10:03 Obama hammering McCain for not explaining how he’ll pay for anything. Tying economic health together with military capability. (Eli)
10:02 Obama replaying his big hit with independents last time, hitting the failures of judgment on Iraq. McCain’s posture when not talking looks very anxious, uncomfortable. Obama on the other hand looks at ease. (Pach)
10:01 "We don’t have time for on-the-job training, my friend." Obama immediately connects it to McCain’s "Obama doesn’t understand" shots in their last debate. (Eli)
10:00 McCain just said that America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world. What a depressing notion. (Eli)
9:58 Obama hitting McCain for being against regulation in every arena. Some genuine heat there. (Eli)
9:57 Obama is closing well late. My gut tells me another polling bump after this one for Obama. (Pach)
9:57 Obama provides good rebuttal of McCain’s misstatements on Obama health plan;. you keep what you have; we help you do better. And we will insure children. McCain voted against SCHIP. Bingo. (Scarecrow)
9:57 Obama pointing out that kids are relatively cheap to insure, and that McCain has voted against healthcare for them. McCain still wandering around aimlessly. "Working the room"? (Eli)
9:54 McCain channeling the comedic stylings of Carrot Top. Thud. (Pach)
9:54 Anyone think that McCain is invading the audience’s space from time to time? Man, I can imagine smelling him–as close as he’s crowding some of these people. (ew)
9:53 Why McCain is supposed to "shine" in a forum that makes him stalk around like Quasimodo escapes me. (Thers)
9:53 The nervousness I saw from Obama in the first debate is totally gone. He seems like a man who knows he’s winning. (Blue Texan)
9:52 Strong health care answer from Obama, but Scarecrow is right: we could have heard these same answers six weeks ago. It’s as if they’ve agreed together not to watch the news or read the papers. (Pach)
9:52 Good Obama discussion of health care and the differences in the two plan; picking up on business concerns with McCain’s health proposal and affect on employer plans. Very competent answer. (Scarecrow)
9:51 McCain needs a nap. The cranky old man has come back. (ew)
9:50 Obama is good on McCain’s silly healthcare proposal, but I wish he would mention that McCain just said he wanted to rob Medicare to pay for it. (Thers)
9:50 McCain is wandering around the stage while Obama is speaking. Did he get lost or something? (Eli)
9:49 McSame is getting manic and creepy. I mean, more than he usually is. (Blue Texan)
9:48 Brokaw keeps letting McCain run long and then shuts down Obama when Obama wants to reply – Brocaw is not an impartial moderator. (Suz)
9:46 Obama showing his first signs of passion now, 45 minutes in. (Pach)
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Scrooge. That’s who he reminds me of.
Loooong flatline for Johnny on health care.
I don’t want my computer records computerized or online. I don’t want medical records secretaries’ jobs outsourced, from India.
anyone notice mccain’s shuddering and quavering?
Scrooge.
Evil troll.
Why was McCain pacing behind Obama and making hand symbols?
.
McFalin
He might NEED a hair transplant. No concept of need.
And that’s right. That’s exactly where such records can be maintained.
I really hate to say it, but McCain’s make-up reminds me of the make-up the funeral home people put on their “clients” when they’re laid out at the viewing.
Do you notice the way McCain stalks around behind Obama when Obama’s answering — kinda like a coyote looking for a meal. Or perhaps he’s just trying to distract attention from Obama.
In any case, it’s rude.
… and gasping for breath.
McMaverick looks very awkward wandering around the stage like Grandpa Simpson.
Did anyone else see him using hand signals to someone in audience a minute ago?
Every time he comes up with one of those lame laugh lines that sell to Republicans, the lines go down, especially women.
McCain just took 40 seconds longer than Obama on an answer
it’s a responsibility to provide affordable health care to every american? that is a typical bullshit answer.
Tom Brokaw is an elitist asshole!
Obama and McCain did not answer the last question whether health care is a commodity…
Brokaw followed up to draw a direct response.
