Watching by myself #tweetdebate Not drinking :( waiting to start cringing at McCains blunders @ahg3 @MichDot Yeah, slime was actually my second choice, can't say what the first one was. Okay, we're rolling... Preparing to have a heart attack #tweetdebate no debate moderators under 50, sorry #tweetdebate @current Now staring at black screen on http://www.current.com/debate grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #current Introducing McCain and Obama. Wait...McCain SHOWED UP! Wow...guess the crisis in Washington is over? #tweetdebate #tweetdebate nice how Obama held McCains hand and used his free hand to wave to the audience while keeping McCain from doing so Obama -2 it an occupation not war #tweetdebate @TDefren I'm very nervous, yes #tweetdebate #tweetdebate no golden parachutes no padding CEOs - Obama Q for Obama. Does the avg American know what a golden parachute is? #tweetdebate McCain just gave a cheap plug to Ed Kennedy -1 #tweetdebate #current @current current channel reception is continually sucking. Gotta love comcast McCain -3 for Kenndey comment #tweetdebate McCain -2 for not knowing Kennedy is home and watching the debate #tweetdebate #tweetdebate McCain starts awkwardly -1 McCain for stalling with faux sympathy #tweetdebate @andrewa121 I only get OTA HD with my EyeTV 500. McCain is talking about bipartisan negotiation? Uh...no... -1 pt. #tweetdebate #current @current McCain looks so tired!! wayyyy past his bedtime #current dear john, they were sitting down till you came and stirred up a hornets' nest. pulease -4 #tweetdebate @andrewa121 He looks and sounds pretty tired. @current Or its the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end.. Sheesh. McCain -2 for a totally muddled answer on what the republicans are doing #tweetdebate McCain: this is the end of the beginning. huh? #tweetdebate McCain -2 gving credit to house republicans #tweetdebate -1 McCain all over the place in his answer #tweetdebate Nice, McLame divides...Republicans uniquely came to fix it. Um, ok. #tweetdebate if ur oldest candidate in history, why start with "i'm not feeling great" .. makes u thing "you're not looking great either #tweetdebate Obama -1 for answering a different question #tweetdebate McCain -1 for bringing in Kennedy for emotional effect #tweetdebate #tweetdebate greed is how we got into this situation in the first place McCain -2 "Are you gonna vote for the plan?" - "I hope so" whatte fuck?! #tweetdebate McCain -1 for failing to meaningfully answer the question on economy #tweetdebate McCain -1 improper analogy #tweetdebate Obama -1 for not understanding economic regulation in America. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate -1 McCain "we saw these problems coming" I thought the economy was fundamentally sound Already tired of the Wall Street v Main Street analogies. #tweetdebate how annoying are these animations on #Current TV.. reverting to old fashion MSNBC.. #tweetdebate @current #current How can you say "I hope so" when you are asked the question of voting for something? You should know what yer view is! "John, ten days ago you said the fundamentals of the economy were strong" Hilarious #tweetdebate #current McCain -1 for wearing a tie that makes my eyes sore. #tweetdebate McCain -1 for a total non-answer #tweetdebate McCain Contrary statements regarding the state of the economy #tweetdebate Funny if they looked at each other I think the talking points would disappear and they might even be constructive #tweetdebate Really tired of hearing the word "mainstreet" in the debate #tweetdebate Fundamentally, if McCain fundamentally uses "fundamental" one more time, I'm gonna go nuts. #tweetdebate McCain -2 import/export claim? #tweetdebate McCain -2 Wrong Germany is the biggest exporter. Get your facts together! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate and when, just when are the questions going to be answered instead of campaigning talk? #tweetdebate -1 Mccain for not answering the question and saying "the wall street" between the eyeblinking +hesitation he looks weird McCain is not answering the questions #tweetdebate McCain likes the bears in Montana joke too much #tweetdebate #current -1 McCain should not joke about bear DNA #tweetdebate -1 mccain I love bears in montana #tweetdebate mccain -1 answer the question! #tweetdebate -1 McCain flag waving pandering about American workers #tweetdebate -2 McCain for stringing too many colloquialisms together and post-Reaganomics sensationalism #tweetdebate #tweetdebate question: what did McCain learn from his good friend Charles Keating during the S&L bailout? McCain -3 for personal attack #tweetdebate mccain -1 for bringing up stupid bear study AGAIN #tweetdebate #tweetdebate generic debate so far. They won't even look at each other. so far, the debate reminds me of a school yard scolding #tweetdebate computer for their kid? maybe the parents don't have one. #tweetdebate @pamelawella is that what makes him look like that? have always wondered..:) #tweetdebate Earmark spending has tripled over the last 5 years. Hasn't it been a Republican Administration for the last 7? #obamashot #tweetdebate it's like you can see Obama trying to remember all the "talking points" and get his slogans out there #tweetdebate McCain: I don't mean to go back and forth??? I thought this was a debate. #tweetdebate -1 McCain #tweetdebate "I didn't win Miss Congeniality" but his VP did! McCain -3 personal attack & -2 does he have evidence for this accusations to Obama #tweetdebate Facebook Blunt Jackson McCain -3 for ongoing personal attacks, irrelevant #tweetdebate. http://tinyurl.com/4fe6hh Obama on the defensive. #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate #mccainshot Stop interrupting Obama McCain was just about to say my friends Mccain: the sherrif? uh? #tweetdebate #current Jim Lehrer is having trouble getting them actually debating... fire up guys! #tweetdebate #debate08 McCain -1 for failing to address the keystone tax cut issue #tweetdebate McCain's laugh sounds like Bush's!! SCARYY!! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate they won't even make eye contact. no one is responding directly McCain seems to start every sentence with "the point is that...." #tweetdebate #current rt: they are calling Palin "Bible Spice" now. LOL #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Weird that McPain brings up all the Repub bilksters in jail. He wants to separate himself, but doesn't seem like good strategy! McCain cant even look at him..he must have gas! #tweetdebate @MaryTrigiani Hilarious line ... would have been better if Palin didn't ... #tweetdebate I really would like to see Obama & McCain actually engage each other,rather than just talking to the camera #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate -1 Obama for not answering earmark claim by McCain #tweetdebate McPain: we're exporting jobs 'cause of hi biz taxes. NOT because of cheap labor? Oh geez... McCain really believes earmarks got us into this mess and tax cuts will get us out of it? #tweetdebate McCain - have you tried buying health insurance for $5000 a year? #tweetdebate #tweetdebate looks like McCain can't make eye contact with Obama and respond directly to him. dang! there goes "my friends" again. @current #current How can you give all those tax breaks and expect the economy to not go futher into the hole? McCain wants us to read his lips #tweetdebate @davidweiner You're playing that game? I'm drinking everytime I hear #economy. McCain -1 avoiding the question? wait, waht was the question exactly.. #tweetdebate McCain -1 for failing (again) to heed the moderator's instructions #tweetdebate Because I don't have an HDTV, McCain's moire-effect tie is giving me a skull-crushing headache #tweetdebate @current Ah yes, the pot and the kettle are debating who is to blame for the proverbial heat in the kitchen. #current Mccain -1 for looking down and grinning #tweetdebate -1 mccain for floating idea of $5k tax cuts #tweetdebate #tweetdebate PLEEZE people, can we elect someone this time around who is SMART and ARTICULATE? F*ck having a beer with him/her... #tweetdebate -3 McCain untasty comment about Obama not knowing about household income and wealth -1 McCain for breaking the debate rules. #tweetdebate Mccain -3 personal attack and don't like the quote again "walk the walk..talk the talk stuff" nope doesn't work for me #Tweetdebate #tweetdebate McCain can only play one tune. Health care costs and social spending sounds like chump change compared with Corporate Welfare. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 -3 McCain for taling in circles. I don't understand what he is saying. #tweetdebate How long until McCain notes the amount of times Obama voted "Present" rather than Yea or Nay? #tweetdebate -1 Obama for breaking the debate rules and walking over the moderator. #tweetdebate McCain -1 for hogging the mic. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Obama right to focus on issues in deregulation, and McCain ignoring these issues McCain -1 weird smirking/laughing #tweetdebate @current #current Obama is stuttering too much. Sounds like Porky Big Financial rescue? More like financial bailout! #tweetdebate -3 McCain still attacking Obama (and spends more time looking at the podium) and -5 for that smile #tweetdebate I only just remembered that this was a foreign policy debate. #tweetdebate #current #debate08 -1 Obama for too many disclaimers re: potential economic recovery plan #tweetdebate @current Healthcare is a financial killer in our capitalist society, oh the irony. #current @MaryTrigiani Yes, when she lost Miss Alaska. -1 to Obama for leaving out conservation in the list of things that will free us from foreign oil #tweetdebate What is obama talking about with electricity? #current #tweetdebate ok, obama, people are glazing. #tweetdebate Obama -1 what are you "giving up" in terms of spending exactly #tweetdebate China also let infants drink tainted milk do we REALLY want to be like them?? #debate08 #maccainshot #obamashot #tweetdebate #current slipped that in #tweetdebate McCain -3 another personal attack #tweetdebate #tweetdebate "I oppose" drinking game -- bottoms up! -3 McCain Personal attack, it is hard to reach across the aisle when one is that far to the left. #tweetdebate -2 McCain for redundancy #tweetdebate @current #current How in this day and age can you deny help to anyone who wants to produce alternative fuel -4 McCain #tweetdebate How many people know what "cost-plus" contracts are? I wouldn't know if I hadn't worked for construction-related clients. McCain -1 for false claims on Obama's voting record. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate defence contract inefficiency in contracts not the problem, a symptom, warring foreign policy is the REAL problem Unfortunately, Obama didn't answer the question of what would he cut...#debate08 #tweetdebate -3 pts simply because McCain said he's against ethanol subsidies. boo...#tweetdebate The moderator looked scary just now #current #tweetdebate Mccain +3 examine quote ok.. but -1 not answering the question #tweetdebate -1 Obama for his crazy stuttering. Slow down, think and THEN speak #tweetdebate McCain -2 for false statement Obama does not have the most liberal record #tweetdebate McCain -2 for bringing federal prison into every question; is he thinking he's lucky not to be there himself? think Keating #tweetdebate McCain -1 for mischaracterizing a naval program #tweetdebate #tweetdebate hahahah..."wildly liberal" is just me opposing bush's wrongheaded policies Google for government? huh? #tweetdebate -1 Obama not answering question about specific cuts #tweetdebate Obama - "Where's the teleprompter and cue cards!?" #current #tweetdebate Obama -1 for evading question on what to cut #tweetdebate Dang tweeting while pausing the Tivo is not the right thing to do #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Where's the foreign policy part of the debate??? :S #tweetdebate #current McCain -1 for evading question on what to cut #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Using a hatchet when you need a scalpel. #obamashot Obama soundbite: problem with a spending freeze is youre using a hatchet when you need a scalpel #tweetdebate Mccain -1 what? spending freeze ??? unclear at all #tweetdebate Close ups of Obama make him look old #current #tweetdebate Obama- I wanna keep spending money--his Early Childhood education is full of crap. #current #tweetdebate -3 mccain #tweetdebate spending freeze for everything but defense -- what about our children? our education? energy independence? @current Damn, McCain just had to play the terrorist card. #current more nukes is not the answer #tweetdebate -1 McCain's off topic on counterpoint about spending cuts #tweetdebate McCain really shouldn't think off the cuff, he'll paint himself into a corner very quickly #tweetdebate #current Bill pissed #tweetdebate he's like 'step up'! McCain -1 for a stunt. Spending freeze is classical BS #tweetdebate -1 mccain for promoting nukes and not talking about storage of spent fuel #tweetdebate What the heck is the line graph at the bottom of CNN's screen? Looks like my pulse! #tweetdebate Yes Obama I want to hear more about your superiority #current #tweetdebate McCain -2 Nuclear power is limited too dude! By 2050 we are out of Uranium! And your power plant is done in 2030 #tweetdebate Roosevelt again. shit. he needs to throw down #tweetdebate lehrer constantly rephrasing questions - mccain rambles too much to cover his talking points. -1 mccain #tweetdebate -1 pt for Jim Leher for asking a stupid question: "will the economic failure change the way you rule as president?" uh...YEAH. #tweetdebate @orbitaldiamonds IKR? Absolutely ridiculous. #tweetdebate -Google for government-uh, did anyone vote against that? Voice votes on slam dunk legislation isn't a record of accomplishment Spending freeze? Really McCain? #tweetdebate #tweetdebate agree with Obama - McCain hatchett job -ive step. We need a scalpel. Granularity of growth argument. @Condoulo oh boy good point, I doubt I would vote for her milf GMilf etc self anyway. McCain -3 for total nonsense #tweetdebate Obama - spending on healthcare--he couldn't admit that this spending must stop! #current #tweetdebate -1 McCain for not having a clue how many people can't afford a doctor at all #tweetdebate McCain -1 for evading question on what to cut #tweetdebate both -2 for saying the same thing over and over again. I know it's because people won't get it otherwise. People -3 ??? #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate people without healthcare don't have those decisions to make, McCain. -1 mccain for promoting nukes and not talking about storage of spent fuel #tweetdebate Cut spending, Cut spending Cut spending Cut spending Cut spending :S #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate McCain -2 broken record "cut spending". Big "duh"... @usermac if McCain is a cool beverage it's a plastic tumbler of prune juice. So unpleasant and cramp inducing. #tweetdebate we can handle banks over to the federal government, but not healthcare? @current #current Spending got out of control under REPUBLICAN presidency. #tweetdebate - McCain calls for all energy alternatives, including Nuclear! McCain also says Climate Change. Boo. I think Obama miscalculated with not supporting a safe nuclear power program. #tweetdebate McCain -3 for another complete mischaracterization of reality (debt to china is utterly irrelevant) #tweetdebate @theebayk1d No..... we will end up with a conservative who supports drilling here in the US as we go to alternatives, second ammendment, etc McCain -3 for making a false statement about Obama's health care plan #tweetdebate @SistersTalk The fear climate descended with Bush got the West Wing keys. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama -3 for getting "Jim" err "John's" name wrong, and not addressing him as "senator" lack of respect #tweetdebate "This orgy of spending....and you voted for his budgets" #tweetdebate More pissing on spending... #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Sen O: YOU voted for Bush' budgets. Stand here and say that when it hasn't happened over last 8 hears, it's hard to swallow. probably...eventually.... c'mon McCain grow a pair #tweetdebate Obama - you voted for all of the budgets that have fuelled this orgy of spending. #tweetdebate He was voted Miss Bitch #tweetdebate McCain rehearsed soundbite: I have not been voted Ms Congeniality #tweetdebate I guess McCain only spends money on shoes, make up and houses #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Over-used phrase of the night: Miss Congeniality. Wonder how that plays overseas? #tweetdebate soooo tired of hearing "i have not been electd miss congeniality. McCain -1 for reuse of Miss Congeniality reference #tweetdebate @current #current If McCain would definitely make a very ugly Ms. Congeniality. Its a lousy cliche to keep throwing out though. OHHHH First uppercut of the night! #tweetdebate #current 45 Nuclear Plants? OMG WTF?!!?! #tweetdebate -2 McCain for saying Miss Congeniality twice so far. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate McPain: I'm proud to say I've got a good partner who is a maverick. [that's ONE way to describe someone who's clueless] McCain -2 for saying 'were winning in iraq' i'm pretty sure that's not true #tweetdebate Not being mr congeniality is a BAD thing. If your senate won't work with you, other countries won't and we need friends #tweetdebate McCain -2 for not answering the question #tweetdebate Why does McCain leep talking about Miss Congeniality when that's the title Sarah Palin won? #tweetdebate Obama has been hammering the afgan point too hard, we get it! #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate $10 billion/mo in Iraq and McCain wants to talk about earmarks? #current #tweetdebate #debate08 i hate it when obama tries to be all hawky. #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Sen O: Al Quaeda stronger now than since '01. Lesson: we have to use military WISELY and we didn't do that in Iraq. macain -1 on where he stands on the $700B bailout, he didn't tell us HOW #tweetdebate @current It's either some "epic battle against the terrorists" or "hey, look, it's broken ya'll". #current -1 Obama initially off topic answering question on lessons of war #tweetdebate McCain -3 personal attack (what? without evidence huh? what hearing #tweetdebate Wow whoever created McCain's talking points was really reaching... #tweetdebate #current #debate08 -2 McCain for saying we are winning in Iraq. I don't see anything coming out of the Iraq war. #tweetdebate SURGE....tired of that term. We're still there; we're still losing people (maybe more due to the surge?) #tweetdebate #debate08 #current Obama gives strong kudos to Biden ... is McCain going to applaud his selection of the Palin creature? #current #tweetdebate #debate08 -1 for obama trying to ignore the fact the fact that mccain has been a lone voice calling for a change in iraq strategy #tweetdebate Mccain -1 for not looking at Obama when Obama is looking at him #tweetdebate @current It reminds me of some teenagers that totally fucked up their parents' house and now they don't want to admit it. #current McCain -1 for a false statement about Obama commitee responsibilities #tweetdebate McCain -3 for being a pompous ass. #tweetdebate oooh, "I'm afraid Obama doesn't understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy." - McCain #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate #obamashot you were wrong you were wrong you were wrong you were wrong #tweetdebate McPain: Sen O doesn't understand diff between tactic and strategy [they don't teach you those things at Harvard law?!] -3 Mccain for a backhanded comment ("Obama doesn't understand the tactic and the strategy") #tweetdebate FACT Soldiers are not reenlisting now buddy! And they are not voting for you! #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate McCain -2 for triggering patriotism all the time #tweetdebate McCain: "selecting Palin to win the election is a tactic, dying and making her President is a strategy." # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate Yes. Let's cut spending for everything EXCEPT our defensive contracts. Are you fucking kidding me? #tweetdebate @current Oh, there came the Osama card. That would have been the perfect time for McCain to "accidentally" mess up his name. #current Facebook Blunt Jackson McCain -3 for total falsehoods and personal attacks #tweetdebate. http://tinyurl.com/43v3kc #tweetdebate McPain STILL quibbling over definition of "strategy" and "tactic." -1 mccain wtf is he talking about in Afghanistan? Ramble on old man #tweetdebate I'm afraid Senator McCain doesn't know the difference between "succeed" and "exceeed." #tweetdebate Obama should only interrupt McCain when McCain lies... oh, never mind, that would be more interruptions... # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate @current Oh, that brings up a good question. How the hell can we afford wars that don't matter when we're broke? #current Why is that Obama calls McCain John all the time, but McCain never refers to Obama by his first name? #tweetdebate #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Wow, can't anyone stop Mc's bald lies? #tweetdebate #obamashot Obama has NOT said change yet. Should i return the tequila bottle? @ceanders And he keeps smiling in a really passive pedophile way @current Do you realize how expensive military weaponry is? For Christ's sake, can't we just fight our wars with propaganda? #current Agreed: Iran should've been the #1 focus. