DISQUS

cosmo · 1 year ago

here we go! I have my "lucky" Obama T-Shirt on. Let's do this thing.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

McCain should wipe that vaseline out of his eyes.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

McCain's face looks like a chipmunk. Sorry to be juvenile. But it does.

mermaidart · 1 year ago

WALNUTS!

mermaidart · 1 year ago

p.s. I like your picture - where was it taken?

cyninbend · 1 year ago

It's the crazy plastic surgery McC and his wife are addicted to--he is 72! and made them cut out every wrinkle! And stick those implants in where they could not cut off any more skin... I cannot find the real old man under all that stuff...it is scary.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

"Fannie and Freddie Mae"?

cosmo · 1 year ago

Fannie and Freddie my ass

mermaidart · 1 year ago

McCain - no flag pin again! He must be a terrist.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Nancy Reagan hated McCain for ditching Carol and shtupping Cindy! Always a mawkish opener from this old coot.

annatopia · 1 year ago

what is wrong with mccain's eyes?

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Threy are dead and soulless.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Who's Freddie Mae?

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Good- Obama is looking right at the camera, talking right to the viewer.

cosmo · 1 year ago

McCain took his Ritalin today to keep his eyes open... too bad it makes him blink like a blithering idot.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Obama said middle class. Check. Oh he did it again!

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

Will McCain look at Obama? (no tv here)

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

it's not the foreclosures reich-wingers, it's your deregulation and 60 trillion swaps bubble. a-holes.
I think tonight mccain isn't playing to win, just to recoup some of his cred to himself, I predict he will do well for that reason.maybe.

KISSman · 1 year ago

"They're angry... they're angry... and they're angry." Odd for McCain to repeat that so many times.

I like that Obama is speaking about economy right into the camera. I don't want him to do a Palin all night, but to talk about this key issue, it feels like he's connecting with the folks at home early.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I have never seen McSame look more doped up or creepy than right now. That grin, the blinking, the stiff look, what is he on??

Domo · 1 year ago

Obama is smart, eloquent and speaks without sounding like he's got a mouthful of oatmeal.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Wurtzleburger!

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

on the market: buy index put options.. maybe..

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

would you like to ask Obama a question? McCain : NO!

microcosm.

annatopia · 1 year ago

not "that one", never!

cosmo · 1 year ago

Oh geez...the plumber story. McCain is soooooo mean...lol

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Look at McCain looking at Obama condescendingly. What a buffoon. He is totally unlikeable.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber! The most important redneck in the nation! (Joe would never, ever vote for Obama--he just wanted to get in Obama's face).

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Think Joe was a plant??? I smell Rove.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

McCain looks like he is on speed. Did they tape his eyes open or what?

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Blinking way way too much, maybe that's why he doesn't look at the camera. Kinda rambling a bit.

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

mcsame is lying right off the bat... oh boy...

DeppFan · 1 year ago

I'm getting Bob Dole flashbacks, when McCain waves that left hand with the pen in it.

KISSman · 1 year ago

*Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink* *Blink*

Holy crap -- it's uncomfortable to watch McCain.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCain is so on something to calm his nerves.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

The debate has just begun and Mc can't string words together well enough to hold my interest and he's not making any sense.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Based on the comments I'm seeing about the candidates' blinking, ties, etc., I think it's best just to listen to the audio... that's what I'm doing, and the debate seems more substantive. Though I am pretty tired.

houstonray · 1 year ago

Is Joe the Plumber the same Joe from Joe Six Pack??

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Obama was ready for this Joe the Plumber question.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber has been on Fox News all day.

Miket298 · 1 year ago

I'm getting a little sick of Joe the plumber already

mckathiki · 1 year ago

I'm with you on that. If Joe the Plumber makes over $250K a year he can afford to pay a little more tax. I am self employed and make way under that and Obama's tax plan calculator will save me $1000 per year on taxes. McCain's plans, tax and health, will sink me.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCin is getting wound up - I give him 10 minutes before he blows.

Donna_MC · 1 year ago

He is an angry angry man

JamesR · 1 year ago

"Class warfare" Rich (pun)

and why are they wearing striped ties!?

johnnguyen · 1 year ago

joe the plumber is such a bitch haha

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

I am going to sue McCain for copyright infringement on the name Joe. McCain just lost it.

Miket298 · 1 year ago

McCain is being rude and inturrupty tonight

KISSman · 1 year ago

Obama needs to look at McCain more as angry McCain is attacking him every way possible. He has to look him in the eyes and stick it to him.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I think McSame might lose it before this is over, he's freakin crazy tonight...he's blithering, he's having a hard time speaking in coherent sentences...

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

"You wanna spread the wealth around and create class warfare!: A talking point this morning on Fox and Friends, 15 hours later a botched rendition out of McCain's mouth.

DonQ · 1 year ago

We're talking about Joe the Plumber -- heh heh heh heh heh
McCain is creepy

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

This is McCain's "ass kicking"? More like sarcastic asshole.

mermaidart · 1 year ago

BLINK, BLINK, BLINK, BLINK, BLINK.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

How is the CNN meter reacting to McCain interrupting Obama?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

not well

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

McCain forgot that Obama shot down his comment on high bus. taxes in the US in the last debatge.

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

kill joe the plumber!

lol..

cosmo · 1 year ago

McCain is wound up tighter than a drum.

RealityChex · 1 year ago

Last word from McCain "Let's not spread the wealth around"

topscoop · 1 year ago

it sound like mccain is snoring while Obama is talking

Mark217 · 1 year ago

I hate McCain's sneer. McCain should get a job as a spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce or as a lobbyist for big businesses. I wonder if McCain will lose his psychotic temper tonight. Looks like he is close to it.. McCain hates our troops. He is NOT wearing a flag pin.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

He is a spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce and a lobbyist for big business.
Also, not a great move to mention "what we had during the depression".

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

McCain's "smile" is so phony it is frightening.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Did Obama just say "Health Scare System"???

Things you notice -- or think you notice -- when you go audio only.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Does McCain have eyedrops in his pupils? Or did someone on his campaign tell him to look like he's about to cry? I suppose, they reasoned...it worked for Hillary..

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Why the hell does McCain ALWAYS take notes, can't he remember his talking points

topscoop · 1 year ago

cnn poll diving

dgray32 · 1 year ago

McClinton?

houstonray · 1 year ago

He would know about the great depression...

cosmo · 1 year ago

warning: If you blink everytime JM blinks, you may have an epileptic seizure

houstonray · 1 year ago

McCain is crazy tonight, I'm telling you, he's going to blow a gasket before it's over...

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

mccain is getting angry..

MCCAIN SMASH?

DreamOn · 1 year ago

I think anyone named "Joe the Plumber" will see a major uptick in his business tomorrow.

KISSman · 1 year ago

That 'spending freeze' idea is the biggest joke ever. You can only do something like that in Fantasyland.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

"millions of jobs....MILLIONS of jobs....in America". . .so, Sen. McCain, why didn't you create those jobs over your tenure in Washington? Why didn't your party create all of these jobs?

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

McCain VERY shaky on whatever that agency was in the Depression that "bought up" homes. And the reference to Hillary will be lost on everybody...

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Mc doesn't seem to be able to answer the question - his voice is trembling with anger just regurgitating his talking points again. Oh my, this is gonna be a long long debate...

tlsintx · 1 year ago

mcCain's a bitch. sorry. he just is.

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

I wonder if McCain will save any Ayers comment until his closing, then pull the Brave Sir Robin and Run Away!

TampaZeke · 1 year ago

Notice, ONCE AGAIN, which one is wearing an American flag lapel pin and which one isn't.

"THAT ONE" is wearing one. The OTHER one isn't!

Where oh where is the outrage from the right?

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

Hell didn't ya know that he is a POW

houstonray · 1 year ago

There he goes again, he KNOWS HOW TO DO ALL THIS STUFF...but he won't tell anyone unless we elect him...

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

Sounds like Mrs. McCain has shared some of her uppers and downers with her hubby...

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Bob tried to get mcCain to answer the question OHHHHHH now McCain uses Obamas "scapel"

men are loving McCain on CNN meter Line is as high as it can go. Women not so much

caerbannog · 1 year ago

Did McCain blame the mortgage crisis in Freddie and Fannie? Did I hear him right?

tas · 1 year ago

He is a lizard person. watch his tongue flick in and out

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

there he is, holding out on us again! "I know.., etc..."

Busboy · 1 year ago

Looks like McCain is history. Time to sell stocks and buy guns and gold. It was good while it lasted!

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Man, does McCain hate Boeing or what?

scottinsf · 1 year ago

There's that overhead projector again.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

He knows how to save billions, how to catch Osama, how to tie an onion to his belt...
Oh no the fucking overhead projector!!

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Time to get over the fuckin projector!

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

McCain started out strong, for McCain that is, but he's lost it already.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

If you put lipstick on John McCain, he's still a pig.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

again with the projector! he has no shame!

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

"I can save billions...I can protect America....I can do EVERYTHING...."
Yep...and he can crash planes, too.

Nick_the_Dog · 1 year ago

planitarium.......take a drink

cyninbend · 1 year ago

They say that people blink when they lie. McCain is pathological tonight.

akonuche · 1 year ago

Obama looks tired. Poor thang. And McCain looks like he's OD'd on Red Bull. Po' overreactive eyelids.

