I’m here at the Village Treehouse with a bunch of my nano friends for the second presidential debate. We’re watching it on MSNBC, which is my favorite news network. Rachel Maddow, how I love thee. I also have a deep sense of respect for Tom Brokaw.
Question One is by an older man which a question of how regular americans will be bailed out. Obama is tying recovery to last week’s bailout deal. McCain put a dig in about how Obama refused to come to 14 town hall meetings over the summer. He proposes a further bailout of the actual mortgages. I can’t imagine his base is happy about that.
Wow, McCain answered Brokaw’s question about who he’d appoint as treasury secretary. “Not you.” Kinda bitchy.
9:10 Warren Buffett is not someone I’m impressed with.
Next Question: Young Black Dude.
McCain sounded condescending. But I am so in the tank.
Fuck you, McCain. It’s not true that you suspended your campaign. You continued airing ads and your people continued attacking. Fannie and Freddie were not the problem - subprime mortgages were. He’s just lying.
Good on Obama for pointing out that Rick Davis was a lobbyist for Fannie. I honestly can’t believe McCain is going to these places where he can be easily rebutted.
9:17 I used to respect McCain, but now I revile him.
Question 3: Older white lady. Her question was completely incoherent. She seemed really nervous and angry. Poor lady. Obama is answering her question pretty well and being humble. Oh my god, reaching across the aisle to Lieberman is not really reaching across the aisle. It’s reaching across the room.
9:23 I like how Tom Brokaw is following up on what they’ve said so that the debate is not entirely dominated by the angry people in the audience. McCain looks so old. He thinks entitlement programs are the worst problem in america. sigh.
9:28 Go Fiorra from Chicago. She sounds like a fiesty lady. McCain is not answering her question about what sacrifices we’d have to make. Obama says we need to cut our energy usage.
9:34 Using a hatchet instead of a scalpel. Very nicely said. McCain’s jello to the wall one is not as great. Is anyone going to mention that McCain wants to cut medicare almost entirely? See Rachel Maddow’s show yesterday for references.
9:41 McCain looks angry. Good, let him get angry so the american people can see how unstable. What McCain? Lobbyists? They all work for you!
Question 4: Young Black Woman. They’re being very balanced. This question is about green energy. I mean, the answer seems obvious to me - the government has to hire people. The way we got out of the great depression was the government paying people to build shit for ww2. So now, lets hire people to build our new turbines and power plants. That makes sense, doesn’t it? Government is the solution.
9:47 Whenever McCain says my friends, I want to barf.
Question 5: Middle aged white Lady. Should Healthcare be treated as a commodity? Although I liked Clinton’s health plan better, Obama’s really much better than McCain’s gutting.
Here is what I think McCain is saying when he said that Obama will find you. ‘If you do not support me, a black man will come into your house and be black there.”
This is one of Obama’s strongsuit here and he better hammer it home.
9:59 This debate I am having more trouble liveblogging because I am paying a whole lot of attention to it. What is this gimme question? Middle Aged White guy. Where are the hispanics and asians in this racial hodgepodge?
We’ve been discussing veiled references to race this whole time. There are a lot of them.
“I don’t understand how we ended up invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.” Whooo! Everyone in the bar cheered.
Shit, I pressed something and lost the last half hour of what I wrote. And it was funny, too. 
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