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Sen O brings up subject of Pakistan. McPain: Won't repeat mistake I regret enormously...washed our hands of region (after USSR) McCain soundbite: You don't say that out loud! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate It's the economy, stupid. McCain but those freedom fighters were alquaeda -2 #tweetdebate I must disagree with Obama - Iran is bigger threat than Al Qaeda #tweetdebate McCain -2 for mischaracterizing Obama on Pakistan #tweetdebate Maybe McCain will let Paliin handle Pakistan ... she met some world leaders the other day ... she's ready!! #current #tweetdebate #debate08 @current Why do we care about Pakistan? Because they have nuclear weapons? Do they have stability? #current "You dont say things out loud!?" Core problem as Republican's #tweetdebate Yep I agree I think that MCCAIN is twisting facts and making lies up about shit. #tweetdebate McCain -1 for man crush on General Patraeus #tweetdebate McCain is treating him like the man-child he is. Obama needs to stop being so congenial if he wants to win. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama finally called him John, not Tom nor Jim... #tweetdebate Obama -3 for repeating his Pakistan threads again! #tweetdebate @current TAKE OUT BIN LADIN YOU LIL BASTARDS!!! #current McCain -1 for smug smiles. #tweetdebate Mccain -1 for saying that Obama wanted to attack Pakistan! #tweetdebate McCain -1 for smug smiles. #tweetdebate Obama -1 ok.. you got the leader of N.Korea's name wrong re: pronunciation - need to practice #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Hating that audience reaction graph at the bottom of CNN. #tweetdebate -2 for Obama for saying McCain is right too much ''Coming from you, who've sung songs about bombing Iran, I don't know how credible that is.'' SCORE! #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Ooh, bomb iran remark hurt! # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate No kidding! Obama pronounces "Pakistan" and "Afghanistan" like a foreigner...Harvard education tendancies! #current #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama -1 again Pakistan threat #tweetdebate retweet: Obama +3 coming from you who sings songs about bombing Iran, I dno't think that's NOT very credible #tweetdebate Retweet @AndrewSmith: If "Petreaus" was McCain's drinking word, I'd be on the floor at this point. #current #tweetdebate Oh, here we go with "The Record." #current #debate08 #tweetdebate @current You're welcome to be free!...as long as you're under our control... So how's your mom? #current wonder how the Pakistani's feel about being called a failed state by mccain #tweetdebate mccain -1 for saying Obama doesn't understand this or that, he is being too condescending #tweetdebate @evolver I believe the world would implode if they made eye contact with each other. Just saying. #current #tweetdebate why do I all of sudden don't care about Mccain's record? #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Obama -3 for Pakistan comments; McCain -3 for smugness and downtalking to Obama. What happened to "I respectfully disagree?" Reagan is why this country is in debt in the first place #tweetdebate McCain -2 for naming dead soldier, cheap shot #tweetdebate McCai -3 for telling shitty bracelet story. Don't waste my time John! #tweetdebate Obama needs to explain anti-democratic comment (i.e. letting Musharraf take over after coup - average American not understand) #tweetdebate Ok why is it when Mccain makes a point about something he backs it with a war story? #tweetdebate #tweetdebate McCain -3 for pulling out all the stops on war vets when we know he supported the cutting of the VET benefits mccain -1 pulling the emotional heart strings about making it all worth it #current #tweetdebate @current #current Oh here is where McCain tries to look human by bringing human interest into the debate. Looks trite and cliche McCain has stopped debating and resumed his campaigning. #tweetdebate *SNORE* #mccain -2 #tweetdebate @jaymesiemer Yeah, my 86 year old mother is upset too... and she doesn't really keep up with these things too much any more! The easiest way to put "our young men and women into harm's way" is to vote Republican. #tweetdebate McCain pissing me off about Iraq war bracelet! I wear my Uncle's from VietNam (hes on the last known alive list) what about HIM #tweetdebate -1 McCain for telling heartstring pulling stories that don't make a point #tweetdebate Why don't we just send Iron Man to Afghanistan? #current #tweetdebate Obama -2 for copying cheap shot #tweetdebate Uhh dishonor. Are we Klingon now #tweetdebate McCain talks like my grandpa... just telling stories #tweetdebate I've got a bracelet too. UGHHH ME TOO! ME TOO!!! Who is actually WEARING it? #tweetdebate Obama -3 for more bracelet shit #tweetdebate #tweetdebate A bracelet war??? @current Define defeat. Oh, you mean like your economy collapsing from within like...because of a terrorist organization? #current no us soldier ever dies in vain huh... #tweetdebate #debate08 #current #tweetdebate Obama needs to stop stuttering @BrianMcAlister You don't say that out loud It's a DEBATE, not story time! #tweetdebate #current #momocrats "Yeah, well I have a necklace and 2 anklets!!" #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Both of them -3 for sounding like every other candidate we've ever elected #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Obama -3 twice once for the "me too" comment on bracelet & for saying McCain is "right" instead of "I agree" -1 obama ouch on bracelet remark #tweetdebate @barbaranixon I daresay at the current person in the highest elected office would at least look at him! And he doesn't do much, really. #tweetdebate can you believe they are talking about bracelets? christ, if I could vote I'm not sure I would want to vote for either O or M based on this #current #tweetdebate #debate08 progress in debates. we've moved on from lapel pins to bracelets. #tweetdebate i am not persuaded by this idea about relocating the war. #current #tweetdebate It must be really weird debating someone who will not look at you. Look at him, John! #tweetdebate It must be really weird debating someone who will not look at you. Look at him, John! #tweetdebate @janoss - why does McCain not look at Obama? Can you answer that one? #tweetdebate I can't stand when people debate military strategy by bringing up personal soldier stories. Like McCain's doing. @current how long is the delay? -2 McCain +2 obama "mccain said you can "muddle thru" afganistan. #tweetdebate McCain sounds condescending and petulant @current Did Al Queda take down the economy? Well, it is a coincidence that we are pissing away money indirectly as a result. #current #tweetdebate: we drink everytime they say: Iraq, Bailout, Bush, Iran, Israel, allies, Global Warming, Toxic, Obama, McCain, "my friends" -2 pts for McCain's personal attack "BTW, when I'm subcommittee chairman, we take up the issues in our subcommittee" #tweetdebate McCain -1 John we know you were in Iraq and Afghanistan and probably had good dinner there #tweetdebate is this a debate or a campaign stop? #tweetdebate -1 Obama for sucking up to Jim #tweetdebate #tweetdebate McCain seems like he's really holding in his anger in response to Obama. Quite the contrast. @snooks56 The bracelet wars are reminiscent of Danny Glover and Mel Gibson comparing scars in Lethal Weapon #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Existential??? John McCamus?? McCain sound bite: League of Democracies. Will Supes be on our side? Are they going to fight the Axis of Evil? #tweetdebate McCain -3 for holocaust reference. What's happening in Dafur? #tweetdebate Isreal will suffer overwhelming ennui #current #tweetdebate I think Republicans learn a different math... #tweetdebate -3 McCain-fearmongering: who said anything about a 2nd holocaust? #tweetdebate blinky's back! (aka McCain) #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate MCCain Iranians are putting lethal IEDs in Iraq. McCain's gaffe: Iran has a lousy government. That's some good int'l diplomacy! #tweetdebate so a holocaust caused by Iran is bad but what's happening in Darfur can be ignored? #tweetdebate McCain mentions existentialism and the French in the same statement. Irony. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate McCain: "Iranians have a lousy economy." Kinda like...us! Speaking of the economy... Why aren't they talking more about it? -5 McCain: you're missing the lead questions and walking on way too many tangents... #tweetdebate #debate08 -2 Obama saying McCain is right too many times even if true #tweetdebate I cant believe McCain is talking about Iran's threat now. Lets get Iraq/Afganistan fixed first #tweetdebate @lumatts It is a lousy government. corrupt and unable to provide basic services for its citizens #tweetdebate -5 Obama for continuing to say that McCain is right! Augh! Stop that! #tweetdebate 1 hour in, have we heard ANYTHING new? Following #tweetdebate is fun Dems are too polite. Obama needs to stop saying Mcain is correct. #tweetdebate @theebayk1d No, I don't live on Fox either. @gminks I want that League t-shirt. McCain is progressive as a 1950s thinker @current Then have the guilty bastards "retroactively re-regulated" and banished somewhere funny. #current Good God can we STOP invading other countries?! #tweetdebate #current #debate08 -1 mccain, nobody understands what preconditions are #tweetdebate -3 McCain for mispronounce of world leader's name. -3 Obama for trying to correct. #tweetdebate McCain -3 for propaganda platform rubbish. What an arrogant asshole are you John?! #tweetdebate -3 mccain can't even pronounce the name of the head of Iran. @nprpolitics contestants on Wait Wait Don't Tell me do it better. #tweetdebate -5 for McCain's constant reminder of how old he is. "Back in the day..." "Back when..." #tweetdebate #debate08 McCain -3 for mispronouncing world leaders' names. Say Ahmadinejad 3 times real fast. #tweetdebate Gorbatschow brought the wall down dude not your fucking Reagan! #tweetdebate McCain -2 false statement about " wiping Israel off map" #tweetdebate McCain aligning himself with Reagan and Nixon. This is why I don't care for him. #tweetdebate @BarackObama McCain has you with Iran. #current #obamashot #mccainshot #tweetdebate -3 for McCain for arrogance and downtalking. This guy is just disrespectful, imagine McCain negotiating internationally Mccain -1 for rolling his eyes when Obama mentioned that "A" isn't the right person at IRAN to target LOL #Tweetdebate -3 McCain for lying about Obama's position regarding unconditional negitiatoins #tweetdebate @current #current I don't remember Clinton stuttering this much during debates ... @cmarlow480 when you get as old as McCain everything is supported with a story, #tweetdebate Why do Republicans do that smirk? It's inherently insulting. #tweetdebate @lindagoin I'm lead to understand that he did practice prior to the debate, but it's known that he's not a good debater. Style issue? @theebayk1d Exactly.. everything with mccain has a boring story behind it #tweetdebate McCain -0.1 each time he smirks while Obama speaks. #tweetdebate @janoss - at any rate (considering my bias), I'm seeing Mc as paperboard. McCain should not make jokes "Im not going to set appointments b4 I am prez, I don't even have a seal yet #tweetdebate -3 mccains attempt at humor :( boo #tweetdebate -3 for both of these babies! No debate, just talking down. #tweetdebate @current #current Ooh. It finally happened it took McCain 45 mins to call Obama naieve. Wow. I'm impressed he had that much patience -2 McCain for saying that by listening to people in terrorist countries make bad comments, you legitimize those comments. #tweetdebate obama's thinking ' what an ahole with his stinking corpse remark' #tweetdebate McCain tries really hard to demean Obama. #tweetdebate @current Why is the US going broke policing the world while being put at risk from within? #current My 9 year old asks why McCain doesn't look at Obama. #tweetdebate -4 for McCain for demanding oil drills when soler gives 5000000 watts with 15 SA per year #tweetdebate we owe china $500B - we consumers buy china products - US goc borrows $ (our money) from chine - we buy more. see the cycle? #tweetdebate -1 McCain for more "preconditions BS" #tweetdebate Talking is dangerous. Just.. ah... shoot people! #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate I am disappointed. #tweetdebate If they give the candidates 2 minutes, why are they not ending after 2 minutes? #tweetdebate -3 for having multiple twitter tags for the same concept #tweetdebate #debate08 #current #tweetdebate Mc can only run diversions... "Dr. Kissenger my old friend"! Please. Definitely -3 Mccain REALLY never does look at Obama. I mean never, it's unsettling and I do mean -3 in tweetdebate language #tweetdebate If Obama didn't talk with dangerous, wrong-headed militant jerks he wouldn't be in this debate. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate fuck mccain #tweetdebate @current #current What's next McCain.. A B C - I'm glad you're not too old to remember your alphabet McCain -3 For response on Russia. He's insulting, and he makes no sense. #tweetdebate McCain -2 for Putin/KGB comment #tweetdebate -3 McCain for dusty old KGB sound bite #tweetdebate @cgritter I was gonna say the same thing! You'd think he'd have a leg up on all that Russia stuff (cuz Sarah can see it from her house!) Mccain -1 he is loosing me here.. #tweetdebate McCain -2 for being sure there won't be a cold war. Venezuela has receives military funding from Russia now #tweetdebate mccain, you've looked into mr putin's eyes, but you can't look into obama's? #tweetdebate Fail Whale #tweetdebate McCain if elected would lead us unsustainably into war across the globe #tweetdebate #tweetdebate: Offended that there's no Independent representation. So who's representing me? Why list Rep, Dem, Ind on screen-there's no Ind McCain -3 for being a condescending A-hole #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Oh lord, more boring stories. -2 McCain -1 McCain for leading right off with attack followed by confusion about policy #tweetdebate re Russia/Iran McCain's definitely more about the military action. Scary if he becomes president. #debate08 #tweetdebate So one sign in Georgia meant the Russians would invade? Quite a stretch... #tweetdebate Okay, McCain, enough with the "I went there once" and the "I've been doing this for 35 years." We know. You're old. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate sounds like McCain has been spending a lot of american tax dollars visiting all over the place @current #current I know you know so much about Russia. After all its your VPs neighbor and she can see it from her front door after all.. McCain -1 for "having been" everywhere or a least starting every argument with that. #tweetdebate Since when did the Republicans become tax-and-spend world police? #tweetdebate McCain -2 for misrepresentng Obama's positions on Russia and Georgia. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate #debate08 Can you imagine Palin answering these questions... #current #tweetdebate It's sad that you can watch this and think that Mc has been the only one saying anything right tonight! there's no such thing as a "russian peacekeeper" #obama -1 #tweetdebate obama: jump in and talk over him! #tweetdebate McCain never looks at Obama #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate drilling is not a solution. But Bush let the Chinese buy all the solar chip plants and wind turbine makers. Swiftfuel! Mccain -3 for thinking that offshore drilling will help anything at all. #tweetdebate #current #tweetdebate SAFER? I want some of those 71 year old man drugs!! And 6 or 7 houses, too. offshore drilling? Kill the planet #tweetdebate. can you believe bin laden is still out there. seriously? why the heck can't they find him? #tweetdebate @sarking White privilege. He's a scolding grandfather, Obama interrupting looks like an "angry black man." #debate08 Retweet @CollinKelley: McCain created the 911 commission? I guess he did that right after he created the Blackberry #current #tweetdebate -10 McCain for excessive pulling of the heartstrings. #tweetdebate @cgritter Or if they annoy you, you should drink then. That's a new rule. I just made it up. laptop battery empty :-( #tweetdebate It's REALLY starting to bother me that McCain won't even glance at Obama. It shows a lack of respect. #current McCain wants to work with our allies, but won't meet with Spain #current Rove...I mean McCain has studied his points very well. Too bad they just seem void of any substance to anyone LISTENING. #current Can Obama protect America if his teleprompter breaks? #current #debate08 The biggest threat to the United States is Obama as President #current "declare america safe?" will that come with some kind of money back guarantee? #current #current Obama is really getting angry at the moderator when he interrupts... you sure he took enough of those meds today? We don't need to keep hyping this FAKE WAR on TERROR!! Keep us SECURE, Obama... we don't need our LIBERTY. #current "How many times is Obama going to have to say "That's not true, John"." ahmen @hack26 #current Isn't it past McCains bedtime? Maybe that's why he keeps telling these "bedtime" stories #current No John, off-shore drilling isn't a bridge. It would take 20 years to see any effect of new off-shore drilling. #current McCain winning? WTF? He hasn't said anything. #debate08 #current WTF.... Obama believes in missile defense??? Since when! #debate08 #current #current #tweetdebate Mc's dismissiveness makes him look stronger to the bully class. #debate08 #current 9/11 question is a big softball for Obama to whine about Iraq some more. Is Obama stuttering now???#current We poured that money into airport security, and yet you're able to get around that by changing your name. *sigh* #current #debate08 Can you ever really claim America safe? That's the problem with waging a war with no clear definition of victory. #current #debate08 OMG Lets kill something else for oil now.. sheess #current Penguins and Caribou dont know how to shoot.. Obama has to tell McCain that's not true John to wake him up he is sleeping during the debate, at least his answers sound like it #current Gore. Kerry. Obama. It's a Harvard DNA thing...they all become androids. #current #debate08 My boyfriend finds his watch more interesting than the debate. #debate08 @current #current #current #debate08 Obama talks in circles about nothing #current #debate08 Did Obama's mom not teach him any manners? WAIT YOUR TURN TO SPEAK! #current it's beacuse mcain doesn't know when to shut his trap. It's a debate, not a speech #current But what about the Change? #current No, no, no - the biggest threat is lettig McCain leave with smirk on his face #current Safer today? Go abroad as an American, McCain & get reality check. #current I don't want to hear about offshore drilling at all, anymore, ever. Talk about alternatives, McCain, or you're not talking to me. #current worst drinking game ever #current Al Qaeda will only grow as the US continues to antagonise them #debate08 #current McCain is getting very angry, he is clinching his jaws, and getting ready to taclke Obama, he is such a hothead #current Poor grades across the board in a recent study of preparedness -- good 4 Obama 2 talk about what we're not doing yet #current #debate08 OUR BIGGEST THREAT IS THE WORLD THINKS WERE ASSHOLES! #current #debate08 #current #tweetdebate Mc's dismissiveness makes him look stronger to the bully class #current = Obama's lack of experience is making him on edge and not as calm as he might be. Come back in 8 years. mccain is kiilin me with the stories #current i wonder who is going to be first to spend a zillion gazillion dollars #current well McCain just f'ed himself talking over Obama and the Mod.... #tweetdebate #2019 #current i wish i could tell him there's never been a suticase nuclear attack anywhere. i don't think any individual is bold enough. Independents represent 42% of the voting population -- yet we are NOT REPRESENTED at this #tweetdebate. Shameful. McCain sounds like a war monger filled with fear. #current Just how is this country the "greatest?" #debate08 #current #current I hope the next debate is more exciting and less polite. Has mccain looked @ obama at all this whole debate? #current you think if people stop talking about "terrorism" it would just go away? you know, out of sight out of mind. #current Obama: "We are less respected now." Well, you're less respected by me if you keep this play-it-safe mode up. #current #debate08 #current Does Obama actually think we aren't trying to go after all Qaeda? @Edge32 I agree... Obama is being far too accommodating of McCain's tone & interruptions #current #debate08 Obama's tie is crooked!!! #current #current @sull @gnimsh there's no need for a 9/11 style attack on the US anymore. We're destroying ourselves without any outsidel help. #debate08 #current pinocchio-bama we need to restore America's standing in the world We are less respected now... Obama #current #debate08 And I give credit to McCain... NOOOO Amen Obama. We are less respected. #current the way we're perceived in the world...put ya weight on it Barack! #debate08 #current Less respected than four years ago - a major understatement! We don't even respect ourselves anymore! #current Yes, reps are experts on torture. #debate08 #current #current Obama - we need to go to Afghanistan and Pakistan...and he wants more troops...is he really a democrat?! We are definitely less respected now in the eyes of the rest of the world. This celebrity election is not helping. #current damn right we're not respected anymore. we need a president who's gonna restore our international credibility. #current Obama keeps saying him & McCain r not different. I thought O said McCain is 3rd Bush term. If true, is O going 2 b a 3rd term 2? #current Mcain, working with Lieberman does not make you bipartisan. He is not really a democrat. #tweetdebate McCain VS Obama in a cage match. GO!