Savage8862 · 1 year ago

Why doesn't McCain finish a thought? He can't finish one sentence before he goes off on another tangent. Freddie and Fannie Mae? McCain couldn't even get those company's names right. Is something wrong with him?

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

GODDAMMIT! The Planetarium again? Pork barrel??? Yeah, God forbid we invest in education and getting people excited about science.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Men are NOT liking Obama on CNN meter

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Surely they are not liking McCain. . .the guy sounds almost incoherent. . .

Mark217 · 1 year ago

I am all for spreading the wealth around to all Americans. Is that a moral evil? Do you think John McCain can get me a date with Joe the Plumber? There is something hot about a guy wearing a tool belt. And maybe Gramps McCain can tell us all another bedtime story about the Great Depression.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

McCain's just really, really jumpy tonight like a ferret.

akonuche · 1 year ago

"If you want to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago." Ouch.

And the crowd didn't like that too much.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

"I'm not President Bush. . ." . . .LOLOLOL. No, Senator McCain...you just campaigned for Bush, ate cake with him while New Orleans drowned, and voted 90 percent of the time with President Bush.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Oooooo -- I am not President Bush.
Nice try.

KISSman · 1 year ago

OH C'MON... eliminate the deficit in 4-years??????

LIAR.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

He sure does understand anger!

grandma · 1 year ago

McCain looks angry...really really angry.

cosmo · 1 year ago

JM keeps talking about how "angry" Americans are today.

Hysterical.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

This is boring. Time for me to switch to Bravo to see the finale of Project Runway!

dgray32 · 1 year ago

McCain's surgeon should have used a hatchet instead of a scalpel.

topscoop · 1 year ago

grampy's gonna blow!!

Busboy · 1 year ago

Ferrets can destroy your colon, phaet2112

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Ill try to keep those peanut butter coated carrots out of that area, then!

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Good retort by Obama.

akonuche · 1 year ago

OMG WHAT WAS THAT FACE HE JUST MADE?! Yikes!!!

DeppFan · 1 year ago

All the note-taking just makes McCain look secretarial.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

He needs to take noted in order to be able to recall the question.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

He's got scars to prove it folks.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Please please please don't show us the scars....

triple7s · 1 year ago

He said I've got SCARS.OMG

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

McCain lied about not supporting torture.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

His face looks like it's gonna explode like a cartoon thermometer! And when it does, bullshit will spew out of his head!

Pinwiz · 1 year ago

Can Obama have the last word for once?

houstonray · 1 year ago

Nasty campaign talk...this should be good...

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

Great response by Obama on McSame's economic votes.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Damn, Hurray for schieffer for bringing up Ayers

topscoop · 1 year ago

mccain is a stenographer with a cheek boner

cosmo · 1 year ago

here we gooo......

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain is SO angry tonight. But I'll tell you what, I believe that the talking-heads who don't see these debates through the eyes of the average Joe Plumbers and they're going to like McCain's performance tonight, but the regular people at home won't like the angry old guy.

johnnguyen · 1 year ago

Good news though, McCain is wearing a tie that doesn't make my eyeballs go into atrophy

Milli · 1 year ago

McCain isn't convinced that Obama can stand up against his own party? He freaking clawed his way to the top of the party and dethroned the Clintons!

akonuche · 1 year ago

Oh hell naw! Did he just gave him an opening to bring up Ayers??

Oh I know he is not still talking about the townhall meetings. WTF? LMAO!

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Bullshit question - equating what McCain did to Obama with the Obama approach.

Milli · 1 year ago

Sad, sad, sad, old man.

lovepeaceandallthat · 1 year ago

I am listening on the radio.

I loved it when McCain said Obama's plan is "class warfare" and - gasp! -- spreading the wealth. Bring it on!!!

---- McCain just said he "knows how to save billions" (in regard to the deficit) and that we have too much "government spending" --- and save money in the defense budget. All I could think about is "THE WAR!!!" Jesus, the government spending... why does the war not get mentioned!!!???

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

The tragedy of Dallas???!!!

grandma · 1 year ago

townhall meetings.....*yawn*

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

McCain just passed up the "I'll say it to his face," opportunity

DreamOn · 1 year ago

"We could have done at least 10 Town Hall Meetings..."

And McCain would have lost every one.

cosmo · 1 year ago

dead children in church buildings? huh?

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

are you freaking kidding me? he brought up the Lewis thing.

akonuche · 1 year ago

Is he going to cry?

KISSman · 1 year ago

Is McCain about to muster up a fake Hillary-like tear?

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Equating the rhetoric of both campaigns? This is a fraud of a debate and Obama walked into an ambush.

Domo · 1 year ago

What the hell did Lewis say that was so inappropriate?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

From what I am seeing the CNN audience is either bored or could care less what each candidate is saying. I have only seen lines go high for McCain and that was coming from the men side.

topscoop · 1 year ago

lying through his fat cheek. seriously he needs to see a doctor. he can barely talk

grandma · 1 year ago

McCain's still not saying it to his face....he's not even looking at Obama

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Maybe if McCain cared so much about Civil Rights he should've voted for MLK Day...

FunMe · 1 year ago

LEWIS? that was so hurtful ...


McCain says he has repudiated every bad remark?????

Does he want to cry.

He wants to run a "truthful" ad ... now he is blaming Obama that he is running the most negative.

McCain = bush

black=white, up=down, blah, blah, blah

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

OMG...he's a pathological liar. How can he run an honest campaign when he doesn't even have an honest supporter and is running as the candidate for a dishonest political party?

dgray32 · 1 year ago

No John, Lewis was referring to your campaign's fanning the flame of inciting fear and hate - not segregagation...

akonuche · 1 year ago

Wow....he's just bringing up everything. He is making his way towards Ayers.

cosmo · 1 year ago

BO needs to step it up now

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Is there a box of tissues for Granpa? He's gonna cry over how John Lewis hurt him!

johnnguyen · 1 year ago

OMG repudiate?! what about the death threats? curious george + obama sticker? mccain's supporters are so acidic in their hate that it falls into threats on obama/wifey

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Hmmm, McCain called Clinton today and guess what=======Clinton talking points

Mark217 · 1 year ago

I know John Lewis. I agree with John Lewis.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Yes! Obama is pivoting off of the negative stuff to go back to the economy and essentially saying that this stuff is a waste of time (and that McCain has a thin skin).

FunMe · 1 year ago

Obama is bringing it back to the ECONOMY.

ZAS!

Obama would love to discuss the next 3 years talking about the economy, healthcare, energy ...

DreamOn · 1 year ago

That would have been a good opportunity for Obama to hoist McCain for using that kindergarten sex ed ad. Oh well.

GMinDE · 1 year ago

There is NO WAY he is making it another hour+, take cover he is going to blow!

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

I don't mind being the personal attacks -- good line from Obama.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Obama knows that anytime the attacks come, bring it back around to the economy.
The only thing that truly matters.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain doesn't know the difference between television ads about a campaign ISSUE and negative ads about character. This man is clueless.

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

Spot on, Obama. I don't care if McCain cries over Lewis's VERY ACCURATE assessment. Give me serious views on the issues.

KISSman · 1 year ago

Ok, I put on CNN now and something is up with the MEN on the charts. Obama says something that doesn't even merit a feeling either way, the men don't like it. It's bizzare. I think the men with those devices are already leaning McCain or against Obama.

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

McCain just sounds like he is whining.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Joe the fucking plumber again - did he do free work for Pailin on her new house?

DonQ · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber is BAAAAACCCKKKK!!!!

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Here's the plan devised by the McCain campaign for tonite: play the vicitm! Make Obama be a vicious bully!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I there goes the men CNN line moving higher when McCain talks. The men just do not like Obama

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

What's this about Joe Plumber every two seconds?

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm an Obama supporter, but he's not doing as well tonight.

akonuche · 1 year ago

Obama is a liar!!! And he's spending soooooooooooo much money to attack me!!! (Secretly, I'm enraged that I can't do the same!!!!) Arrrrgh!

johnnguyen · 1 year ago

good job obama, this is why you're my hero

DonQ · 1 year ago

That McCain interruption was truly low class. Wow.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

I'm not watching CNN...but something seems stacked if the men are supporting McLoon.

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

What's up w/ McCain's mouth breathing?

dgray32 · 1 year ago

McRude, McChildish, McInappropriate, McDisrespectful

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

McCain keeps interrupting.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Okay Gramps is going to blow!!

cyninbend · 1 year ago

"Attack ads on ME"? NO! Attack ads on your policies and plans! McC is soo out of touch he does not comprehend the difference between attacking a policy plan and yelling "kill him" or calling him a terrorist.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

GOOD POINT! Obama needs to make it. Attacking McCain's policies is not the same as encouraging people to attack McCain. And how about McCain's Saddam campaign man and how about GOP suppression of the vote? Come on, Obama, talk back!

Btalk314 · 1 year ago

For a tough POW, McCain sure is one big fucking crybaby!

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

I'm proud of the people who come to our rallies. All twelve of them.

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain is apparently proud of the lady who called Obama "an Arab".

