Posted on 10/07/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
While the two presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, prepare for their second debate on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tom Brokaw gets to sift through questions submitted by you. In addition to queries from a group randomly selected by the Gallup organization, Brokaw will be fielding questions submitted online at mydebates.org, the site created by the Commission on Presidential Debates and Myspace. The focus of the town hall-style debate will be domestic and foreign policy, Brokaw's specialties.
Here’s a better drinking game during the debate.
Everyone takes a shot everytime Obama mentions the word “change”.
Me too...but you know he will. Populism is ‘popular’ right now...(shrug)
I'll scroll down to the bottom, see the choices for 1-50, 51-100, 101-150, etc
So I'll click on 101-150 for instance, and what comes up is 101-200 or somesuch ?
< scatches head >
< double checks preferences for # of posts/page >
Shoot, I'd be drunk 10 minutes into the thing.
It'll be interesting to see the comparison of Obama from the first debate to the second debate. With Bush/Gore 2000, SNL savaged Gore for his first debate performance, being too assertive, sighing over Bush, running long on questions, etc. To compensate during the second debate, Gore was Mr. Passive, agreeing with much of what Bush said.
Are we going to see a similar dynamic tonight? I doubt it. I think the message that Obama learned was from Bush/Kerry 2004, which was to never let any slight go unanswered, no matter how small. That's what we saw in the first debate, to the extreme of Obama taking over the moderator role at times, and that's what we're going to see tonight.
My bet is that Obama is going to see this as his opportunity to put the nail in the coffin once and for all, while McCain is going to try to be Mr. Gentleman again.
-PJ
LOLOL - the funniest thing about that SNL skit was the fake CNN headlines at the bottom: “Is Sen. Obama comfortable?”
Egrets Up!
Leni
Great line for McCain is:
“I heard someone ask Bill Ayers what he thought of his friend, Barack Obama, and Bill replied, “Why I think he’s the bomb!”
Re: spray
Yuk Yuk
Down here we call it WupA$$.
I’d like to hear McCain work in some kind of riff about when I take the oath of office and say “I, John Sidney McCain, do solemnly swear...” will do it for all of America or something. Phrase it such that Obama will be compelled to say his full name...
“At least six million questions have been submitted via the Internet to be asked at the town-hall-style presidential debate Tuesday in Nashville between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. That’s a lot of queries for 90 minutes, and obviously they won’t all get asked — there will be time for only 15 to 20.
The moderator, Tom Brokaw of NBC News, is sifting through those millions of questions to find six or seven that he might pose.”
Brokaw to McCain - “The Republicans are guilty of ruining the economy, breaking laws, running an illegal war and undermining everything that America stands for. Can you honestly stand there tonight and think that people should vote for YOU?”
Brokaw to Obama - “Does Michelle prefer diamonds or pearls?”
Obama - 95% 95% 95% 95%
Lou Dobbs brought up the ACORN subject and a democratic spokesman said it will cost McCain the election if he brings it up tonight. Methinks he doth protest too much.
Tom Brokaw??? Yikes! Couldn’t they find a journalist rather than a teevee host to moderate this “debate”?
It doesn't look much better unsnipped.
The way McCain blew off Letterman and Larry King and came to Goveronr Palin's aid versus Couric, I think he's been the best GOP candidate, ever, at running against the DBM.
He must run against W, also, in order to win. W knows this and understands.
McCain became my favorite candidate when he defeated Mitt, who was my favorite candidate after Fred dropped out, who was my favorite candidate because Cheney didn't run.
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