Presidential Debate Open Thread
The first Presidential Debate is supposedly tonight at 9 Eastern on the usual outlets. We'll be posting clips this evening as available. While we certainly do not condone excessive drinking, The Seminal has created the Presidential Debate Drinking Game:
Every time John McCain mentions his POW experience, praise his courage and drink a kamikaze. This one is only for the heavy drinkers.
Every time Obama says "change" everyone has to switch seats and drink the other person's drink of choice.
Every time John McCain tries to associate Barack Obama with an unsavory character, take a sip of your dirty martini.
Every time someone says bailout you have to finish your drink and pour another.
Every time John McCain says "my friends", spit out your drink and shout "I am not your friend" at the television.
Every time "evil", "evil doers", or anything with evil is mentioned, drink a sip of French red wine. Read on...
Wonkette has another hilarious take on a drinking game. Let us know what catches your eyes and ears...
Debate Open Thread below.
Frist!
Excitement is overwhelming
Let's get it on...
Notice how alive the crowd is
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Word is now that the McCain Campaign is going to say he was too tired from rushing to the aid of the country to have done well in the debate tonight.
Jim Lehrer for President!!
I posted this elsewhere, it might rightfully be deleted but here it is.
Here is my prediction for the debate:
Obama will say we need to withdraw troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say the surge has succeeded.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say that the phone companies needed immunity.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say there must be an embargo of Iran.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say he is against a single payer health care program.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say that offshore drilling should be part of the energy mix.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist organization.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say Iran is a grave threat.
McCain will say the same thing.
Obama will say we must increase the size of our military.
McCain will have a brain phart and say that we must cut our obscenely bloated Military budget in half.
A trap door will open, McCain will fall through it and never be seen again.
Obama wins the election by default.
No cheers, no applause, no breathing, thinking.
Jesus. I'm on pins and needles, as I said in the previous thread. :(
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
Oh please spare me
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
I think you mean Tom in which case i agree. :)
Good evening folks
Am I shallow because I am happy Obama is taller?
and away we go.....
Game on!
And McCain has no proposals whatsoever...
Did mccain have a clowns mask on?
Obama sounding good so far....................
700billions potentialy a lot of money?
He mentioned Kennedy. OMG.
"Sad note, but thank you all. I have nothing to say and i have to fill up as much time as i can in the next two minutes..."
he's feeling better because he ghas been drinking
McCain is working toward taking credit for something.. I can feel it...
He's doing that uniter business.
did gramps forget the question?
And they told him to go away. LOL
Whoa, whats with this great uniter opening speech?
Ooh, Obama missed an opportunity -- *he* should have mentioned Ted Kennedy.
was that a melanoma cough?
Obama looks a little stiff. Does not look good.
He's blinking and not looking into the camera. Anyone noticing this?
IS it me or does McCain sound like Mr. Snuffaluffagus
McCain wins first Q.
Boooo.
Interesting that McCain is talking rhetorically about the great platonic remedy to this fiscal crisis--I thought he authored the damn thing singlehandedly (on his Blackberry). . .
speak up obama!!!
McCain's smirking too much. Will we hear about that from the pundits??
Ooooops....Johnny's getting flustered. Could be a fun ending to this bore fest.
nice point about kissinger
majicman @ 332:
I'm sure he'll play the card when he needs to -- the time hasn't been right yet.
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WHO'S THE IAEA???
Why won't EITHER cite the standards the IAEA...?
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Haha, is McCain drawing in a coloring book?
Take him to the house!
McCain has played to the lowest common denominator which means the majority of the American people.
So...if the American people vote for McCain...then they better not whine when they're kids get shipped off to die.
Laugh it up, McCain. You're like the slow witted bully who can't think of a cutting reply when you're slapped down so you just GIGGLE with lots of spray and invective.
Funny thought: Imagine Sarah Palin in a debate on this level
Smirk... eye twitch... smirk...
Obama's sounding good here. Common-sensical.
Obama is finally kicking in. Thank God.
Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 358:
International Atomic Energy something or other.
SPAIN.. LOL
Spain hehehehehhe
Mcmelonoma is going to stroke out.
Ohhh and Obama plays the Spain card.
McCain comes back with a "seal" joke.
Oooh, lousy "joke" by McC
Great bring up Spain! Repeat it again. Spain is a NATO allied for f** sake!
what the senator doesn't understand is that I'm not wearing any pants
So now McCain is trying to tell us what Obama just said, even though he did not say what he is claiming.
McOldman is dangerous
McCain and Palin has the exact same talking points "Iran calls Israel a stinking corpse" "We dont want a second holocaust"
3 inches taller...!!!
snoozer @ 369:
nobody laughed
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Three inches matter to McShrimppy...
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Wouldn't it be great if, after the debate, instead of shaking his hand Obama kicked McCain right in the taint? What? Is that wrong?
Ronald Reagan yet again.................John he is not going to save you..........
YOU ARE A LIAR OLD MAN!!
Drink up!!!
Three inches taller?!?!?!
C'mon, Obama, kick some ass.
He is losing it!!!
The Cuban Missile Crisis was solved with back channel agreements.
And McCain is a liar.
xoites defends Constitution @ 366:
... Yep, America never listens to them...
I can't believe obama is letting Mccain get away with that bs about the sitdown with Iran.
Russia... they're RIGHT NEXT DOOR!!
McCain SCORES n kissinger!
Actually Kennedy has been released from the hospital.
* Everytime McCain does that creepy grin take a hit from your "water pipe" (bowl filled with completely legal American made tobacco, of course )
McCain.....epic fail.....row row fight the powah
Here it comes.....How did we get here?
