Debate Live-Blog and Chat!
posted at 8:00 pm on October 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The second John McCain/Barack Obama presidential debate will start at 9 PM ET, and Hot Air will be at the forefront of instant commentary! I’m using the Cover It Live system again tonight, but I’m combining it with the Ustream chat room from my show. That way the community can interact with each other as well as with me while I live-blog the debate. Jazz Shaw from The Moderate Voice will be moderating the chat, and don’t forget to register at Ustream to participate!
I believe that this embed will have the debate live, and you won’t need to go anywhere else to watch:
What keys should we keep in mind tonight?
- McCain – He gets his preferred town-hall format, but that really doesn’t mean much, since Tom Brokaw has already selected the questions. The format won’t allow for follow-up questions, either, which probably helps Obama more than McCain, who does a pretty good job counterpunching. Instead, McCain needs to hammer Obama on Fannie Mae, taxes, and spending, and paint him as a backbencher who has no accomplishments other than getting himself elected.
- Obama – He has an easier task tonight. Obama knows McCain will get aggressive, just as he does in every debate. He’ll do better to speak to general themes of discontent, ignore McCain, and stay positive while focusing on his own plans for government. Every time McCain forces him to defend himself, he plays more and more on McCain’s turf.
- Tom Brokaw – I’m more optimistic about Brokaw than some others, although I think I’d prefer Brit Hume or even Jim Lehrer. Brokaw has enjoyed his senior-statesman status at NBC, and I suspect he also enjoys being the anti-Olbermann there as well. Watch for bias in topics and question construction, but I predict that Brokaw will give a balanced performance tonight.
After the debate, I’ll talk with Hugh Hewitt to give my perspective, at around 10:30 pm CT. I’ll also work on a final summary of the debate, probably for posting tonight. Don’t miss a moment of it here at Hot Air!
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God, please protect us the next four years.
carbon_footprint on October 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Good… reveal Obama promises -vs- record.
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Oh, no. I’ve read it’s 54 not 94.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
McCain: Hey, lets let the technocrats rule us with no input from the relevant industrie!
Idiot.
P.S. Obama is a stone cold communist.
I’m going to go get very, very drunk now.
VolMagic on October 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Look at records is good all in all…
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
God Johnny you’re not too popular with me right now.
Kick the worms a**!
*sip*
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Unfunded mandates…dat certain to reform SS and Medicair? Obama will offer not time line. Obama is spinning his tax plan. 95% tax cut lie again. McCain should slam this one as well…will he?
McCain chomping at the bits on this one…attack Obamas plan, not defend his own…let’s see…Obama lying about the McCain plan.
McCain…SS easy to fix, Simply need to do it. Again reminds of Obama’s partisan rate. Up or Down vote. Back to Obama on rhetoric v record. Still limp question
JIMV on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
YAY JMc!!
Ugly on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
He needs to tell Obama’s record…no one is going to go out and read it…
TheKernel on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Where the hell’s the McCain we saw on the stump yesterday?!!!!!!
dugan on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
I’m sure this is an undecided voter…..
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
CLIMATE CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE.
James on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Tom keeps getting pissed that no ones following his rules.
lolz
Drunk Report on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
I couldn’t even watch, I knew McCain would get his ass kicked…
He really doesn’t want to be President, he’s a tired, worn out old f*&ker who ran on reflex; he’s toast!
I’m not even religous, and GOD help us!
I literally, almost faint, thinking that this Anti-America/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-Semitic/Anti-White Racist Marxist Muslim, will be President of the United States, and that 45% of our fellow citizens are so stupid, nad mentally diseased with the twin afflictions of Liberalism & Self-hate, that they’d vote for this lying, fraudluent, empty-suited piece of crap.
Birthed by an Anti-American/self-hating Marxist, raised by Communist-sympathizing Grandparents, mentored by an Anti-American/Anti-White Racist Communist Pedeophile, adopted and “made” by Anti-American/Anti-Semitic Priests, Reverends and NOI’s Louis Farrakhan; nurtured by Anti-American/Anti-Semitic Radical Palestinians and Pakistanis all thru his college days; politically promoted by Anti-American/Marxist/Terrorists and their equally appalling wives; married to an Anti-American/Anti-White/Anti-Semitic Black Radical; that people, is Barrack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SAW)(SWT), and ladies and gentlemen, come the 21st of Januray, 2009, he will be President of the United States and you all can kiss your collective asses goodbye.
