Presidential Debate Live Blog II: The Revenge
by Chris Van Vechten
6:30PM: Dammit, he meant Boeing tanker projects.
6:31PM: Obama: ”Sacrifices? Ummm, less shopping.”
6:33PM: Obama’s blowing it again.
Brandon Lueken
Wait, was the airline oil tanker deal McCain sunk that one of the key Boeing contracts?
6:34PM: Obama: Sharing the burden – thank god. He finally got back on message.
6:36PM: In the first presidential debate McCain compared Obama’s refusal to admit that we’re winning in Iraq to the dogmatic nature of president Bush. He just compared his tax policy to president Hoover. Wait 30 more minutes and he’ll be comparing Obama’s health plan to Rasputin’s!
6:39PM: Why did the Straight Talk Express cross the road? To nail JELLO to the wall.
6:42PM: McCain is probably the first candidate in history to campaign on his lack of popularity.
6:43PM: ”MY FRIENDS” METER = 17
6:44PM: McCain: “We’re going to have to make sacrifices, we’re going to have to prioritize, things are going to be tough….our best days are ahead of us.”
Walker Lindley
It’s official, McCain just admitted that he’s pro-French!
6:47PM: We can’t nail Obama’s policies through JELLO, but we can drill here and drill now.
6:48PM: Tom B just asked the best question yet. Silicon VS Manhattan
6:50PM: Is health a commodity? No, but coffins are.
6:53PM: It’s official, Obama wants to insure that everyone gets mammograms.
6:54PM: Holy Crap! If Senator Obama finds out The Melon doesn’t provide health-coverage to our employees, we’re sunk!
6:55PM: “MY FRIENDS” METER = 20
6:57PM: Thank God, Obama says its a right to be heathy. I was getting worried about him.
6:59PM: Obama is finally debating. Only took him a full hour. It maybe too late to cut into McCain though
Walker Lindley
Obama also wants to make sure we don’t lose our maternity coverage. Does that mean healthcare plans are preventing you from getting pregnant or helping you get pregnant?
7:00PM: Could it be that we are now too poor to peacefully invade and occupy rouge nations?
7:03PM: Obama, please call for a NEW AGE NEW DEAL for AMERICA
7:07PM: McCain, “Iranian influence will increase in Iraq if we pull-out now.” The Iraqi’s have elected a pro-Iran Shia Prime Minister for Christ’s sake!.
Brandon Lueken
If we leave Iraq, that’s a BIG bill we don’t have to pay. It’s all tied together.
Yeah but, to be honest, the 8-year quarantine Clinton imposed on Iraq that was periodically defined by sorties wasn’t cheap either.
Jen Drake
McCain: “President Reagan, my hero.”
Someone explain why Reagan trumps God. please.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHH! McCain said, “darn sure.” IT’S A PLOT TO BE CUTE!
Walker Lindley
McCain: “Al Qaeda would have reestablished a base in Iraq”. Al Qaeda didn’t have a base in Iraq before we invaded. Our invasion emboldened Al Qaeda in Iraq.
McCain thinks we should be careful to only send troops when they would improve the situation, that he has the expertise to know when that’s right. And yet he worked hard to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq when our presence there clearly hasn’t improved the situation there.
7:11PM: ANNNNN. Teddy Roosevelt said “Walk softly” not “Talk Softly.”
7:12PM: McCain: Pursue Bin-Laden to the Gates of Hell, but stop short of Pakistan.
7:14PM: McCain: Don’t you dare follow-up with me motherfucker, I will bury you alive!
7:18PM: This War is endless, and almost pointless.
Brandon Lueken
@Walker Lindley, “I’m not going to telegraph my punches” sounds an awful like “I’m erratic and dangerous.”
7:20PM: In the first debate, McCain seemed like he was preparing to receive a lifetime achievement award. Today, he seems like he could be president. Obama’s responses are too brief, to generic and too erratic. I don’t buy the theories of the pundits who feel that when you’re ahead, you abandon ideology.
7:22PM: Obama, “the resurgence of Russia” did Russia ever disappear?
Jen Drake
McCain: We have to show Russia that this isn’t acceptable to invade Georgia. What will I do? INVADE THE LITTLE SHITS!