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

I wonder how much Obama has raised tonight. I donated, and got matched by Benjamin G.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Is Sheiffer EVER going to tell McCAin to STICK TO THE FUCKING RULES

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

McCain just called his supporters "fringe."

mermaidart · 1 year ago

BOR-ING! Scheiffer is terrible.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Now the country can see the constant slummer that McCain is and that many Arizonans know.

topscoop · 1 year ago

the test came back positive. Mccain is insane.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I'll have to admit, Bob Schieffer is actually making this a debate...

DonQ · 1 year ago

Yes -- and it's an interesting surprise

DonQ · 1 year ago

Again, where's your flag pin?

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

Frankenstein Monster Angry! Grr!!

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

it's f-ing over. 28 years of hell and it's over. the american people are not buying it this time.... mcsame doesn't know that

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain is a complete liar. It is utterly astounding.

tas · 1 year ago

He is going to blow up. He is losing it. He is getting so pissed. How dare Obama accuse McCain's supporters of saying nasty things.

Domo · 1 year ago

McCain's gonna cry!

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

Why do tee-shirts hate America?

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

McCain wants to whine. Obama wants to talk about the economy.

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

what tshirts is mcstain talking about??? I want one!

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

Some obscure blogger had a one of a kind t-shirt on her website saying Palin is a c*nt

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

gee---he has been know to use that word; Strange that it offends him so. I guess Palin deserves more respect than the mother of his children and provider of his standard of living,,,,

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

HOORAY!!! It's the meltdown we've been waiting for!

KISSman · 1 year ago

Obama is talking about getting beyond the nonsene of political fights between the campaigns and men on CNN had him under 50% at the beginning of his speech about it. Weird.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Maybe we need to ask the question: who are the men CNN is measuring?

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Here it comes. . .Ayers and ACORN. . .LOL. McCain looks like a mean old man.

Miket298 · 1 year ago

Wow ACORN is destroying the fabric of democracy

houstonray · 1 year ago

McCain has gone freakin over the edge....

DeppFan · 1 year ago

He's desperate.
Acorn
Ayers

It's on.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

lying old fu(ker. sorry for not being more eloquent, but that is all my brain will let me create at the moment.

he never repudiated a damn thing until the secret service told hime too. and why is he crying about Obama's money? that is OUR money. we gave it to him to spend beating McCain. it's not as if it is Michelle's money he is spending. He does not have a sugar moma like John.

akonuche · 1 year ago

ACORN!!! Woooo...Obama brought up Ayers on his own!

DreamOn · 1 year ago

At long last, the bottom of the barrel.

topscoop · 1 year ago

mccain is mentally taxed. if he makes it through this thing without screaming it will be a win for him

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Again with Clinton AFTER his phone call with her today. Don't tell me the Clntions support Obama

DonQ · 1 year ago

ACORN self-reported phoney registrations so it's voter fraud?! Spare me.

topscoop · 1 year ago

finally. the truth!!!

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

ACORNS!! Walnuts! Filberts!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

There goes the CNN meter line for men, going down while the women's line going up.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Obama gets his marching orders from Jim Jones!?!

Donna_MC · 1 year ago

He's going to start spitting soon!

DonQ · 1 year ago

Obama: Slam!

Webster · 1 year ago

I lived in Ohio for a decade one year--and I'm not at all surprised at the dumb CNN indicating ratings by the men there. I've never met a more machismo-happy, testosterone-laden group of numb-nuts in my life. Not to mention racist. Not all, of course--but a surprising number of them.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Is that where the group is located in Ohio??/ I thought it was nY

Webster · 1 year ago

The screen says "uncommitted Ohio voters."

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

McCain is being quiet because he's trying to think of a way to bring up Joe the Plumber again...

KISSman · 1 year ago

I think Obama did a great job in explaining these two things that McCain has focused on for 3-weeks. Any average person could digest and understand the reality of the situation and not the lies that McCain throws around.

cyninbend · 1 year ago

That was refreshing from Obama!

Kcunac · 1 year ago

He's boring. (McCain) and he's just blathering.

akonuche · 1 year ago

I so want to spit nails right now.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I'm with ya...

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Acorns create great oak trees - ACORN is rebuilding our democracy, not destroying it.

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

McCain crashed hard on CNN line after Obama answered the Ayers Acorn BS

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Ooooooh... the running mate question could be deadly.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

LOVE the question asking for a comparison of Biden and Palin.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Maybe Old Bob isn't so bad after all - why is your running mate better - oh snap Gramps!

KISSman · 1 year ago

There go MEN again going under 50% as he talks positively about Joe Biden. That doesn't make any sense!!

DonQ · 1 year ago

Obama just laughed at McCain's claim re: the focus of his campaign. Obama is ready for war. Will we get to see him really hit back hard?

dgray32 · 1 year ago

How the hell does Obama keep his cool???

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

I think he must be a closet Buddhist. (Teh horror!)

tas · 1 year ago

Arrggghhh. Ayers. Obama Scary! Me hates him and me good! Myyyy Prrreeeecccciiiioooouuussss!

topscoop · 1 year ago

line is up high for both

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Can't wait to see how McCain defends his choice of Palin...

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

I don't like the moderator. Obama should have had the chance to ream McCain on HIS associations and then just be done with the crap. Is anyone seriously going to believe that John McCain gives a damn about the economy when his campaign is busy trying to tell people to vote for him because of the Ayers/ACORN manufactured bullshit?

cosmo · 1 year ago

I refuse to watch CNN - all that nonsense on the screen distracts me

houstonray · 1 year ago

I'm so hating McSame right now...even more than normal. Props to Obama for sitting there and maintaining his composure with McCain blithering on and on with lie after lie...

WOW

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Let's face it - the only opinion that matters is that of the undecideds - and for them Obama is running away with it.

topscoop · 1 year ago

because my vp actually has a brain

akonuche · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin is NO role model for me. Yuck!

tlsintx · 1 year ago

me either. blech

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin is a role model for women. . .!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL. I am laughing hysterically.

grandma · 1 year ago

A role model to women!?!??!!!...hahahahahaha...lol lol lol

Stevious · 1 year ago

McCain seems like he's overcaffeinated, the blinking, inability to complete thoughts and sentences, jumpiness... wide eyed look, it's just weird.

akonuche · 1 year ago

Maybe a Red Bull IV was given to him prior to?

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Now comes the fatal blow... hit him, Barak!

DonQ · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin is a role model to pregnant unmarried teenagers everywhere

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

AND she voted against the bridge to nowhere! Wait...oh....

DeppFan · 1 year ago

"A bresh of freth air".

dgray32 · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin knows how to fake a pregnancy...

cosmo · 1 year ago

Breash of Freath air?

topscoop · 1 year ago

she's a MAVERICK! gulp!

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

"She's cut the size of government."

Yeah, in Alaska it's basically down to her and her hubby, at this point.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

mention of palin and line drops like a rock and there go those freaking men again putting mccain at the top of the line. women are mostly flat oops now both are rating together

canuck55 · 1 year ago

She abused her power, she got her house built as a favour, she can see Russia from her house.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

.....and...her husband is a pretty tough guy, too.....LOLOLOL

DeppFan · 1 year ago

And then he flashed a big yellow-toothed smile.
*blechhhh*

akonuche · 1 year ago

I didn't get that comment.

JamesR · 1 year ago

...um she can't be your "partner" if your DEAD

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

a freath of bresh air..... lol....

Kcunac · 1 year ago

She is definitely a freth of bresh air.

I think she said it herles.

KISSman · 1 year ago

I am convinced that the MEN doing that CNN thing are totally leaning McCain. He hasn't said anything substancial about Palin and men are going crazy on the dials for McCain. Not a thing he said had anything to do with why she'd make a good president.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Someone needs to ask CNN why they stacked that response group.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

I'll bet the answer would be that they have to put the impression out there that this is still a neck and neck horserace.

topscoop · 1 year ago

agree. it seems rigged with the men. they can't all possibly be that stupid.

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

McCain is really creepy

houstonray · 1 year ago

Excited "A" base...not "THE" base...haha nice one

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I can't believe BO didn't hit harder.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

On Caribou Barbie? He may not have to. Tina Fey is doing that job for him.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin a role model to women? Just reinforces my impression that John McCain has a LOW opinion of women generally.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Special Needs? Special Freeze!

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Who uses the word "cockamamie" anymore?

McSame, that's who.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

How come anybody who disagrees with war and McCain is WRONG?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Okay I have never seen such disparity of CNN lines like I have tonight. Men and women are basically not agreeing. Men are just loving mCCain.

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

The same people who say "whoopsie daisies."

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

Or "Uh-oh spaghettio's"

Mark217 · 1 year ago

McCain is really having a poor time, hesitant and trembling speaking voice, rambling in a disjointed way. He looks like he is wearing a loaded diaper and is very uncomfortable. To most impoverished voters McCain's use of words like "Ayers" and "ACORN" don't mean anything. Obama's words about fair taxation, health care, affordable college, and jobs connect with people. McCain's endorsement of Palin is tragically laughable (and "her husband is a pretty tough guy, too"). Obama's recitation of Biden's qualifications was factual and eloquent. McCain's sneer is really a buzz kill, total turn-off. We don't need this hateful old grump in D.C.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

But men are loving him

Mark217 · 1 year ago

Well, maybe a few men in CNN studios with those hand dials. I am a man and a veteran and I loathe John McCain. I don't think those studio reaction things are all that significant or statistically sound. They are entertaining, but that's about it. McCain rambles on and on like a homeless psychotic babbling on the subway. I can't follow him and make sense of his disconnected speech. There goes that famous McCain sneer of contempt. This man is indeed proud of people who threaten Obama's life at GOP rallies.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

What a whackass old loon-he'd be hilarious if he wasn't so damn scary.

topscoop · 1 year ago

the difference between them discussing their vps was astonishing. mcain sounded like he was talking about his daughter. I am proud of her.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

How will nuclear power drive my car?

houstonray · 1 year ago

It will if you have the Back to the Future Delorean with a Mr. Fusion Home Reactor...