#current quick! McCain! Get in another Slogan! #current #current Obama is really getting angry at the moderator when he interrupts... O: Restore how we're perceived in the world - we're less respected now than we were 8 years ago, even 4 years ago #debates08, #current I agree w/ @movingsideways....this has been difficult to watch. Not atl all what I expected. #current Obama goes into apologizing for the USA again, what a scumbag he is #current Half way through telling you the real reasons why Obama should be president I realized you you wanted to keep kidding yourself. #current honestly mccain really stressed me out... he was being SO mean. I don't like it when people are that mean in something so important #current @Condoulo how doesnt he respect the Nat'l Anthem - why does it matter so much if he respects the country, #tweetdebate I thought McCain flopped on the torture issue? #current lol, ants are so industrious. are we supposed to behave like ants? #current mccain -3 Obama doesn't get it #current #tweetdebate Missile defense is welfare for the defense industry. It. Just. Doesn't. Work. #tweetdebate since when is being respectful a bad thing? I work on teaching it to my kids every day. Family values. Remember those?? #tweetdebate yes -- we are less respected -- Obama can restore standing. Stop complimenting McCain, he doesn't compliment you! #current #debate08 senator obama doesnt understand? or get it? Mccain...stop using that language #debate08 #current @current #current He doesn't understand and he doesn't get it - those phrases make McCain sound petty again "Senator Obama still doesn't understand.." ugh. #current The safer question is a joke. We are chasing our tails, after something happens. What is thought determines how the USA is treated #current #current McPain: Reagan's SDI was major factor of ending cold war. Obama doesn't get that failing in Iraq will embolden enemy. Iraq is lost give it up Mc Cain! #current -1pt for McCain's attack. How can we fail in Iraq? We don't even know how to win there! #tweetdebate If the terrorists think an attack will help McCain win, they will attack before the election. #current "senator Obama still doesn't quite understand" #current #current Stop saying 'cold war' and 'holocaust' McCain, you just sound desperate and stupid. @gesteves Right, ignoring them just gives them more room #current Did Obama's mom not teach him any manners? He needs to wait his turn to speak. #current Okay-we all know Obama wants us out of Iraq, say something new #current How can you people think there is a difference between these two... Sounds like all the same BS to me. #current Obama should be president. McCain should retire and collect social security. #current #debate08 #current #tweetdebate McCain's talking point: Obama doesn't get it. He's doing a good job of driving that message home. mccain -1 when asked about our standing in the world goes back to missile defense and rides Reagan's coattails #tweetdebate This, I think, has been a very disappointing debate. I thought Obama would come off better, but he didn't shine this time. #current @alanbenson, agreed, this last question is a bit of a joke. #current if MaCain is elected no doubt another 911 is gonna happen! be ready! #current McCain's strategy is all wrong. You cant beat up everybody that doesnt like you.#current McCain "Offshore drilling is a bridge..." to nowhere? #tweetdebate Reagan killed solar, of course McCain doesn't have a good solar record Holy shit, McCain isn't winning this debate people- he's talking about our "ego" re: Iraq. That's the most dangerous way to govern #current rt @KatieFavazza Friends are worrying now about Palin in her debate next week. #current #debate08 Clearly, McCain "doesn't understand" that we need to get out of Iraq so we can deal with issues at home. #current I wonder if Iraquis are taller than Afghanis ... McCain must have the inside track of height tactics. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 #current Covert Radio: The next 911 attack will come from Northwest Pakistan and one of the 457 Taliban Camps. They are plotting now. #current General Betray-us says this, General Betray-us says that... Hey McCain, he's not in charge anymore!! #current John McCain's skin is hangin off his bones @litterthisheart #debate08 Has anyone else noticed that McCain hasn't defined what "victory in Iraq" entails? Warmonger. McCain needs to get to the point, I am getting lost in all these words. #current just because Gen. Petraeus says it, doesn't make it true. #current I'm still pissed at Al Gore for effing up the debates in 2000. #current Hopefully one of these candidates can act like an adult when running THE WHOLE COUNTRY #current With economy this flucked up, with war this frucked up, I'm pissed this is even close. Obama, this should be easy. #current #debate08 Holy shit, McCain isn't winning this debate people- he's talking about our "ego" re: Iraq. That's the most dangerous way to govern #current #current #debate08 That's the M.O. -- Just repeating, "He doesn't get it!!!" Obama has spent more time campaigning then in public office #current #debate08 Obama should call McCain's judgement in regard to the Iraq War into question more. #current ok i get it grandpa mcain your old #current @JalenJade Exactly why do we need attacked when were destroying ourselves #tweetdebate The Character Assassination of Barack Obama by the Coward John McCain http://bit.ly/2ZHw59 #debate08 #current Mr Obama republicans focus on Iraq because they have little tiny brains. Clinton can tell you where democrats keep theirs #current #debate08 Old Man McCain is just rambling on and on ... and not answering the question with facts, Were are the fact MCCAIN? #current How can you tell a Harverd Grad who did NOT graduate at the bottom 5 of his class that he does not undersatand. How arrogant. #tweetdebate Bringing up Reagan soo many times is quite manipulative #current #debate08 #current There's been more priorities than just Iraq, plus capturing Bin Laden won't end the GWOT worst drinking game ever #current McCain -3 for lying again about Obama's stands on Iraq #tweetdebate It's kind of tough watching McCain beat Obama senseless. #current #debate08 This is ridiculous. Obama really needs to take McCain to task if he wants to win over the undecided demographic.#current #debate08 And stop relying on Petraeus, Senator McCain! #current @current #current Obama will win by simply spending the last 90 mins not inserting his foot into his mouth. No big blunders = good. @orbitaldiamonds No one has. No one knows what 'victory in Iraq' looks like. Until they define it, I don't want to hear about it. I think this debate has not helped anyone to be swayed one way or the other. #current @stillgray no she's darth vader - just give her the mask! she'll do everything for her "master" Johnny Boy #current per my previous tweet: thx obama for saying the chinese own $1T in usa debt #current New outfit to wear $500... Being a presidential candidate and not knowing how to tie a tie.... PRICELESS! #current Wait... that just sunk in... did he give the comparitive heights of Koreans? #current Screw having dates to get out! Lets stay there for 100 years! #current Every time Obama calls McC "Jim" a little child cries.#current McCain looks like he didn't even want to show up tonight. #current It's a trap! #current #current obama ending with PWNING bush hats off to you sir #Current China holds our debt so we have money to buy their cheap garbage #tweetdebate Obama -3 for thinking America had image to lose. We have been called the ugly Americans for decades. Calling the USA the "greatest" country is a very dangerous claim #current Mccain won on rambling run-on sentences.#current Obama: We spend so much money on Iraq, we can't afford to bail out Wall Street! #current Husband says that if the terrorists are killing us, who cares about health care???? #debate08 #current We can't invest because we are bankrupt! MORE WARS OR MORE SPENDING IS NOT GOING TO HELP!#current People need to support OTHER parties besides the GOP and Democrats!!! #current no we just need to wage war on everyone else Obama. not use our money to help the american people...#current I'm the Jerry Springer audience, I'm waiting for Ralphie N. come out from the background try to beat up McCain :( *bored* #current #current Sen O: we can't provide healthcare or invest in science & tech; this is national security issue. Haven't funded veteran's care. It doesn't help to win in Iraq if it's the wrong war. #current Obama Loses! Incompetence breads incompetence! Veterans? What do you care anti-christ? #current more feeble attempts to tie McCain to "more of the same" #current #tweetdebate and all our undergarments are manfactured in China. Thats a great risk. what if they stopped manfacturing that mccain looks like a muppet #current McCain needs to get to the point, I am getting lost in all these words. #current #current It's a sad state of affairs when we can't even pay for simple healthcare for our military vets McCain: Failure in Iraq would encourage al Qaeda to set up there... Sure it's possible, but is it inevitable? #debate08 #current #current thay are all lying to us "I've been involved in every...thing that got screwed up" is what McCain meant to say there. #current Hate to say it, but OBLaden is not the prob; network of poor fundamentalists is prob. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate Obama needs more experience #current If Dems had a chance to preview this debate, they would have picked Hillary Clinton #current #debate08 Why is it that all of the anti-Obama posts are attached to users with no personal information or links to their sites? #current #debate08 #current #debate08 #tweetdebate I have been involved as well -- mostly yelling at people like McCain Obama wants change, the change in my wallet.#current Obama is doing his hand wrong... he needs to have a fist. Pound his ideas in peoples mind...#Current McCain still condescending with "Obama doesn't understand". And he doesn't have the dignity to look at him. No class. #current #debate @BarackObama If you keep positioning healthcare vs Iraq war, you will lose this election. #current #obamashot #mccainshot The worst thing is that we keep electing these idiots from these 2 parties and we wonder why it always ends up where we're screwed. #current Jim looks like a deer in headlights.... #current all those tight muscles in McCain's face. I bet he'd look 90 if he'd ever relax. #current Strategy in Obama's mind is Kissing the UN's Butt. No Thanks. Freedom Aint Free! #current Hey!Obama!Heres a topic!Go get it boy!go Get it!#current Obama bad decisions: His Church, William Ayers, Rezko, Iraq troop surge..... #current obama seems flustered = not getting point across clearly #current mccain, quit the patronizing and get to the point #current #current of course you think he's wrong john! he's standing in your way from letting sarah palin be president and you haven't done jack, mccain, except jack sh*t up. #current #debate08 How exactly have you been involved in all of the major military actions over the last however long. I don't buy it #current McCain keeps saying that Obama doesn't understand X or Y but what does John McCain know about what Obama knows? #current We GET it McCain you are OLD, a lot of people knew FORTRAN once and that doesn't make them ready to lead today. #current @lifestudent83 oh wait.....he didn't! he tried to use the housing crisis to get out of it! #current How is it that we're coming back to the Surge? Weird... #current did he just compare obama to bush? OMFG!#current Obama's off camera chuckling is just stupid. Makes him look like an idiot, not a POTUS. #current #debate08 Obama: "We haven't spent enough money on social programs and handouts!" #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Right on, @CityMama (from @momocrats LiveChat): "McCain/Palin '80" LOL too true #current #current are you serious, mccain, in comparing obama to bush? nutjob. oh god McCain..you are getting on my nerves...the surge didnt work!!#current mcain's voice makes my ears bleed #current McCain has been involved with military issues from the Civil War to the present day war in Iraq. Does this fall in the pro column? #current Obama: please just say that we should stop fighting wars. Period. Full Stop. No more war. It's DUMB. #current @ceanders Jim Lehrer does not listen. HE WAITS. #current 9/11 was an inside job! Wake up America!! There is no difference between these candidates!!#current McCain has is part of a system that got us into this mess. How can we trust you to get us out? #current Listening to McCain is like listening to a teacher from Charlie Brown. #current Obama talks about the issues and McCain has only spoken about the past. I think McCain needs to go into teaching History #current McCain is totally dissing Obama - what a dick #current LOL! McCain tries to compare Obama to Bush....I think I may wet myself! #current Ohhh..McCain getting a little nasty #current McCain is acting like an arrogant old guy.#current Barack Obama: DEBATE REALITY CHECK: THREAT IN AFGHANISTAN http://tinyurl.com/4dolsf #debate08 #current #tweetdebate #current McSame's wrap up is laughable #current McPain "we've seen this stubbornness before" we need more flexibility in a pres of US than that. Veterans know I'll take care o ... I don't think either of these guys actually enjoy debating/disagreement/confrontation. McCain sounds strained. #current LOL McCain's calling out Obama on being inflexible. Unreal. #current @tayari Eating pizza would, at the present time, be more interesting than the debate. #current Has McCain looked at Obama once past the 30 minute mark?? #current where is Mcains pin? - oh its in his booty chest #current Yarg! @PJsMommy Better his tie than his policies. #current #debate08 McCain -2 he can't even keep the cnn republican line happy! #tweetdebate The man who selected Sarah Palin as his VP wants to talk about "experience" and "judgment". Judgment! #current #debate #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Hey McCain, you voted against Webb's new GI Bill Play that violin...McCain is talking about veterans... #current Who picked McCain's tie? #current grumpy old man #current Yeah, McCain, take care of those veterans by NOT SHOWING UP TO VOTE FOR THE GI BILL #current McPOW wrong on the war, wrong on the war, wrong on the war. Why won't you just admit you were wrong on the war? #current Waiting for McCain to say "Nanny nanny boo boo" #current Obama tried to say that he knows vets well.. guess what can't win that game with McCain.. #current #debate08 Mccain is such a joke. #current Wow McCain is saying that Obama is wrong. Yet his example is counter to what he said two minutes ago? #current Old Man McCain is upset because he isn't use to talking to intelligent, men like Obama #current #current McCain is so smarmy. No, he has NOT taken care of veterans. If McCain thinks Obama doesn't have the experience needed in a dangerous world, whey did he pick Sarah Palin with even less fp exp? #current Mr. McCain knows the Veterans, but Mr. Obama you are no Veteran. To bad McCain votes against veterans at every chance #current #debate08 #current McCain is trying to win on age. He's talking about Obama as an idealistic teen. McCain -3 for calling Obama "stubborn" #tweetdebate McCain has been vomiting diarrhea into my ears all night #current FLexibility, my ass.#current #debate08 #current why does obama keep saying that mccain is right? also why is mccain riding petraeus' jock? Mccain, how is that useful....quit standing on your 'surge'.....and flexibility....? where your flexibility. diplomacy.. #debate08 #current Old Songbird McCain will take care of Vets...HA!!! #current "I honestly don't believe that Sen. Obama has the experience or the knowledge..." Wow, wow, wow. So true. Thanks, McCain #current Vote for McBush! #current McCain is a war man. He will ONLY TAKE CARE OF THE WAR interests.#current LOL. If McCain takes care of veterans, how come he's voting against veteran bills all the time? #current what about the GI bill u didnt vote for McCain...LIAR!! #current McCain seems to keep falling back on saying, "Obama just doesn't get it." Umm...He seems to get it to me. #tweetdebate #debate08 McCain's teeth keep whistling... #current McCain -3 calling Obama inflexible That's the pot calling the kettle black #tweetdebate McCain -2 for yet another instance of "a noun, a verb and POW" crutch #tweetdebate -1 mc cain's Georgian bias on Georgian - Russia conflict. #tweetdebate -3 I been there. I been there. I been there.--McCain. #debatetweets, #current McCain clubs baby seals.... seriously. #current Mc Cains gonna take care of the veterans? he had his chance the last 8 years! #current McCain must be awfully tired --- He's been everywhere and done everything! #current Come on people, say it with me "McSame Old, McSame Old" #current Talk about clinging mindlessly to one stuck position...how about McCain's insistence on staying in Iraq? #current If experience is what we've had for the last 8 years, I'll pass on it and take my chances.#current Obama needs a new makeup artist...his concealer is the wrong color under his right eye #current Mccain -1 getting tired? stuttering? #tweetdebate McCain smirks like Bush #current Does voting against the GI bill count as taking care of veterans, John? #current #current #debate08 I hate it when they talk over each other... cat-fight anyone? -2 for Mcain saying he'll take care of vets but voting against benefits for them. #tweetdebate I want to fall asleep when you talk Mccain #current Why cooperate with the rest of the world when we can just enslave it. #current #current babs is mad. McCain, you know veterans, and will take care of them, yet Veterans organizations consistently give you low ratings? #current mccain -7 for admitting that he has been 'involved in' all major natl sec threats. -2 more for "the new 9/11" aka georgia. #tweetdebate Johnny, fix your dentures. You're whistling. #current McCain doesn't believe that Obama has the experience - but he believes that Palin does? #current #debate08 yeah...he (McCain) really cares about the veterans....that's why he's tried to help Walter Reed #current Surge did not work. Iraq simply ran out of bomb making materials. #current i still hate MaCain's tie!! #current #current twennty some years of experience. or of sameoldsame old? Broken record McCain #current john mccain: "i'm afraid....to look people in the eye" #current #current yes, yes McCain we all know that you are old. Calling out judgement? Seriously, McCain? #current OMG- McCain is smirking just like Bush does! #current #debate08 - Ok, let's make McCain the Sec'y of Vet Affairs... instead of President----!!!!! If veterans know and love McCain like he says, why the veteran protests during his GOP speech? #current mccain keeps whistling! haha #current OBAMA, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE, WAR, ENERGY CRUNCH...NOT A TIME FOR ON THE JOB TRAINING #CURRENT @current So do we now stereotype people from other nations as enemies because they live in a certain country? #current Obama going back to his drunk father roots. #current -1 McCain for the on the job training card #tweetdebate "i've been involved in... virtually every major security challenge in the last 20 years..." McCain just admit to being a terrorist? #current I'm tired of your stories McCain #current mcc is just harping on one or two things, he seems desperate to me. He's not putting up anything new, no new ideas, just same old. #current McCains tie is godawful. #current This debate reminded me why I'm an independent. Disheartening. #current #current McCain needs to retire, not take the hardest job on earth! McCain is such a lying sack about Veterans affairs. You will NOT support them or are you going to flip flop on that now? #current Grandpa McCain is going to take care of America?! #current Obama claims national healthcare is a national security issue-liberal? #current McCain has an ugly tie #current WHEN is this going to end?! I thought it was 90 min!!! #debate08 #current gaaaaaaah Obama Loses! Incompetence breads incompetence! Veterans? What do you care anti-christ? #current I'm outta here. I hope Bill Maher watched the debate. Remember, Barack sucks at debating things, especially because he is stoopid. #current who will take care of you mccain when you're in a nursing home in 2 years??? palin? #current #debate08 McCain is a veteran and Obama has a father from Kenya? Dang. I didn't know that. Lets be more pedantic invoke apple pie #current #debate08 BOOO! Stop trying to push the lack of experience BS McCain, your VP has less experience than my mom does in dealing with people. #current Mccain is out of touch. He is a broken record. We need change NOW! #current You don't need any "on-the-job training?" You are 72! What if you DIE?! Why Palin if you care about "on the job training?" #current I pretty much just feel depressed after this. I wish this election could just get over with. #current McCain will take care of the veterans like they're little babies, he'll let them nurse from my wrinkly man boobs. #current It ain't a popularity matter ya dummy It is national security #current You don't need on the job training huh? Like Palin who will likely become President because you're not gonna make it. #debate08 #current McCain plays the war hero card again! #current horrible dis to Obama mccain #current #current #tweetdebate Conches, I have to agree. It's sad #current Too much Alien vs. Predator. "Whoever wins, we all lose." I was wondering when he was going to pull the POW card... #current We'd have Al Qaeda taken care of by now if it hadn't been for Iraq and oil interests #debate08 #current Is it good that Obama is talking about Dad ? What next talking his Bro LOL #debate08 #current #debateok08 #mccainshot McCain just dropped that ball after Obama was lucid about Iraq #current i was a p.o.w blah blah blah #current @downsokc we have $9 trillion debt. A little too much, eh? #debate08 #debateok08 #current I hate to say it, Obama lost this debate. He's played too much defense and allowed McCain to on the offensive all night. #current "there he goes again being a poor pitiful vet #current" There he goes, the POW card, he couldn't resist #debate08 #current then why vote against them McCain you'd think a veteran would support vetrans! - but those in wheelchairs esp. suffer he does shit #current there you go....I am a POW!! #current Here we go! POW story again! #current Ask McCain about PAVE SPIKE he shut down the search for MIA and POW's! #current -1 pt for McCain. Keeps bringing up the veteran issue. Yes, we know you love the veterans and we know you'll take care of it! #tweetdebate #current YEAH! final comments from mccain reference coming home from prison. Everyone take a shot!! #current if McCain is so pro-veteran, why didn't he vote for the new G.I. Bill? -1 McCain for dredging up the POW stuff, all he knows is war #tweetdebate I thought McCain was busy dumping his first wife after he returned from Vietnam. #current oh here we go again.. blah blah blah.. violins and sappy music.. thanks danny tanner #current We're the land of opportunity, but we need the gov't to take care of us? Make up your mind. #current #debate08 #tweetdebate McCain sucks.