Obama: the resurgence of Russia is one of the issues we’ll have to deal with in the next Presidency.
Citizen Jen:((WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, Obama??? I thought Palin had it all under control!))
McCain goes a full half-hour without throwing a “my friends” out there
7:25PM: Love the Russian, hate the sinner.
7:27PM: Is anyone else under the impression that both McCain and Obama are simultaneously running for mayor of Jerusalem as a back-up?
7:29PM: The best way to deal with an angry marginalized state is to impose “the squeeze” on it.
7:30PM: Thank God, the last question.
7:31PM What don’t you know? How will you learn it?
Obama: My wife
7:33PM: What don’t you know? How will you learn it?
McCain: I lack the ability to predict the future. I also don’t know where several countries are on the map. I am also unaware of the unexpected. But when I was kid, i knew many people who were middle-class and who had to struggle for hope. Bottom line, I know how to steer a ship.
7:35PM: Whoo, Cindy McCain practically ducked that kiss from John
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I’m going to go with “three-alarm fire.” It’s going to be ugly, but not terrible.
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I’m going to say Level Orange on the Terrorize America-o-meter.
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Right now CNN has a smarmy guy on who’s clearly a McCain partisan, but is just being labeled as a blogger. Ugh, the whole point of blogging is that you can be up front about your bias. There was another “blogger” there, but they didn’t give her a chance to speak at all.
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I wonder if we’re going to hear about all of the hate speech coming out of McCain/Palin rallies over the last couple of days. They’re getting pretty ugly.
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Bloggers get put down because “blogger” is such a stupid word. They might as well call us poopers. That sounds about the same. Journalists are all smug over their fancy smancy dignified diction. POOPERS UNITE!
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Brokaw is moderating this thing. Pleh.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
What’s the deal with the town hall thing? Does that mean anything?
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Fun fact for those following at home: Tom Brokaw has ties to the Bush administration.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@Walker Lindley, What ties exactly?
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
McCain looked like a robot when he was walking in. He was really stiff and bouncy looking.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Drinking on: change, hope, maverick, reform, economy, bailout, nuclear. did I miss any?
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Town hall means that “normal people” will be asking the pre-approved questions instead of Brokaw.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
And it means that the people are sitting around the candidates. It’s a trap!
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Chris, Obama’s a uniter, he doesn’t believe in red ties or blue ties.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
@Walker Lindley, It’s because he supports not banning gay marriage. He’s an American hero!
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I know McCain’s shoulders were injured in Vietnam and all, but he doesn’t look calm or relaxed. Not that I would be, but I would hope both of these candidates are by now.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
And I don’t trust old people, so no dice Johnny.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Woah! And the rules have already been broken. The rules for this debate said no follow-up questions. Both campaigns were expecting it though, I hear.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Wow, McCains knows what eBay is. Maybe he’ll start using the intarwebz soon.
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ariness Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
@Walker Lindley, I think you mean TEH intarwebz
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Obama: The key is not answering the question.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Also, McCain said he wants the Treas. Sec. to buy up mortgages and renegotiate them. That can’t happen under the current plan, though, because we’re buying the securities and the mortgages have already been split up into so many pieces, we can’t really put them back together. The only way to allow for renegotiation is to let judges do it, but Republicans have been vehemently against that and McCain certainly didn’t convince his friends to change their position.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Wow. McCain just dropped a steaming pile of bullshit suggesting the economy is Obama’s fault.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Obama speaking surprisingly fluidly despite prior problems with off the cuff speaking.
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ariness Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@Brandon Lueken, I agree. He usually needs to pause more. He’s on tonight.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
It is true though that the Dems recieved a lot of contributors from freddy mac and fanny mae. Didn’t fanny mae make candies once upon a time
What stupid names though. This sounds like a playground fight. “It was Fanny and Freddy who started it!”
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
@Electric Elliot, Dems may get money from Fannie and Freddie, but McCain’s campaign manager was taking money from them right up until they went under.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The plan is not to buy the loans, we’re buying the securitized loans. Which means big companies will get the money and average people will see nothing. We also have yet to hear anything about commercial paper yet and that’s the problem. Obama has hinted at it, but they haven’t actually talked about it.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Didn’t the Democrats support deregulation and allow fanny and freddy to give out loans?
