1st Presidential Debate Blog

[Shastafarian]

What Obama did badly: Stammered. Mother ! You can tell me that this dude is the love child of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton, but there aint no ing way I am listering stuttering dip give speeches for the next 4 years. I'll vote for ing Hilter first.

Because the man stutters? I knew you were a bigot but jeez...

[MannyIsGod]

CBS reaction poll of 500 independents give the debate to Obama 40:22 with 38% delcaring it a tie.

[mouse]

I didn't see the debate I have no TV but I appreciate everyone's solid performance tonight with all the updates, it seems as though no matter who wins we all just want change and a better life.

[hitmanyr2k]

Is all part of their "mother-of-all-lowered-expectations" strategy. Mark my words, when she appears at the VP debate, she will slay us all with her brilliance.

I think the McCain campaign is going to put peanut butter on Palin's gums like they used to do with Mr. Ed and hope for the best.

[SnakeBoy]

How can people not see how ridiculous this all is? WHERE IS YOUR VICE PRESIDENT?

I actually agree with you for once. They are hurting themselves by not letting Palin be Palin. It's actually silly that they're worried about a gaffe from her since Biden makes at least 3 per day. Plus it focuses too much attention on her when they let her speak since it has become a rare event.

Biden just said McCain was DEAD wrong on Iraq. This coming from the guy who wanted to unilaterally chop Iraq up into three countries and then run for the hills.

[MannyIsGod]

Wolf Blitzer

"people asking why we interviewed Biden and not Palin?

Becasue the won't come on the air"

Paraphrased of course.

[ElNono]

whottt's analysis:

Objective judgement: The number of libs saying it was a tie are far greater than the number of conservatives saying it was a tie. That equals a McCain win.

Personal Judgement: McCain won.

What McCain did well: Made Obama look throroughly naive, overly idealistic and inexperienced. Threw W under the ing bus on Iraq. He nuked Obama across the board on foreign policy and the only ones that don't agree with that are people that are against the Iraq War.

What Obama did well: Tied McCain to Bush every chance he got forcing McCain to throw W under the ing bus. Pissed McCain off with the referencing of Kissinger.


What McCain did badly: Got pissed off about the Kissinger reference. Mutiliated the s bag leader of Iran's name. Personally, I'd have cheered if he had just called him asshole.


What Obama did badly: Stammered. Mother ! You can tell me that this dude is the love child of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton, but there aint no ing way I am listering stuttering dip give speeches for the next 4 years. I'll vote for ing Hilter first.

So McCain won because he didn't stutter? Gotcha.

[MannyIsGod]

I"m annoyed MSNBC doesn't have a debate reaction show with Joe Scarburough and Christ Matthews and instead we get Olberman.

[baseline bum]

CBS reaction poll of 500 independents give the debate to Obama 40:22 with 38% delcaring it a tie.

That's pretty shocking to me. I thought McCain did pretty well tonight. Not well enough to make me consider changing my vote, but he was smart enough to convince me we're probably going to be better off with him if elected than we have been with an anti-intellectual like Bush.

[Shastafarian]

I"m annoyed MSNBC doesn't have a debate reaction show with Joe Scarburough and Christ Matthews and instead we get Olberman.

They had Matthews on earlier. I can't stand Scarborough.

[mouse]

Hey Manny if you have any links to where I can see some recaps of tonight's debate and after the juicy aftermath that followed feel free to post them, And congrats on a great topic.

[MannyIsGod]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09...y4482028.shtml

That CBS poll was of uncommitted voters not independents.

[DarkReign]

Who won the presidential debate? * 147162 responses

John McCain
36%

Barack Obama
49%

Tie
6.4%

Not sure
8%

Cmon, internet polls?

Are they reliable?

[Mr. Peabody]

Hey Manny if you have any links to where I can see some recaps of tonight's debate and after the juicy aftermath that followed feel free to post them, And congrats on a great topic.

You can probably watch some highlights on CNN.com. In fact, they're probably doing a webcast of the post-debate analysis.

Link to Part 1 of the debate on CNN

And on CNN.com Live they are webcasting the analysis. It's on the home page of CNN in the video section under "Live".

[MannyIsGod]

That's pretty shocking to me. I thought McCain did pretty well tonight. Not well enough to make me consider changing my vote, but he was smart enough to convince me we're probably going to be better off with him if elected than we have been with an anti-intellectual like Bush.

When I was watching CNN, the trend line for independent reaction went really low for McCain quite often. I'm not sure it ever went below neutral for Obama. Typically it was always positive no matter what the candidate was saying but when McCain was notably pissed or when he spoke over Obama it went down a lot.

I think typically anger and smugness doesn't play well with independents, and I think that showed for me.

Thats all anecdotal of course, but I think the media curves info and the CBS poll are playing to that.

[MannyIsGod]

Cmon, internet polls?

Are they reliable?

Internet polls are not reliable.

The stuff I have listed are not internet polls, just FYI.

[MannyIsGod]

Props to the McCain campaign for getting that Youtube ad out so fast. That was pretty slick.

[DarkReign]

Biden was just on CNN.

When can I expect Palin to appear on FOX?

Biden is on FOX.

When can I expect Palin on FOX?!

Biden is on MSNBC.

When can I expect Palin to be on ing FOX?!

[DarkReign]

Internet polls are not reliable.

The stuff I have listed are not internet polls, just FYI.

Thank you.

[Shastafarian]

Hannity: "Everything Senator Obama mentioned, it all seemed like book knowledge."

There you have it. Sean Hannity doesn't like books.

[baseline bum]

Who won the presidential debate? * 147162 responses

John McCain
36%

Barack Obama
49%

Tie
6.4%

Not sure
8%

[BRhornets45]
sons, that is only because republicans are out getting laid tonight while lib s sit home and jacked off to the messiah [/BRhornets45]

[Yonivore]

Here's Kissinger on Iran...let's see if McCain was misinformed. (CNN)

Well, don't leave us in suspense...what'd he say?

[whottt]

Wow, whottt thinks his candidate('s running mate) won.

Shocking.

Yeah he did. Obama's weak on foreign policy and it shows. But the stuttering is a problem...I'm serious, if you don't think people will vote on something as shallow as that, then you are spending too much time with the wrong kind of people.

I feel I was pretty objective about what Obama did well...forcing McCain to throw W under that blatantly is a huge coup, it probably helped McCain with moderates but it hurts the enthusiasm of the base. The futher he gets from the base the more the Pre-Palin problems arise of people being unenthusiastic about his canidacy.

[DarkReign]

[BRhornets45]
sons, that is only because republicans are out getting laid tonight while lib s sit home and jacked off to the messiah [/BRhornets45]

[Shastafarian]

Well, don't leave us in suspense...what'd he say?

He said talks should begin at the highest level. I assume that means presidents. It was not the entire clip of him so I couldn't really gauge it.