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Bananna peels and beer!

DonQ · 1 year ago

McCain: In what respect, Charlie?

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

McCain just corrected Scheiffer on how his question was worded. Scheiffer corrected himself accordingly.

BWAA-HA-HA-HA!!!

SO BUSTED!!

Domo · 1 year ago

I'd like to see what Johnny Boy is writing down. He seems like one of those OCD cases that sribbles in books to give the impression he's actually read it. I bet they're purty pictures!

tlsintx · 1 year ago

that's how he keeps his temper from blowing

houstonray · 1 year ago

It's probably page after page of expletives...

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Maybe they can put some of those spent nuclear rods in McSame's 11 back yards.

Mark217 · 1 year ago

John McCain will build us all "nuclear pants!" And nuclear plant safety is "environmental extremism"? McCain, you are a sad, little toad.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

He doesn't understand the difference between a nuclear sub and a nuclear power plant.

cosmo · 1 year ago

Men always favor McCain, but those "visceral" reactions are very short and reactive. Upon reflection, McCain will be seen as desperate and erratic as he is, and thus, less Presidential

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Who looks like the President and who looks like a cranky old coot?

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain says that he doesn't care if nuclear power is safe, we just need the power.

7 to 10 years to eliminate dependence on Middle Eastern oil?? Oh, c'mon. How, by off-shore drilling?? McCain is just saying anything.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

I just read a new article today about how offshore drilling probably isn't going to happen... it's just too expensive relative to the price of oil.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

why do men favor McCain? why why why why why?

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Isn't it just the angry idiots looking for someone to blame for the world not giving them a great living and a world to rule like it did their dads and granddads? The passive aggressive types with no way to express themselves because of low intelligence or ignorance? They love the mean asides and slurs--I live in a place dominated by those types.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I am hating this debate. Partly because that idiot keeps grinning.

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain looks really creepy when he's listening to Obama. I mean, REALLY creepy.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

I admire Obama's eloquence too!

houstonray · 1 year ago

Drill baby drill....

whatever...

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Smirking Chimp the second

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

I think "That One" is kicking ass...wrinkly, old, diaper-wrapped ass.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCain looks like he is sitting there trying to smile and is just about carrying it off.
That being said, I would be nervous sitting next to the guy.
Do you think that he will call Obama a "bag of ass"?

DonQ · 1 year ago

I'm a free-trader. So I believe in massive government intervention.

topscoop · 1 year ago

is he getting pinker or is my tv about to explode?

fedupwitholdwhitemen · 1 year ago

how do you debate someone that consistently lies nonstop?!!

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Three Americans will be a market for our goods? WTF is this old man talking about and where is his rocking chair and spitoon?!

justanothervet · 1 year ago

ACORN - the Mexicans of 2008

They took my democracy!

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Wow, how did you wander in here?

justanothervet · 1 year ago

that was snark.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

It's a serious question. If you are buying the Republican bullshit about
ACORN and its work and making a derogatory comment about Mexicans at the
same time...unless you were being sarcastic?

justanothervet · 1 year ago

Ok, here is how snark works: you make an insane comment that is making fun of an insane idea. Point, in 2004 Karl Rove made illegal aliens, mainly Mexicans, the red herring of the campaign to knock everything else out of the conversation. One of the big joke lines of the time concerning immigrants on the right was "They took my job!" Fast forward to 2008, we have ACORN being used as a red herring supposedly stealing our democracy so that McCain can change the subject away from the economy, and everything else.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Oh - wow, I feel really old, in fact this is the first time I've sat and
commented on a live political blog - it's pretty much the only way I can
refrain from busting my TV over McCain's face. I'm sorry that I didn't
recognize your snark and I appreciate your explanation here. And you are
absolutely right.

justanothervet · 1 year ago

we are on the same team. i feel the same way about mccain and his face and my tv.
commenting during live blogging is worse then smoking for your health, and harder to quit.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

I can see how it could become addictive but it is time well spent tonight
and made me feel like I was watching the debate with lots of intelligent,
caring patriots instead of alone.

justanothervet · 1 year ago

to risk sounding cliche, but you are not alone. we are all in this together. me, i've been dropping in on two other threads and posting on my own blog, while still watching the debate on tv and talking about it all with my wife...too much mutli-tasking for one night. I need a drink.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

My husband and daughter just came home from her karate class and asked me
what the debate was like. And all of a sudden I became too angry with Mc to
tell them. You're right - it's time to wind down.

dgray32 · 1 year ago

The pot shots against Obama are disgusting!

PaulMorel · 1 year ago

Every American Right Now: "God, John McCain is a douchebag"

topscoop · 1 year ago

wow, that snarky comment just sunk him

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Go to South America like McCain went to South America to get laid?

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Obama has never traveled south of the border? Are you sure, McCain? Because your impressive knowledge of geography (cough cough SPAIN) isn't winning me over.

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

McCain's jaw dropped about Obama's response to Columbia

cosmo · 1 year ago

JM to BO: All your drugs are belong to us

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

God. McCain's creepy smile is creepy.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

One more good jab from Obama and McCain is going to lose it.

DonQ · 1 year ago

I'm sorry, but this Obama guy is good.

KISSman · 1 year ago

When Obama says things that infuriate McCain, McCain's face is sooooo transparant. He looks like he wants to blow his top at some of the things Obama says. Imagine what McCain is like in the Senate. I bet he's a crazy person.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

oh lord, the drug issue, never mind that the importing of drugs in this country is done by the CIA. And that is a FACT!!!!

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

mcjerk keeps sighing or taking deep breaths very audibly while Barack is speaking---it is REALLY annoying and RUDE!

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

mccjerk is showing his true colors....

cyninbend · 1 year ago

The kind of thing his 3d grade teacher should have weaned him from 65 yrs ago?

zavlin · 1 year ago

I just started watching.
I am so sick of the mccain grin.
Its so forced.
and somthing just looks wrong with his face tonight.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

I love the way Obama returns to the question and answers them eloquently and specifically. He is our next President.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

McCain`s make-up artist didn`t earn her $5,000 tonight. He looks like a corpse laying in a casket in his favorite suit and tie. If I could photoshop, I`d add a white lily.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

... and Obama looks like a "cocoa dreamboat", to steal a line from King of Queens.
Sorry to go there, but he just looks so much healthier. Not to mention easier on the eyes.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

LOL In the 1940's, Lena Horne wore that particular shade. "Light Egyptian," she called it. Time for change, much?

fedupwitholdwhitemen · 1 year ago

there isn't enough makeup or plastic surgery in the world that would make that ol geezer look alive

houstonray · 1 year ago

McSame's lines (on cnn) are sinking more and more often when he starts attacking Obama...

akonuche · 1 year ago

McCain is working EVERYTHING into this debate. What does NAFTA has to do with sitting with our enemies in a diplomatic fashion?

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

McCain's get the last fucking word EVERY DAMN TIME

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Herbert Hoover! That will resound with young America!

Nick_the_Dog · 1 year ago

Obama's not Hoover!

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Actually, I think McCain would be more effective at this whole attack-thing if he wasn't throwing in 10,000 attacks a minute. Overkill.

Personally I think Obama should get more aggressive.

KISSman · 1 year ago

Has there been a single time when McCain has spoken tonight where he didn't slam Obama? A single topic or response? It's all attack, attack, attack... it gets old.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

But i keep saying the men on the CNN meter love it when mcCain attacks, the women not so much

munjoyfan · 1 year ago

Could someone please provide a link to the CNN tracker? I can't find it.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I am watching it on TV , just go to CNN news

topscoop · 1 year ago

its on the bottom of the tv screen

fedupwitholdwhitemen · 1 year ago

there is a different tracker on cnn.com videos to the right watch voters react live, it's more interesting than the tv one with ohio voters

therepguy · 1 year ago

McCain has done himself in... he's cooked his own tail tonight... it might as well be over!

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

We're on healthcare now. How will McCain bring up Joe the Plumber here?

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

his debate tactics are so poor..... its ridiculous...

skilfin · 1 year ago

Flipping back and forth between HD and non-HD...McCain's makeup isn't that noticeable in standard def but it's corpse-creepy in HD.

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

We're watching it at Joe's, and I don't think he has HD, or at least we're not watching the CNN HD channel. It's exactly as you describe, I just didn't want to use that phrase in the post

cosmo · 1 year ago

Hoover? Isn't that a vacuum cleaner?

topscoop · 1 year ago

off the chart high for obama on cnn

and it

dives

DonQ · 1 year ago

Will McCain now tell us that Joe the Plumber will have no health insurance woes if we cut his taxes?

mermaidart · 1 year ago

What is with that rictus grin??? YIKES!!

lynchie · 1 year ago

Sheiffer is a loser. McCain can't stay on topic and his only defense is to call Obama a liar. High taxes, sit down without preconditions with Chavez (where did that come from), high spending. Yeah Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich.