McCain: I’ll take away your healthcare but here’s $5,000 to buy that $12,000 policy your business was covering.
IT SHOULD BE A RIGHT! WOW. good one obama!!!
healthcare is a right!
Finally! Health care is a right! Thank you Barack.
Obie steps up, says health care is a right.
Bingo!!!!
healthcare as a right…righton!!!!
Dead mother. Everyone loves their mother. DRINK!
I repeat, Obama’s positions remind me of the election in 06 when we hoped for impeachment and got “it’s off the table” once we voted them in. If my daughter (working for the dems) saw this comment, she’d kill me. But it’s what the skeptical me really fears. Yes,!! health care is a RIGHT, finally. See, maybe he’ll be good once he gets in there.
Part of me still hopes a dem congress and white house would give us a new deal.
Obama nails it in the response to Brokaw’s follow-up. Good.
McCain thinks it should be a stock option! Asshole. Boooo hiss boooooooo hiss.
Best anecdote of all, his own mom at only 53 trying to deal with ins.co at the end of her life. Strong anecdote.
Yep, I caught that.
for deaf people
Health care is a right! Good for you Obama! Rock on! And said with some swagger, too.
He avoided the safe answer there. Awesome.
McCain: Healthcare a responsibility.
Obama: A right.
If it is a right, then it must be universal, period.
Obama – health care is a right. Boom.
I love that you said it.
Amen!
He’s what my mom used to call a “skunk.”
I know, I know… But I feel bad for McCain. I like the guy, and I admire him, but I can feel his age from here. :-/
CNN loves Obama, men almost as high as women.
Who said the Town-Hall setting was McCain’s forte? Not when Obama’s in the hall.
Great points Barack!
and now obama nails mcsame on schip … go!
the inevitable conclusion,
It’s coming. “When I was a POW, I didn’t have healthcare.”
Yes! Now hit him again!
Finally! We had to wait until healthcare.
Crack down on health insurance cos cheating–squiggly lines like that
Yep, a skunk! We see your stripe Tom! Spit.
I gave up on that dream long ago.
McCain is hyped up on something.
Period.
Showing all the signs of an amphetamine fix.
CNN women are redlining for Obama.
He’s standing back there with his microphone up as if he’s going to speak. Rude-looking.
set design has no floor …just like mclones reasoning.
that one cracked me up, neil. rotflmao for sure.
McCain sounds like Chicken Little! Maybe a good new nickname.
wow! womens line is off the chart
I voted for Obama today. Ballot is already in the mail.
It freaks me out, you know? Very creepy.
His stalking around like a zombie doesn’t help, either.
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hehe
I wish obama would point out that average premium is 12K per year.
I also wish he would point out the Repubs love of big govt., huge defense spending, the surveillance state, etc.
Brains, need audience brains
McCain is creeping death
I would wet myself if I woke up at night with him standing over me
Sheesh no 1 person invented the internet. Al Gore had nothing to do with it.
I want Gov. out of my life Obama promises to put more of it in!
McCain’s “jokes” sure are falling flat.
Yep, it’s staged. McCain got all excited about foreign policy when tonight was supposed to be about domestic policy. Tommy changed it just in time! Asshole(s).
No you idiot, strong economy pays for strong military.
“did we hear the size of the fine?”
Good god how stupid. Why would he come up with the fine size now? So, how’d the squiggly lines like that joke? The audience in that town hall were pretty silent. Except for old Brokaw.
McCain wanted Brokaw to laugh at his dig – Did we hear the price of the fine?
You don’t get points for being an asshole.
What’s that line on the bottom of the CNN screen about Ohio voters?
I myself, do love Obama though. ;]
Erin
TheNakedHippie.com
Organic T-shirts
Mc gets asked a Q about peace maker and the third word out of his mouth is military.
Uh oh. Johnny has flat-lined again on CNN. LOL Can someone get the chest paddles!