He’ll make Calvin Coolidge, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton look like Ronald Regean.!
God help us, and I’m not even religious, my father is 88 years old, and he wishes he could die so he never has to see this, and I don’t blame him!
Dale in Atlanta on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
That was McCain’s best answer of the night.
Spirit of 1776 on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Who cares about the environment?
Pivot to energy.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM
McCain turns green… uck.
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Ugh. UGH UGH UGH… GLOBAL WARMING ooOoooOooo
Ugly on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
McCain…new question..how to move fast on environment…stupid question.
JIMV on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Global Warming,uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
lavell12 on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
He is pivoting… good!
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
black girl with the huge silver earrings = cuuuute.
ive got a green job she can perform for me…
Drunk Report on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Huh?
Maybe YOU don’t have kids?
SaintOlaf on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Thank gawd for the 2nd Amendment.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
I’ll give John a “C,” so far. In THIS class, that’s not a passing grade.
Star20 on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Okay….welll….if believing in AGW means getting more Nuclear Power, then I’m willing to go along with the lies. I LOVE Nuclear Power.
jimmy the notable on October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Why do I think that girl tossed a hanging curve for Obama
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Barry is looking pissed.
Over30 on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
McCain is just not coming across in a coherent fashion. And he’s showing his irritation with Brokaw.
anniekc on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
climate change nonsense
pugwriter on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
I’m usually wrong, but I think McCain is losing this debate, based on style alone. That’s about as deep as Americans think.
The good news is that debates usually don’t determine the outcome of elections. Or so I’ve heard.
capitalist piglet on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
McCain has to keep hammering Obama’s empty promises. Obama won’t keep his promise for tax cuts because he has never lived up to his other ones.
hermie on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
McCain is too nervous
jp on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
5 Million new jobs… JM said that about Nuclear, drilling, etc.
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Global warming.
No, dear, its a fraud. next question
Roger Waters on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Obama also spouting bull on the environment.
JIMV on October 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Geeeez, let’s get to the winning issues man. I’m ready to turn this crap off…..
PaCadle on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
My prediction at the halfway mark.
Tomorrow, the majority of poll’s will say “The O” won the debate.
Chimpy on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
these questions are awful.
lavell12 on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
What?? The computer was not invented by Al Gore?
eucher on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Dale in Atlanta: time to get religion.
God bless us all.
carbon_footprint on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
IF we create a new energy…
Note that ‘If’, people. Empty promises, and all that
Ugly on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
As I’ve always said…. (bullshit meter pegs)
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
The climate change answer is great because it contrast nuke power positions.
Spirit of 1776 on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Government investments? Turn the private sector loose if you want energy solutions!!
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I’m getting out of hearing range to get a drink of water.
Let me know if I miss something.
Mcguyver on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
When did Obama go to nuclear?
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I want to know where that 5 million number comes from… And hit him on ethanol subsidies, Mac! It makes food more expensive!
DrSteve on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
My friends. This isn’t hard to fix. We can do it by reaching across the ail. I’ve done it before.
BowHuntingTexas on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Here we gooooo…..5 million new jobs with energy…..yippee!
yippee!
uh-oh, bambi trying to remember history…..yeah, invest in coal! wind! hey, now he’s adding nuke energy! lie about it! WHO FUcKING CARES!
yippee!
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Call Obama an ethanol pimp.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
God, McCain is just awful. I was praying all afternoon he would do well. He’s stuttering, stumbling. blah blah. Good grief this is heartbreaking.
jewells45 on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Blame America Barry!!
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
This thread is killing my browser.
The crowd seems bored. As am I. Barry’s voice is grating, and McCain needs to stop the BiP crap.
SouthernGent on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
oh god the drilling talking points
surrounded on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Dude. I got only three words for ya: buy. more. ammo.
Make that four…
NOW!
dugan on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
This is not a TOWN HALL MEETING!
This is a TOM BROKAW HOSTILE TAKEOVER!
He should read the questions and STFU.
