NOW: Live Blogging the Vice Presidential Debate
8:50 P.M. It’s on, ya’ll. Prepare your televisions, fire up your Internets, and ready your drinks.
8:58 P.M. What is the best network to watch the debates on? A haggard-looking Chris Matthews is babbling away on MSNBC.
9:00 P.M. Gwen Ifill lays it down. Half domestic, half foreign policy. Chosen by Ifill. Order by coin toss. No “untoward outbursts.” None of this free-flowing Lehrer shit.
9:03 P.M. Can I call you Joe!?
9:05 P.M. Biden’s fundamental disagreement—they’re “fundamentally changing” the focus on the economy.
9:06 P.M. Soccer games?! What happened to the hockey mom? Reaching out to the contiguous moms!
9:07 P.M. Politics aside, country first, common sense, last.
9:08 P.M. A whole team of MAVERICKS! Drink. Hard.
9:09 P.M. Darn right, it was the predator lenders. Are you listening, Ben Eason?
9:12 P.M. Oh Joey at the local gas station—you represent all of us.
9:13 P.M. LIES! Government will have to learn to live with less—less experience, less accountability. That’s the Palin promise.
9:14 P.M. Watch out, Straight Talk Express coming through. Does a tax record in Alaska really count? Don’t they get money from the government over there?
9:16 P.M. Biden says those listening are the economic integrity of the United States. That’s me, fuckers!
9:17 P.M. Anti-government, Governor?
9:18 P.M. Oh, Biden. Keep your chuckling down.
9:20 P.M. Oooh—(Freudian?) Barack Obama/John McCain slip.
9:21 P.M. Bridge to Barack/Biden! Booyah!
9:22 P.M. Biden! Keep the rambling nonsense down!
9:23 P.M. BTW, John McCain doesn’t flip-flop. Also, any of that greed that’s been, I guess, instrumental, wasn’t going to happen in Alaska. Bless their hearts, though. But oh god, at least she can think of some specific names. Gwen Iffil is no Katie Couric, it seems.
9:24 P.M. Palin hasn’t promised a lot … except to attack Pakistan.
9:25 P.M. “This is something that John McCain supported,” Ifill clues in. Nice neutral move. Obviously, Palin says she would have supported, too.
9:28 P.M. Palin: I disagree, but I can’t say why because I don’t have time. I only have time to talk about my “record” of living on “Main Street” and helping you “relate” to me.
9:30 P.M. Ifill needs to get some Lehrer into her and call Palin on her question-hijacking bullshit. Biden can’t do it, then he’d be “condescending.”
9:31 P.M. It truly is a special time when we’re seeing sprawling, era-long climate changes within our lifetime because of the Earth’s natural changes, which happen all the time but could never support the changes explained by evolution.
9:33 P.M. DRILL BABY DRILL! Oh thank G*d Sarah Palin for saying that. Thank you.
9:34 P.M. Half an hour in—Palin’s avoiding and lying, but she’s doing okay. Biden’s maintaining, too. Bring out the fireworks, people? We love you both for your flaws!
9:35 P.M. Gwen Ifill is fair and balanced, but boooring.
9:37 P.M. Here we go! Social issues! Get the gays away from Palin’s First Dude!
9:38 P.M. Palin supports hospital visits, contract between parties—that’s progressive indeed. Good job, Barack Obama and Joe Biden for agreeing with them—NO GAY MARRIAGE. Weak.
9:39 P.M. The surge has worked, bringing us back to pre-surge numbers. Huh?
9:41 P.M. Palin says finishing a war is a surrender. Eh, who cares. Get the fuck out.
9:43 P.M. BIDEN’S GRIN melts my heart!
9:44 P.M. John McCain missed like 700 years of history. Whoops. Don’t worry, dude—Biden still loves you.
9:45 P.M. Saying John McCain is “dead wrong” is a bit touchy, no?
9:47 P.M. On to Pakistan—schools not bombs. Thanks Biden for a real answer.
9:48 P.M. Kissinger did well in his Palin foreign leader primer! Ahmadinejad! Say it again! Say it!
9:49 P.M. “OUR” RESPECT FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS?
9:51 P.M. Stop saying McCain/Palin administration. It makes me want to stock up on contraception.
9:52 P.M. Ok, 9:52. What the hell is Palin talking about? Change? Have you guys just been cribbing from the Obama playbook? You’re not saying anything! Your cheeky sighs will not tempt me, Governor!
9:56 P.M. “Nucular” weaponry would be the end to “too many parts of our planet.” How many parts of our planet are too many?
9:57 P.M. A commenter says Palin is amping up her IQ tonight. I think she’s finally learned how to bullshit a little bit.
9:58 P.M. You can put lipstick on a Joe Biden and . . . maybe he’d steal a little bit more attention. I feel like the whole debate is just waiting for what crazy thing Palin is going to come out with.