Mark217 · 1 year ago

McCain won't look at Obama, just sneers at the camera. Obama actually laughs at McCain in a gentle way, like a younger adult would humor a cantankerous and hateful old fart spouting paranoid nonsense. John McCain hates veterans - no flag pin. I bet John McCain's friend Dale Gribble told him not to wear a flag pin. This is Pops McCain's worst debate. Pathetic old man!

Milli · 1 year ago

WTF? I'm missing a new episode of "Ghosthunters" for this? 90 minutes of watching McCain be the angry irrational old man next door, again?

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

He makes the grumpy old guy who lived next to us when I was growing up (he kept any balls that went into his yard) look like Mr. Congeniality...

cosmo · 1 year ago

Obesity? That's what he's going to fight?

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Hey fat kids! Grandpa wants you to get off his lawn!

houstonray · 1 year ago

OMG, Joe the Plumber rears his head again...my friend...

mermaidart · 1 year ago

I can't see if McCain has an onion on his belt. Darn.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

God, if I hear a message for Joe the Plumber one more time... my friend...

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber just got out-sourced.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Heh. Joe The Plumber. DRINK!

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Chug a lug, baby!
:o)

DeppFan · 1 year ago

"Now Joe ...." Back to Joe the Plumber.
"My friend".
Ugh.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

Joe again.

Busboy · 1 year ago

I want Obama to win so my plumber can give me my share of his earnings. That's what "fair" is to me....

DonQ · 1 year ago

SWEET! Joe the Plumber prediction VINDICATED!!!

KISSman · 1 year ago

Obama actually went to 100% by both men and women on CNN when talking about healthcare and women stayed there for the bulk of the time while he explained it. Wow.

Women are tired of Joe The Plumber. They have him under 50% during his entire rant with Joe The Plumber. I think a lot of us are sick of Joe at this point.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

C'mon guys. It's WAY past McCain's bed time. Of course he's grumpy.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Mc sickens me when he acts like he gives a damn about what is happening to us and how we are hurting...if he cared so much why hasn't he done something to change it in the past 20+ years? He doesn't give a good damn about us and has no clue because he is rich and his health care is free. I'd like to know why he still gets his VA disability and takes Social Security and why the hell does he keep talking to Joe?

Milli · 1 year ago

And what the hell is McCain's obsession with Joe the plumber?????????

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

I wish Obama would just ask Senator McCain how much insurance McCain has purchased for himself with $5000.

Miket298 · 1 year ago

McCain's jaw looks like it just hit the floor lol Zero?!?

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Second time tonite

topscoop · 1 year ago

WIG OUT TIME!!! ahhhhh!

Mark217 · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber is Charlie Crist's current boyfriend.

Donna_MC · 1 year ago

Did McCain fall asleep off camera? I thought I heard some snoring while Obama was speaking.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

I'll bet Jack the Electrician is getting jealous.

houstonray · 1 year ago

What about Bob the Builder, don't forget him!

DonQ · 1 year ago

And I'll repeat for your elderly ass, John

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Oy, enough with Joe the Plumber!

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Who would have guessed that the debate drinking game word would have been "Joe the Plumber"?

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

How many times has McCain tried to speak out of turn tonight?!?!

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

For those watching CNN....is McCain scoring ANY points with the undecideds?

KISSman · 1 year ago

Oh lord... I think Obama's "Zero" to Joe The Plumber was my favorite moment of all three debates. He totally blindsided McCain with the facts.

cosmo · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber!`

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Who's playing Joe the Plumber on SNL?

topscoop · 1 year ago

i pick matt damon in guest appearance

meemers · 1 year ago

ELLEN!

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Danny Aykroyd used to do the refrigerator repairman on SNL, with the buttcrack showing.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

LMAO I think that was actual shock on McCain's face when Obama refuted him on the small business insurance

meemers · 1 year ago

John Levitz! Yeah.........That's it!

dclenden · 1 year ago

Why does Scheiffer allow McCain to have the last word on each topic? Is Obama being gracious or is McCain rude or is Scheiffer incompetent?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

All of the above

cyninbend · 1 year ago

The media is trying to tighten the race so their ratings/ad income go up. CNN was a McCain-fest this afternoon...

DeppFan · 1 year ago

That's what my husband is getting upset about too.

topscoop · 1 year ago

I am seriously terrified of McCains temper. it seems dangerous and frightening.

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Obama is after the Walmarts who dump their employees on local govts and charities--and taxpayers--after their illnesses become emergencies.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

JESUS! What the hell is with Joe?!!?!?!?!

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

HAHAHAHA, McCain gets turned on his head. What a dick.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Joe's rich, Byatch!

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

McCain's freakish smirking face will do for him what Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow did in 1960.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

You know, if McCain had of come up with a theme like this before he lost all credibility, maybe it would have worked. As it is, though...

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Joe the Lion - David Bowie predicted everything.

New thread please!!

WDemDem · 1 year ago

OMG he looks like an animated corpse. Pink lipstick. Ewwww. I just tuned in - what the hell is all this Joe shit?

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Yo...McCain....HOW MUCH INSURANCE HAVE YOU PURCHASED FOR YOURSELF FOR $5000?

houstonray · 1 year ago

OMG he broke out the gold plated cadillac and hair transplant metaphor

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Transplants! (again!!)

canuck55 · 1 year ago

There he goes with the hair transplants again. Project much?

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

mccain is sad, one of the worst debators i have ever heard....

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

Can McCain hear Obama? He keeps repeating the lies after Obama corrects him.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

McCranky is flat to down with both men and women on the health care answer.

LOL -- Senator Government... he's a bresh of freth air!

JamesR · 1 year ago

God - Poor Joe Wazzisname - when he goes out this morning to get donuts before work a gaggle of reporters are gonna be at his doorstep or at his jobsite...

cosmo · 1 year ago

so, it's the cadillac gold-plated insurance covers "cosmetic surgery" and "transplants"?
nice

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Yes, transplanted kidneys are the new black.

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain is beating "Joe The Plumber" to absolute death. I mean, what do you think is going to be the main discussion about afte the debate -- JOE THE PLUMBER. And it will be clip after clip of McCain beating the topic to a pulp. McCain screwed himself tonight by going this Joe The Plumber thing WAAAAAAAYYY too much.

justanothervet · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber is the new My Friend

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Fuck Joe the Plumber. Really.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

mcjerk wants to flush government down the drain....

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

McCain's likeability index is now somewhere between that of Vladimir Putin and Joe McCarthy.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Golly gosh -- it's just everybody's fault! Thank God Mohn JcCain is here to dave the say!

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

We've got too much government and too much spending, and too many rich white oligarchs like me in War-shington. Oh...oops...

DeppFan · 1 year ago

"Warshington".
LOL!

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

Oh...Cadillac insurance plans for "transplants and all that frivolous stuff...

Just so you all know...I'm 7th month pregnant have no health insurance...and pregnancy is a pre-existing condition...no health insurance company will cover me...this is my reality.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

I understand completely your reality. My husband is 44 and has COPD - uninsurable. I am 54 and have pre-existing conditions - uninsurable. Even if we could be insured, we could not afford it. We make too much money (less than $27,000) for Medicaid. My 13 year old is only insured because she is on CHIP. Both my husband and I believe that, if Obama is not elected and the obstructionist Republicans are not thrown out of Congress, neither of us will live to see our daughter go to college, marry or have children. By the way you should check with your state's CHIP program, mine has a lot of pregnancy coverage for unborn babe and mom. Hang in there and I wish and hope the best for you.

dandeelyon · 1 year ago

I truly that Obama wins so that you and your husband can be covered. I was
shocked when I started looking around for insurance and hitting the same
wall..."pregnancy is a pre-existing condition..." Even if I could pay all
the money in the world...insurance companies will not extend a policy. Of
course we are "middle class..." and many of the state programs won't cover
me...basically we are a c-section away from banckruptcy.

I can't begin to imagin the conversation that you must have with insurance
companies. Know that I feel absolute compassion for you and your husband.
Let's do all we can do rally our communities for an Obama
presidency...that's the best hope we have...please be well...much love and
support...and enjoy your daughter...the teen years are the best years!

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Sorry for the delay in response. I very much appreciate your compassion and
concern and hope and pray that everything works out well fro you and your
family. Not only must we work for Obama to win (my husband and I went to
vote today, the first day of early voting here in Texas) but we must also
see to it that he has a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in Congress.
That is the only hope we have. Take care.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

AARGHHHH!!! MY NAME'S NOT JOE!!!!!

DreamOn · 1 year ago

If Joe the Plumber is now rich, will he still do his own plumbing?

DonQ · 1 year ago

He'll outsource it to G. Gordon Liddy (a McCain crony, BTW)

DonQ · 1 year ago

I would nominate Joe the Plumber to the Supreme Court

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

ha!

Kcunac · 1 year ago

LOL! There's still 19 minutes to insert it.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

I'm confused...is it Joe Plumber or Joe Sixpack?