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
@Electric Elliot, Fannie and Freddy were created to give out loans. Dems in general are for regulation, but they’ve certainly voted for deregulation at times. Particularly the bill that created a lot of the problems we’re seeing now was passed on a bi-partisan basis, although it was attached to an unrelated bill by Phil Gramm (McCain’s economic adviser).
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
McCain: “We’re the best importers.” How is that a good thing?
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@Walker Lindley, our principle export now a days is the film industry. How much money do you think the bailout gave to LA?
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
@Electric Elliot, none. All the money’s going to Wall Street and they’re so scared that they’re not going to loan any of it out.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
@Walker Lindley, here-here
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Doubled our national debt under Bush? Is this accurate?
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
@Jen Drake, I think so. At least doubled.
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
@Jen Drake, I don’t think it is. I think Bush came in at 5.5 trillion and now we’re up to almost 10.5 trillion, but don’t quote me on that.
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
@Jen Drake, The best source I can find quickly is: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html , but it’s not great.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
@Jen Drake, roughly yes.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Implied Maverick declaration at 6:21.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Chris, I kind of agree with you, but consider what the response would be if he said that. McCain would come back with “Obama is using fear to get you to vote for him. He’s not selling hope, he’s selling fear and despair and you shouldn’t vote for him.”
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Depressingly enough, in each election cycle the Presidential candidates talk about rooting out special interests…
and the fairy tale ends:
they never do.
They sleep with them.
Mrrreow.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
McCain is sounding kind of descheveled. “My friends! I do not support museums!”
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
@Electric Elliot, dude, museums fuckin’ suck. We don’t want to waste our money on education and stuff.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
haha. He said nuclear.
Oh. wait. That’s how it is said.
dammit. I’m so used to nu clu er under Bush, I don’t know if I can handle the change.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
@Jen Drake, Change is coming!
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ariness Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
@Jen Drake, It’s ok. Palin said NuCuelar enough for both of them on Thu.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Hmm. Suspicious of the moon comment. That almost screams “I don’t have details.”
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Man, Brokaw’s the cranky one here.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Wait, was the airline oil tanker deal McCain sunk that one of the key Boeing contracts?
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
@Brandon Lueken, it’s the one that Boeing wanted, but went to Airbus. There was some shadiness there, though, because some of McCain had some ties to Boeing at the time, so that made it not look so great.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I freaking love this god damn song!
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Wow, Chris, this 78 year old lady from Chicago sounds like you–we’re never asked to sacrifice anything personal near and dear to us.
McCain: we’ll reduce healthcare for dying people. They are already dying, so wtf?
McCain: We’re gonna have to tell the American people that spending is going to have to be cut.
Citizen #1: wha?????
Obama: Giggity giggity. For reals. WTF McCain! Tell frickin’ Congress to cut!
McCain: we can get ‘em all done, because that’s what Americans have been doing.
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I like how Obama said Bush dropped the ball by telling Americans to go out and spend more rather than learn to conserve.
Obama pwnd McCain on this question.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
They are still dodging a great deal of the actual questions and harping on energy.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
What was McCain trying to do with the Hoover/protectionism comment?
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
@Walker Lindley, get history majors to freak out and chug their beers.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
@Walker Lindley, draw a link between OBama and the Republican Party McCain hates so much.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
@Electric Elliot, a vote for McCain is a vote for the zombie apocalypse.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Obama rambled a bit with his answer on Social Security, but he managed to land a solid hit on McCain before rambling back to the topic at the very end.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Ya, McCain’s not too popular with his own party when he’s trying to get them to vote for a bailout.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
So McCain wants to create a commission and then blindly accept their conclusion without any debate? That’s the best possible solution?
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
6:39PM: Why did the Straight Talk Express cross the road? To nail JELLO to the wall.
Nice
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Jen Drake Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
@Electric Elliot, hahaha! I have nothing else to add. hahaha!
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
It’s official, McCain just admitted that he’s pro-French!
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@Walker Lindley, The crepes were just too much.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
No Obama, you’re wrong. The Internet was invented by the Defense Department for communication. Computers were invented by (1) Charles Babbage, (2) John Von Neumann, or (3) Alan Turing, take your pick.
