OK, I’m joining this late, sorry. And sorry for not posting for like two weeks. But since that’s true, nobody is reading this anyway.
A quick catch-up session: Obama has been talking to the people. McCain has said he’s reached across the aisle, which is tough because he has really short arms. He also keeps bringing up Joe Lieberman in his “reach across the aisle”. He’s also lying … a lot.
9:53 p.m.: McCain said that if parents are struggling to get health care for their children, Obama will fine them. I find that pretty fucking outrageous and probably wrong. As for fining small businesses if they don’t offer insurance, you’re goddamn right. McCain’s jokes are also falling way, way flat.
9:55: Obama: Health care should be a right. Now the mother dying story. Really good stuff.
9:57: Obama has gone over the limit again, and I’m sure Brokaw will say something. But I am in favor of the no time limit rule, because we need to hear this stuff.
10:01: I just took a look at 538.com and saw that the latest Rasmussen poll has McCain leading in Texas by 9 points. That’s it, 9 points. There are battleground states that are closer than that right now. H/T to my brother who claims Obama will win Texas.
10:03: Oh shit, Obama pulled out the “we don’t have the resources to help people out” card. Good card.
10:06: McCain is going to bring the troops home with victory and honor. Funny because he came home after kind of losing, and now has zero honor. Weird.
10:10: Katie asked the “do we go into Pakistan question”, and McCain still thinks Obama said he would attack Pakistan. It’s weird, because that’s not what he said. He wants to go into Pakistan if Al Qaeda and Bin Laden are there. This man just creates his own paper tigers and then whiffs when he tries to knock them down. And do we have the support of the Iraqi people? I want to see what Gallup has to say about that.
10:14: McCain with an awkward interuption. This man is crazy. Obama is crushing him on the sanity/logic scale.
10:15: McCain knows how to get Bin Laden. OK. Go.
10:16: Obama knows more about foreign policy than McCain. McCain just knows how to win wars, even though he was part of a losing war, and crashed his plane and was taken prisoner. I’ve never been in a war, but when I used to play capture the flag if I got caught, I was losing.
10:23: This is the worst running diary, ever. Sorry. McCain’s not answering the “is Russia evil” question for strictly political reasons, he just fucking admitted it. Country First, motherfuckers.
10:34: That’s the end of the debate. Nothing really happened, except McCain calling Obama “that one”. Um, I think Obama still wins this election with 300-plus electoral votes. I swear I’ll be better next time.