KISSman · 1 year ago

No. Joe The Plumber goes to political rallies and is engaged in the process. Joe Sixpack sits home, drinks beer, doesn't care about anything and needs everything said to him simply.

KISSman · 1 year ago

Why does Roe V. Wade even come up? How they both answer is entirely predictable and it's honestly a waste of our time when there were so many more important issues.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain does no litmus test for the Court? Didn't he tell the fundies he'd impose one based on Roe v. Wade? Ohh..I get it....just not the "activist" ones....

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Yes, it sounds like he reversed himself on that.

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

My mom would have been very happy if I had married "Joe the Plumber" instead of Mr.-working-on-another-advanced-degree. Did you ever have to call a plumber at night or on the weekend-----big bucks there!

triple7s · 1 year ago

Why is Obama being SO NICE. KEATING, PHIL GRAHMM. ANYTHING?

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I agree. He could have punched back firmly and probably with far more credibility.

justanothervet · 1 year ago

indeed

fedupwitholdwhitemen · 1 year ago

yeah he commended palin for her work for disabled families -like cutting their funding for special olympics?! why not point out these inconsistencies instead of agreeing

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber = Queeg's strawberries.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Obama voted against Justice Breyer? That was 10 years ago, John. At least. Oops!

cosmo · 1 year ago

creepy lip smacking by JM

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain just contradicted himself. He's too confused.

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

I think he meant Alito.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

So is "Joe the Plumber" the new "maverick?"

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Obama scoring really well with both men and women on the abortion answer. Thank God for that.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Noticing my blood pressure goes up when McSame speaks, and back to normal when Obama speaks.
Yeah, true sign of a partisan.
I yam what I yam.

dgray32 · 1 year ago

what exactly is strict constitutionalism? Legislating from the bench? It's difficult to deny there are gaps in the law. In these (hard) cases, do judges find or discover the law?

DonQ · 1 year ago

Tough question. How much protection for privacy is there in the Constitution? In the actual words, not much. In the "penumbra" around the Bill of Rights, perhaps a lot. I think strict constructionalism is a rationalization to allow government intrusion into peoples' lives.

dgray32 · 1 year ago

Good point. My take is the whole notion of SC is a straw man. I see SC being used to strengthen states rights on anti-abortion - which stands in contrast to your privacy observation.

DonQ · 1 year ago

Finally! Obama says Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance in this election.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

how about we hand out condoms for every citizen in this country, a life time supply. lets abort before its to late.....

this issue is classic cart before the horse issue.... its silly....

scottinsf · 1 year ago

A good reminder that my constitutional rights should not be stolen through referendum.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

I've figured it out. McCain is looking around, blinking, and all-out freaking out because this debate is seated and there's no way he can walk around the stage and work off that anger while Obama is talking.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Plus his prostate is the size of a watermelon and there are no bathroom breaks in this debate...

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

Goddamn that McSame smile is creepy. It's a cross between a smirk and a drunken grin.

grandma · 1 year ago

I thought Schiffer said they were out of time...yet McCain is rambling on and on

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

McCain: Obama wants to kill your LIVE baby!

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Maybe it isn't McCain. Maybe it's Sarah Palin in a rubber mask.

DeppFan · 1 year ago

Obama needs to say how many times McCain voted present on anything.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Most of the crucial votes in the Senate for the past 2 years have been MISSED by McCain - he couldn't vote yes, no or present because he wasn't there!

Miket298 · 1 year ago

Wonder if McCain's constant Eyerolling will hurt

Kcunac · 1 year ago

LOL -- men on CNN going crazy for McCain on this question and women are running for the exits.

Look at his wide eyes! McCain is on the verge of a stroke.

meemers · 1 year ago

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Divine intervention! We should be so blessed. He is a rude little prick!

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain's faces are priceless. The one he made when Obama said that it isn't true that he would deny life-saving treatment to an infant was classic. He looks unhindged.

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Abortion rates go up every time antibortion people are in the white house! Why? Because they screw the economy and women have abortions because they are afraid they cannot afford a child, or insurance. Abortions go down in number every time Dems are in office because women are lss afraid of losing that safety net. Facts.

Mark217 · 1 year ago

McCain bragging about his support for pro-choice Supreme Court justices Breyer and Ginsberg. I bet that made the right-wing fundies cringe. McCain doesn't sound like he is really going to make the fanatical anti-abortion types too happy tonight. Most of the right-wingers DO want a litmus test for Roe v Wade for Supreme Court nominees. Seriously, it would be interesting to be a cockroach in Pat Robertson's living room right now

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Look at that sweaty, shiny forehead on McCain. It's glaring on my screen and it's not even HD. Where's his $5,000-a-day makeup artist now?!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Good grief MCCAin is god damn creepy looking most of the time.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

God he's really drinking the wing nuts bath water tonight, isn't he?

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCain gets the last word again!

DonQ · 1 year ago

Ooooo - Obama's eloquent. Therefore, we can't trust him

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Again, what exactly is McCain's target audience. Independents? Christianists? He's all over the place. This is bad marketing.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Air quotes?!?! Really?!?! Oh no he di-n't!

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

I'm sure most female voters REALLY liked that show of contempt for them.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

oh you know it.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain always seems to get the special right to speak out of turn.

triple7s · 1 year ago

Yes. Like through the WHOLE debate. WTF!!

Rev_Sacrilege · 1 year ago

WHOA, is Obama saying he supports abstinence only education?

Mum48 · 1 year ago

No, not likely. I'm not sure what you thought you heard, but if you have any questions, you can go to his campaign website and I'm sure you will find the answer.

cosmo · 1 year ago

McCain is like an angry bull, snorting, sniffing, raring to go...what a nightmare

DeppFan · 1 year ago

I do hear him snorting off-camera. Ew.

fedupwitholdwhitemen · 1 year ago

last question thank god!!!! everybody drink!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

For god's sake IF the McCains were for adoption WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY ADOPT A YOUNGSTER FROM THIS COUNTRY???

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

mccain cant even answer the question of abortion.... and he redirects and uses the fear card about late term abortions... uggggghhh!!!!

i cant stand mccjerk.....

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain could have made up some points with Independent voters when Obama gave him a softball after explaining how we should prevent abortions by educating people so they don't carelessly have pregnancies. Instead of finding some common ground with that, McCain decides, once again, to attack Obama hard. Idiot. I mean, truly an idiot. He's talking to the base that he already has with all of this pro-abortion talk.

He's said nothing tonight to talk to the middle, the undecided and Independents.

JamesR · 1 year ago

I wonder how many 'undecided' women would want Dr. McCain deciding how much their life would be in danger?

cyninbend · 1 year ago

"Health" of the mother is the extreme position? My John Birch wing nut mom was a nurse and could never understand why her own party could not recognize a doctor's ability and need to protect his patient's health. I am sick to hear a former moderate say such a disgusting thing.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

fuckin amen

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCain looks like an old Beaker from the Muppet Show with all of that blinking.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

i'm hopelessly biased. mccain sucks.

realitythink · 1 year ago

Senator Obama did not vote against Justice Breyer, as McCain said, he was not in the Senate at the time. This man is trying to spout practiced lines and it is not working. He is coming across as angry, negative and mean. It's important that you know which votes your taking about when you criticize your opponent.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

This was one debate too many, as far as I'm concerned.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

oh kiss my ass old man. he just said "In the case of the life of the mother can be stretched to mean anything and justify the abortion."


what a di(khead.


and why does he keep invoking the "eloquence" line. is the same as "articulate"? wth?

oh look, this colored fella sure can talk nice, eh? hehhhhhhh

Kcunac · 1 year ago

but can he sing? can he dance?

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

mmmm maybe. word on the curb in Chicago is that homie likes fried chicken
and walla-melon too.
hehhhhhhhhhhh


In a message dated 10/15/2008 7:20:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

DonQ · 1 year ago

McCain: "We're behind all those other countries because of our elite northeastern universities and our eloquent leaders." Or, maybe not.

mlwjones · 1 year ago

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/barack-obama-a...

I'm sorry, John, but Joe The Plumber (TM) is more eloquent and reasonable than you are. He's actually listening to what Obama says. And just might have been convinced.

I'm waiting for a Joe The Plumber redaction, but given McCain's even aware about this guy, I'm thinking Joe The Plumber was a Republican shill in the first place.

In which case, Obama's dealing with him is even more brilliant - respectful, factual and actually worked if you read Joe's body language.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

early childhood education from birth to 3 is the most vital period of developing child. you want better math students, start laying the foundation for mathematical concepts then!!!!

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

The civil rights issue of this century? Does that mean you're going to vote against it, too, McCain?

tlsintx · 1 year ago

take a flying leap old man. get bent.

lovepeaceandallthat · 1 year ago

Did anyone catch McCain's comment about the Gulf War? He was talking about Biden didn't vote for that war and how that was a difference between him and Biden. But in explaining it he said (paraphrasing) that "we needed to go to war because if we didn't the flow of oil would have been restricted".

I was like "What??? You just admitted that war was about the flow of oil (and money....)??? Uh, the protesters back then were the ones saying "no blood for oil" and people would look at us like we were crazy. We were fed huge propaganda about Saddam Hussein being the source of all evil in the world... a crazy man out of control... someone to fear.

