9:01. Here we go!
9:04 ~ John McCain is still going after the plan to buy up bad mortgages. That means the tax payer gets hosed for the extra cost of the mortgage we bought it at compared to what we renegotiate the mortgage at. That’s preposterous. Especially since home values will not stop dropping simply because you’ve bought up the loans.
9:07 ~ Obama isn’t backing down on his plans to reform health care. Good for him. It’s stupid to expect that the government should spend less in a recession: when the government spends, it takes your tax dollars and puts them into the economy which is currently starved for capital. That’s precisely what we need.
9:11 ~ Ding, ding, ding!!! “Class Warfare!” Do I have to chug a beer, now?
9:13 ~ It’s Conservative Dog Whistle Night at the old debate. Now we’re talking the old canard about corporations paying more taxes than in any other country. That assumes they actually pay their taxes. But they don’t have all those accountants for no reason at all.
9:17 ~ YOU CANNOT INCREASE HOME PRICE IN A HOUSING BUBBLE COLLAPSE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT. Appologies for the caps, I couldn’t resist.
9:19 ~ Hey, everybody!! Head down to the Strassenberg Planetarium and check out their “Overhead Projector” sitting in the middle of the room. You’ll want to leave your PowerPoint slides at home, though. It’s not that type of overhead projector.
9:21 ~ Gotta say: McCain’s looking pretty fiesty tonight. That’s good for him as long as he sticks to spending and earmarks.
9:24 ~ John, it’s not clear you’ve disagreed with the president at all. And insisting that it is when the American people disagree with you borders on insulting their intelligence.
9:26 ~ Oh, man. The town hall meeting thing again. Obama made me call him a racist. He made me. Oh, and once again: Barry Goldwater and Jack Kennedy did not actually do what they agreed to do. Jack was shot.
9:30 ~ Critcizing a health care plan is not an attack ad. Calling someone a terrorist is. Surprised I would have to say that.
9:32 ~ Go Obama! Hit him. Everyone knows McCain is full of shit and now he’s struggling to interrupt.
9:33 ~ “Catagorically!” He “Catagorically” approves of the people at his rallies. Jesus age, it’s fucking Mana from heaven. I say again that he’s actually insulting the intelligence of the majority of people. We’re not talking about the veterans wearing hats, John, and you know it. It’s about the “kill him.”
9:38 ~ We’ll have to go to the tape, but I don’t remember Hillary Clinton questioning the Ayers thing at all. I’m looking at you, C&L and TPM!
9:40 ~ Why is Obama not guilty of “paling around” with college professors and deans?
9:41 ~ Ooh, snap! Obama hits McCain across the face and forced McCain to make a big deal out of the Ayers “relationship” he just said he didn’t care about.
9:45 ~ “Women and other performers?” You mean, like strippers? John’s mysogeny seeps through? The American people have gotten to know Sarah Palin, it’s true John. And they’ve roundly rejected her.
9:47 ~ Ooh, damn! Obama points out John’s spending freeze’s effect on Autism programs. Pretty cold, man.
9:50 ~ My wife tells me I’m wrong, but I swear John’s been getting the first shot at more questions.
9:52 ~ Considering the size of the problem, it’s unreasonable to expect a specific number on the issue of energy independence in four years. Ten years is the only interval for which reasonable goals can be set.
9:54 ~ You’re looking a little pissy, there John. Careful.
9:57 ~ Don’t get me wrong, I think trade policy is important. But it’s basically a wash in a debate because it’s too much stuff and too many working parts. It’s nice, though, that Obama mentioned labor rights.
10:02 ~ A lot of John McCain’s proposals for getting Americans healthier involve costing an awful lot of money.
10:05 ~ John McCain’s health care proposals are just a loser of a position. Period. No one is stupid enough to think they can afford health insurance for $5000 a year. If we could, we wouldn’t be talking about any of this in the first place.
10:08 OK, I’m just going to say this: fuck Joe. I’m sick of Joe. Did anyone vet Joe to find out if he’s an asshole or not?
10:12 ~ Is there any fool in the United States who thinks that nominating a Supreme Court Justice isn’t about their idiology? What bullshit. From both of them.
10:19 ~ Once again, I realize that the SCOTUS is important and so is abortion, but is this the issue of the hour?
10:21 ~ Education. I hate education discussions. Nothing good will ever come of it.
10:25 ~ Education competition is irrelevant when public schools are already behind the eight ball. Fund the schools. And what the fuck is this “direct to teaching without certification” bullshit? How is that a good idea?
10:29 ~ That 9000 parents wanted their kids enrolled in charter schools does not mean it worked. And by the way, if we’re to hold ourselves to D.C. standards, I weep for the future.
10:31 ~ For the record: Sarah Palin has a child with Down’s Syndrome. Autism and Down’s have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. It’s not exactly flattering to equate all disabilities as though the differences don’t matter.
10:35 ~ John McCain talks about himself in his closing remarks, Barack Obama talks about you. Whose approach do you prefer?