As this clip elegantly argues, perhaps it's time to rethink using the word "debate" to describe what's become nothing more than televised footage of candidates going over talking points.
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How about that crazy thing? McCain seemed more on edge than he ever has before. And did Obama put that Ayer's garbage to bed, or what?
Our favorite part was when the moderator, Bob Schieffer, asked McCain if he thought he had chosen a qualified running mate and he said something like, "Of course! Sarah Palin understands autism is on the rise in this country!" Hahahahahahahahahaha! So does Denis Leary, you mavericky, angry man, but I wouldn't want him in the White House.
After the jump, a 90 second summation of the debate.
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For this debate, for part of this next debate, do what I did for part of the last two debates. Literally, turn the sound off. I’m not being…I’m not joking now. Literally, turn the sound off. And just watch. Watch the body language of both men. You can sense it folks.
-Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden, on one way to enhance John McCain's crotchetiness. Interestingly, this is the same way Sarah Palin watches SNL.
The sleaze has reached a new low on the political front and, for once, it's got nothing to do with bulbous cretins waving around brown monkey dolls or candidate lookalike gangbangs. This time it's all about our government unabashedly accepting donations from corporations in exchange for favors, almost as if our nation were a plutocracy and not a democracy. The Ministry of Truth sure has grown audacious!
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Most assessments today of last night's presidential debate are grim. Under a picture of Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in Tennessee, the Drudge Report presented a single-word critique: "Boring." Politico is calling it the "worst debate ever."
We beg to differ. Instead, how about worst electorate ever?
For those of you wondering where Sarah Palin came up with her ridiculously empty answers during last night's debate…
Tonight, it's the debate you've all been kinda milling around and expecting for a few weeks now. Biden-Palin—yahoo!
In anticipation of the smackdown, here's an open thread to post questions you wish the candidates would answer. It's doubtful any of them will be asked this evening, but the exercise should be cathartic.
We'll begin: Mrs Palin, is it more thrilling to hunt wolves or old witches?
Boooo! Have you heard? The political analyst lady moderating tomorrow's vice-presidential debate, Gwen Ifill, is an African American writing a book about black politicians, one of whom is Barack Obama. Cheaters!!!!!
…Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program "Washington Week" is promoting "The Breakthrough," in which she argues the "black political structure" of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the struggles over racial equality.
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In the Amazon.com promotion for her book, Ifill is described as "drawing on interviews with power brokers," such as Obama and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Wait, Ifill also profiles noted Republican Colin Powell in her Obama bible? Well never mind that. And never mind that she recently told the Associated Press that, even after all her book research into Obama, she "still [doesn't] know if he'll be a good president." We still say she's a Muslin liar in the tank for the Democrats. No doubt she's going to pick on Palin and ask her what Russia weighs on the moon or something, only to then turn around and play nice with Biden, her "brother's" friend. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Just kidding! God, doesn't everybody complaining that Ifill's biased know how scared and paranoid and kinda racist they sound? This woman's a professional, you loons. Yes, Sarah Palin's going to get creamed tomorrow, but that's not going to have anything to do with Gwen Ifill.
Hahahahahaha! Fox News has already started their bitching campaign against Thursday's vice-presidential debate, and Sarah Palin hasn't even gotten destroyed yet.
According to the doofus talking head in the clip above, "the deck's stacked against" poor old Palin, who shouldn't have to face foreign policy questions.
When millions of people are turning to these liars for their information about the world around them, maybe losing all our money and being forced to start over isn't such a bad thing.
OBAMA COMES OUT ON TOP OF DEBATE "Two days after a presidential debate many commentators scored as a tie, it's beginning to look like the public saw things differently … A USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday showed 46 percent of debate-watchers believed Obama outperformed John McCain, while just 34 percent said McCain got the better of the exchange. Thirty percent of debate-watchers said they had a more favorable opinion of Obama following the debate, compared with just 14 percent who said their opinion of him had worsened. … Obama's numbers have ticked up nationally since the debate, the first of three scheduled this year … In the Sunday update to Gallup's daily tracking poll, Obama widened his lead over McCain to 50-42 percent. Friday, in polling that preceded the debate, Obama had a five-point, 49-44 percent advantage."
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