Yes, the beginning of the war was supposedly because Kuwait invaded Iraq and tried to drill oil but there is no way in hell they would have gotten US citizens accepting a war over something like that. Therefore, the whole Saddam is a threat to the entire world crap. And now McCain admits it was all about oil? Am I missing something?

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I will be this debate is given to McCain NOT because of substance but because he rolled his eyes, snorted and attacked every word out of Obama's mouth. CNN meter clearly shows the men favored McCAin, the women supported Obama but not to the degree of the men's McCain approval.

Personally, I don't think either won this debate.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I predict Joe the Plumber will be People's Sexiest Man Alive, 2009.

houstonray · 1 year ago

Depends on what his butt crack looks like...

susano · 1 year ago

I know that I've finally figured out what I'm going to be for Halloween!

Webster · 1 year ago

Choice for schools. No choice for women. McBlither is giving me a headache.

KISSman · 1 year ago

The idea that protecting the health of the mother is an 'extremist' position is one of the wildest accusations I've heard yet. Wow.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

Find bad teachers a new line of work...how do we decide who the "bad Teachers" are McCain? Standardized test results? Screw him.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Thanks for the comment, Jacki. The last time I shopped for individual health care policies (2001) the best price we could get was $700 per month ($8400 7 years ago) and our preexisting conditions were excluded. What the hell do you need health insurance for if not for the medical conditions you have?

cyninbend · 1 year ago

In 2004 when I lolst my COBRA benefits thru the ex, the policies were way over $1,ooo a month and the companies said no one could afford them so they did not

cyninbend · 1 year ago

quote them. There is no insurance now. I have many friends in the same position--we just know that any cancer, etc is a death sentence. And have stopped annual check-ups because who wants to know they have little time left. And relatives know not to hospitalize me is something happens--alive and homeless is worse than dead.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

So this election is about Acorns, preachers, Alaska secessionists, elusive kindergarten sex-ed promoters, under fire in Bosnia, Joe the Plumber, my friends, shoutouts for extra-credit for high-schoolers in moose-land, '60s hippies, fathers in mills, etc. etc.

Wow. Am I missing anything?

Please don't hit reply, as my e-mail is bouncing back and the forwarded reply will clog Americablog.

Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago

Whoa there! Johnny Latte says that people who come back from military service can step right into a classroom and teach without TRAINING?!!!

Johnny, you'd better have some herbal tea from now on.

DonQ · 1 year ago

PTSD is great for the kiddies!

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I feel like McCain has offended so many specific interests tonight that the next few weeks could be uglier than anything we have ever seen.

topscoop · 1 year ago

bravo!

canuck55 · 1 year ago

McCain can't remember Michelle Obama's name.

topscoop · 1 year ago

i thought that as well. it was rude

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Gawd, McCain is SO sarcastic and SO condescending.

KISSman · 1 year ago

Look how angry McCain talks to Obama about schools. I mean, he's actually snearing at him. That face he makes is full of anger. Spending 90-minutes with Obama seems to infuriate McCain and it shows.

Webster · 1 year ago

WARSHington is almost as annoying as "My Friends!"

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Sarah's child doesn't have autism

DeppFan · 1 year ago

AGAIN he said Sara Palin's kid has AUTISM!
WTF.

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

Again with the autism. Someone needs to pull him aside....

tlsintx · 1 year ago

sarah palin knows NOTHING, my friend.
she's just a joke.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

McCain's just throwing out random thoughts. I couldn't follow him if he did command my attention.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

doesnt the palin brood have down syndrome?

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Yes, but who cares about accuracy when you're just making the point for the hell of it. And might I point out, she's had, what, for or five months of experience as a special needs parent. But then again, Sarah's a pretty special case herself.

mckathiki · 1 year ago

And she cares so much about her Down syndrome baby that she's on the campaign trail inciting hatred on behalf of a doddering old fool...

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Um, Sarah Palin's kid has Down's Syndrome, not Autism. McSenile should read his notes more carefully.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Sarah. Palin's. Kid. Does. NOT. Have. AUTISM!!!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I think Obama had a ton of substance but over the head of Joe the Plumber.

DonQ · 1 year ago

That's the second time he conflated autism with Down Syndrome. Mo-ron.

zavlin · 1 year ago

Mccain just repeated the autism gaffe. My brother has downsyndrome, i wouldnt forget this.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

So which one of Sarah's kids is autistic again???

Miket298 · 1 year ago

again with the rude interrupting twice in one sentence and thinking hes so clever

percol8r · 1 year ago

Well, that explains a lot. McCain just said Sarah Palin is autistic.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

fuck, this asshole is correcting obama and obama doesnt even correct mcjerf when he lies about the issues....

ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago

Have we not learned from the 1st and 2nd debates? The point isn't to make the right point, it's to make the right image. Obama wants to come across as being Presidential and magnanimous, not as snarky and know-it-all. Relax man, he's working this debate.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

i hear you zen - i just want mccain to blow his cork. im so tired of the lies, the need to be shot down!!!!!!!!! but i understand what youre saying...

meemers · 1 year ago

McCain is only appealing to his hateful clueless base and Joe the plumber! I don't think this debate is going to change anyones mind. Uhh, I guess he might appeal to those that are out of their minds! He is downright repulsive!

topscoop · 1 year ago

what a jerk. sinking poll lines

tlsintx · 1 year ago

he's nuts.

topscoop · 1 year ago

and scary. why aren't therapists around the world speaking up about his unhealthy behavior? He has serious anger issues.

canuck55 · 1 year ago

So what have we learned from Gramps tonight?
Health care is a disaster thanks to fat kids, he has secret plans to solve everything, and Joe the Plumber!

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Marry me!

dgray32 · 1 year ago

Watching McCain debate has been a difficult time...

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

<snort> <maniacal laugh> <snort> <breathe heavy>

They mic'd McCain with that in mind I think, lol

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

"Healthy discussion?" McCain looks like he's going to keel over with a stroke at any minute.

Webster · 1 year ago

You would think that McCain would at least know that Palin's kid has Down syndrome--not autism. WTF?

Kcunac · 1 year ago

So we need a new direction with a steady hand on the tiller that puts country first and can see Alaska from its house.

cyninbend · 1 year ago

McCain actually snorted with glee at trying to catch Obama is a statement that could be misconstrued to to hurt him. Oh dear...

canuck55 · 1 year ago

I think that McCain has decided to target a very specific voter demographic for the last 20 days of the campaign - plumbers named Joe.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

I'm a maverick!!! I think he almost said make healthcare avoidable!

realitythink · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin's child has down syndrome, not autism!!!!! Is this guy just stupid or in dementia land?

DonQ · 1 year ago

We have to make health care avoidable . . .

mckathiki · 1 year ago

McCain, we can't even trust you to speak coherently, how can we trust you with our nation?

KISSman · 1 year ago

I have to tell you, Obama is finishing off McCain right now. His agreement with McCain in some of these late issues makes McCain look twice as angry and disagreeable. Obama is showing in these debates how he might work with both parties by agreeing with some aspects of his opponent's stances. McCain attacked Obama on every single stance for 3 full debates. Not a single time during these debates did he ever find common ground with Obama. Not once!

Holy f*ck*, McCain ended this debate with the creepiest last comment ever. Holy christ that was freightening!

Coming Undone · 1 year ago

My Friends I deeply I mean deeply hate John McCain, he is a bitter old angry little man and I despise him.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Country First. Warshington Second. Name-Calling Third. Is that right, McCain?

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

McCain also looks so uncomfortable... what's he sitting on, a plunger?

canuck55 · 1 year ago

Yeah he got it from Joe.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

Joe the plumber's eloquent plunger. For 5 1/2 years.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

The prostate does tend to swell in advanced age.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Watch at the end for the handshake or the blow-off from McOld.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Let's see what the press says about the eye rolling and snorting. They fried Gore for his sighing and McCain's facial expressions are far worse than Gore's sighs

ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago

who cares about the press. They've called it wrong every single debate. What counts is the polls.

DreamOn · 1 year ago

Don't get complacent - time to donate $ - if you can.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

Yes, absolutely don't succumb to complacency. Go to your nearest Obama campaign office and volunteer. If you can't free up any money for a donation to the campaign, there is sure to be something you can do to help out otherwise. Besides, it's a great deal of fun to work with people who are excited and forward-looking and inspired.

realitythink · 1 year ago

Oh that's right her sister's child has autism. But she still cut the funding for special needs education in Alaska.

EllaDisenchanted · 1 year ago

I think the assertion that she cut funding for special needs has been debunked at a few fact check sites. I looked into it b/c I was going to use it in an argument and it didn't check out.

phalamir · 1 year ago

Maybe the "Sarah knows autism" is because she has autism - might explain a few things

Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago

Who can ever imagine that this maniac, this frightening and angry and vengeful man will somehow find his way into the head of the Executive Branch? Oh my God. Look at his facial expressions. Listen to his vocal cadence. Listen to his vocal inflections. That's the window to this man's personality and temperment. Jeez. McCain is far too strident, far too much of a hair-trigger reaction to normal, average disagreements. He hasn't any ability to moderate his reactions and therefore, his stress. He's a hair trigger away from exploding.

topscoop · 1 year ago

Fantastic close!

Mum48 · 1 year ago

Sorry phaet2112, but I agree with topscoop. I thought that Obama's close was short, sweet, and right on.