#current POW MIA issue is not resolved until EVERYONE comes back! #tweetdebate -50 McCain Both McCain and Obama are a joke! give me 30 min. and I can prove it, lol. (this is to u Current! i luvs my current :) #current Is it just me, or is Current being anti-McCain and not showing those comments? #current #debate08 #current all McCain talks about is war ... he is a war lover, a war monger he would be a president of war McCain managed to screw up this debate without any help from Palin.Isn't he sad about Bush screwing vets?. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 "when I came home from prison..." Have we heard that one before? #current #current McPain: when I came home from prison...veterans...heal wounds of war... [that's all you need to know!] #current #debate08 #tweetdebate wow ... never mentions that PoW issue does he... good thing he was never tortured (* according to US) wait. MCCAIN JUST ADMITTED TO BEING IN PRISON!!!! What's the crime? are you allowed to be president if you're a felon? WOW. NEWS #current #current it doesnt matter thay are all going to do what it takes to get there pockets full McCain's veteran voting record is a disgrace. #current I think McCain has had 4 strokes throughout this debate. #tweetdebate NUUUUUUU sudden death!!! #current The bracelet/meeting a solder's Mother were low ploys. Talk about what you are doing. Don't use the grieving Mom to make a point #current MCCain: Vote for me b/c i got fucked up the ass by the viet cong for 5 yrs....#current #debate08 And Sen. Obama finally drops the "my father was from Kenya, that's where I got my name" line. #current ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!! McCain is talking about being a POW again. Wow! #current rt @Tiak McCain, you know veterans, and will take care of them, yet Vet orgs consistently give you low ratings? #current about a minute ago I'm not trying to be mean here or say their a problem, but why is he constantly talking about verterans and not the public!? #current Cannot *wait* to see Palin in the VP debates. It's gonna be hi-lar-ious! #current #current McCain does remind be a bit of Reagan. I'm waiting for him to start talking about the Pacific Coast Highway. Obama ia a liar.#current Obama won't get any sleep tonight cause he'll be up all night long licking his wounds. Start to prepare for the next one. #current #debate08 THIS WAS POINTLESS. #current hmm... expected more of Obama #current I KNEW that McCain couldn't go the entire debate without mentioning being a PoW! #current Oh, and the US is incapable of diplomacy when it won't back down on any issue #debate08 #current Veterans, including myself, are continually being mistreated by an Administration you supported 90% of the time Senator McCain #current Say Whaaat? MCain fought to keep quiet the investigations of POW's, he didn't try to find them #current "When I came home from prison" probably wasn't the best choice of words. #current i knew he'd end with POW talk...sigh;.. #current McCain clubs baby seals.... seriously. #current #debate08 #current #debate08 #tweetdebate Overall, crappy debate. Obama needs to learn to punch harder and go direct for JM's throat. #tweetdebate If Obama can't get his point in with McCain will he be assertive with foreign leaders? some debate. they both were duds. #current #debate08 the moderator sucked. #current mccain's a douchebag! #current #debate08 Hallelujah! It's over! What do you say we all vote for McCain as Miss Congeniality?!!! #tweetdebate So I learned NOTHING NEW, how about you?#current How appropriate: McCain is most qualified because he was once a Prisoner. Of War. Noun, verb, etc. #current john mccain does not care about black twitter'ers #current #debate08 #tweetdebate #mccainshot #obamashot It doesn't matter who won, nothing got resolved tonight. #current #current nobody wins the debate. everyone came away with the same opinion they came in with. RT Michael_Lehman #current #debate08 - Ok, let's make McCain the Sec'y of Vet Affairs... instead of President----!!!! They make it sound like the government is responsible for everything, research, health care etc. #current see McCain snuck in the POW background! #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate Did Sen. McCain talk of anything other than defense, veterans, and Sen. Obama this evening? No economy, education, healthcare, etc?#current Obama exits stage with staged fakeness....what a creep! #current #debate08 #cnn is more than 30 second delay on "live" #current more real time. McCain -3 for being so condescending yet not expounding details of his plans beyond "I know" #tweetdebate @lindagoin Not the smoothest transition. I will never agree with McCain on the war #tweetdebate #current McCain never looks at Obama... why is that/ McCain voted against a bill that would cover the total cost of college for vets. He supports them? #current #current #debate08 Nice choreography of the criss-cross and the wife-hugs. I hate politcs! Still wouldn't look at Obama when they shook hands. Ass! #current #debate08 -5 McCain for saying he will take care of Vets why hasn't he since he has been in Washington forever #tweetdebate Obama - outdebated... there's no room for gray/corrections in a debate #current No! McCain was a POW!!! I missed that somehow #current @kwilson9austin I live with a vet. No way in hell is he voting for McCain. #current #debate08 & you should hear him on Palin. Wowza Connor, Live, is a sick character, yo! #current McCain in fireside-chat closing statement. Weird. #current #debate08 @stealingsand Father Geppetto is losing badly...! Drink for every time he brings up "when i came home from prison" #current McCain is to Obama as the Empire State Building is to an ant. #current #debate08 McCain clubs baby seals.... seriously. #current regardless of who won the debate tonight...we are the ones who lost #current #debate08 McCain won't even look Obama in they eye when shaking hands. He's so dismissive. What an old bastard. #current Obama cites father's desire to come to USA-but he didn't stay #current Is it just me or was this REALLY depresing as far as how #%*$@&'d up the world is right now? Sigh ... #current Last two points were nothing more than stump speeches by both candidates. #current #2019 #current when the economy of war didn't stop a recession but caused a depression. good ol' '08 McCain -1 for overplaying veteran card one or two times too many #tweetdebate all of that blinking has been shown to be the sign of a fibber, John. #current Yea, pull out the sob story songbird McCain #current Obama is a liar. #current This Obama guy is seriously gonna wreck this country if he wins. SCARY. #current #current you can soo tell mccain doesnt f*ck his wife, they dont even hold hands or anything XD McCain clubs baby seals.... seriously. #current #debate08 @myentirename Yeah, never mention your African father if you want to be president. #current Where are we going to get the money to pay for that obama?#current @laughterkey the vp debate is gonna be a joke #current oh but mcain isn't creepy? that troll can't even touch his own head! #current disappointed in Jim Lehrer. expected more from him. #current McCain is scared of Obama. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate @kathrynjones he's racist #current #2019 #current what I wouldn't do to simply have to worry about a war and an economic depression. GEAS makes that look like the war on drugs I didn't really hear anything new in this debate. Hope future debates won't sound like political news pundit speak, too. #current #debate08 #tweetdebate: McCain says he'll take care of veterans. Just not if it includes a GI Bill. McCain knows how to heal wounds of war? Not quite. #current I am worried on the whole with both of our choices #tweetdebate Mccain lost he sucks hope he does not become President @MediaLizzy mccain also knows how to create wounds of war by advocating so much war and deploying troops unnecessarily #debate #current You know McCain should just stand there and sing "Mr. Self Destruct" by NIN. #current #current and now the anchors and pundits tell us what we should think John, you voted against the Webb bill to pay for college education for veterans. #current .i am on my knees praying for a stray bullet in johnnys direction...but no brave souls seem apt on playing g-d this evening. #current The number one problem is that there is too much emphasis on retarded communication tech instead of things that matter. #current McCain's wife has had some good work done-but man has she had *a lot* of it. #debate08 #debate08 #current did someone really just ask if mccain is a felon. He was in pow camp you idiot #debate08 Oh, man--why is C-SPAN2 covering the spin room crap--this is exactly what I HATE about mainstream news. If we want real change in DC, vote out all Congresmen and Senators that have been in office over 12 years. #current @DominickEvans I have fears that you are right... that it runs so much deeper than any american admits #debate08 Body language was a big issue for me. In a contentious meeting, would McCain ignore his adversary in the room? Chuck Todd: "Both candidates were totally tone deaf about the economy" #debate08 The Character Assassination of Barack Obama by the Coward John McCain http://bit.ly/2ZHw59 #debate08 #current Retweet @stevenbjohnson #debate08 making a point that depends on the difference between tactics & strategies is always a bad tactic... #debate08 mccain can barely walk, if he dies miss tabloid queen will be the president... nice move US Retweet kctrey: Still wouldn't look at Obama when they shook hands. Ass! #current #debate08 @rcapote from the big tax cuts being given to the top 0.1% of the americans ;) Easy! http://mccainfacts.jottit.com/ #debate08 #current #debate08 Sadly, I think Obama missed the point - this election is going to be more about connecting with the average than about leadership This is not a time for on the job training. #current #current Bob Barr Team: Clearly tonight’s debate shows both McCain/Obama mean more spending/more government/ever present risks to taxpayers Can't wait to watch the VP debate. I wonder if Palin will wear a diaper. She's liable to wet her pants #debate08 @bessemerprocess #debate08 mccain was disrespectful? Obama kept calling mccain john and not senator. THAT's disrespectful Cindy McCain is GLOWING RED. In a burn my eyes way. #debate08 @mamalogues you think mccain won #debate08? none of the many experts on CNN agrees with you. sorry...! #current #current can we remove 10,000 votes from McCain/Palin every time one of them utters "maverick"? #debate08 I'm hoping the spin coverage points out how condescending McCain was towards Obama, that was frustrating. wow, Biden is talking but they won't let Palin? Why not? Sexist?? #tweetdebate #tweetdebate how can you have a spending freeze. That's ridiculous. POW and he was no hero, he was just like thousands of others. Maybe if he ever kept his planes in the air.... #debate08 I'm out of this shit. #current #debate08 CBS observer compares McCain to Nixon. Yikes. #debate08 McCain came off very rude. If McCain acts this way in office, with his smirking and disdain, he will be no help to America's image. #current Biden and Rudy... Why are they hiding Palin still? #current mccain is weak on the economy, better @ warmongering & apparently is afraid of direct eye contact #tweetdebate seems to me like Obama kind of fell apart there at the end. #current #current #debate08 Okay, that seriously stressed me out. Obamarossa's dress looks like puke #current where the hell were the environmental issues (besides energy)? #current Body Language of McCain = Idiot. #debate08 #debate08 - Obama supports missle defense, but not ones that don't work. Uh - you fund programs until they do work... #current mccain or mcblinky #debate08 Re: McCain's comment about short North Koreans: Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. (McCain is 5'7''.) Obama didn't emphasize so many differences as he did agree with McCain's points. But both avoided the economic questions. #debate08 #current #debate08: wow. Obama Camp Mgr Thinks Barry "Commanded" the Foreign Policy debate. Laughing so hard my sides hurt. Not sure where McCain goes from here. He's lost the week, the day, and then the debate. #debate08 #mccain #obama #debate08 - Tie goes to [front]runner, Obama. JM needs to step up policy distinctions; BO needs to be funnier, more zingers Sooo... McCain is not afraid to meet with ANY world leader. However, he just proved will not be able to look them in the eye. #debate08 Tonite's big soundbite: "I agree with Senator McCain" from Obama ... that can't play well #debate08 #current Who won? Not us. New offshore drilling won't give us any oil for years. It's a silly idea. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate Free Press site is slow so go directly to http://bit.ly/scorecard to Rate the Debate #current #debate08 #current Kissinger backs talks with Iran "with no conditions" YIKES!! FAIL!!!! http://tinyurl.com/5pabty why am i not suprised that mccain brought up his prison time? we know you're a war hero, john. we get it. #current so what was the best line of the night? thoughts? i think this debate lacked any "umph" #debate08 Will the frequent Obama "McCain is right" lines will haunt him later? Someone should remind him he can't get consensus in #debate08. Doesn't anyone remember when McCain went to Iraq and made a fool out of himself? #current I tell ya what. I'll need a drink tonight after these debates. Please get Obama/Biden into office, no McCain/Palin #debate08 Candidates+spouses on stage now, Cindy "I stole drugs from my charity and got off scot-free" McCain, included. http://xrl.us/osao6 #debate08 Time for the talking heads! #debate08 Eugene Robinson is right. Pointing out that you've been there forever, during all the crisis is not a winning point. #debate08 How the hell can anyone consider McCain the debate winner??? #debate08 ... and now we go to Spin Alley. Or, as I call it, "Deception Lane." Changing the channel now. #debate08 @divesnob McCain only blinks so much because he is trying to send subliminal messages to his followers #current #tweetdebate *Sigh* I miss Peter Jennings ... There is a real void tonight. #debate08 #tweetdebate @kellyrenee says: POW and he was no hero, he was just like thousands of others. Maybe if he ever kept his planes in the air.... #debate08 @theebayk1d disrespecting traditions during the pledge and National Anthem. @smheadhunter like the iraq war ? like the failing banks ? I can see what you mean now. #debate08 I don't really care who you think won if you've already chosen. Of course you think *your* guy won. Any undecided voters swayed? #debate08 This debate was completely surreal in the context of the current economic crisis. #current #debate08 Why does McCain freakin' say "What Senator Obama doesn't understand is" before EVERY response. wtf, what a jacka$$. @scbalazs What do you mean "Obama was able to keep up?" McCain was nervous, stiff, and wouldn't look at Obama at all #debate08 William Bennet on CNN: How many times did Obama say 'John is right...'? That's a great point. Obama conceding to McCain. #debate08 meh. disappointed with both obama and mccain tonight. #current mccain: obama is stubborn like bush! what? #debate08 I did think the twitter make the debate more interesting #current #debate08 #tweetdebate And *holy crap* I'm getting tired of McCain's "Sen. Obama doesn't understand" followed with emotional appeal to US exceptionalism #debate08 #current Offshore drilling is a bridge -- an expensive bridge @glueandglitter Yep, Obama pushed offshore drilling, nuclear, and "clean coal." FAIL #current #tweetdebate ...as of late, has not shown a very high level of judgement or respect - of anything or anyone. #debate08 http://snipr.com/3vlts - Big surprise McCain makes misleading statements about Obama #current I think all this hate for McCain is simply coming from fucking ignorance. All the hating bastards need to step back and review. #debate08 #debate08 WHAT?! The GOP doesn't send Palin to answer after McCain, but Guiliani? Is he the VP now? Anyone who thinks McCain won the #debate08 is a total dweeb dingle cheese. (he says like a true dorkus) Guiliani is a twit #current #debate08 FTW T. Boone Pickens again? The hell? WOW. Biden spoke with NBC, Palin declined and the GOP gave them Rudy instead. What a fucking tool. #current #debate08 oh god, here comes Giuliani Retweeting @alexashrugged "I agree with Sen. McCain" should be the line of the night #debate08 #current Palin declined the invite to discuss the debate??? What, is she busy monitoring her Russian neighbors?? #current #debate08 Deja Vu 2004. Kerry supporters were jumping in haste even after a poor performance by Kerry. 