Sheesh! Now I’ll probably have nightmares for a week…
Nevermind. He’s alive again.
america is the greatest forc e for good in the history of the world? we’ve only been here for a few hundred years. where does he get this stuff? was vietnam a good example. iraq? rwanda? what an azz.
hahahahhhaahahah
i’m curious, what motivates you to watch then?
So when is McCain going to address the question about making peace in the world?
“Kosova.”
To McCain, foreign policy equals “military”.
My friends, again. Anyone counting?
Mc never met a war he didn’t like.
Also notice that Obama personalized it by talking about how his Mom had to argue with her insurers while she was dying of cancer.
gulf war … mccain’s cnn rating tanks …
then mccain is your candidate. he doesn’t want gov to help anyone
ahhhhhh>?????
:O(
does that mean “coffee”????
omg
my friends, the fact is, and that question can only be answered by, and i am convinced on my record
–mccain
no
That’s right Barack! Tell it loud on the mountain top!
there’s the big guns! obama does not understand howo we invaded the wrong country.
Hey, Kay! Good to see you back here at the Lake for another one of these debatin’ extravaganzas.
If we HAVE to put up with hearing McCain say “my friends” a zillion times, at least we can hang out at the Lake together and throw virtual tomatoes at ‘im.
Senator McCain suggested that I don’t understand… well, yes, there are some things I don’t understand.
PERFECT. Especially where McCain just referred to “on the job training.”
He gave Obama the in. good.
My God he’s bussin’ around like a “tweeker”…doesn’t he know that speed ken kill an old man like him…someone get this guy some downers QUICK!!
LOL Siri. Okay. *dropping life saving paddles* ;-)
spending $10 billion per month can’t be good.
HAHAHAHa
Nothing about tonight will change the game or change the numbers. Nothing happening here. Time to move on.
5 Bottles down … I am sharing though … *g*
Is McCain wearing a diaper? Can he go this long without a pee break?
“McCain sounds like Chicken Little! Maybe a good new nickname.”
Actually like that little ChickenHawk that harries Foghorn Leghorn.
McCain is a stuttering old creep.
McCain “we don’t have time for on the job training, my friend” feel on deaf ears. McCain was babbling on about national defense and what a great country we are and his CNN response was trending down ,down down when he finished with the dig. no one was paying attention.
BO had the perfect comeback to that one…..
Exactly MrsK8! Some have passed out playing the “Maverick Drinking Game”, oh but not us…we’re playing the “McCain Tells The Truth Game” and we are sobah (’sober’ for all the non-Mainahs)! ;-)
Brokaw is channeling Brit Hume.
Obama sounds presidential, kinda
Obama stated in a speech “I intend to end capitalist free market Philosophy” I would sure like to know how he intends to do that? Would he burn books ban free speech what?
Plus, in true tacky fashion, he LAUGHS (heh, heh, heh) at his own failing “jokes.”
Thers is right, mcsame does appear to be stalking around like quasimodo.
McCain just set it up for him, didn’t he? Nice!
he’s got a foley and a leg bag…
He’s wearing one of those astronaut diapers. LOL
Talk about the programs McCains saying he wants to eliminate.
“My friend.” To your health, firepups! I better cut back on every other one now, my wife is giving me dirty looks. And that “submit” button is getting fuzzy.
most overused word, soon to be made illegal in the political arena;
“fundamental…fundamentally…fundamentalamundo”
STOP USING THE WORD, YOU’VE RUINED IT!
shouting, gives self time out
yep. nailed it.
Obama is connecting with the audience. man, he’s good.
well, so one of the difficulties, first of all, and if we continue on the path we are on, and…and, but there had never been, we should be doing, fundamentally change
you are the QUEEN of good moves, Kay.
this may top your past tops!
“Obama was wrong on Iraq.” I think when everyone sane thinks something is a mistake, and you helped make that mistake, you need not to tell someone who got it right that they got it wrong.
he LAUGHS (heh, heh, heh) at his own failing “jokes.”
umm, I tend to do that too.
