Baby's first liveblog
Sep. 26th, 2008 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progI'm starting this 10 minutes late but wev.
9:10ish: McC seems more comfortable about all this than BHO at the mo.
9:15 - GRR McCain just implied that science spending (I think? $30 million (that's nothing, yo) to study bear DNA... kind of random) is a waste of money and should be vetoed. Nobody laughed at his little criminal-vs-paternal joke though
9:20 - Can I just say this is the first time I've watched live HDTV? Mostly I use this thing to play video games or watch recorded stuff. The difference didn't really strike me as "whoah" until I noticed the detail I could see in the speakers' eyes. So shiny.
9:22 - McC is a really good speaker tonight. BHO sounds off-balance in comparison. That said, I'm glad he's being frank and fighty about the tax-plan differences.
9:24 - BHO is trying to interrupt but he sounds mumbly. More coffee next time. And McC is just talking about BHO now. Now BHO is teling him he's full of it, and McC is snickering Bush-style. "You can look it up!" righto
9:29 - Now BHO is snickering at the "He's the most liberal senator EVAH" line getting dragged out.
9:30 - McC "We fixed it, we killed it, and people WENT TO PRISON" whoah dude
9:32 - BHO: "Google for government". Well, that's interesting.
9:33 - Ooh ooh! This scrap about spending freezes is good.
9:36 - Ugh. "But I oppose government-controlled health care, which is what would happen eventually under Obama's plan." Nice use of future strawman, dude.
9:37 - BHO: this orgy of spending suh-nap
9:38 - McC calls torture 'torture' - good. And he calls himself a maverick a second later. And then calls Palin a maverick, as a non sequitur.
9:39 - OMG did you know we were winning in Iraq? That's awesome news, dudes. I am so relieved to finally hear someone in the government say that!
9:40 - OMG, did you know we were winning in Iraq? Oh he said that earlier
9:44 - Barack, my man, the "your decision to invade Iraq sucked" stick didn't work too well in 2004. I don't know if you should spend too much time swinging it around like that.
9:47 - OK good now he's talking about how to draw down. And he invoked bin Laden, finally.
9:49 - I wonder how Obama's That's not true. That's not true muttering's gonna go down. McC spewing domino-theory BS now, barf.
9:55 - I had to go get some baloney from the fridge. Did I miss anything? We have some farking narsty turkey slices liquefying way back in the fridge. Oops.
9:56 - BHO: "We gotta take em OUT." whoah.
9:58 - McC talking about the pre-2004 McCain's rather more interesting voting record. Well, it's his to boast about.
9:59 - The bracelet gambit backfires!
10:07: BHO pops up the "Let's use Diplomacy" topic. Let's see how this goes.
10:08: McC - Apparently, if you talk to someone, it means that you agree with all their policies! And that's why you don't talk with Iran. OK.
10:10 BHO is handling this topic much better than Kerry did. Notable that McC isn't copping the "who gives a fuck what the rest of the world thinks" attitude Bush had then. He even mentioned France as an ally. Whoa.
10:12 Oh no, Barack, don't bring up McC's goofball Spain-vs-whatever-he-thought-that-guy-was-from mistake. Keep the punches above the belt.
10:13 McC - Apparently, if you talk to someone, it means that you agree with all their policies! And that's why you don't talk with Iran. OK.
10:14 - Damn BHO is in fine form now. And he's mixing in acknowledgement that Iran's guy is a nutbar, and being suave. And now McC is being a dick. "My friends!"
10:17 - Hurr, nice implication that McC wants to get all cold-warry with Russia.
10:20 - And that being said, McC is very familiar and comfortable with his framing of this topic. The ghost of Reagan winks over his shoulder.
10:22 - BHO: A billion to Georgia, eh? Wonder if McC is gonna latch onto that.
10:23 - Obama is frequently acknowledging and agreeing with points that McC made, and then springboarding off into his own thoughts, without being a snarky ass about it. That's worth a point for him. I hope.
10:24 - OK, now both of them have used the "walk the walk / talk the talk" cliche. That's enough.
10:29 - John: ouch, dude, don't imply that you've "found and fixed" the root cause of 9/11. He pedaled away from that quickly but it's still hanging there.
10:30 - BHO knocked the question of domestic security solid.
10:31 - McC: Yeah, but IRAQ!!! There's your cold-war fighter right there. Don't let those dominos fall!
10:32 - BHO: Yeah, but everything else, dumbass! Bingo.
10:36 - Again, glad that the Republican platform isn't "who gives fuck what everyone else thinks" any more.
10:36 - OH MY GOD!!!! JOHN MCCAIN WAS A POW!?!?!??!
And that's that. GUYS YOUR MICS ARE STILL ON.