2008 same old with Obama! Both candidates point blank said they would commit war crimes and break international law. God bless America. #debate08 noticing many misquotes from #debate on #current #twitter O-Who Camp had lowered expectations to allow them to be happy with such a performance. #debate08 #debate08 wtf giuliani in lieu of palin? Is this a test run for a vp candidate replacement #debate08 Palin/Biden is on a Thursday? Gimme a break, Thursday is the new Friday. No one is gonna watch those 2 on a Thursday night. Oooo the (R)s sent Giuliani to talk to NBC instead of Palin!!! That's embarassing. #current @FakeObama08 Matt is out....but I heard Chevy Chase wants Palin anihilated! (SP?) Yeah.....who? Oh...the dude that played Fletch. I wish Guiliani would just shut the hell up. #debate08 #debate08 NBC has Guiliani on. OMG. maybe it's clint Howard. can't tell. How can they say anything when McCain picked Palin - a joke Retweeting @mississippianna: disappointed that we did not hear from the candidates on how they will end the genocide in Darfur #debate08 #debate08 #current Major Garrett- Obama campaign feels they won the debate. Must have been watching a different program @ch3ryl Because it's CNN for pity's sake. Asking them to be objective is like asking Amy Winehouse not to smoke crack. McCain called for a spending freeze, Hillary called for a trade timeout. Both ridiculous ideas. Both will lose. #tweetdebate #obamashot #debate08 - so what happened to Palin and why isnt she on instead of Juliani? oh, right... It's official! We're sunk. #debate08 Here's some tolerance from the Left. Note the username and the ONLY person they're following. How adult. http://twitpic.com/ddr4 #debate08 So does anyone else feel like they didn't discuss the economy as much as they should have? #debate08 #debate08 honest question for McCainiacs -- what's the thinking on Palin being nowhere near a live camera right now? Where's palin? Getting drunk in Philly. #current starting to get annoying that the GOP is hiding Palin #debate08 #debate08 is it just me or was McCain awful tonight Brian Williams can't believe Rudy is saying this stuff with a straight face. #debate08 @evolver That really bums me out. The "clean coal" more than any of that other stuff. frackity So, did anyone else notice that McCain didn't look directly at Obama while addressing him for the most part? #current #debate08 thinks the crawl on FOX news is so slanted it's despicable. #tweetdebate Has Palin said anything unscripted on live television yet? #current #debate08 McCain at times comes off as a competent Senator, but _never_ presidential. #tweetdebate Wait a minute. NBC invited Palin to respond about the debate and she declined? Minus 500 points to McCain for picking a coward. Palin is with her neighbors Russia #current #debate08 Major Garrett- Obama campaign feels they won the debate. what debate were they watching??? Where is Palin? Looks bad to put Giuliani up because you can't find your VP nom. #debate08 #debate08 Chris Matthews says McCain was "mean". @kassifan What do you expect? All McCain has is lies. The truth won't get him elected. "When I was a POW..." Oh, really John?! I had no idea... #current wonder why GOP hates a democratic president agreeing with their senator? #debate08 #mccain #obama Let the 'spin' begin #debate08 As an aside, Obama missed yet another opportunity to close the deal tonight (NH, TX, PA vs HRC, tonight vs McCain) #current #debate08 It seems like every election Conservatives talk about decreasing spending. Does that mean we can decrease military spending? #current #debate08 , Pickens Plan has a few billion, yet cant keep a strong web server? Come on Boone... McCain in a tailspin. #debate08 #mccain #obama @CarriBugbee are you kidding if you watch the nightly news you should know those things. #current @perinandy Palin hasn't had a single unscripted moment yet I can't wait to see her eaten alive on the VP debate #current #tweetdebate @MercuryMetro #current yeah the Wife and I were both commenting on that. It's cause he's an ass. @theebayk1d I find it very disrespectful when one doesn't either salute the flag, or put their hand on their hear when the Anthem is played. if there's any one I hate more than McCain, its Guliani #debate08 My kids: they sure were both rude to each other. #debate08 NBC in the tank why would the McCain camp give em air.. no way #debate08 good for Palin #debate08 if we get McC for prez, all our $$$ will go to the mid-east and the us will fall into 1000% inflation #debate08 I guess Palin has been locked in a room until next week. She's gotta a lot of work to do with Professor Higgins. #debate08 obama is pro missile defense? WTF? @perinandy she can't speak without having a script; this is why they try to hide her as much as they can. #current #debate08 McCain sounded like a rambleing Grandpa Simpson. Lehrer is a crappy moderator. I heard that Biden is too polite and will fare badly vis a vis Palin. #current How can McCain say Obama is not experienced enough when Miss Congeniality is his running mate? #debate08 #debate08 Every expert/commentator has said exactly what they as a partisan have been saying. Their guy was good. The other was off his game @Mamalogues #debate08 #current i know it must be hard for you that mccain sucks so badly. again...sorry. try voting for obama! @NewsHour Thought Lehrer's questions were too general/not pointed enough: e.g., What about Iran? What about Russia? etc. #debate08 so earmarks are ok, then? what kind of logic is that #debate08 Retweeting my fav Tweet of #debate08: McLame heart attack = President Palin. Debate over. thinks that McCain does not understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy. #debate08 @MaryTrigiani I didn't think McCain was a gentleman one time. Impartially, I truly believe that. You? @bender00 you should be contributing to #tweetdebate #debate08 I missed it. Did McCain look and feel constipated again? #current We're only having ONE VP debate? Bummer. I was really looking forward to that. Sarah Palin in the secret Cheney bunker. #debate08 #mccain #obama #debate08 Why did McCain close with the Veterans - that was weird. Last words and THAT's what you say? Buy a suit, Michael Ware. #current #debate08 #debate08 sup? obama killed it. you mccainiacs are lol NObama4thisMama is right! #current #debate08 wonders where's Palin? I mean, she's qualified, right? #tweetdebate @saldarji I think McCain doesn't understand a lot. #debate08 MCCAIN: How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs. #DEBATE08 BObama interrupted JMcCain too often. It was as bad as AGore walking in front of Bush at '00 debates. Arrogance. #debate08 #current @nubianvixen well, thankya... I wish it was just bad comedy so my MST3K schtick wasn't whistling in the dark, though #debate08 @michaelszeto A friend said" "Gergen is such a sell-out." #debate08 McCain in the membrane! #debate08 Neither one won the #debate08 because they both want to bail out companies that really need chapter 11. Palin was out hunting a moose ;/ #tweetdebate Anyone tweeting from The Irish Pub? Please buy Sarah a drink; she's gonna need it before next Thursday. #debate08 McCAIN'S PROBLEM LINE OF THE NIGHT: "Senator Obama, you don't understand." Condescending, grumpy, angry #tweetdebate @israelpattison um. McCain stumbled a lot. He was belicose. He repeated a false claim about Obama's tax plan. Not presidential. #debate08 @janoss - abslutely-- McCain could not look at Obama! - http://janosschumacher.wordpress.com/ Lindsey Graham is an idiot, why does the McCain camp always use him? There are so many better people . #current #debate08 @seasonothebitch I would sacrifice Paul Begala as a CNN analyst if it meant never having to see Castellanos again (besides FoxNews) #current the polar bear on the island wants McCain #current @lifestudent83 I hope he gives speeches better than Miss South Carolina "I'm John McCain and I honestly believe..." #current I'm offering my translation services: Creepy McCain smile while Obama speaks=Damn, Obama got me again! I'm screwed. #debate08 McCain kept saying "I know how to do this." If he knows so much, he needs to explain how he knows and WHAT he knows. #debate08 @sarking I disagree. I think McCain loses by showing up. #debate08 #debate08 - apparently all the cool guys are wearing bracelets right now. Important fashion tip there. Oh, also, the world's utterly fucked. mccain avoiding eye contact reminded me of exactly what dubya did in the debates with kerry.is it a republican thing? #tweetdebate #debate08 New drinking game: Each McCain says (wrongly) "Sen. Obama doesn't understand"=take a shot. Each creepy McCain smile=chug. #debate08 Obama should start smearing and being ridiculous with dark shadow footage, because that's the only way to "win" in this country. #debate08 Dee Dee Meyers thought Obama did great job on showing how great leader he is. Hmm must have watched different one than she did #current @lindagoin I started paying attention after you brought it up. I didn't see him make eye contact once. No need to make false claims about Obamas plan. I read it. talk about scary!!! #debate08 @tarheelcoxn that's it, right there. trying to get away with lying in the debate is no good. #debate08 Was B Obama's interromption or talking over J McCain a result of talk-show uncivility? #debate08 #current RT @factoryjoe: I looked into McCain's eyes and saw a B, a U, an S and an H (add from me: but even more willing to lie to win?) #current McCain thinks travel to relevant areas=expertise. When will US govt consult with me on my expertise? I've been to Iran. #debate08 #debate08 #current Barr in Interview: "The moderator let them go on and on, that's pandering to the American people not leadership." @MailOurMilitary me too! and i hate instead of expressing opinions making personal attacks on the candidate condescending - read: correct #debate08 @drthomasho what spin? Debate was a yawn fest where both played to their base. #debate08 this was mccain's good shot to beat down obama and it doesn't look like that happened. @msblog might be deaf, dumb, and blind. @roadkillrefugee that was mcc's version of reagan's "there you go again" to carter in their debate #tweetdebate @forever_trust Drives me crazy! #DEBATE08 @scbalazs Skipping around channels. David Gergen said McCain needed "big" win but didn't get it. Thanks for the @'s! @CurlingRiver Why are you so ignorant? Your thinking and ideology are what drives this country in the ground #current what is Sarah Palin going to show off as her "preciouses" in the VP debate? "I got a bra from a vetran of Iraq's wife...see!" #current #current #debate08 When Obama stayed positive, his ratings shot up as soon as he went negative he dropped. He also looked fairly angry Reports that Palin is out Moose hunting with her pregnant daugher somewhere near Russia #debate08 #debate08 golly gee, i wonder why they didn't have palin out spinning for mcsame? could it be because she's functionally retarded? PROBABLY! @msblog I was wondering that. Just because you've been somewhere, doesn't make you an expert on foreign policy with that country #debate08 #debate08 Somewhere Sarah Palin is gently weeping as she watches the GOP crown Rudy Giuliani "Miss Post-Debate Spinner"... #debate08 McCain: "No-one can be opposed to renewable energy. No-one" Reality: http://ut.ag/00kG1 Obama looked nervous and uncomfortable the entire time. #current #debate08 GOP is laughing all the way to the Diebold voting machines. It doesn't even matter if half their party can't stand their candidate! #current Lindsey Graham sounds just like Mr. Rodgers. #current just wants to say, my 14-year old observes: "McCain just acted crazy sometimes." Yup. That about sums up #debate08 response tonight for me. oy vey! already with the new campaign ads? #Debate08 @matttbastard but we've got to cut spending! McCain: "Back in my day... when I was there in the 60s" Obama: "Lies, more lies, thats not true. LIES." #debate08 NBC has Biden on after the debate. Instead of Palin we get....Rudy. Its almost like McCain is hiding his VP nominee. How weird. #debate08. #debate08 the cnn.com live reporter is awful! she is really informal and dumb! #debate08 Impressive, McCain campaign already has a "John is absolutely right" ad out on YouTube. http://tinyurl.com/43n74w McCain's new ad on Obama agreeing with him is horse crap. It cut's out what he really said. #current cw will be no clear winner, but that mccain didn't get the shakeup he wanted/needed (from both debate and campaign suspension) #tweetdebate So I think they confirmed to stereotype -- confident, kind of condescending jock and brainy egghead. I vote egghead. #debate08 @seasonothebitch my friend, that's not change we can believing. The worst part of all this is that what I think doesn't matter,the line on the debate cld be completely spun by tomorrow #debate08 #current #debate08 So if McCain wins, I'm probably screwed since he only seems to care about veterans Also, John seemed to be obsessed with slamming Obama and looked desperate. #current #current Wow. You can see the republicans on this page just by looking for old white guy avatars. Man, McCain's already got a post-debate ad up, http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #debate08 Obama just let McCain back into the race by not going for the jugular during that debate. #debate08 I hate watching presidential debates. They just get me all anxious and freaked out! Obama needs a better rhetorical strategy. #debate08 #current Biden: who was right and who was wrong? John has been "dead wrong" about [everything]. John was wrong about strategy & tactics. What's that used car salesman doing on CNN? Oh, it's Joe Biden. #debate08 #current @fakejohnmccain John John John, I won't be respectful and call you "Senator McCain" even if you do #tweetdebate I wish really wish Obama had pinned McCain on his lobbyist staffer, Randy Scheunemann, and his over-the-top response on Georgia #debate08 Joe Biden on CNN live from Milwaukee... the Dems are taking over WI! Maybe I need to move back and fix that? lol . #debate08 #current well...mccain's latest ad didn't take long to come out. he's the master of illusion. #current #current Mc's seems a little to old & Obama seems a little to green. mccains camp advisor said they didn't have a lot of time to "practice" for this debate as he had suspended his campaign to help #tweetdebate #debate08 If McCain or his people mention "Obama tax increases" one more time... There are no polite words that will come out of my mouth Palin got stuck on an ice berg and it's melting #current ...of the earth'...and we're gonna say 'no you're not?' oh please!" #debate08 #current - The only thing Obama doesn't understand, grampy gramps (my age) McCain, is the necessity of thinking like McCain. #debate08 GOP pundits: "McCain! McCain! McCain!!!". Democrat pundits: "Obama! Obama! Obama!!!". Haaaa... spin... how useless... Don't worry fellas. You'll get work in four years when some other GOP schlep runs against Obama. #debate08 #mccain #obama #current Biden: "John doesn't even know the difference between strategy & tactics and he's lecturing Obama on it." Ha, ha... #current Biden: John was on his strongest turf today and he lost. I think it's fatal. I hope Palin defends same position than McCain did. I watched the debate as my civic duty but would rather have teeth pulled than watch the Veep debate.#tweetdebate @LazyBuddhist #debate08 - no, mccain doesn't care about veterans either. @cyn3matic Don't forget the candy-striper optical illusion deliberately distracting McCain tie #debate also too bad Obama didn't mention "Keating Five" in that first part of the debate. #debate08 McCain full of long, windy, gasbaggery & short on policy. The end. #debate08 #momocrats #debate08 watching Keith Olbermann dissing McCain's debate blunders. there's a number of them! can't wait for the factcheck! #debate08 - larison: "McCain is starting to let his contempt for Obama show. He keeps laughing like some sort of disturbed gremlin. " LOL on the even, it was a draw. but for an overall subject that is supposed to be in mccain's pocket, he did pretty poorly. #debate08 McCain jokes about Bear DNA funding but Palin requested funds to study Harbor Seals WTF? #current #tweetdebate If McCain vetoes every bit of pork, he'll be vetoing money for road and bridge construction, among other things. #debate08 i actually expected McCain to be better at today's topic. That's why im shocked that he got floor mopped and knocked out. #tweetdebate @tarheelcoxn oh stop mentioning funny names from years ago you arugula-eating elitist. ;) #debate08 RT @RobertBluey: What's that used car salesman doing on CNN? Oh, it's Joe Biden. #debate08 #current --> +1 Robert #current Elect McCain as President of the Past @MailOurMilitary Doubtful. I think he's still bitter from his POW experience and wants someone to pay. @alexashrugged #current yeah he has an ad. it's a tactic. if he was negotiating with Putin, is that what you would want him to do? A friend IMed: "I thought Obama's 'I have a bracelet, too' line was appalling." #debate08 #debate08 last thought: @Doorley is right. mccain's tie was awful. Moired really badly in standard def. Wow something ppl not picking up on, McCain admits that we have tortured prisoners? #current #tweetdebate @lindagoin John McCain has trouble with emotion. He seems to get uncomfortable when Obama tries to be pleasant with him. #debate08 McCain campaign stoops to a new low http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #current #debate08 as @credd said: well...mccain's latest ad didn't take long to come out. he's the master of illusion. #current @UltraNurd talk about a self-selected sample. his readers don't exactly come from both sides. #debate08 @davidweiner McCain did not have a temper flare, at least when compared to Americans of southern Italian extraction. #debate08 GOP supporters need to start recognizing that independents aren't falling for the same 2004 tricks. Sad that McCain had to lie, lie, lie like a cheap rug about what his own advisor --Kissinger-- said. #current As a Hillary Clinton fanatic, I thought maybe I wasn't properly listening to the primary debates. I was. Barack was again weak. #debate08 The transcripts are up people, let's get the facts straight and not add to the spin #DEBATE08 McCain & his party are the "existential threat". Goodbye, democracy and freedom. Imploding from the inside, like it always does. =( #current How many times must each candidate blink while they speak??? #debate08 I don't think either debated graciously or well, frankly. Most of their time was spent re-defining each other's terms. #current I think that Keating5 is a dangerous topic, better suited for ads than a debate #debate08 They say Obama's professorial, but I've never heard so much revisionist >1950s American history as I did tonight from Doc McCain. #debate08 #debate08 The fact that they call it the "Spin room" should be enough reason to avoid listening to it at all costs. @emilychang If Repubs dig up Nixon's moldy skeleton, vote to impeach, & put the remains in jail cell for 20 yrs, I'll consider it. #debate08 #debate08 What McCain doesn't understand is saying "What Omaba doesn't understand is ..." becomes a counterproductive insult after 20 times. My day job is simplifying messages. I was cringing throughout. Barack talked too much. And was too esoteric. #debate08 McCain's solution to diplomacy is to not talk to the parties involved and have a New World Order that bosses the world. Brilliant. #current #current I don't think McC understands how the UN works! McCain stuck in time warp, mistakes name-dropping Kissinger & old vacay itineraries for contemporary foreign policy. #debate08 #momocrats @Imarilove I won't vote for him as dogcatcher. @stillgray Obama claims that they'll be another Holocaust - what he doesn't mention outright is he wants to be Hitler! is wondering how exactly in the US "winning the war in Iraq" #debate08 #debate08 Obama's an empty suit. #debate08 @Afashionista McCain may sound slightly more educated, but the talks off "war" turns me off... a lot. Kissinger changes what he said about discussions with Iran in order to support his boy. #current #debate08 McCain: "we send $700B to countries that don't like us." Fed Govt only sends $39B in foreign aid, his # is what we spend on oil. #debate08 McCain's temper and disrespect fit nicely with the new image of the US that the Bush administration has built up for the world. @Imarilove Practice? He's had how many years in Washington to practice?? @AFashionista, really? Did he not mention that he's a war hero yet again? How's that good? #debate08 @anwyn19 where were mccain's details? if anyone was empty, it was him. #debate08 #debate08 4 years ago repubs were worried McCain might b vp for Kerry, he's so centrist. Now dems say he's Bush-close. Irrational @stillgray exactly no diplomacy. war, war, war.....http://www.newamericancentury.org/ #current @Condoulo oh crap I dont do that either.... I just stand there. guess you lost all respect for me too... anyway exactly what I thought. ... They completely twisted one anothers' words the whole time. #debate08 CNN clip showing Kissinger revealing McCain's lie. Not good for McCain. #mccain #obama #debate08 @ disavian You're right. McCain not friend of military or veterans, per the veterans themselves! See here: http://xrl.us/osaqb #debate08 #debate08 @AFashionista, really? Did he not mention that he's a war hero yet again? How's that good? CNN just played Kissinger's original statement. Not what he's saying now I'm afraid #current was it just me, or did McCain look like he was trained for public appearances by the Bush team? #debate08 @freeulysses no, he bent over and took it from the GOP and got in line. #debate08 @ricksanchezcnn did you pick up on the fact that sidestepped half the questions and agreed on all the others. #debate08 or read about McCain's comment on "how we might lose the 2nd war of his lifetime" on the WaPo's factchecker: http://is.gd/3c9l RT @drunnells #debate08 McCain's temper and disrespect fit nicely with the new image of the US that the Bush administration has built up #debate08 now Kissinger is recanting to cover... The financial system is in dire need of a bankruptcy reorganization, not a bailout, and neither candidate is up to the task. Sad. #debate08 #current #debate08 @robpierson @stonespiral rt: I'm John McCain and you kids get off my porch #debate08 I summed up the entire debate in my own words on my twitter account if you guys wanna see @chrisabraham yeah, but if you listened, mccain was rolling right along and obama stumbled or got convoluted #debate08 @seasonothebitch same here, actually -- I am feeling a bit of pain after all those #mccainshots (water is helping) @technosailor @problogger I'm guessing #debate08 changed no one's mind. We all watched with our biases alive and well. why mccain dont know the president of pakistan?#current @scbalazs mccain rolled right along... right off the track and into the woods, totally oblivious. #debate08 #debate08 As if Drudge is going to say anything other than MCCAIN! MCCAIN! MCCAIN! #debate08 McCain to Obama, "Hey, kid, get off of my lawn!" Obama doesn't know the difference between profit and profit margin. #debate08 #debate08 Rewind of my debate performance: "eh uh uh uhm uh eh uh eh John was right" too funny, people think Obama won the #debate08 As if they polled all American Joe Doakes! Obama drones on like Couric. Boring ppl to sleep! #debate08 FOX keeps repeating the parts where Obama said McCain is right. go figure. 