9:59 P.M. I like how Palin addresses her “points” toward Biden—Biden’s “Gwen” schtick is getting a little tiresome, especially since Ifill’s pretty much sitting back on this one.
10:01 P.M. Commenter says actually, Biden’s looking at Palin, but that the camera is pointed strangely. In the wide shot, though, it looks like her eyes are on him, and his are on Ifill.
10:03 P.M. “Oh, man, it’s so obvious I’m a Washington outsider!” Yeah, but she’s got the smugness already.
10:04 P.M. Hmm, if she called for divestment from funding in Sudan and the legislation hasn’t passed yet, you know, she probably does know a little bit about Washington. Maybe Palin’s forgetting that “Washington” rears its head in Wasilla, too.
10:06 P.M. The pundits don’t start tomorrow morning, Palin. We’re live-blogging this!
10:07 P.M. The heartbeat cliche! Ifill asks them about their presidencies—as if Palin didn’t appear to be running for President, anyway.
10:09 P.M. Palin denies that “that would ever happen!” to ye olde John McCain. Oh, you maverick, how your possible presidency is so completely unpredictable and scary.
10:10 P.M. Joe Biden spends a lot of time in Home Depot. How many sprawling Scranton dollhouses must you construct in your lifetime, Joe Biden.
10:11 P.M. Doggonit, I’ll be hogswallowed up in this hooten and holler, all this Bush Administration hogwashin has got my winkin’ grandmother all a-tussle. SCHOOLKID SHOUTOUT!
10:12 P.M. If Sarah Palin can say “shoutout” during a vice presidential debate, even I could be vice president. Tight.
10:13 P.M. Sarah Palin thinks the Vice President should get more power? President of the Senate my ass, I want to be dictator.
10:15 P.M. Biden can offer advice; Palin can offer a figurehead. How valuable is that after this campaign?
10:16 P.M. Cheney most dangerous Vice President in American History—pwned, Dick!
10:17 P.M. I think we’re all worried about how Tina Fey will approach this one.
10:18 P.M. Alaska is a huge state but it’s full of wolves! Wolves! Wolves.
10:19 P.M. Palin tries to push the middle class, Main Street persona with her little wink. Nice job pissing on the pure Alaskan snow that is Biden’s middle-class cred!
10:20 P.M. At commenter—this blog is an anti-feminist blog only since Sarah Palin identified herself as a feminist.
10:21 P.M. Joe Biden—your own life story is so much better than ol’ Johnny’s at the gas store.
10:22 P.M. Oh Joe Biden has a touching life story too? Well, Palin’s a maverick. A maverick! McCain, too.
10:23 P.M. Ah yes, the “diverse background” of the Republican party. Like, we got a former Democrat. Lieberman.
10:24 P.M. Biden’s getting pissed! Thank you! Biden wraps it up with a sad-to-angry tour-de-force! Also, I still think about Mel Gibson when I hear “maverick.” You haven’t totally stolen it from Gibson, John McCain.
10:25 P.M. Biden again brings up Supreme Court. “It matters what your judicial philosophy is,” he says. What if you don’t know any court cases? That’s Main Street.
10:26 P.M. Palin keeps calling Alaska “up there.” Yeah, yeah Palin’s from Alaska. Does anyone in the 48 states have a romantic vision of Alaska?
10:27 P.M. Palin walks walk, talks talk, reads . . . something.
10:29 P.M. Palin likes being able to speak to the public without the filtering of the MSM. I think she means the McCain campaign.
10:30 P.M. Proud to be Americans, have to fight for our freedoms. Yadda yadda. But her family is “diverse”? Huh?
10:31 P.M. Hmm, Palin quotes Reagan on “extinction.” Does Palin even believe in extinction??
10:32 P.M. Biden and Palin shake hands. She tries to walk away pretty quick, he keeps the handshake going.
10:33 P.M. My god the WHOLE FAMILY IS HERE! The whole, “diverse” family. Note to Palin: I know, like, tons of babysitters.
10:34 P.M. Okay, debate’s over. Joe Biden’s giving the shoulder rub. Palin looks uncomfortable with this post-war chattin’.
10:35 P.M. First dude cleans up!
10:36 P.M. My god, I can’t get over it—she’s surrounded with children. Diverse, white Alaskan children.
10:38 P.M. Gaffe attack—Brokaw says Palin misstates number of troops in Iraq, name of general in Afghanistan, name-checks Civil War General McClellan.
10:40 P.M. All in all—nobody really fucked up. I wanted my NASCAR race.
10:41 P.M. Geraldine Ferraro on MSNBC want her grandchildren to be able to look at Palin as an example as a strong female candidate. What about you, Ferraro!
10:42 P.M. Exxon commercial on MSNBC!
10:43 P.M. I would give the firstborn child I never plan to have to know what Hillary Clinton thinks about this.
