10/7 Presidential Debate

[gambit]

Starts in about 10 minutes.

[Deckard]

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.

[gambit]

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.

[Deckard]

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

[dubman]

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

[kagenaki koe]

nothing noteworthy so far.

[gambit]

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

[kagenaki koe]

regurgitating the "fundamentals are workers are strong"

[kagenaki koe]

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

[dubman]

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?