With the blinking, I meant McCain.
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 23:
Jinx
15 - Love Obama
speak up obama!!!
mccain sounds so old
Normandy Invasion time. Was Ike like McCain a POW? Or is he going to resign?
are we supposed to drink every time McCain coughs?
The only thing I drink is coffee to keep me awake when McCain speaks
OMG. He's using anecdotes instead of having a concrete plan.
Obama has to relax just a little bit.
Bottom line: Obama is looking more Presidential as the debate moves on, McCain is not.
McCain will brag about how he knows the Georgian president now
McCain: my VP, who deals with Putin's head looking into her back yard every day...
Obama has to address this belittling sneering attitude that McCain is indulging in.
Obama is not winning over and Repubs tonight.
Soul!
Here we go with the Russian 'aggression' lies again.
Georgia attacked first you lying fool
Bomb Russia!
McCain is completely on the attack-Obama is being too fair and polite.
don't talk to me like i'm 5 years old
Same old KGB joke. Flat.
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What's an OIL WAR?
Who suffers for the greedy?
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ack dem in jad
pinkobait @ 393:
Yep. He says "Obama doesnt understand" all the time when he really is talking about policy differences. Obama should call him out
maru @ 370:
Up until that joke, the audience had done what they were told to do...not laugh. They seem to come to lfe with it. It made me walk out of the room.
pinkobait @ 399:
Obama is polite by nature and i don't want him to stray from what he knows.
Did I mention my record collection?
My friend Alexander and I used to spin a few...
Damn Rooskis... bomb 'em... I was there, dammit. Effing clouds...
nin-mofo @ 390:
McCain looks like a pissed and confused old man out of his league. Obama is in control, full of facts and confidence.
OMG. He's saying that he went to Russia too. That should be a drinking game.
Obama is not winning over any Repubs tonight or undecideds.
Shitburgers.
obama needs to go on offense.....RIGHT NOW
*Again* with the "Obama doesn't understand." McCain's strategy is clear: neutralize Obama's supposed "elite" intelligence by basically saying he's dumb. It touches on the experience issue *and* has a racial undercurrent.
JL @ 409:
Yes. And watch Pat Buchanan point out the SAME THING. Well said JL @ 409.
galmud @ 397:
But....OB said Russia attacked Georgia too. I'm pissed OB for telling lies like McCain.
Or more important...is my man just misinformed?
let's nuke russia
Obama is perpetuating the lie as well.
smk101 @ 412:
too late!
Seriously imagine Sarah Palin in a debate on this level
xoites defends Constitution @ 406:
Well not to the point of getting too emotional but maybe more direct and forceful.Stop saying "John is right".
a friend of mine just called me and said that about 912 pm central time on the debate, during obama talking about mccain's statement of not meeting with the spanish government, you could hear mccain mutter very low "bulls***" i dvr'd back and it sure sounds like it. anyone else catch that?
majicman @ 415:
You cant be pro Russia like you cant be pro Palestine in American politics. Truth doesnt matter
galmud @ 419:
Sorry, can't. I tried. I really did.
galmud @ 404:
Obama would look even more arrogant by correcting him. Let McCain act like an asshole. It's not the people who appreciate that attitude who we're out to convince.
galmud @ 419:
there is that
I gotta say that McCain looks stringer right now.
Jesus he gaffed on the SEC Chairman thing, again; Obama didn't hit him on it. Nooooooooooooo................
McCain's eye is acting up again.
I meant stronger. Obama looks like he's getting on a roll now.
damn, McCain just claimed he saw the financial crisis coming, and Obama called him on his "fundamentals of the economy are strong"... stick it to him, Barack, be concise and merciless. Call out the clueless twit and let America see real leadership!
I was gonna guess stringer = stranger...
Shoot, McCain looks like he's ready to keel over. And I can't stop looking at that eye!!!
xoites defends Constitution @ 10:
Timothy Leary for Pres.......ooops, wrong era.
Fundamental problems in our fundamentally sound economy.
And he fundamentally mentally believes it.
anything for whenever the word "fundamental" is said?
xoites defends Constitution @ 44:
he's working his way to it. get ready to drink
McCain's fundamental beliefs are fundamentally sound. Drill baby drill!!!
Has McCain mentioned he's a P.O.W.? You know, he rarely talks about it.
(at work, not watching)
Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 55:
Pretty close and they both went to Harvard.
800 billion spending gone in Iraq..
get spending under control.. how much do we spend a day in Iraq?
Kaz @ 45:
does he have throat cancer too?
Round 1, McCain.
Gateway drug? What's next, the War on Spending?
Obama missed his chance to hold mccain accountable for the fannie/freddie lobbyist on his campaign staff, and the ceo pay issue with Carly Fiorina.
make their names known... blablabla
galmud @ 62:
I hope Obama points this out.
Pick up the pace BO....Rnd 1 to the 3 month in combat war hero
Hey: McCain's not wearing a flag pin!
Maybe its in THAT DAMN EYE
is mclame sucking on a lemon
A bridge...to Alaska!
Please...
a bridge... to nowhere!
When you watch a boxing match, you look at the facial reaction of the guy who just took one to the pumpkin. I'm sorry to say it but, our man has a painful look on his face. I'm looking at what the audience sees in each others reaction to their punches. Forget about the points, most of the listeners don't understand the points anyway because they can't get beyond their own biases.
Anyone notice how on the CNN ticker the Inds and Dems TANK whenever John McCain opens his mouth?
McShithead looked stupid
All I have to say is that the 29 per-centers and the bigots are going to be fired up about this.
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