This is a joke. Why do we have to sit through debate after debate controlled my liberal members of the MSM?
fogw on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Tire Gauge McCain hit him on the fricking tire gauge
John Doe on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
on no. “investments” are code for major taxes, gov granholm in mich uses “investments” and nothing but socialism
Tobias2012 on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
You realized after the Palin debate last week, how good of a politician she is for the modern era
jp on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Come on John.. take it to him.. you got to stop being a nice guy..
theeyeman3410 on October 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
All selected by Brokaw for Teh One.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
“McCain has been there for 26 of them.”
Decent burn. Even McCain laughed.
Typhonsentra on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Alternative fuels — what a joke. There is nuclear energy and the donks oppose it.
Blake on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Wish this was a “tag team.” Where is Sarah???
Star20 on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
hahaaaaaaaaa Brokaw is so ticked off at the time limit rule
hahaha
Drunk Report on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
We need some fireworks.
Let’s talk about Wright and Ayers.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
And we won’t be drilling (did you hear that Mr. Soros)
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Okay, John isn’t a conservative….sigh.
ex-Democrat on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Obama just proved what a total MORON he is!! He claimed that the computer was invented by our government!! HA HA HA!
The idiot was told about the internet and DARPA, but to confuse that wiht the computer is one of the dumbest public feats I’ve ever seen.
progressoverpeace on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I wish Mac would go nuclear.
pugwriter on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Pork pork pork
Blake on October 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
“That one.” RAAAAAAAAAAAACIST.
jimmy the notable on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
McCain doesn’t want to kick this weasel off the politcal stage for trying to destroy America with his crypto-Marxist crap?
Palin needs to hit Mac with whatever the opposite of a tranquilizer dart is.
FAST!
This is fighting?
profitsbeard on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
I’m starting to think that Obama takes two positions on every single issue, so he can deny/confirm whenever a confirmation or denial is advantageous for him.
(I think I just heard you all say “Duh”.)
capitalist piglet on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Is it just me or did anybody else notice that whites are asking Obama questions, and blacks are asking McCain questions?
brewser on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
obama lies about his own positions, he isn’t for nukes nor is he a 2nd amendment supporter.
good job john just got him tied with bush.
lavell12 on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Bottom line so far…Obama wants to spend his way out of our problems and McCain wants to cut spending to get us out.
McCain reminding again of his pork record and Obama’s pork fests.
JIMV on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Who voted for the oil bill. That one. Ding!!!
Lance Murdock on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
//whispers// He called The One “THAT one”!!!
NightmareOnKStreet on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Homegrown solutions instead of government financing for energy research!
If private sector Burt Rutan can get us into space in a novel way, so will thousands of tinkerers in their garages!
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
You know who voted for it? That one.
pw3nd!
Tennman on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Towards the end, things will pick up.
Blake on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
WTF McCain. He needs to go watch a few Milton Friedman or Reagan speeches and talk about what’s PROVEN to work. Less government and lower taxes.
ikez78 on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Please quit saying “my friends”
Mark1971 on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Bambi *sip* is filarbusting again.
*sip*
Over.
*sip*
1GooDDaDDy on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
McCain isn’t holding up his end of the bargain.
F***, “my friends.”
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
“THAT One”
He was pretty angry there.
Typhonsentra on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Ustream tv sucks ass. Great format, HA, the refresh and lockup is a joke. SUCKS ASS.
Bishop on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
“That one” ? ah..
justinok on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
He called Bama ‘that one’. heh
Over30 on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
McCain is just repeating talking points,..nothing new, nothing specific, no fire, no indignation, no “making them famous”. Sounds like a regular pol.
a capella on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
A flash of leg?
jimmy the notable on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Healthcare a commodity? Utter BS!
electric-rascal on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Health CARE… this should be good
Ugly on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Health care as a commodity. Ugh.
BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
The first 45 minutes are over and Obama looks good McCain is awful.
People are now gonna start dropping off. And Obama wins.
BowHuntingTexas on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Oooops… Hasn’t a clue how to answer her qeustion.
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Uh-oh. McCain called Obama “that one”. Daily Kos says thats a racial remark in 3..2..1..
Speedwagon82 on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Healthcare as a commodity? Yes. I want the healthcare I want — not the healthcare someone else wants.
Blake on October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
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