9:10ish: McC seems more comfortable about all this than BHO at the mo.
9:15 - GRR McCain just implied that science spending (I think? $30 million (that's nothing, yo) to study bear DNA... kind of random) is a waste of money and should be vetoed. Nobody laughed at his little criminal-vs-paternal joke though
9:20 - Can I just say this is the first time I've watched live HDTV? Mostly I use this thing to play video games or watch recorded stuff. The difference didn't really strike me as "whoah" until I noticed the detail I could see in the speakers' eyes. So shiny.
9:22 - McC is a really good speaker tonight. BHO sounds off-balance in comparison. That said, I'm glad he's being frank and fighty about the tax-plan differences.
9:24 - BHO is trying to interrupt but he sounds mumbly. More coffee next time. And McC is just talking about BHO now. Now BHO is teling him he's full of it, and McC is snickering Bush-style. "You can look it up!" righto
9:29 - Now BHO is snickering at the "He's the most liberal senator EVAH" line getting dragged out.
9:30 - McC "We fixed it, we killed it, and people WENT TO PRISON" whoah dude
9:32 - BHO: "Google for government". Well, that's interesting.
9:33 - Ooh ooh! This scrap about spending freezes is good.
9:36 - Ugh. "But I oppose government-controlled health care, which is what would happen eventually under Obama's plan." Nice use of future strawman, dude.
9:37 - BHO: this orgy of spending suh-nap
9:38 - McC calls torture 'torture' - good. And he calls himself a maverick a second later. And then calls Palin a maverick, as a non sequitur.
9:39 - OMG did you know we were winning in Iraq? That's awesome news, dudes. I am so relieved to finally hear someone in the government say that!
9:40 - OMG, did you know we were winning in Iraq? Oh he said that earlier
9:44 - Barack, my man, the "your decision to invade Iraq sucked" stick didn't work too well in 2004. I don't know if you should spend too much time swinging it around like that.
9:47 - OK good now he's talking about how to draw down. And he invoked bin Laden, finally.
9:49 - I wonder how Obama's That's not true. That's not true muttering's gonna go down. McC spewing domino-theory BS now, barf.
9:55 - I had to go get some baloney from the fridge. Did I miss anything? We have some farking narsty turkey slices liquefying way back in the fridge. Oops.
9:56 - BHO: "We gotta take em OUT." whoah.
9:58 - McC talking about the pre-2004 McCain's rather more interesting voting record. Well, it's his to boast about.
9:59 - The bracelet gambit backfires!
10:07: BHO pops up the "Let's use Diplomacy" topic. Let's see how this goes.
10:08: McC - Apparently, if you talk to someone, it means that you agree with all their policies! And that's why you don't talk with Iran. OK.
10:10 BHO is handling this topic much better than Kerry did. Notable that McC isn't copping the "who gives a fuck what the rest of the world thinks" attitude Bush had then. He even mentioned France as an ally. Whoa.
10:12 Oh no, Barack, don't bring up McC's goofball Spain-vs-whatever-he-thought-that-guy-was-from mistake. Keep the punches above the belt.
10:13 McC - Apparently, if you talk to someone, it means that you agree with all their policies! And that's why you don't talk with Iran. OK.
10:14 - Damn BHO is in fine form now. And he's mixing in acknowledgement that Iran's guy is a nutbar, and being suave. And now McC is being a dick. "My friends!"
10:17 - Hurr, nice implication that McC wants to get all cold-warry with Russia.
10:20 - And that being said, McC is very familiar and comfortable with his framing of this topic. The ghost of Reagan winks over his shoulder.
10:22 - BHO: A billion to Georgia, eh? Wonder if McC is gonna latch onto that.
10:23 - Obama is frequently acknowledging and agreeing with points that McC made, and then springboarding off into his own thoughts, without being a snarky ass about it. That's worth a point for him. I hope.
10:24 - OK, now both of them have used the "walk the walk / talk the talk" cliche. That's enough.
10:29 - John: ouch, dude, don't imply that you've "found and fixed" the root cause of 9/11. He pedaled away from that quickly but it's still hanging there.
10:30 - BHO knocked the question of domestic security solid.
10:31 - McC: Yeah, but IRAQ!!! There's your cold-war fighter right there. Don't let those dominos fall!
10:32 - BHO: Yeah, but everything else, dumbass! Bingo.
10:36 - Again, glad that the Republican platform isn't "who gives fuck what everyone else thinks" any more.
10:36 - OH MY GOD!!!! JOHN MCCAIN WAS A POW!?!?!??!
And that's that. GUYS YOUR MICS ARE STILL ON.
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Date: 2008-09-27 02:51 am (UTC)