DonQ · 1 year ago

I wonder if Joe the Apocryphal Plumber is a union man?

phaet2112 · 1 year ago

Obama's closing is average, I think.

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

So Obama FINALLY got the last word in, at the very end. Thanks, Bob.

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

McCain looks so wooden...."Good job...good job...good job...good job..."...McCain is just looney.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

God. McCain can't get off the stage fast enough.

jennywa · 1 year ago

Kudos to Obama for mentioning parents in the education debate! After teaching for 30 years, I realize that no matter what we do at school, without parent support, we cannot make major improvements!

kh7463 · 1 year ago

Amen to that. I'm very involved in PTSA and its always the same parents that come to everything.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

I agree. I think that it is part and parcel of his philosophy of getting us all involved in advancing the interests of our communities and our country.

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

OMG... that DRESS McSkank is wearing.... it clashes, it CLASHES!

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

I know some of you don't like the mod, but I thought the questions were very good, on the whole. Unfortunately, they didn't bring out much that was new --some, but not much.

skilfin · 1 year ago

The male voter trends on CNN seemed skewed to the right. I wonder if this reflects true gender differences or if it's just the small sample size.

JamesR · 1 year ago

"Good job; good job!" is the remark of a Beta wolf.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

You're right. McCain's "good job, good job, good job" at the end almost made me feel sorry for him. It was very sad, and sort of flipped the situation, with Obama coming across as the wise teacher, and McCain coming across as the unsteady and insecure acolyte.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

David Gregory, John McCain's cheerleader RAH RAH

KISSman · 1 year ago

McCain actually did well in the very beginning. The on-the-attack tactic worked in the very beginning. However, it got old because it never stopped for 90-minutes. People don't want to see 90-minutes of attacks by one candidate. They want to hear how you are going to help them.

Obama talked to the American people for 90-minutes. He did everything he needed to by the end. I think he was especially good in explaining some key points/issues during the debate. McCain was really horrible by the end because the attacks were redundant and annoying. Obama's calm and cool manner was a big plus and these jokers on TV won't all see it because they are looking at fireworks.

meemers · 1 year ago

ManOndog;
McCain also looks so uncomfortable... what's he sitting on, a plunger?
He's feeling swishy in his boxers. He shit his depend!

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

I think Schieffer did a really good job. All the questions provided for a much better debate.

therepguy · 1 year ago

MSNBC HAS OBAMA WINNING 81.1% to the ols man's 13%

mckathiki · 1 year ago

Far out!!!!! But we can't let our guard down...it ain't over til it's over and Obama is our President.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Thank God for that. Frankly, I was worried after tonight. The whole thing seemed off. McCain was as mad as ever, but Obama didn't offer a lot. I thought he was flat... substantive... but he needed a moment where he soared with an idea.

akonuche · 1 year ago

But supposedly McCain did fantastic? There's a disconnect here.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

This was not Obama's best performance. He was flat.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Flat... but calm, cool, and collected.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

i'll take flat with a brain any day

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

All the Repug pundits of course are saying, "I believe this was McCain's best night...."

cyninbend · 1 year ago

Mrs Greenspan loves McCain too. Gee what a surprise.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

McCain was schizoid...he had to say I am not Bush, but he went ultra conservative too...

i'm gonna hafta say thanks but no thanks to that crap, you betcha...

GoBlue1319 · 1 year ago

Did anyone just see ABC? McCain got Joe the Plumber's last name WRONG!!!

akonuche · 1 year ago

Oh shit! What? LMAO! Like candidate, like moose killer. Can only get the first name right and muff the rest.

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

Oh it's funny to listen to Andrea Mitchell spin on MSNBC

tlsintx · 1 year ago

i hope the female vote turns out like a mofo...

KISSman · 1 year ago

The TV bunch seem to watch debates as if they are football games. They grade these guys on things that aren't important. They love the many things that the average person don't care about. They love that McCain was on the attack for 90-minutes and while it made for great theater, but they fail to see it from the eyes of the average person and see why it does nothing for the person at home.

The people at home don't care so much about the theater -- ESPECIALLY the 5% to 10% of voters that these debates are aimed at. This group of people just want to know how you will makes their lives better and not why the other guy is a dirty dog. But the TV talkers LOVE that dirty dog stuff and give candidates points for such attacks. It's an obvious disconnect that the TV people have with regular Americans.

Ivee · 1 year ago

My husband, a NYC prosecutor, and I have had a 90-minute long argument about this debate. Hubby thinks Obama should've hung McCain out to dry. Granted, there were many opportunities to do so, and even I gritted my teeth over a number of McCain's comments. However, polls have shown that we as a whole dislike negative campaigning. Hence the disagreement. I thought that Obama held his own tonight (even though in my heart of hearts, I was hoping he'd finish McOld off for good). That's all Obama needed to do. McCain, when forced by logistics, to look at his opponent and speak to him directly, showed the same condescension, dismissiveness and inherent dislike that he's always shown. Split screen and dials on CNN told the story. While this was more of a draw than previous debates, the body language story will tell a different tale in the polls. McCain continues to be rude (whatever happened to letting your opponent finish a thought without interrupting?), condescending and dismissive. One could hardly dismiss the weird snorts and McCain's general agitation. Obama was no drama as usual. At best, a tie. But in my opinion, even though it wasn't Obama's best performance, it didn't need to be. Obama remained calm, presidential and accessible. McCain seems agitated, pandering, irritated and not a little bit of a liar. Same McCain. Same Obama. If it's even a tie, Obama gets it. Thanks for listening!

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

Boil it all down to: Obama was consistent; McCain was erratic and uncomfortable

Kcunac · 1 year ago

Hopefully the dye is cast and tonight was irrelevant, as Obama didn't screw up and McCain didn't get his shit together. Other than in his diaper.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

die. die is cast. it's the singular of dice.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

I'm always so happy to see that I'm not the only language zealot in the blogosphere.

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

I sense an over the top Olbermann tonight.... just a guess.

Ivee · 1 year ago

Checking out the female point of view (and I am one), the CNN dials suggest that undecided women voters are not enamored of McCain. The women in my office HATE Sarah Palin. My 78-year-old mother, who just this past August declined to discuss Obama because "I don't like him, and he's bad for the country," is now trying to flip my last undecided elderly aunt into voting for Obama (it's the healthcare, stupid!). Sarah Palin is anathema to most women, well, anyone other than fundie women. Which means most of us. Even my mother. -- "THAT WOMAN cannot be president." Go figure. Her dramatic turnaround is like being dropped into an alternate universe Mom is even trying to flip the low-info undecided voters in her office because she can't understand how anyone could not have made up their minds already.! Pinch me. I must be dreaming. But if mom is a representative of the electorate this year, McCain is screwed.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

Jacki,

You are so right, but my guess is that most people, even those whose health insurance is wholly or partially "paid for" by their employer, will be able to see that what McCain is proposing is preposterous. My 25-year old daughter, who works in the theater, pays nearly $4,800 a year for a good, but not great, plan through a freelancing union. And, having helped her do research on insurance over the past three years while we were policy-hunting, I know that a family of four would be lucky to find any insurance that would cost them less than $12,000-15,000 a year.

ManOnDog · 1 year ago

The thing here is.... you're not SUPPOSED to check the facts! He's a POW, silly!

Ivee · 1 year ago

Since when did "Joe the Plumber" become a focal point of John McCain's campaign? Really?

EllaDisenchanted · 1 year ago

Omg, Cockamamie had to be the most age telling word he used all night. Dang, my grandpa, had he lived he would be 98 now, used that word!!

That and when he said "during the Great Depression WE blah blah blah" I had to think for a moment if he was really there or not.

topscoop · 1 year ago

I have re-watched and the second time around I feel even stronger about Obama's performance. He school'd McCain over and over again in his cool Obama style. He is polite, steady, intelligent, educated and strong. Exactly what I want in my President.

shell · 1 year ago

9:47PM from John: Cockamamie

Doesn't Cockamamie remind you of "In the Line of Fire", the Clint Eastwood movie? In the movie, he used the term, and the younger woman he was trying to get made fun of his using it, like it was an old-fashioned word. Which it is.

McCain only wishes he were as "young" as Clint Eastwood.

debinTexas · 1 year ago

I absolutely, totally, want the insurance policy McCain is peddling! Hubby retires in a couple of years, at age 67. I'll be 60 then, so I'll have 5 years before I'll be eligible for Medicare. I'd love to pay $5800 for an interim health policy, even as an individual. I have pre-existing conditions, though (doesn't everyone?), so even at that generous price I won't be able to get it.

And what WAS McCain's thing on autism? I agree, it's something that needs attention, but so do a zillion other diseases, disorders, and birth defects. Certainly Palin has nothing to do with it.

LeftCoastOracle · 1 year ago

I believe Sarah Palin's sister has a child with autism. My granddaughter also has autism so I'm particularly interested in the subject. Still, there is no way I would vote for McCain.

debinTexas · 1 year ago

Hey, did anyone ever catch the Rush Limbaugh program from a few weeks ago (shortly after the Wicked Witch of the North joined the ticket)? He predicted that there would be a landslide victory for McCain. Wonder what his thoughts are now?

LeftCoastOracle · 1 year ago

Joe, I believe that Sarah Palin's sister has a child with autism. That might explain McCain's repeated reference to it.