

    (best I got, it’s early)

  6. Serolf Divad says at 9:07 am, October 16th, 2008

    Right now Obama is ahead or at the least tied in every single one of McCain’s seven must-win states. If the election were held today, Obama would win 300 electoral votes — a presidential candidate needs to win 270 to take the White House.

    Why does America hate America?

  7. freakishlystrong says at 9:09 am, October 16th, 2008

    We here at Wonkette are arugula eating, in the tank elitists, therefore we don’t say Swiss, we say “Suisse”, just sayin’ is all…

  8. pondscum says at 9:10 am, October 16th, 2008

    I finally saw Joe the Plumber this morning. And can I just say RRRROOOOWWWWRRRR!!!!!! Of course, you have to muzzle him, but otherwise….

  9. Johnny Zhivago says at 9:10 am, October 16th, 2008

    McCain Wins Debate

    - Some Person

  10. freakishlystrong says at 9:12 am, October 16th, 2008

    Q2: Or maybe Palin could run with one of those hideous furries…
    Palin/Furrie ‘12!

  11. Johnny Zhivago says at 9:14 am, October 16th, 2008

    You just know it’s going to turn out that Joe the Plumber is a fugitive in 3 states.

  12. Tommy Says Soooo says at 9:16 am, October 16th, 2008

    From what I can tell from the news reports, Hopey won on likeability. Which is not strange because the average moran wants to identify….Walnuts’ only play was to shout “Look at me! I can’t raise my arms and I have a wombat stuffed in my cheek. But, only in America, does someone like me nail a beer heiress! Beer, you morons! Don’t you like beer and rich coochie?”

    That would be a win.

    Other than that, CZJ is muy flexibo.

  13. You know a “Joe the Plumber” scene is going to be edited into the Nailin’ Pailin movie. Gosh, I hope a late edit doesn’t disrupt the plot.

  14. Tommy Says Soooo says at 9:23 am, October 16th, 2008

    Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, NEXIUM is a sponsor now! If you have an erection lasting longer than four hours, you no longer need douse it with stomach acid!

    Epic win, Wonkette!

  15. Johnny Zhivago says at 9:24 am, October 16th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: I don’t know, but America sure seems to hate John McCain.

    The Republican party last night started filing out of the stands to the parking lot so they don’t get caught in traffic when the game is finally over.

  16. Johnny Zhivago says at 9:26 am, October 16th, 2008

    Tommy Says Soooo: If you have an erection lasting more than four hours call fucking Guiness Book of Work Records

  17. ManchuCandidate says at 9:27 am, October 16th, 2008

    USB sucks $60B in bad debt. Couldn’t have happened to a more wonderful bunch of shitheads.

    I wonder if USB is beginning regret the hire of Phil Gramm. Companies hire folks to make the company make money, not eat $60Bill of toxic debt. Having an idea how execs and banks work, this might be enough to make one lose this year’s bonus check (almost.)

  18. Screw Joe. What about Christopher Plummer, hmmm? What do the candidates have to say about him? He’s a veteran married to a problem nun and he has adorable singing children who are all being chased by the Nazis, right in the middle of a RECESSION. And what policies have McSame and Nobama got for this decent middle-class Austrian? None at all, that’s what. And then they wonder why voters get disallusioned.

  19. norbizness says at 9:47 am, October 16th, 2008

    Ohio is going to eliminate the tabulation of individual votes and just award their electoral votes (which should be cut from 20 to 0.3 after the latest debacle) to whatever candidate’s slot the Plinko disk falls into. C’mon McKinney!

  20. Crow T. Robot says at 9:48 am, October 16th, 2008

    I have been to Italy, & I can say, without equivocation, that they do indeed hate trees. So do the Greeks though.

  21. JoeFannyPack says at 9:49 am, October 16th, 2008

    I watched the debate carefully and noticed that McCain was blinking morse code. His message was “Please vote for me. Karl Rove has a button that controls a little mini bomb that has been surgically implanted in my heart. If I lose this election, he will push his button thus stopping my heart. Really, friends, I don’t want to be here and I don’t even wanted this job but help me out.”

  22. I wonder if those secret, numbered accounts are insured… If not the CIA, the Mafia, and assorted international criminals could be totally fucked

  23. OK, now can Hopey measure the drapes?

  24. Why-o-why-Ohio?

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