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ariness Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
@Walker Lindley, Obama knows that using the names of 1337 haX0rZ doesn’t go over well with mainstream America. He dumbs down some of his language when he speaks.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
McCain: I’m too old to look at lights, WAVE AT ME.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
McCain is for big-government research for green energy? A few months ago he wanted to create a bounty for private companies to do the research.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
McCain: “I’m against big oil, we need to drill more!”
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/faceoff_mccain_obama_080509_mn.jpg
Antique pot calls the kettle black.
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
@Jen Drake, type something like
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
@Walker Lindley, Damnit. try:
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
@Walker Lindley, I give up.
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
@Walker Lindley, One more try: <img src=”image_address”>
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
um, Elliot, how do you make the picture appear in the comments section?
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
@Jen Drake, Use the first one: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_images.asp
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
FINALLY AN ANSWER! Obama: Health care is a right.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
((hopefully this works))
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Obama also wants to make sure we don’t lose our maternity coverage. Does that mean healthcare plans are preventing you from getting pregnant or helping you get pregnant?
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
((hopefully THIS works))
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
@Jen Drake, http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/html/image-tag.html
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
McCain, the question wasn’t about being strong militarily, the question was about making peace around the world. Those are two different things.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
If we leave Iraq, that’s a BIG bill we don’t have to pay. It’s all tied together.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
ok. I’ll quit trying to put a picture in (I’ll figure it out later).
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McCain said Kas uh vah, not Kosovo.
“Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, oh yah oh yah!”
For all our fervor to watch this debate, I still have a sinking feeling it is all just bullshit. I wonder if young fresh virginal faith in our President will ever be re-established again?
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Why do questions about creating peace in the world always get answers related to the military? Peace through war doesn’t work, that’s not how peace is fostered. We can create peace in the world by working to eliminate disease, hunger, and poverty. We can create peace by banding together with the entire world to address the myriad problems posed by global warming. We do not create peace in the world by invading other countries unilaterally while waving the shining banner of spreading democracy.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
@Walker Lindley, hippie pot-head. Violence is a time-tested method of problem solving.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
McCain: “Al Qaeda would have reestablished a base in Iraq”. Al Qaeda didn’t have a base in Iraq before we invaded. Our invasion emboldened Al Qaeda in Iraq.
McCain thinks we should be careful to only send troops when they would improve the situation, that he has the expertise to know when that’s right. And yet he worked hard to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq when our presence there clearly hasn’t improved the situation there.
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@Walker Lindley, Out of the 70 or so countries that were known to have Al Qaeda cells in them prior to 9/11, we chose to invade one of the few that did not.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
McCain: “President Reagan, my hero.”
Someone explain why Reagan trumps God. please.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHH! McCain said, “darn sure.” IT’S A PLOT TO BE CUTE!
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Jen Drake Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
@Jen Drake: Teddy Roosevelt apparently is his hero, as well. Where is god? Is god dead, McCain?
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
@Electric Elliot, Didn’t he just say his hero was Reagan? You can’t have two heroes, that’s illegal!
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ariness Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
@Electric Elliot, McCain’s Heroes:
1) Reagan
2) Pres Teddy
3) G-d
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Chris Van Vechten Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
@ariness,
1) Reagan
2) Pres Teddy
3) G-d
4) Joe Lieberman
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Woah! Big words from Obama. Invade, Kill, and Crush.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
@Brandon Lueken, “I will crush her”
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Obama wants to change our policies with Pakistan even though the essential part of his Pakistan policy, the primary way he’s different than McCain is precisely the same and Bush’s Pakistan policy? That doesn’t make sense. We’re need to change our policy by keeping it the same?
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
@Walker Lindley, Apparently.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
It sounds like McCain is saying that he’s also for cross-border raids without Pakistan’s permission, but that he just thinks it’s bad to say so out loud. So that kinda makes McCain a backstabbing prick, doesn’t it?
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
@Walker Lindley, Obama seems to be calling him out on it.
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
@Walker Lindley, “I’m not going to telegraph my punches” sounds an awful like “I’m erratic and dangerous.”
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
@Brandon Lueken, indeed.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
It’s nice to see the boys get down and dirty in their illegal responses to each other.
