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[Kayma]

Yeah, Brokaw was flipping his shit, and rightfully so. The lights, guys. They tell you when you're done. You're done. Time. Time. Time. TIME!

Brokaw '08 imo.

[TA]

Man, fuck Brokaw.  Fuck him nine times.  When a dude has such bald-faced lies told about him, he needs a chance to respond.

[Detonator]

I thought Obama did very well in the first hour with the economy, especially with the priority question.  The foreign policy part was pretty split, Obama was rambling, but seemed to have some good answers as well.

Overall, I think Obama articulated his ideas better than McCain, but polls show that partisan people will side with their candidate no matter what actually happened.  I'll wait for some undecided polls before I make a final judgment.

[Mongrel]

I for one look forward to one day viewing a finished globe. I always find the holes to be very disconcerting.

"Here there be cosplayers in dragon costumes."

[Brentai]

yiff

[Catloaf]

Obama won.

McCain just spouted a negative rhetoric and lied through his teeth.

[Thad]

Man, fuck Brokaw.  Fuck him nine times.  When a dude has such bald-faced lies told about him, he needs a chance to respond.

Which was why the last one was a better format.  But this one had a different format.

[Kashan]

McCain stuttered and restarted phrases a lot. His voice was breathy and high pitched, he often came off as talking down not only to Obama but also to the listener. McCain came off as more knowledgeable on foreign policy specifics, but Obama came off as more level headed and confident. Outside of what they said, Obama came off powerful and McCain came off tired. Also the "Bomb Iran" and "Annihilate North Korea" jab in response to walk softly and carry a big stick seems like it was pretty strong.

Oh, and McCain had a bunch of failed jokes again tonight.

Edit: CNN poll released 30 minutes after the debate says that 54% of interviewed felt Obama did better while 30% felt McCain did better. Obama picked up 4 point to 64% approval, while McCain stayed steady at 51%. More democrats watched the debates though and I'm not really sure how CNN does their polling.

[MadMAxJr]

Did I see them flag Russia as EVIL in this thing?  Flat out admit it?

[Arc]

Total snoozefest. McCain failed to gain ground, thus lost. Too bad, so sad. See you next Wednesday, Johnny Boy.

[François]

I know it's one of the more frivolous points I could raise first, but apparently McCain is once again refusing to actually look at Obama.

Did you guys stick around while they were shaking hands with the audience? Towards the end, Obama extended his hand to McCain, and McCain instantly backed away. Fortunately for him his wife realized exactly how bad it looked to leave Obama hanging like that, then slipped in and shook Obama's hand herself instead. That was hilarious.

[Brentai]

...was that after McCain sort of tentatively tapped Obama on the shoulder?  I was so stunned that he actually made physical contact that I didn't pay attention to what happened afterward.

Someone with the 'shop needs to put Obama and McCain into that one Pinkerton Spider-Man comic.
"I'll punch you in the face!"
"You can't punch me in the face!  You'll turn black!"
"I keep forgetting that you're black."

[François]

Haha, yeah, that's the moment. It kind of looked like McCain was going for a pat on the back, but at the last second he thought "oh wait I hate this guy" and settled for a little tap.

[Classic]

Secretly friends... Torn apart by the machinations of their parties?

[Sharkey]

Numbers.

On one hand, I'm grateful for the posting of pollassery that makes me feel good. On the other, I can't help feeling that you damn kids and your imaginary numbers are turning a fuckoff serious thing into a matter of whether my pokemon can kick your Mew's ass. Though McGuy is more of a Missingno at this point.

Actually, someone want to make a Missingno/Mew '08 website? That'll be the biggest thing since that last thing I didn't give a shit about.

Doublehilarious when someone dies and Mew evolves, I'm sure. Except, you know, we're all broke and/or dead. Or at least embarrased enough to fake our accents when we emigrate.

Hell, has it been four years already? We can't even threaten running to Canada, thanks to that What White People Like blog people cared about for a couple seconds a few months or so ago (also, Canada being fucked). What's next down? New Zealand? Finland is pretty glory for dorks according to something I probably read in Wired or some such shit. Maybe Iceland. Blonds and hot springs are are apparently nice.

[Arc]

serious thing

There's scarce commentary to add. Nothing new happened last night, except for McCain saying that he'd buy up lameass mortgages.

[Brentai]

I always wanted to move to Australia.  The last 4 years have even ruined that for me.

Fuck it.  Sharkey, follow me, and bring a bunch of underwater technicians and laissez-faire capitalists.  We're going to go prove deregulation doesn't work (when magical sea slugs are involved).

[Thad]

On one hand, I'm grateful for the posting of pollassery that makes me feel good. On the other, I can't help feeling that you damn kids and your imaginary numbers are turning a fuckoff serious thing into a matter of whether my pokemon can kick your Mew's ass.

Yeah, I tend to ignore the instant polls.  There's plenty of room for the REAL polls to fluctuate over the next month; the spur-of-the-moment ones are basically useless.

Although CNN's "turn the knob" focus-grouping makes me laugh.  It keeps making me think of Ralph Wiggum in the Itchy and Scratchy focus group.

"My knob tastes funny!"
"Please refrain from tasting the knob!"

There's scarce commentary to add. Nothing new happened last night, except for McCain saying that he'd buy up lameass mortgages.

Yeah, it was pretty much 90 minutes I could have done something else with.  Brad said he was impressed, but A) he read it instead of spending 90 minutes watching it and B) he didn't see the first one where they already covered all the same shit.

[Arc]

the spur-of-the-moment ones are basically useless.

Gaffes don't appear to be forthcoming in debates this year, so flash polls develop the narrative for the night, and thus the following days.

These debates are only influencing incremental amounts of voters, true, but they also present opportunity, and that opportunity is slipping away from one candidate, and maintaining for the other.

[Brentai]

Gaffe's don't appear to be forthcoming in debates this year

Except for that one.