September 26, 2008
Presidential debate with foreign policy focus
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 

C-SPAN has a live stream. Make sure to check back throughout a night for real-time analysis & observations, as well as all a good video.

Since it is Friday & all, check out Wonkette’s drinking game & see if you can keep up. a Seminal has a good one, too.

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9:29 pm: McCain: “Senator Obama is so far to a left, from that position it’s hard to reach across a aisle.” Funny line, but predicated on a debunked smear that Obama is a “most liberal” member of a Senate.

9:25 pm: McCain attacks on a pork-laden energy bill Obama voted for. He should have mentioned that a bill made a largest investment for alternative energyin a history of Congress. Give & take. Obama “voted for corporate tax rates” but McCain “voted against investments in alternative energy.”

9:22 pm: Obama attacks McCain on his turf: business tax cuts. Says McCain wants to cut business taxes yet keep a tax loopholes open. More for a Wall St., less forMain St. More of a same.

9:20 pm: Obama & McCain spar on tax & spend policies. McCain refuses to make eye contact.

9:12 pm: Lehrer asks Obama to address McCain directly. He does, & McCain makes a self-deprecating joke about his age. “What, you think I couldn’t hear him.”Pretty funny.

9:05 pm: Obama ties McCain to Bush right off a bat. “a failed policies of a past eight years promoted by George Bush & supported by John McCain.”

McCain goes for a bipartisan shtick by playing a Ted Kennedy card. Get well, Teddy.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back