Obama knows pop culture. At least 1980s pop culture of the Beach Boys (bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran).
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
So McCain knows how to find and kill Bin Laden, but won’t tell anyone? He’s willing to continue to put American lives in danger so that he can get the credit for getting Bin Laden? Is that really the argument he’s making? If he knows how to catch Bin Laden better than the whole US military, he should go tell them how to right now behind closed doors (since he’s worried about telegraphs)!
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
McCain: “The most important thing about Afghanistan is that we use the same strategy as Iraq.” His claim is not that we must win or that we must choose a successful strategy, we must choose the same strategy as Iraq.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Why do they always have to preface internet questions with “this is from the internet.” It’s not another world, it’s a communication tool!
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Walker Lindley Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
@Electric Elliot, it’s so McCain knows to hide. The Internet is scary for him!
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Ooooh, Russia. This could be interesting.
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
@Brandon Lueken, Oh wait. Too late. This is really not as good as the VP debate.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Really? The KGB/eyes line again? I don’t think it’s that good, but what do other people think? Has it focus grouped well or something?
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
@Walker Lindley, it’s dumb. Just like “my friends” and Palin’s “golly-gee” winks.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
McCain: We have to show Russia that this isn’t acceptable to invade Georgia. What will I do? INVADE THE LITTLE SHITS!
Obama: the resurgence of Russia is one of the issues we’ll have to deal with in the next Presidency.
Citizen Jen:((WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, Obama??? I thought Palin had it all under control!))
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
My housemates are very irritated with the debate. One of them just threw something at the TV.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
@Brandon Lueken, this debate is very irritating. It’s not an actual debate, just a back and forth, my friend.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Seriously, a question about Iran attacking Israel? What are the chances of that happening? Iran’s not that dumb.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
@Walker Lindley, We’re not going to let another holocaust happen. It’s so obviously going to. I’m anti-holocaust, I’m a good person.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Ronald Reagan: Russia is an evil empire.
Obama: they still have nationalist impulses that are very dangerous.
McCain: maybe. It depends on a lot of things. If I say yes, than that means we’re igniting the cold war. If I say no, that means I am ignoring their behavior.
Citizen Jen: Nice to see you are doing so well, Reagan! My, Botox? No? Ahhh! I couldn’t tell! Plastic surgery! Well, ol boy, keep marching!
ummmm, nationalist impulses that are still dangerous? ummm…
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
McCain: “If Iran gets nuclear weapons, all the other countries in the Middle East do, too.” How does that make sense? A lot of the countries there hate each other, they’re not going to give nuclear weapons to their enemies.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Really? That’s the last question? Brokaw should’ve asked, “what plant would you be and why?”
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I am thoroughly disappointed in McCain overall. He was significantly less boring last debate.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Peggy from Amhurst, NH that has a Zen like quality: What don’t you know, and how will you learn it?
Q: How many Zen buddhists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Tree falling in the forest.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Let’s talk about the known knowns, the known unknowns, the unknown knowns, and the unknown unknowns.
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Brandon Lueken Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
@Walker Lindley, Exactly my reaction.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
HAHA! Brokaw totally told McCain off!! “MOVE SO I CAN READ MY FUCKING SCRIPT, ASSHOLE!”
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
And that’s all she wrote, folks! Chris, I hope you enjoy the 120+ emails you’ll get notifying you of each of these comments.
Also, Brokaw can’t thank people without a script.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
@Walker Lindley, that function is disengaged.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I am creeped out by Mrs. McCain. She’s a warlock or something from World of Warcraft.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Obama: Supastar! (sniffs hands that were formerly under armpits)
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
We didn’t hear about Bill Ayers at all, I’m kinda surprised.
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October 7th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Couple of things: McCain said HE would answer the question on how to fix Social Security and Medicare. Did he ever answer…….nope.
He said for secretary of the treasury he would hire Meg what’s her name from e-bay. Didn’t she get fired from that job? And now she is republican???
High five McCain…ohh….sorry
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October 7th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
That was the worst debate I’ve ever seen. What a terrible format! We spent most of the time making fun of the people in the audience. None of the candidates answered the questions (probably a good idea, most of them were terrible), both of them also refused to follow the rules of the debate.
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