10/7 Presidential Debate
 

Starts in about 10 minutes.

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The format of this one is said to favour McCain. Guessing the more intimate setting make him think he's amongst "his friiiiends"

Apparently he's going to go in all guns-a-blazin though. Republican supporters are already talking about tonight as the game changer, that he's got "a Reagan moment" planned. (There's probably a bad taste joke in that somewhere) And he'll attempt to clear up the Keating stuff once and for all.

Will be interesting to watch his body language and how he has to force himself to look at Obama when he really doesn't want to, but his handlers told him to.

From Obama's point of view, his strength is normally answering questions directly and not skirting around the issue, and I'm hoping this might go down better than McCain's more emotive approach.

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I've went to a town hall meeting with Obama. He did just fine, so I don't see this format as favoring McCain at all.

T-minus 2 mintues.

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I'm going down to watch this one on TV rather than online... comments afterwards. ;)

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Why did we need that $500 billion from China again, John?

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i'm at work for this one, so i cant tune in
someone keep tabs?

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nothing noteworthy so far.

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McCain chestthuping his suspending his campaign.

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McCain nonanswering the bailout question.

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Hey, McCain looked directly at Obama!

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regurgitating the "fundamentals are workers are strong"

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they're kind of both nonanswering and taking potshots at each other.

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thanks, i appreciate it
mccains been doing town halls for awhile. it's good for obama to look like the underdog this time because if he connects as well as mccain is supposed to, he'll come out looking better for it, and take away another supposed mccain advantage.
and this really isnt hard for obama to do, so i think we'll have a debate#1 redux

if town halls arent supposed to like potshots, then are they just warming up?

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Teresa Finch : "why should we trust either of you"

Mccain's answer: because i'm a reformer

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McCain sounds like he's gasping while he's talking.

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i dont see obama's answer being more specific, but facepalm nonetheless.

i'm liking the LA Times live blog coverage of it...

"He slams Obama for his ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama, when it's his turn to speak, lashes back, reminding McCain that one of McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis lobbied for Fannie Mae in the past.
It's a nonsensical thing to argue over: Both Obama and McCain have advisers and who have connections with the companies."

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Both are kinda messing up the time limits. Bleh.

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if anybody is drinking, McCain is rattling off as many "I know how to do that".

and Brokaw has to keep repeating that answers should only be 1 minute long.

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McCain pimping Spending Freeze.

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So far, McCain is having the better of this. Obama is giving rather bland answers and McCain is connecting better.

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Obama brought up 9/11????

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this debate won't have an impact on the polls the way its going.

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McCain focusing on small business.

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Yeah, there's not much going on yet unless either drops a bomb.

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Obama on social security/medicaid etc: "the straight talk express lost the wheels on that one"

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Obama is explaining his tax plan pretty well.

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Mccain name dropped Reagan, mentioned "i'm not too popular" "i've fought" etc.

oh, and Mccain sounds like shmeegol. and he schnortled.

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mccain just inadvertently called him 'boy'


;)

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seriously, you've heard most of these answers before.

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sigh, alright.

i mean i dont see how obama doesnt see this as an opportunity. there IS a such thing as staying on message and talking directly to people like he used to. he's done his message, it's sufficiently pummeled, it's starting to sound beaten. thanks, we get it, now start talking like there's people around please?

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McCain saying we can reduce the price of oil.

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McCain sounds like he's behind in the polls by the way he's talking. He's sorta frantic.

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you can just imagine him saying "hey kids, want some candy" in a sleazy pedo kind of way.

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Obama's health care speech > McCain's answer.

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McCain made a joke about hair transplants. dead silence.

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He mentioned his mother and her cancer. +2 for personal story.

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Obama is winning the health care part of the debate.

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Nobody cared about the "fine."

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McCain made another joke. more dead silence.

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im hearing that theyre doing a lot of snapping at each other
NOW all one of them needs to do is show a touch more class. have a higher moment, just once