Debate 1

SPINNING AWAY
The first debate, a rainy night in New England, a delay in a meaningless Red Sox-Yankees game in the middle of a fiscal crisis. After yet another inspiring Presidential speech on Thursday night, I'm on a true leadership bender.


8:46 PM Johnny Walker Red is kind of like the Old Thompson's, RC Cola or Mohawk Vodka of scotches, not your first choice but good to have around for occasions like this

8:52 PM Interesting but disturbing PBS NOW on the financial crisis, what a clusterf$ck. I wish some of our social security money was locked up in this well run free market. So what direction does this debate go in? Does it stay foreign policy? Or is it about the elephant in the room. But more importantly, who has the bigger flag pin, hug or handshake?

8:58 PM Where the hell have they been hiding Christiane Amenpour and Michael Ware? Are they starting to bring out actual journalists for this one? Campbell Brown is starting to impress me, all she has to do is throw Wolf Blitzer to the ground and pummel him and I'll be happy. Wolf just cleared up that the University of Mississippi is in Mississippi.

9:01 PM My US magazine report for Jodie. Jim Lehrer's shirt looks like a JC Penny's standard oxford. Barack wins the handshake with the extra grab. Barack has a little five o clock shadow, small flag, standard red tie in a four in hand not. Could get his eyebrows done.

9:05 PM Obama's first mention of Bush as McCain, also drops in trickle down economics. McCain drops a little thing about Teddy K. in, shows some humanity. Tie looks like windsor knot, more of a mavericks tie with a funky design. Flagless. More maverick like dress. Uses paraphrase of "end of the beginning" speech from Churchill post-Battle of El Alamein.

9:10 PM Eisenhower is the "new black" in American politics. Eisenhower would lead a military coup if he saw the American government like it looks like today. I really like both these guys, I wish both of them would stay in the Senate and lead. Time for the American worker love, I imagine it will soon be followed by the love of the American warrior, right before we try to screw both of them.
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9:14 PM Score for McCain, earmarks as a gateway drug. Obama won't do it, but he should lead with "dude, there's like 18 people in your state, what the hell would you earmark, a cactus juice farm?"

9:16 PM First of Obama's favorite discourse marker "Let's be clear" Gets a paycheck everyday? Next McCain-Bush reference. Second "let's be clear" clocks in three minutes later.

9:20 PM If I were Jim Lehrer my next question would be "what's your favorite Barry White song, could you sing a line or verse?" Then I would ask why are either of your f#ckers talking about cutting taxes, aren't we giving away 700 billion dollars or about what the federal government spends on education in 14 years?

9:28 PM "What are you going to give up", Obama lists 100 things he'll want to spend on, uses the cut waste argument. McCain drops the "L" word on Obama. McCain goes anti-ethanol and starts talking about reform of defense contracts, well played.

9:31 PM I wondering if there is a way I could watch the Alaskan senate debate with Ted Stevens. Obama drops in the first internet reference Google for Gov't. McCain suggests a spending freeze on everything except where we spend all of our money, defense and entitlements. McCain quotes Pickens Plan commercial.

9:34 PM Nuclear power as an option. 35 new nuclear plants, interesting. Obama "orgy of spending". McCain mentions himself as a maverick, as well as his new partner. McCain seems calm, doing well, unsure why Obama isn't trying to push him off balance a little bit.

9:47 PM Obama hates the troops, he wants them to drive around in K Cars with slingshots in Baghdad. I think he hates America. There are only 4 countries in the world, the US, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Talleyban?

9:57 PM McCain's first I love Ronald Reagan mention but still disagreed with him. Both the candidates have bracelets with soldier's names on it.

10:03 PM Iran is a country as well, so is Israel. Can't allow a second holocaust. McCain steals "let's be clear" discourse marker. "League of Democracies", all I can envision is Thomas Paine with a cape on and a big D on his chest. Obama brings in China and Russia to the conversation, well done.

10:08 PM McCain ain't talking to anyone, he ain't even going to say his name right, I'll call him Teheran Ted if I want to, he and Caracas Carl get sit on their oil and eat crap. Obama will go talk to anyone and bring Michelle's shrimp dip with him. North Korea is also a country. So is it the League of Democracies v. the Axis of Evil?

10:12 PM McCain takes a shot at Obama's seal. Mentions Dr. Kissinger again, who's next Talleyrand, Otto von Bismarck? South Koreans are taller than North Koreans, saw it at the Pyongyang basketball championships. He's known Dr. Kissinger for 35 years. McCain likes Israel. And Dr. Kissinger.

10:16 PM Finally Russia! Nice line from McCain, looked in Putin's eyes and saw a K, a G, and a B. Well played. If Leonid Brezhnev rises from the grave, we got the guy to oppose him, Dr. K and Big Mac. McCain has been everywhere. There has actually been some nice pronunciation going on here. GW would be drooling and rolling around on the floor talking about Texas at this point.

10:26 PM Another disagreement with the administration, bringing on the 9/11 Commission. Safer. Obama intimates that America is the greatest country on earth. Likes veterans. McCain is trying to remember some of the Yiddish that Dr. Kissinger taught him, trying to encourage Boca Raton to have a foreign policy. McCain strikes back, calling Barry stubborn and comparing him to the current administration, touche Senator McCain.

10:35 PM Obama quotes himself from DNC 2004 speech. McCain likes veterans more than Obama.

Debate over. Unsure how Barack managed to not mention that he was at Ole Miss some 4osome years after it was integrated. Let the spin begin. Don't think this debate made much of a huge difference amongst the undecideds.