*g*
Maybe he’s talking about REGULATING the market which is something that makes the right wingers of America cringe.
I think the candidates are doing good, but Obama is hitting the points very hard. McCain is making jokes like he’s on Saturday Night Live. We’ve got Tina Fey to impersonate his running mate but whose gonna play him?
No Sh.T…. He is scaring me.
hahahahahaha
Brokaw: Asks about use of military force for humanitarian purposes. All three of his examples are from Africa.
Obama switches it around and talks about the Holocaust and Europe.
yes, I’m so happy he had something to come back with on that he doesn’t understand shit.
Obama pinning the CNN lines again on moral issues and international intervention to prevent genocide.
McCain sounds creepy.
i think “my friends,” is about to go the way of the dodo. it seems to be wearing on people, even those on his side.
There’s a “hack the debate” channel on my time worner cable.
Brokaw is channeling Brit Hume.
You got that right.
LOL I kicked the paddles out the front door. They’re nowhere near me now….well….unless Barack needs them. ;-)
I thought the Bush Admin via Paulson and his doomed-to-fail wealthfare plan did that…and McInsane voted for it (so did BO and WAY too many Dems).
NORSKE!!!
so glad u r here!
i haven’t seen you cause of our diff clocks.
*smile*
“I wish obama would point out that average premium is 12K per year.”
The only person who McCain’s plan would appeal to would be for those who don’t know what their coverage actually is….and that they will lose their businesses plan.
MI AMIIGOS!!!!
For those who didn’t see this on “my friends”:
http://www.slate.com/id/2198660/
McCain is a beaten man.
Who says there needs to be a “Whoozit’s Doctrine” at all?
using ‘concert’ as a verb++++++rockobama
McCain, talking about Iraq, flatlining again.
flatlining agian.
McCain IS unhinged.
MES AMIS!!!
Hack the debate: people are typing in comments that are appearing on the TV.
Is this a new thing, with the my friend bullshit? Is that some Palin thing he added? It’s sounds kind of religious too.
McCain is not my friend
Jeremy Bentham
the ghost of john belushi
and then he talked about Rwanda. geeze a lil fast with the critique
If we had done what Obama suggested, we wouldn’t have ever gone into Iraq.
I still wish someone would point out that 60-70% of Americans want out of Iraq with or without victory.
Pups, what we’re seeing here is the proverbial battle of wits with the unarmed opponent.
Mrs. Norske’s got a new bottle…she’s lookin’ REALLY good tanight (sigh)…wow, even the dog’s can’t stand McCrazy…the Corgi almost pissed on the screen when McCrazy started talkin about the first Gulf war…
whispering again
Listening to that McCain is bad for the brain.
Yes Asshat, Iran is less powerful since the Iraq invasion …
The wife says McCain’s walking around like he has to go. Depends starting to itch?
GOOOD!!!!!! for you! Kay!
don’t go near em.
Obi won’t need em.
i STILL think he’s saving the big guns for later…….
not tonite tho
and
“clink!” to ye, dearie!
“That requires a cool hand at the tiller.”
LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Brokaw is a brokejaw
How about liar? Or Estupido?
PopPop is talking…zzzzzz…!!!
Obama is calm as a cucumber and McCain is frenetic and pumped (amphetamines).
McCain, far more than McCain needs to temper….
Gramps is talking about a “cool hand at the tiller”?
well, I agree I guess.
Vote for Obama then, Johnny.
hey Norske
He needs a lot of WD 40
My gandparents would barely pay for two months with Mcnutjobs plan.
ola sadly
I was wondering where you disappeared to
yes yes yes, You can’t find health insurance anywhere for less than 12 Gs for a family
Yes, he is your friend.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
McCain is better in town halls my ass!
President Reagan my f***ing hero????
Puhleeze! Johnny McSame, you aren’t a hero, but you’re way closer to it than St Ronnie of Raygun.