10:45 P.M. Now, Palin and Biden are done. Now, the pundits take over.
10:49 P.M. Pundits call Palin “home-spun,” “direct,” compare her to Ronald Reagan. Fuck this, I’m going to bed. Thanks for following along!
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9:03 pm
FOX News, of course.
“Can I call you Joe?”
9:05 pm
Cnn had all the doohickeys and technomobobs on the picture screen last time– to distract attention from Obama’s incompetence, no doubt.
9:07 pm
9:05 – she said “soccor” – DRINK!
9:07 pm
Soccer games. Soccer=America’s, what, fourth or fifth most popular sport? Why didn’t she say Little League?
9:08 pm
AMERICA IS GREAT!
9:09 pm
McCain a maverick, darn right creepy.
9:10 pm
There’s your hockey mom.
9:11 pm
Solution to the mortgage crisis and financial meltdown: go back in time and stay out of debt. Good strategy.
9:13 pm
Is Joey At The Gas Station related to Joe Six-Pack?
9:15 pm
Ooof. “I may not answer the questions.”
9:15 pm
Biden: Note she didn’t respond to the question.
Palin: Oh well! I talk about what I want.
9:21 pm
and msnbc starts playing the laugh track. Libs :rolleyes:
9:23 pm
9:21 – Biden said “Scranton” – DRINK
9:25 pm
Palin: I’m choosing to not answer your questions and talk about what I want to talk about
9:26 pm
How about the promise “until death do you part” that he made to his first wife?
9:28 pm
Main Street Mainstreeter, double whammy!
9:30 pm
that is not so, but that’s not what i want to talk about, i want to talk about something else that is written on my paper
9:30 pm
here comes the drilling part. get your glass ready
9:35 pm
DRILL BABY DRILL, are you kidding me! RAPING the intercontinental shelf, sorry no free rape kit for that…
9:42 pm
Hah. I went to the convenience up the street to buy a six-pack of beer to help me get through the rest of this shit. The friendly man at the counter asked me how I was doing, and I told him I was great–just purchasing more liquor for the debates. When he asked me how the debates were going, I said, “Well, they’re both politicians, so they’re both completely full of absolute bullshit.”
He then pointed to an older gentleman in a bow tie ten feet behind me, who was perusing some fruit juices, and said, “That’s councilmember Jim Graham.” And indeed it was.
I gave Graham a polite “Waaaaassssuuuuuuup?,” then left, but I don’t think he heard me.
9:43 pm
WHITE FLAT OF SURRENDER!
9:47 pm
NUCULAR?
9:51 pm
Wait, Palin respects all womens’ rights…except abortion?
9:54 pm
Did Biden just referred to himself in the 3rd person ?
9:55 pm
Biden is coming off as a Vice President. Palin is coming off as a used-car salesperson.
9:55 pm
did she even think about Israel when she was “just” a governor?
10:02 pm
Sarah is doing great…I like Biden but he needs to talk more about what he thinks, not Barack.
10:03 pm
Biden forgets, he is running as VP, acting like he running for Pres. the way he goes off on his tangents.
10:06 pm
bidendotcom?
10:08 pm
I wish the Democrat ticket was Barack and Sarah.
10:11 pm
What is his neighborhood???
10:12 pm
now, what if biden talked to sarah like she just talked to him.
10:13 pm
Holy shit doggonit, failure.
10:16 pm
Sarah Palin preemptively wins Best Sarah Palin Costume
10:17 pm
until Tina Fey plays her on SNL this week
10:20 pm
I’d rather be undisciplined than inexperienced
10:23 pm
“He is the man we need to leave…lead.”
10:24 pm
Does Palin have an earpiece?
10:26 pm
she accomplishes things “up there” because she fires everyone that disagrees with her
10:27 pm
If I hear the word “maverick” one more time, I’m going to scream!
10:28 pm
why is sarah palin’s family “very diverse”?
10:30 pm
The filter of the “mainstream media”? What filter?
10:31 pm
“It’s gonna be okay…” Whew! I’m relieved, Sarah!
Thanks to The Sexist for this blog!
10:33 pm
May God bless! Oh, Lord, Joe could you be any more pandering?!?
10:34 pm
“Wait, let me bring my dad and mom on stage! Family!”
10:34 pm
my dogs want to go outside now
10:37 pm
She’s holding that baby!
10:47 pm
Please. Can we have LESS of the talking heads? Does anyone really think that they are doing anything other than putting forth their own pet political agendas? Is there any room at all for honesty in politics?
10:50 pm
Good job with live-blogging critters, Critters! critters. In the form of moose. Points to Palin for introducing dogs though, i.e. “Doggone it” counts. Let’s hear it for dogs around the kitchen table. Lap it up!
11:09 pm
I missed it! Was at a play. Saw 1984 at the Atlas Theater. Future looks bleak.