9/15 post about Kissinger's stance on talking wih Iran: http://tinyurl.com/5pabty You can't come out and lie about it now, Henry! #current #debate08 #lame #makeitendnow @stoutware McCain doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia, or where Spain is. #debate08 #debate08 mccain fed in so many lies, misleading statements and other dreck it would be impossible to refute them all! @korym It's like freakin' 4chan with all the nonsense, hah. #current Ha! emailers to CNN accusing network of letting Biden come on and NOT Palin. Stupid uniformed people might still win it for McCain! #debate08 Where is Palin hiding? Has she declined all post-debate interviews? @macartisan joking actually because I didnt see any McCain supporters tweeting RT @kcrusher #debate08 mccain fed in so many lies, misleading statements and other dreck it would be impossible to refute them all! Both candidates are WRONG on Russia and Georgia. #debate08 #debate08 @LipstickVP I disagree, McCain's voice puts me to sleep with his monotone lisp @LipstickVP I almost put myself to sleep during the #debate08 - I'm so much better with a teleprompter! @Imarilove escrow did that to me too. it's the whole paper length thing that gets to me. I have a problem with being terse and not wordy. @mkantonelli he wouldn't look Obama in the eyes at all maybe he thought he would get hexed ;/ Really, why couldn't McCain look Obama in the eye? Callow, lying, honorless jackass. #current #current Obama: a bit dull and professorial. McCain condescending and bitter. Stupid people will be voting for Obama, want govt. handouts. #current @dksnyder Because McCain kept telling lies!! It's hard to stay silent when someone lies. #debate08 Hmm...BO may have slighted his elder by calling him by his first name. #debate08 *GASP*!! McCain doesn't have on a flag pin! He doesn't love America! #debate08 @claymaker They're BOTH full of it! Lies, and covering their tracks. I was just bothered by the constant interjections! #debate08 McCain wasn't wearing a flag pin on his lapel. I look forward to the right-wing outcry. #debate08 Guessing that Sarah Palin's being given scripted speaking points before commenting on the debate tonight. #current #debate08 @orbitaldiamonds #debate08 even the veterans don't support mccain! hey guys, Hack the Debate round II will be happening October 2nd. here's the promo: http://current.com/items/89344327_ #current When McCain called for a freeze on gov't spending, I thought of Nixon's wage and price controls. Didn't work http://poprl.com/1LN #debate08 @MercuryMetro they have to program her. #debate08 @sarking It's called projecting. McCain is accusing Obama of McCain's own faults. #debate08 I love how McCain is claiming he's bipartisan but then uses his opponent agreeing with him as a cudgel in an ad. Hypocrisy? #debate08 #debate08 remember - mccain wanted to vote against the GI bill until it was political suicide to do so. at 11:25, I've officially hit debate analysis overload...what else is on? #debate08 Missouri law enforcement straps on jackboots for Obama! http://tiny.cc/ObmET #current #debate08 #current Is this what leadership is? http://tinyurl.com/3rlctd "Just because I was there doesn't make me right." - Joe Biden on MSNBC re: McCain's world traveler-acquired "knowledge." #current #debate08 @alindsey3 #debate08 most of the people on drudge are mccain supporters so...makes sense. #debate08 #current pickens plan ad on msnbc. don't fall for the water grab plan. he's still an oil man at heart. @cnn #tweetdebate - Anyone else find it rude that McCain didn't even look at Obama once? Both candidates are unable to tell the difference between the Republican Guard and the Revolutionary Guard. #debate08 #debate08 Lehrer pounding on 'What can't we do, due to cost of bailout?' = job interview "What would you do if bear broke into yr house?" CNN poll on the debate...McCain got ObamOWNED. #debate08 Both candidates are unable to tell the difference between the Republican Guard and the Revolutionary Guard. #debate08 @current I've got the live stream going #current....awesome! Current TV is pretty cool. Streaming Twitter feedback #tweetdebate #tweetdebate the first debate is about to start #tweetdebate - good luck both candidates I can't imagine McCaine beating Obama in a war of words. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Awesome first debate question Obama +1 for swift and wise #tweetdebate +1 for Obama "Moving fast, moving swiftly" #tweetdebate Obama looks good. #tweetdebate #current +1 for Obama having 4 clear objectives to his plan #tweetdebate Looking forward to the twitter storm taking place tonight. #tweetdebate " Obama +1 for articulating his plans - initial & recognition #tweetdebate" Obama +1 on taxpayer protection and fair shake #tweetdebate Obama +1 #tweetdebate #tweetdebate +3 to Obama - the failed economy is because of the last 8 years of Bush and McCain's support for those policies McCain +1 for plugging Kennedy #tweetdebate +1 to Obama for trashing of the trickle down #tweetdebate McCain +1 Kennedy comment #tweetdebate Obama +1 for bullet pointing his bailout policy clearly #tweetdebate Obama +2 for specifics #tweetdebate +1 Obama #tweetdebate +1 for mcCain #tweetdebate 1st impressions: Obama has come across as more presidential and articulate. #tweetdebate +Obama for giving a clear concise answer to the first question #tweetdebate +1 for Lehrer for calling them both back on track re: recovery plan #tweetdebate @jowyang #tweetdebate +1 for Obama too for clear objectives but both are still not that clear where they stand. I <3 lehrer #tweetdebate great move of repeating question +1 for Jim Lehrer for being a great moderator, everyone drink! #tweetdebate +2 for Obama making eye contact with the camera #tweetdebate Obama +1 for equating Republicans with anti-regulation #tweetdebate Obama +1 pt: We need more responsibility but not just during a crisis. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate 21st century framework- I like that and it resonates with me as a future minded strategist & leader @barrackobama mccain +1 for having a sense of humor (he heard him) #tweetdebate Obama +3 for wanting responsibility all the time #tweetdebate Obama: +2 for saying "we need responsibility all the time, not just during a crisis" #tweetdebate Obama +1 for calling Mccain out on his history against oversight #tweetdebate @nohype good point! +3 McCain for looking Presidential #tweetdebate Obama +1 for holding McCain accountable for his recent record #tweetdebate +1 pt for McCain for his first direct answer #tweetdebate McCain +1 quotable "I have a fundamental belief in the strength of the American worker." #tweetdebate #tweetdebate +1 for Obama for shooting straight to the root of the ideological issue. +1 for McCain for admitting the Republican failure. McCain +3 quotable - symptoms of this "disease" he calls it - resp. to runaway. spending #tweetdebate Mccain +1 for directly differentiating his fiscal policy against Obama (cut spending) #tweetdebate +1 Obama for calling out the $$ in tax cuts vs $$ in earmarks #tweetdebate Obama +2 for putting earmarks in perspective #tweetdebate @current #current +1 Obama for bringing up corporate tax cuts at the expense of the middle class. Growing from the bottom up. I like it. Obama +2 earmark nonsense compared to reckless tax cuts #tweetdebate Obama +1 for tax comment #tweetdebate McCain +1 for blowing the whistle on pork barrel spending #tweetdebate Obama +2 300 billion dollars wow Tax cut for ordianry American #tweetdebate Grow the economy from the bottom up. +3 to Obama for a nice sound bite. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate -1 for McCain for repeating a lot of his talking points *verbatim* he already used since the Republican convention. Mccain +2 for successful counter to Obama #tweetdebate mccain +2 when obama suspended spending #tweetdebate Mccain +1 "I want to cut spending and taxes" #tweetdebate +1 Obama for giving specific data and clearly identifying is plan #tweetdebate +2 pts for Obama for pouncing back on McCain #tweetdebate +10 Obama for calling out the tax breaks given for outsourcing!!! #tweetdebate @current #current THe candidates are starting to interact more with each other. This is good. #tweetdebate +2 for Obama re middle class income decline Obama +2 for telling McCain what's up. #tweetdebate +1 obama for saying removing earmarks not only way to get back on track #tweetdebate Obama +2 for tackling headon the McCain lie about raising taxes #tweetdebate Agreed we can't afford another four #tweetdebate #tweetdebate oops... should have been +2 Obama clarifies McCain's fuzzy m +1 McCain for further explaining the tax plan that Obama is harping on. #tweetdebate Obama +1 for laying out his own plan accurately and rebutting earmarks #tweetdebate Face it Obama is going to win regardless of debates, He has the youth voters on his side. #current #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Sen O doesn't know what "rich" is. How many houses does McPain have again? Sen McCain would be a very popular President - $5000 tax refund per family! #tweetdebate Mccain +2 for McCain's sticking $932 MILLION to Obama, putting him on the defense, while explaining his tax policy. #tweetdebate #current Obama +1 for good response to tax / rich challenge #tweetdebate Obama +2 for successful response to the business tax issue #tweetdebate +2 Obama for not letting McCain off the hook re: tax cuts #tweetdebate Obama +3 for loop hole's. That's exactly how it is! #tweetdebate +5 Obama for teling the truth about business taxes. You just want to add a tax benefit ON TOP of the loopholes #tweetdebate +1 Obama calling out taxation on health benefits #current #tweetdebate Obama +2 better argument comp to Mccain, more comprehensive for me #Tweetdebate #tweetdebate 95 percent of you will get a tax break. +5 for Obama's detail they're both getting a little fired up. #Tweetdebate Obama +3 zing taxes on health care benefits #tweetdebate +1 mccain for saying "festooned" #tweetdebate McCain +1 for using concrete examples. #tweetdebate McCain +3 liking his proposed tax system #tweetdebate Current TV stuff is kind of neat, but will opt for the HD feed on CNN #tweetdebate Will DVR most of the last hour due to Sharks game Obama +1 for wanting to close corporate tax loopholes - not just cut taxes. #tweetdebate +1 obama for mentioning $4b oil co tax cuts #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Obama is insisting that McCain back up his claims with facts. #tweetdebate McPain is getting pwnd ahahah Obama +3 quotable - "energy indepedence" ok. #tweetdebate vote obama!#tweetdebate Obama energy independence +3 #tweetdebate Obama +1 for asserting clear priorities #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Obama mntions energy independence and health care as budget priorities -- also education Yes, we have to invest in science, math and technology. We are 25th in the world in those now. HORRIBLE. Good point Obama #tweetdebate Obama +2 for education and science and infrastructure comment #tweetdebate Obama +1 for infrastructure. #tweetdebate whoa! Obama "broadband lines" think Mccain caught that? #tweetdebate New electrical grid - interesting - I haven't heard Obama talk about that before #debate08 #tweetdebate #current #momocrats +1 mccain talking about how far obama is across the aisle #tweetdebate Obama +3 for having most liberal voting record #tweetdebate mccain +1 for eliminating ethanol subsidies #tweetdebate +5 Obama for alt energy, rural broadband, affordable college, healthcare #current #tweetdebate McCain +3 for good sound bite about reaching so far across the aisle from that far left #tweetdebate #3 Obama #tweetdebate Obama commits to broadband for rural areas. thats the #1 priority for Coos Co. NH. @blendahtom @kramsey McCain +1 for use of the word "festooned" #tweetdebate #tweetdebate We have to do away with no-bid contracts +1 Lehrer calling out both candidate's lack of commitment to change #tweetdebate +2 Obama math, science, space program, and new infrastructure for new energy #tweetdebate "I know how to do this" I can fix this" damn you! #tweetdebate #current McCain +2 defense spending cuts #tweetdebate +1 McLehrer. I think Jim wins the debate. McLehrer for president! #tweetdebate Obama +2 for crediting McCain where they agree. #tweetdebate Obama +3 clearly saying 'what he will give up or not" re: energy etc. #tweetdebate +2 lehrer for calling them on their lack of cajones to suggest new plans for bailout #tweetdebate +3 Obama for alt energy, rural broadband, affordable college, healthcare #current #tweetdebate Obama +3 "Me being liberal, that's just me opposing Bush" #tweetdebate Google for gov't - good sound bite from Obama. #tweetdebate @current #current +1 for bringing your successes with people from across the aisle. Nice comeback from McCain attack +1 Obama Obama +1 for pushing transparency #tweetdebate +3 obama for pointing out liberal voting record = opposing bush policies #tweetdebate Lehrer +10 for calling both of them out on not answering the question #tweetdebate #tweetdebate +2 for Obama for pointing out that McCain's health care plan will start taxing health insurance benefits Obama +2 hatchet instead of scapel #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Niiice, a hatchet where you need a scalpel. Obama +2 for successful rebuttal of simplistic solutions #tweetdebate Obama +3 for Google for govt idea #tweetdebate +3 Obama for quotable sound bite, "using a hatchet when you need a scalpel" #tweetdebate #tweetdebate I like the hatchet/scalpel line. +3 Obama #tweetdebate putting priority on children and education Obama +1 for a clear, responsible answer to the empty-headed spending freeze #tweetdebate Lerher is bringing the heat w/ questions. #current #tweetdebate great examples by Obama #tweetdebate Obama +3 comparing plans to rosevelt's accomplishments #tweetdebate That's a great answer Barack! #obama #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate @JustinGunn this is the coolest thing I've seen on TV since the pilot episode of Heroes :-) Obama +1 for first to bring up "values #tweetdebate @current Google versus terrorists, who wins? Google will straight track those bastards... #current +3 Obama for quoteable. Mccain is a hatchet I am a scapel comment. #tweetdebate At least Obama is stressing this healthcare issue #tweetdebate +2 Obama for clearly articulating that he will cut spending and saying how. #tweetdebate +10 to Obama for pointing out that he will not leave out healthcare on a spending contraction #tweetdebate #tweetdebate - McCain calls for a spending freeze! - that's what conservatives (and other fiscally responsible Americans) want to hear. #tweetdebate +3 for Obama... spending freeze is you're using a hatchet when you need a scapel obama +2 for not reacting with mccain-like annoying smile while listening #tweetdebate +3 obama #tweetdebate for mentioning health care first. where IS that issue in all this discussion of priorities ?? McCain has no plan @Condoulo but I do like @phillyd sxephil's plan of her hot legs. That's a good youtube video Mccain +2 for dinging Obama on his high-cost health care policy #tweetdebate McCain +1 spending china #tweetdebate #tweetdebate If there's anyone here who thinks there aren't gov agencies who can't be cut, I've got... +2 for Obama going after McCain on budget spending & voting 90% of the time with GWB #tweetdebate +1 obama for saying orgy #tweetdebate @current #current YES! Obama hits McCain hard on controlling spending. SCORE +1 Obama Obama +3 for "Orgy of spending." #tweetdebate Obama +3 for holding the reps responsible! #tweetdebate "orgy of spending" good soundbite from Obama #tweetdebate +2 to Twitter for handling this so well (so far). #tweetdebate #tweetdebate: Obama +2 for calling McCain out publicly on "government let spending get out of control" +3 orgy of spending! #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama +2 ok..nice rebuttal - but #tweetdebate +3 Obama for linking McCain to Bush's spending #tweetdebate #tweetdebate THAT'S how you hit back Obama. Keep that up! Good job to Obama for pointing out the cognitive dissonance with McCain on his spending issue #current #tweetdebate +3 Obama "your party's orgy of spending...hard to swallow" #tweetdebate - they still don't look at each other oooh. obama is fixin to out-maverick The Maverick! #current #tweetdebate Mac is cracked if he thinks the Iraqis are EVER going to see U.S. as a friend. They could give a sh*t. #tweetdebate @BarbaraNixon Trumps "festooned" :) Mccain +1 for bringing to light recent successes in Iraq #tweetdebate +1 Obama calling out costs of this Iraq war!! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate +3 "eye off the ball" for Obama -2 McCain predicting winning in Iraq before war is over #tweetdebate Obama +3 use military wisely quotable #Tweetdebate Obama +2 we need to use the military wisely #tweetdebate #tweetdebate, Amercians need to choose wisely, not just for their own future, but also because it impacts the rest of the world:-) McCain +1 for response to Obama on Iraq War #tweetdebate +2 Obama for saying that the US shouldn't have gone to Iraq in the first place and that it's a waste of money and lives. #tweetdebate +2 Obama for rebutting war successes with Afghanistan and bringing up the cost/inefficiency of the war #tweetdebate "ORGY OF SPENDING!" - Obama +2 for quote-of-the-night. #current #tweetdebate ooh. i love it when obama says, LOOK.... #current #tweetdebate +1 Obama for clear, detailed answer on Iraq #tweetdebate +2 pts for Obama countering McCain on the war on Iraq in the Senate committee #tweetdebate "Senate Inside Baseball" -- another good soundbite for Obama #tweetdebate Obama +1 on timing of when the war started comment #tweetdebate @wrekehavoc +3 to wreke for humorous asides #tweetdebate retweet Obama +2 countering that the issues McCain brought up don't go thru his subcommittee #tweetdebate Obama +2 for once again schooling McCain. #tweetdebate McCain +2 for pointing out that Obama hasn't been to Iraq. #tweetdebate +3 Obama #tweetdebate the war started in 2002. Obama makes the point on judgement +1 obama, barely, for saying "intelligent military spending" #tweetdebate -1 Obama dodging McCain, +2 Obama talking directly to McCain, not moderator #tweetdebate McCain -3 they are winning? what is he on? IRAQ? #tweetdebate +2 pts for Obama going after McCain for funding of the troops...timetable or no timetable? #tweetdebate +4 Obama for addressing McCain directly on war in Iraq #tweetdebate +1 Obama explaining attacks that he voted to cut spending for troops #tweetdebate +1 for obama's eyemakeup #tweetdebate #tweetdebate -1 para Obama por decir que Bin Laden "seguía libre" antes de la guerra con Afganistan y no decir que "sigue libre" aún ¬_¬ +3 Obama sound bite I absolutely understand the difference in strategy and tactics! #tweetdebate obama - +1 for more troops in Afghanistan #tweetdebate FACT Obama used "Wildest Dream" when talking to Bill O'Reilly, cheap. #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate +3 Obama sound bite I absolutely understand the difference in strategy and tactics #tweetdebate Obama +3 - ok.. definitely about the whole "why we are at war with Iraq = strategic mistake #tweetdebate Obama +2 "strategic mistake" #tweetdebate Obama +1 for using "strategic" correctly. :) #tweetdebate Obama +2 reasserting his "strategic" plans back in McCain's face #tweetdebate -3 "peace and prosperity are coming to Iraq" #tweetdebate #current Obama is not anti-war. Never has been. Just anti dumb strategy. # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate #tweetdebate #current #debate08 Great debate Live Blog on www.mlive.com/grpress check it out! #tweetdebate -1 Obama for letting McCain ruffle his feathers here and there. There are better ways to manage annoyance. Obama +2 for bringing in Pakistan #tweetdebate Obama +1 for more details in explaining the situation and laying out his plans. #tweetdebate McCain +2 for pointing out relevancy of our leaving Afghan in the lurch after Russia left. #tweetdebate McCain is calm, collected, and dominating tonight...no offense, Obama-ites. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 +1 Mccain for admitting being wrong #tweetdebate +2 obama for pronouncing middle eastern countries correctly #tweetdebate +1 Obama on Afghanistan #tweetdebate McCain +3 for pull the trigger soundbite #tweetdebate @Flap Yup, he's smart. Used to be a college professor. # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate McCain admits a mistake; though I'm an obama fan, that's refreshing (don't like admittnig that) #tweetdebate "If you have to do things, You have to do things": Brilliant! #tweetdebate #current McCain +3 for teling Obamanot to threaten Pakistan on TV #tweetdebate +1 mccain for taking obama to task about telegraphic Pakistan incursions #tweetdebate McCain +1 for leveraging his first-hand experience with Pakistan. #tweetdebate +1 Obama clarifies his comments about taking out Bin Laden #tweetdebate Obama +2 come back fr Mccain re: Pakistan #tweetdebate (I am yawning now LOL) +1 McCain for pointing out that Obama supports making strikes in Pakistan against the gov'mnt wishes #tweetdebate @esonnenberg I love *LOVE* that the two of us hear the same thing & take it two different ways. It's what makes America great. #tweetdebate You have to admit, McCain is VERY knowledgeable about foreign policy & what's happening in the middle east +3 McCain #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama +3 coming from you who sings songs about bombing Iran, I dno't think that's very credible #tweetdebate @mabraham1 u couldn't be more wrong. obama is killin it. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 That was so awesome.. Bomb Bomb bomb Iran! #election08 #Tweetdebate #debates08 #tweetdebate Obama's relaxing. Good. Obama +3 nailing it on Pakistan #tweetdebate Ohhh... +3 Obama for his analysis of our relations with dictator Musharuf in Pakistan, alienating population #tweetdebate +1 for Obama's description of Pakistan #tweetdebate McCain +1 ok.. bring "reagan" and you get a point, likable anyways #tweetdebate here is where McCain's first hand history is helping #tweetdebate obama +2 for a successful counterpoint to opponents assertion regarding tax loop holes for smb #tweetdebate Obama +2 for showing a nuanced understanding of Pakistani politics and for bringing up Mccain's ridiculous "bomb Iran" comments #tweetdebate #tweetdebate - I seriously thought Obama would dominate the debate, but McCain is doing better than I thought. I wish McCain had been like this at that atrocious Republican convention - drill baby drill - #tweetdebate McCain +1 for bringing a "story" that's touching re: son enlisted bagdad.killed #tweetdebate Obama +1 good retort!! Make sure no other mother goes through what I am going through. #current #tweetdebate McCain is bringing tears to my eyes with the military family stories. #current #tweetdebate +3 pts for Obama's soundbite about honoring the troops. #tweetdebate #OBAMA WITH THE SLAAAAAAMMM!!!! 