Crazy: “I’ll bring the troops home with victory and honor.” JUST BRING THEM HOME! Oh. sorry.
I love it when he says, “Tom”. (and not, “my fr–nds”) It’s so much more relaxing for my blood pressure. Besides, I gave Marion the sox.
raygun hero worship x 2: who is he pandering to?
it sounds utterly disingenuous. i would never trust a guy who uses a device like that.
Like I want to trust a really bad pilot with a bad temper with national security.
oops!
Jeremy Bentham
Yeah, I blew my tea out my nose at “cool hand.”
He’s the last guy I’d ever think of as a cool hand.
McCain IS unhinged.
Word salad on the last answer.
Very Palin-esque.
I’ve been meaning to tell you, Mr. K8 and I were in Maine for the first time last year, and we thought we’d died and gone to heaven.
That’s off-topic, though, so I’ll talk to you about your gorgeous home state on a non-debate thread. Will look for you!!! :-)
What the hell was I thinking having the life-saving paddles for Johnny! LOL Gawd, sometimes I don’t know about me.
*clinking back* ;-)
I LIKE Katie’s question.
Let’s see what happens now. BO’s stalling…..
Those things can only hold so much. It must be getting uncomfortably full.
McCain says that military is his best interest…but voted against the GI Bill. Oh right, he means keeping people perpetually IN the military…giving them no other options!
Hey that explains his economic model…mass poverty means a bigger recruitment pool!
I finally figured out who McCain reminds me of, well at least in someway, “my friends, my friends” isn’t that Richard Nixon?
McCain, promoting his as “a cool hand” in military affairs?
McCain’s is a failed military career.
he thought it was referring to cough drops!
ya know?
winky winky
I hope Barack uses that in a commercial, because right now we are witnessing Reaganomics on steroids and our economy is shit!
O not answering the Q.
McCain uses “My friend” like everybody elses uses “err”.
“Cool Hand Luke” … not the perfect image of the next POTUS
Can’t resist passing on a joke.
When a guy’s wife told him they had to economize, and he had to cut back on beer purchases, he responded that she’d have to cut back on cosmetics.
She said “But that’s so i can look pretty”. He told her that was what the beer was for.
And then there’s “fundamentalist” or “fundie.” You’re right, the word is shot forever!
Cool would be OK, but I draw the line at actually having a pulse.
BO just made tomorrow’s headlines on the Pakistan question.
Walking wobbly and carry a stick tween yer buttcheeks…
DEPENDS (Rx) on the VOLTAGE sweetie
omg
Teddy R. LOLOL!
what a dolt!
Jebus.
McKeating makes baby Jebus cry!!!!!
new thread… please make McCain go away..
New thread
Somebody in the hall needs to start singing “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.”
He finally did.
Pillsbury Dough Boy, I guess.
flatlining again and into negative territory
Yeah, but I remember yours being FUNNY.
Cool hand on the tiller.
uh oh Kay get the paddles, johnny is flatlining again
WTF os Mcnutjob on. Did he just say BO want to announce that he is going to attack Pakistan? He’s fucking rambling now.
Oh wow, I’m so glad you got up here MrsK8 to enjoy our state! We are experiencing the foliage right now and it’s just gorgeous. Come back soon! (Of course, there are some a-holes up here who have bumper stickers that read: WELCOME TO MAINE…NOW GO HOME! I hate those people. LOL)
If he blinks any faster he is going to wear his eyeballs down.
Why does McCain keep standing walking around when Obama is speaking? I thought they were supposed to sit when the other responded? Obviously he doesn’t respect Obama and doesn’t know how to follow rules. McCain is trying to be a rebel is it working.
YO MRS. K8!!!…now I know we ken win this thing…good ta hear you dear friend…hope ya got some good Kickapoo Joyjuice if yer watchin this vivasection of an old man in a public place.
Wish Obama went first! Then he could say, well, at least I didn’t sing Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran as a stupid joke. Since when does he get to preach after that one!
Teddy Roosevelt!
“I Talk softly!” This from “Bomb…Bomb…Bomb Iran!” Johnny!
The guy who blustered against Iraq like a dervish.
“Use FORCE…but Talk Softly”????
sorry but what’s that chit propping up his poofside of his face?
does he have plastic surgeon waaahmbulance like Cheney has no “heart care”???????
that’s just grossss!
Good gawd. Jesus weighs in on John McCain:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/p…..finger.jpg
Okay, who corrupted Jesus? Was it George Bush’s last 8 years? I think so!
what a jerk interrupting obama with that tyhak you very much crack.
Obama hot….bomb, bomb etc. Fantastic.
Oh Boy! Obama is shredding McCain with that “Speak Softly Remark”! I likey!
Uh oh. Barack talking truth. McCain is going to get batshit crazy now!
lol!
“I was joking with a veteran…two old vets…” It wasn’t bragging…ha..ha..ha..just kidding!
McCain knows how, you name it.
There’s no reason to insult assholes that way.
McCain has the experience and common sense to know you have to pay for programs that give handouts such as those promised by Obama. We, the taxpayers, pay for those programs.
Obama promises “pie-in-sky” for those who will give him their vote. He will turn us into a communist nation.
I prefer the freedom and national respect that John McCain will guarantee.
LOL. He moves his arms like the Tin man from the Wizard of Oz haha
Hawking war…McInsane….Russia war?
McCain looks in Putin’s eye and sees a K-G-and B
McCain thinks Petraeus is gonna save us!
Wait…a “surge”(increase in troops) is tactics in Afghanistan and yet it’s a strategy in Iraq? Flip-flop in terminology from last debate. I.E. he’s arguing semantics.
In one sense though the “surge” was a strategy in Iraq…and in that sense it failed…it has not brought together the political opponents to stabilize the society.
Norske, my sweet!
I’ve missed you a lot. I’ve been workin’ for “the man” and have been fighting exhaustion and health stuff — but when I can, I get back here, and am ever so happy when I get to see YOU.
BTW — I love Corgis (Corgies?), is yours Pembroke Welsh or Cardigan?
Damn, I’m so slow, I hope you see this now that there’s a new thread…
Oooh…looky trolls…like parasites. Guess what trolls…your guy is not even winning this debate. In his own format!
whenever mccain speaks I zone out for some reason…
Maybe McCain should try the Sarah Palin wink and maybe he wouldn’t be flatlining as we speak
Harumpf … TLM forbids us from Roastin’ ‘em …
trolls …hahahaha.. the deluded fools
McCain…winks like Palin. “Maybe…I don’t want to answer straight.”
McCain finally Thanks a soldier for serving his great country so r they coming home now
Damn seems one of the assholes has dropped in
Johnny Mac Pandering to the Navy Guy “Everything I learned in the Navy I learned from a CPO”. Yeah, like how to fly into power lines.” Thanks.
“Maybe McCain should try the Sarah Palin wink and maybe he wouldn’t be flatlining as we speak”
You channelled it…he DID!
the difference in depth between these two is even more dramatic than the last time. It is one dimensional sound bites (LEAGUE ODF DEMOCRACY!) versus multidimensional , including depth.
How many dimensions to America?
And how to go hideout when our aircraft carrier is on fire I am going to go on RR on the first freaking transportation I can get on to get my sorry ass out of here
8 years of wasted time now its time for 4yrs of Change
mcain is so 20th century
WTF McCain would not shake Obama’s hand!
Kalyn He was instrumental in bringing about this economic mess by pushing those types of loans.
You see centralizing the banking industry and having it be run by Gov. is the first out of ten pillars of the communist manifesto.
just in case you’ve not heard mccain’s fav: BOMB IRAN:
and this is BOMB IRAN of mccain fame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLv4mtwsRos
Right now we have 5 out of our 7 aircraft carrier contingent off the Iran coast.
Oct. surprise!