'no US soldier dies in vain' +3 #tweetdebate "We could have won Vietnam!" # Current #debate08 #tweetdebate Obama +1 nice come back with bracelet story bk "honor all the service prov" & ret with better question +2 #tweetdebate Obama +2 for "I have a bracelet, too." #tweetdebate Obama +2 for the counter story, don't let another mother go through this #tweetdebate Obama can actually respond intelligently to these questions. #current #debate08 #tweetdebate love the #tweetdebate function off twitter. Hilarious commentary going on. Obama +3 "You don't muddle through the central front of terror." #tweetdebate #obama: 'you don't muddle through afghanistan, the central front on the war of terror' FTW! +3 #tweetdebate @matttbastard I'll drink to that. loving everyone's debate observations at #current, #debate08 #tweetdebate this is amazing, the variety of opinions #current #tweetdebate is it me or is Obama gaining control of foreign policy discussion? Obama +1 for the interesting pronunciation of Pakistan. #tweetdebate #debate08 McCain +1 for pointing out we need allies in handling Iran #tweetdebate Obama +3 dor bringing up Iraq vs. Iran fact! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate +2 Obama for actually looking at McCain when he makes a point #tweetdebate +3 Purple Tie!! +2 Obama for showing an understanding of Middle East politics as a whole #tweetdebate @seasonothebitch Yup. We have always been down with Eastasia... macain +1 for continuing to date himself #tweetdebate +1 pts for Obama's need for talking to allies & trade partners of Iran to help change Iran's nuclear ambitions. #tweetdebate Obama +2 for a clear, firm answer to the question #tweetdebate oddly enough, i think obama's "uh's" actually help rather than hurt him #current, #tweetdebate @arpit #tweetdebate He was asked about Iran +1 pts for McCain going after Obama for talking with evil leaders without preconditions. #tweetdebate @current keep up the good work.. I bet your getting slammed Mccain +1 ok.. for your efforts in pron. names #tweetdebate +2 Mccain for understanding that history applies to the present #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Kissenger can't leave the the country because he will get arrested in some countries... good one mccain +2 Obama for clear understanding of Iran/middle east issues #tweetdebate +1pt for Obama saying "I reserve the right to meet w/whoever at the time of my choosing as president of US". #tweetdebate Obama +2 fo tea with Ahmadinejad #tweetdebate Obama +3 for using McCain's advisers against him. #tweetdebate +3 Obama sound bite: it doesn't mean you invite them for tea #tweetdebate +1 Obama - acknowleding that he was called "naive" #tweetdebate +3 Obama There is a difference between pre-conditions and preparation #tweetdebate # current +3 Obama There is a difference between pre-conditions and preparation #tweetdebate # current Obama +2 on international policy. he's rocking this one! #tweetdebate #tweetdebate I'm glad Obama's getting a chance to address this precondition thing. +1 obama on preconditions and tea, that was awesome #tweetdebate @elaineschoch Totally justified. Your husband will understand. +3pts for Obama: Talk first...if that doesn't work, then we've strengthened our position to impose tougher sanctions. #tweetdebate Obama +2 for bringing up Spain fiasco #tweetdebate Obama +1 pointing out McCain's bizarre statement regarding meeting prime minister of Spain #tweetdebate want a t-shirt too! #tweetdebate "Sen. Obama, can you see Russia from your house???" #current #debate #tweetdebate +2 Obama "The notion that we would sit with Akmujinadad and let him spew out bile comments without saying anything is wrong." #tweetdebate #tweetdebate I like the debate format so far. At least there is some back-and-forth. +5 Obama for understanding that conversation is key. #tweetdebate Obama +2 for loose nukes in Russia #tweetdebate obama +3 he seems to have done his homework on Russia good job #tweetdebate #tweetdebate obama +3 pts for McCain saying "I see three initials in front of Putin's name...a K, G, and B" #tweetdebate Mccain +2 for clearly understanding the situation in Russia #tweetdebate McCain +2 for KGB soundbite and for access to facts (accurate or not) #tweetdebate +1 Obama for being clear about dealing with Russia #tweetdebate He pronounced that one right! One for two on the foreign leaders, John! #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate mccain +1 for pronouncing the President of Georgia's name - although I have no idea if he said it correctly #tweetdebate +3 McCain for knowing obscure Ukrainian places and people #tweetdebate love the Tom Clancy suggestion!! :-P #tweetdebate using the rating say (1-5) is interesting too TheDailyDG: Obama +2 for bringing up Spain fiasco #tweetdebate Obama +1 for alternative energy! #tweetdebate +2 good comeback Obama, foresight and plan could have prevented Georgian invasion #tweetdebate #debate08 #tweetdebate McCain's doing quite well on the Georgia issue. Obama's response is decisive & knowledgeable. They both sound presidential. @dalbee agreed. +1 for obama. #tweetdebate @current #current My inner hippie is coming out. I'm glad we're getting to alternative energy now. Obama +1 ok again with energy indep. #tweetdebate Obama +2 clarifying what he is objecting #Tweetdebate +2 Obama, foresight and plan could have prevented Georgian invasion #tweetdebate +2 Obama for pointing out that he was never opposed to nuclear waste, but that he was for storing it safely #tweetdebate 1pt for McCain on another 9/11 attack..."we are a safe nation but far from safe". #tweetdebate @BevJack what does Obama think about delta airlines #current #debate08 #tweetdebate #mccainshot #obamashot McCain is against torture again. That's nice ... looked like he was supporting Bush for a while. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 I'll give +2 to McCain for bringing up TORTURE and not calling it harsh interrogation tactics #tweetdebate #cu09 Obama +2 For port security #tweetdebate Glad to NOT hear 'in a post-9/11 world' #current Obama is a great face for our country, and that is exactly what we need right now in a globalized world. #current Loving watching all these great tweets during the debate! Thanks @current and @twitter! #current mccain as president= torture #current #debate08 There's a lot of work still to be done with homeland security. New report from @Heritage and CSIS. http://is.gd/3cg2 #debate08 #current Mr. Obama. The biggest threat is not CBRN it is the same old things they've always used. That is why they return to them #current #debate08 #current Nice block and bridge Sen. Obama #tweetdebate Obama definitely seems to be winning among Twitterers using the #tweetdebate tag. John Kerry, I mean Barack Obama, sounds much more presidential. #current Obama won this from the handshake #current Obamba kicked ass-especially with Afghanistan #current +1pt for Obama wanting to restore our image to the world. #tweetdebate McCain has the smile of success on his face. #current #debate08 RTbmaleszyk Obama +2 for understanding how energy independence relates to our foreign policy in Russia #tweetdebate #current #current "Restore America's Standing in the World" now I buy that! Go Obama. @current #current Im more convinced now than I was before about who I will vote for. I guess that's something - but I had already decided b4 the flat American accent is DEFINITELY going to help McCain. Barak is being too timid. Average people need to see an Alpha Male. #current yes. thank you obama. we need to restore our standing in the world. #current #mccainshot #obamashot #debate08 #current The world likes Obama therefore we should vote for him. Good point, we really need to fix our perception in the word. #current #current Obama's job was to appear Presidential and measured. Anyone want to challenge that he succeeded? -1pt for Obama continuously praising McCain. #tweetdebate +5 obama restoring view of US around the world #tweetdebate oohh, nice nod to McCain on the torture issue by Obama. #current +3 Obama for bringing up the need to restore our image in the world #tweetdebate Obama-"The way we are percieved in the world is what will make things work." I kinda agree... #current Whoever wins...Let's move away from the whole "with us or against us" idea #current Obama +1 for emphasizing importance of restoring US reputation #tweetdebate #current Obama demanded the debate (good decision) but seems to have been more prepped for economy than foreign affairs "shining beacon" , nice quote! #current Obamas body language seems of that of an arrogant prick. Constantly "looking down" on McCain #current #current #debate08 Vote Obama 2008! He knows what he is talking about without actually going there. obama is doing better #current McCain +1 for pointing out need to stop prison torture #tweetdebate #current #debate08 star wars is baaaaack.... #tweetdebate McCain showing his experience quoting Ronald Regan If McCain looses this debate he will cuss Obama out!!!! #current OBAMA U ROCK! #CURRENT "j tap" I would even agree that mccain was a better debater than I thought he would be. McCain held his own #current #current no clear winner = win for McCain On CNN, the audience reaction is the same when Obama talks, but way divided with McCain talks...good leaders speak for the majority #current Hack the debate rocks! Thanks for giving us a fun way to participate. #current I am a staunch supporter of Obama, but McCain/his media advisor has done a good job tonight. #current @PJsMommy hey McCain's face is crooked so I guess they're even! #current Greatest country on earth exactly....#tweetdebate Obama has this in the bag #current #current Get 'em Obama! =] Obama has won this, absolutely #current Obama is teh WINNER #current #current Obama's right. China is involved in Asia. Interesting debate, but I'm really looking forward to the VP debate more. #current #current I think McCain's going to see a bit of a bump from his performance. INDEPENDENTS FOR OBAMA! #current @BarackObama, good job bringing this back to domestic economy issues, it's your strong point. #current obama +3 the conspicuousness of their presence is only matched by our absence #tweetdebate What's all this talk about "winning" the debate? Obv everone thinks their own side "won." #current Obama won. Gentlemen it's time to put your old pens down. #current #current Rocks the vote - best mashup - congrats! thanks Obama for talking about domestic policy a little... #debate08 #current #current "...conspicuousness of their presence only matched by our absence..." Nice. @curreent McCain sounds better, but Obama's being more specific. #debate08 #current Obama +3 Finance is a national security issue #tweetdebate #current #debate08 McCain: If we lose in Iraq, it strengthens terrorists, underminds lost lives of our soldiers @gloreebe88 Haha, YES to Michael Palin! Vote funny! #current +1 obama for saying Pakistan correctly. #tweetdebate +3 Obama for bringing up the Vet's medical needs #tweetdebate side note - Obama just more "Presidential" to me I don't see where his lack of experience comes to play - more coh & prep #tweetdebate #current VETS for Obama, yes! Excellent point by Obama about strength on the homefront being essential to success on the warfront. #current Nice finish for Obama #current I feel like Obama is back on track!#current @current McCain sounds better, but Obama's being more specific. #debate08 #current obama - "all chips in..." - nice poker reference! +1 for obama #current Obama +3 the conspicuousness of their presence is only matched by our absence #tweetdebate both win.. we saw how McCain wants blood and treasure.. Obama can talk strait.. no plundering needed McCain for Cptn-Obama for Pres #current a broader strategic vision. i think thats a good point. #current Open your minds to third parties! #current That vision thang was alright #current #current #debate08 Obama:"The next president needs to have a broader strategic vision that what we've had in the last 8 years." Linking the strength of our economy to our future strength in the world. Good. #current Obama wins! #current #current McPain: there are some advantages to experience, knowledge and judgment. I have that and Obama doesn't. Obama has won, hands down. #current #current Obama has better ideas #current MCCain's gonna school Obama. #debate08 #current I'll stick with Obama's intelligence thank you #current -2pts for McCain's attack on Obama's experience. Stop bringing up the experience issue! #tweetdebate Obama is right, need more funding for science and technology. I think he win for me across the board #current #debate08 @210m Agreed. #current #debate08 Brilliant statement on a stable economy being a national security issue by Obama. #current #current Obama definitely has better speaking presence, which might go a long way. Appearance often trumps, in politics McCain raps up nicely #current #debate08 @JLApplegate #tweetdebate I agree each side will feel like they won Wow! Obama was powerful there! #current Obama is cleaning up with McCain. #tweetdebate McCain: compares Obama to Bush as both "stubborn" #current obama smells the blood - going for the kill #current #current McPain: taking care of veterans will be my job. I have ability, knowledge, background to keep country safe/secure. Obama +1 for bringing up the war spending and healthcare. #tweetdebate China is buying mountains of resources in Africa and South America. Literally - they bought Mt Toromocho in Peru for minerals. #current #current #debate08 McCain:"I know the vertarans and I know them well, and I know that they know I will take care of them." +5 obama just put mccain to shame talking about non-Iraq issues and veteran care #tweetdebate I pre-emptively call this debate for Obama. Obama won. #current My Father came from Kenya.. that is where I get my Name (not from Iraq) Obama #current #debate08 Heartstrings pulled! McCain is good... #current Nice talking to the camera Obama #current Moonpie, I love you <3 #current THANK TWITTER & CURRENT 4 LETTING ME HACK THE DEBATE!! PEACE 2 U ALL- THINK LIKE DWIGHT-BEWARE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX #CURRENT obama just slam dunked #current McCain: "I don't need on-the-job training." You sure about that? #current Hey.. Barack I was born in Kenya (parents in the Peace Corps)...#current #debate08 Let me be clear, McCain has clearly won. #current Jill Greenburg caught McCain's good side. #current McCain - reform, prosperity and peace. Very good closing points, put Obama on defense w/ experience, judgmt #current #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama talks about father... and name. Needed to do that! #current #current #debate08 Obama is being very eloquent and making good points about how the world sees us. i agree with obama #current #debate08 McCain voted against giving Vets the money to cover the total cost of college? He supports them? #current McCain gets the last word!!!! #current @temporaryone he is stiff because he had nearly every bone in his body broken while a pow #current Obama +3 The world is not inspired by the UStoday like they used to be. We need to reverse this trend #tweetdebate. #current Sen O: this is part of how we'll keep U.S. safe; helping people live out their dreams is one thing I'm committed too. I really like how Obama's ending this... we really do need to earn the respect of the world again. #current By the way, did you know McCain was a POW? #current #current pow pow pow pow pow pow pow McCain... Normalization of relations with Vietnam.. I know, I did, I can.. #current #debate08 lets talk about Present ISSUES and about your experience #current McCain victory #debate08 #current Jill Greenburg caught McCain's good side. #current #debate08 From where Obama? McCain.. Land of the free HOME of the brave! McCain hands down! #current O: We can show the world - that we're going to invest in Education, how ordinary people invest in their dreams #debates08, #current Awsome debate! #current #obamashot #mccainshot Boy I can't WAIT for the Vice President debate.... #debate08 #current In Italy we could never vote Mac! Obama lives in present, not in the past!#current I think Obama won #current #current Obama wins on the economy #current BINGO - lets not forget McCain was a POW! @BarackObama GOOD JOB!#current #current #debate08 IMO, Obama wins. Obama!#current #current #debate08 good job, jim! Obama is the winner of the debate #current Woo, it's over! #current #debate08 John McCain did well on two hours prep time, of course #current now back to Washington to pull together deal Wow! That was a hell of a good time! What a debate! Good job Obama! #current #current all you pro-Obama-ites: REGISTER TO VOTE VERY SOON!!! OBAMA WON!! #current palin vs biden gonna be real good #current Obama +3 for convincingly explaining the need for America to earn back respect around the world #tweetdebate McCain wins #current #debate08 Wow guys! Thanks so much. Stay tuned on Current TV and tweet @infoMania #current Obama mic'd: "Good job, John" #debate08 #current lol obama told him good job!lols #current The debte ends and Barry calls good job John....indeed #current #debate08 Now I can go to bed in peace #current YAY!!!!!!!!!!! It's over!!! #current #debate08 #tweetdebate lucky mccain for getting the last word...the most convincing/presidential thing he has said this debate #current McCain just won w/ "I know how to heal war, I know how to deal with enemies, I know how to treat friends." Fruck Fruck. #debate08 #current Jim lehrer wins, indeed. #current #current #debate08 thanks current! fun stuff! McCain: "I know how to heal the wounds of war" Best line of the night. #debate #current #current jim lehrer is the winner tonight I like Cindy McCain .. she is on CARE board of directors. #current #tweetdebate #debate08 #debate08 #current Finally, that's over. I'd call it a draw on the economic piece, victory for McCain foreign policy #current Next week should be fun...Maverick against Palin? Gotta see this! "Hack the debate was great" #tweetdebate #current good debate, based solely on the points raised,i think Obama made it. #current McCain kicked tail. This debate definitely followed the theme of experience #debate08 #debateok08 #current Obama wins. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate these harvard kids at the watch party are on point! absentee ballots in the room. voter registration too. go head lil obamas #current Good debate. Obama did well, but it wasn't as one sided as I expected. #current Go McCain! You rock! #current #debate08 I think I will have fun making a video up with Obama saying John is right and Good Job John LOL #debate08 #current #debateok08 McCain dominated. That's all. #current OBAMA! #current Loved the fact that they kept their mics on after the end of the debate... haha #current Connor from Current for President 20**? not sure when he becomes eligible, lol. #current Obama wins. #current YES. I can't hardly wait for the Vice Presidential debates! #current I love the fact that Lehrer was able to tell the candidates to stay on topic. #current mccain won in having an eye burning tie #current Well, considering it was the foreign policy debate, I'd give the slight edge to McCain on this one. But VERY slight. #debate08 #current #current Obama won. #current i have to say mccain did really well. bummed. thing is, its clear that Obama is WAY smarter. YAY! #Current Drink drink drink!!! @BarackObama Good Job. #current! that was RAD. Nice job Current TV, nice job Twitter... nice job pundits! #current #debate08 Awesome First Debate! #tweetdebate Good job Obama! The US should be the first nation to have 2 presidents at the same time I'm very much looking forward to Obama's inauguration. It will be a great day for America. We've been through a long, dark tunnel. #current Thanks you guys, everyone rocked. Join us next time for the VP debates on Oct. 2nd #current Thay came in with game tonight #current Yay! for non-dibating stuff :) #current #tweetdebate Correction: The iPhone and Twitterriffic rock!! Hmmmm, pretty uneventful debate. No clear winner/loser. Both sharp. BTW, I like listening to David Brooks from NYT on PBS #current Obama wins!!! #tweetdebate McCain clearly won this debate, Obama is lacking in the depth of knowledge it takes to lead and be the U.S. president #current #debate08 Good debate, a little boring but glad to see it anyway. #current see you guys back here next week #current @jowyang what was your tally? #tweetdebate #current #debate08 the moderator really favored McCain... @JustinGunn GOod job to you and yours. That was the most debating I've done with people on politics since I lived in DC. Gloria Borger.. Obama held his own on defense issues with McCain #current #debate08 McCain WINS!!!! #debate08 McCain just won this debate! Hands down! #comment #debate08 #debate won the debate tonight. #current Good debate. Job well done to both candidates! #current, #debate08, #tweetdebate Hack the debate with twitter was pretty intersting. Has my vote. #current Obama looked more presidential +2 #tweetdebate #debate08 The first debate can be summed up very easily "Senator McCain is right!" I rock with Obama. #current Obama IS telling the truth!!!#current Glad to hear CNN is fact checking the presidential candidates' comments. Will be interesting to see what they find. #current Obama did a good job of relating the issues together instead of just focusing on one thing at a time #debate08 #current not sure who 'won' but Obama obviously came off as the more personable of the two. Still voting Obama :) All in all- good debate! Candidates were fairly intelligent and mostly respectful. Didn't change my opinion, but glad I watched. #current The real winner tonight was Jim Lehrer. You can't say PBS people don't have balls. #debate08 Based on this, either candidate should be good. Impressed by both candidates. #debate08 Retweeting @mamikaze: @Krississippi being from a military family, I do not trust Mccain's itchy trigger finger on bit. #debate08 #current quite a civilised debate,didn't really expect that- both did quite well (im dutch, i wont have to vote) in making their points Gergen: McCain clearly has superior FP understanding... #current #debate08 #debate08 NBC hit it right on the head! There seems to be something about Obama that McCain just can't stand. #debate08 People are saying Lehrer favored McCain... I thought he was supposed to be all liberal biased? +3 Obama for saying "orgy of spending" #tweetdebate Obama got a crisp start in the debate (gergen) #current #debate08 #debate08 #current Fred Barnes - It was a tie but McCain finished strongly. #debate08 Brokaw just said it best, "They both played to their constituencies well." #current #debate08 Barr:"The people of Iran have a strong free market view of Iran... but Iran has a history of participatory gov't" @thePuck I am enjoying your editorial comments re: the debate. :D Obama held is own on foreign policy (gergen) #current #debate08 "Lehrer reall is a great moderator #current" Obama passed the test. #tweetdebate #current #debate08 one thing we can agree on is these guys beat Bush & Kerry in a tag team any day. I enjoyed that debate. thought it was smartly and hotly battled. personally it solidified my support for obama. #Debate08 Still voting Obama #current @BarackObama You did AWESOME!!!!!!!!! But overall - McCain was GREAT - very impressed, maybe I had low expectations but great lines & responses #debate08 #current I feel like Obama came off as strong and explained why he chooses things. McCain just pushed msgs. #current Undecided voters on my TV say Obama Wins! #current For me, Obama won. But then again, Obama was my choice in the primaries. #current #debate08 #current Does anyone think David Gurgen seems a little like Eeyore (not as much as Lieberman)? He says Obama demonstrated "knowledge." The #debate definitely gave me clarity about the election. I'm voting for Rufus T. Firefly. #debate08 I second that, @moritazul. Obama for me, #debate08 Power went out. Barr is now answering questions. Good answers re: Iran, Bush Doctrine, etc. #current Wow FactCheck.org ahead of the game http://zi.ma/factcheck-wire it's faster than the speed of spin! #current #tweetdebate #debate08 no memorable moment in this debate. McCain has more policy experience but Obama appears knowledgeable and held his ground. McCain is the sheriff - Bennett CNN #current #debate08 #current if this Twitter audience is voting, it seems that Obama will win. CBSnews Nielsen "undecideds" - majority said Obama won this debate #debate08 @BarackObama You did AWESOME!!!!!!!!! #debate08 "I agree with Sen. McCain" should be the line of the night #debate08 #current Yep. Still voting for Obama/Biden. #current #current #debate08 Barr:"It is important to maintain landing rights, overflight agreements, so when a problem does come up that we" BINGO Obama just showed this country what diplomacy looks like, it's been a long time. ITA - we are used to short snide remarks #debate08 #debate08 and mccain wins...more experience where it counts, more specific across the board. looking forward to palin-biden. McCain sez Obama not fit/ready to be prez, but Obama just went toe to toe with him with substantive answers; a + for Obama #tweetdebate RT @alexashrugged "I agree with Sen. McCain" should be the line of the night #debate08 #current McCain definitely won. #current #debate08 Oh, how I cannot wait to watch the VP debate coming soon - that should be a fun night...#current @hnoftall not according to cbs's polling of undecided voters, who went strongly for obama. #debate08 #debate08 #current Juan Williams - Obama on the offensive. Obama wins on economics and McCain on foreign policy. Would love to be working the 'spin room' tonight. McCain was on and was forceful without looking like a jerk. #debateok08 #debate08 interesting debate...who is going to take the election? #debate08 McCain looked the most presidential, that's for sure. #debate08 @MandianaJones - yes it was very obvious. #debate08 I liked McCain's use of historical context. Obama probably avoided that because when he says it, it's professorial. End result -- both McCain and Obama appealed to their base. McCain was warrior like and Obama was Presidential #debate08 Goodnight All Going walking with @MisterRob now. Thanks #debate08 #tweetdebate http://election.twitter.com I enjoyed to commentary. #current - I think McCain won even though I'm still voting for Obama @BarackObama I don't care what McCain says, I think you understand. ;) #debate08 McCain/Palin 2008! #current #debate08 To watch what people said while the candidates were talking made it able to keep the attention better #current #debate08 @current Good job with the debate! It was interesting to see what everyone was saying. #current #debate08 So whiie I feel that Obama could have fought back against the McC lies more, but overall I truly believe that Obama won tonight. #debate08 @pamelalyn -- very cogent point. Fact that an African American candidate went to Mississippi for a pres. debate & it was a non-issue speaks to how far we've come #current @davidweiner Yes. Uppercuts! That's what I want in a debate. Not condescending, patronizing namecalling taken like a gent. THREE CHEERS FOR TWITTER! STAYING ALIVE DURING THE DEBATE! #debate08 #tweetdebate #current A great debate for America, now back to the work to get credit markets back to healthy without creating more frivolous spending #debate08 I think McCain was very strong and won this debate #debate08 #current wow-ABC is doing a "fact check" of the debate. Great idea. They should post all their lookups online. obama said "I agree with john" at least 8 times, fox news is reporting #debate08 #current Guillliani: "McCain gave Obama a lesson in foriegn policy." Those spin-meister work fast! "would you like to have tea?" +5 for obama for being a smart a** #tweetdebate That was fun. #current and #debate08 completely changes this debate season. #debate08 I think the thing that most came out of this is that Obama looked more presidential #debate08 mccain = yesterday's man! Friends at the debate party tonight think that McCain hammering on earmarks/spending was great. "That's why we lost in 2006." #debate08 The spin room is getting dizzy #debateok08 #debate08 name dropping not a bad thing , mccain #current #debate08 #debate08 The speed of these campaigns is amazing: http://tinyurl.com/43n74w McCain regained the week #current #debate08 #debate08 the "I agree with John" points are going to be hammered by Fox News and the GOP, but look at them in context...... New campaign ad with debate footage: McCain Is Right. http://is.gd/3chN #debate08 #current (h/t @kevinbinversie) so much fun watching debate on #Current with tweets. loved it! Go Obama! I think he's doing well so far. #debate08 #winner #current Where Obama made strides is in sounding and feeling credible and Presidential, which many people haven't seen. "John is right" Obama's defining phrase #current #debate08 @joberdorf Obama supports veterans more than McCain does. Obama at least favored the new GI Bill! #debate08 74.6% said obama won the debate on msnbc poll: http://tinyurl.com/3frb5c #debate08 #tweetdebate #debate08 Obama will restore America's pride and global image, but McCain is the better candidate. @msblog that was pretty awesme #debate08 #Current + Twitter was great way to watch the debate. If only Daily Show and Colbert were about to air to really put it all in perspective. was pleasantly surprised by the first #debate08. Moderator actually let them go after each other. WOW - McCain already has an "I agree with Sen. McCain" ad! SWEET http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #debate08 #current I like the CNN analysis tonight, and not for a partisan reason, but because they have some good peeps who mostly know their shiz #debate08 #current McCain is old, Obama is new, time for a change @orbitaldiamonds Lucky. I'll be here drinking lots of tea. @NewsHour Jim did great! #debate08 currently 75.2% said obama won the debate on msnbc poll: http://tinyurl.com/3frb5c #debate08 @BarbaraKB yeah @current is doing some awesome things mashing up tv with social media, really wish we had them. No one hit the mat. #tweetdebate @davidweiner Obama was the gent. @martinbowling mccain has a hard time suffering fools #tweetdebate Wow, really good debate - I can't decide who actually won (if either), but Obama did a great job with "McCain's strong suit" #debate08 #current i think the 'mcC is right on...' by O is a good thing in itself, ofcourse each candidate has good points. not tactical, but true. Great to see so many people engaged in the debates and election; regardless of party affiliation or candidate of choice. #current I think saying, "John is correct about..." along with "John, that's just not true." worked. Obama seemed like the one in charge. #current #debate08 @JohnMcCain has 954 Twitter Followers. @BarackObama has 86,312. Looks like @BarackObama won Twitter by a landslide. think I'm gonna watch the rest of the debate on the Beeb. need some better commentary #debate08 rt @alexashrugged [Argh - ZT] WOW - McCain already has an "I agree with Sen. McCain" ad! SWEET http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #current McCain nailed it in a few spots, but overall, Obama handled himself far better than McCain. #debate08 @alexashrugged WOW - McCain already has an "I agree with Sen. McCain" ad! SWEET http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #debate08 #current Both held there own. Interested to see what happens next week. Uncommitted voters statistics are interesting. #current McCain Debate Central webpage has some good rapid response info on it. http://is.gd/3ciC #debate08 #current @lindagoin I was happy with Obama's performance. I expected him to seem more uncomfortable but I felt that he had control of the tone. McCain cruises to easy win in 1st debate #current Thought Lehrer was good - a few simple interventions and stayed out the way #debate08 I thought Obama laughing at McCain's wilder statements was effective and seemed natural. #current Obam won the debate #current "1am Rachel Maddow LIVE on MSNBC TV #current" if @fakeobama agreed with me any more i think i'd be able to count on his vote this november #tweetdebate That was so rad. I really had fun following along with #current. Sorry to all my friends for the number of tweets I sent the last hour. Nice work everyone on the #tweetdebate. I watched a timeshifted version, so wasn't able to participate real-time. #tweetdebate msnbc poll says that 74.9% of people thinks Obama won the debate http://tinyurl.com/3frb5c Retweeting @JPmicek -McCain's team is fast! Obama's words frm debate in ad already! http://snurl.com/3vlxx WOW - that was FAST!#tweetdebate That was a blast #current @orbitaldiamonds Aw, I love snow. And we do get quite a lot here. Best Week Ever doing great #suspension spoofs. Need something light after #debate08. @infinitelymeta i was watching twitter's election2008 pg too - enjoyed following the #tweetdebate thread - quite entertaining... @kenbooth The real winner of the debate? Twitter. Their free-flowing ajaxy #debate08 pages were fun. Sure beats talking heads. And no whales God, I love Joe Biden and his brutal directness, and that huge grin. #current According to a poll by CBS, undecideds picked Obama as the winner over McCain by about a 20 point margin. #debate08 #current Biden kicking McCain's butt on CNN going to NH next saturday to help with Obama's campaign. #current watched the debate, Obama did very well #current #debate08 Wolf: "it would be nice if Sarah Palin would join us" @stillgray btw nice website! Wow...the CSPAN people are explaining what "Twitter" is to the audience...#debate08 McCain +3 for admitting that the US engaged in torture! #tweetdebate @disavian I agree. It's tough to see an old war horse like McCain take empty swipes. He'll have his place back in the Senate when he loses @jpippert The "I wore my tie that looks good on the radio" tie? Oh yes. Smooth move, McCain. #debate08 @ pavlicko you gained at least one follower from searching tweetscan for #debate08 and then drilling down to read your comments. #debate08 Tweeting in front of the TV while watching the debate tonight with a cocktail was a hoot! Don't miss the next ones - with tequila! I love Twitter.. the new bar on the top is neat- o http://election.twitter.com/#debate08. A trip to read in real time public opinion All McCain has is lies why can't he just tell the American people the truth. #current @stevenbjohnson he said "don't torture... ever again." pretty clearly. #debate08 @janoss - re: emotive - neither candidate has it, but I met Obama in Chicago...so I'm biased. Obama likes to meet eye-to-eye. CNN played Kissinger's response proving McCains answer correct. #debate08 the debate was a draw. I thought Mccain did come out slightly on top because he sounded more educated on the issues. good closing.#debate08 @wcdarling Perhaps view #debate08 in RSS: http://tinyurl.com/4w7za2 Amazing.. McCain's debate ad out NOW http://tinyurl.com/43n74w #debate08 so, hack the debate 1 is over...now to refine. so much to do. new promo coming soon #current #debate08 I love watching comments roll in on Twitter's Election2008! @lindagoin To be honest, I've never had much passion for Obama. I just can't stand McCain anymore. Obama's been growing on me though lately @janoss - So, IMO, Obama won in his eye-to-eye, direct points, and his mission. The differences were very clear tonight. #current Why the obsessions on both right and left with who won? Both candidates clarified their positions--the viewers were the winners. "For what it's worth, McCain is kicking Obama's ass on the Drudge poll." #debate08 John McCain: McCain Is Right http://polfeeds.com/item/McCain-Is-Right #debate08 #current #tweetdebate @matttbastard I wish I could stay up late enough to catch Rachel's whole hour. but I need sleep. last night was kind of epic. FactCheck.org: I'd love to see you live tweet fact checks for the next debate. That would be *hot*. #current #debate08 @drunnells agreed! @current This was the most intense political debate I've had since I worked in politics & lived in DC Can't wait for next one! #debate08 Obama FTW. @drunnells agreed! #debate08 @davidweiner Good question. They both had some good lines, but McCain probably was more colorful. #debate08 @drunnells agreed! Obama said McCain was right on several issues! #debate08 #debate08 Mccain mostly had his advantage by violating Lehrer's moderating.That he tied/slightly won on his strongest suit is encouraging vermontgmg: Amazing how the "IND" dial line on CNN drops whenever McCain starts talking. #debate08 http://tinyurl.com/3fq2qy Nice, Obama's Tweet machine has it goin ON after the debates. #debate08 Barack Obama won this debate #tweetdebate #debate08 Great coverage on CNN measuring audience responses in real-time. Biden on MSNBC: "A good night for our team." #debate08 McCain was silent while Obama talked. Obama kept on trying to get a word in during McCain's answers. That bothered me a lot. #debate08 #debate08 the CW (Halperin) says Obama A- McCain B-, sounds about right http://tinyurl.com/4q7f8d #debate08 @Autumm right, only his statement was rebutted by his own clip of agreeing with Obama @etherkiller i don't know, i'm a huge probama, but i think mccain did well, i wanted obama to do better #debate08 - man Biden is GOOD (MSNBC). @korym Good night! #current - Wow! Obama does his homework! The most impressive thing tonight - HE HAD HIS OWN BRACELET! So there! Let the droolfest begin! @Imarilove I don't trust someone who won't meet my gaze. I liked the fact that Obama looked directly at the camera(toward people watching) #debate08 Biden is on fire on MSNBC. Really nailing it. #debate08 interesting debate, I thought Obama held his own pretty well for what was considered McCains home turf HUGE thanks to the @twitter team for partnering on this. we can't wait to do it again next week. #current #debate08 @kcrusher Nuclear all the way. We need to explore that territory more. Obama did very well #debate08 Biden is the MAN! #debate08 I think McCain won this debate easily #current @Imarilove Yes, He did. I liked the eye contact. #debate08 #tweetdebate Bloggers right; mccain won because it is his issue. #debate08 Anyone trying to say John McCain is a liar, suffers misanthropy. John McCain likes anyone that likes him first. It's how he rolls! #debate08 CNN post debate polling is saying the debate went to Obama with over a 10 point lead #debate08 #current @RobTornoe Lisa, of course. #debate08 Very big Obama lead in the CNN post debate poll. Interesting. #debate08 Are we having fun yet? #tweetdebate @current McCain been around a little while? Thats like saying the pope is a "little Catholic" Sheesh. He's older then dirt! I like @jowyang's scoring method. It really makes you think about these comments. http://tinyurl.com/3jdy67 #tweetdebate Retweeting @nohype: #tweetdebate -1 McCain "we saw these problems coming" I thought the economy was fundamentally sound ( EXACTLY!!! ) #tweetdebate +1 Obama clarifies McCain's fuzzy math not me, i don't want to cut taxes. at least, not state taxes. makes me an amercian. #tweetdebate #tweetdebate Great question - what compromises need to be made in face of economic malaise +1 Obama we need to get rid of programs that don't work and bring in programs that are up to date #tweetdebate ZOMBIE MCCAIN WILL EAT YOUR FACE #tweetdebate oooh, "I'm afraid Obama doesn't understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy." - McCain +2 for quotable #current #tweetdebate Yeah, it was provocative. #Current #debate08 #tweetdebate So sitting down with someone who you disagree with to discuss the issues legitimizies their opinions? #tweetdebate pakistan is the cause of al queda? #current Obama: So this Main Street and middle-class angle? What happened after 20 minutes? #current Obama just said we must use taxdollars to spend our way to national security...huh? #current #debate08 @seanhackbarth: You're right, "The world likes Obama therefore we should vote for him." debate08 #current #debate08 #current mcCain: I am old. Obama needs to point out McCains votes against vets and VA issues #current #debate08 "Why are the religious right not voting for Obama? If they think he is the second coming of Jesus, Vote for him!!!!! #current" flatline on dem/rep - 50/50 Mcccain kisses his wife, and Palin.. #current Obama Karate chop his ass! #current Obama Comm Dir Robert Gibbs is doing a great job of sticking to game plan: when you get stumped on a question, just blame Bush #debate08 @bjlayland telling the truth about what? how he uses his POW status yet isn't doing anything to help current vets? disabled vets? #current @janoss -no, but - politically speaking - it was good to see that Rove was absent #debate08 @EndTheRoboCalls, heh, that's why he appointed a woman whose FP exprience is seeing Russia from her shore? I knew he would bring up his POW experience. No disrespect, but if that is all it takes, there's plenty of POW's in Guantanamo. #current #current HEY JIM I AM OVER HERE. please look at me when you talk. The LHC may not have sucked the world into a black hole, but I'm less assured of the result when Palin debates next week #tweetdebate Okay, I love Major Garrett. Casablanca reference!!! "Shocked" #debate #current Now... time for http://www.citizensugar.com/2095396 @MercuryMetro He's obviously very intimidated by Barack. #current Obama, mention in regard to McCain's "war on earmarks": Earmarks make up less than 1% of federal budget http://xrl.us/osagt #debate08 @NewsHour Lehrer would do well to recall Neil Postman's point that how you ask a question shapes the answer you get: http://bit.ly/1qxCwR. rt @PatrickRuffini t @mikemadden Will the frequent Obama "McCain is right" lines will haunt him later? #debate08 #current #current - Why didn't we at least see Obama's face when he disputed McCain's misrepresentations of him? He surely wasn't allowed corrections Obama on the surge: you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong! - I stood up and cheered!!! McCain just stood and blinked. #debate08 @DocMara yeah yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Repubs, hang up your hats, wait for 2012. #debate08 #debate08 "We seem to have come full circle..." Huh!? Your circle had nothing to do with a word out of his mouth! #current Gurgen: Obama more focused on diplomacy; McCain has more "muscular" neo-con view. Closer to Bush first term. palin turned down spin patrol in favor of rudy, who came off like a cartoon mad scientist. #current @Imarilove i think they had to dose him with whatever they've been dosing Bush with for 8 years and didn't get enough tranquilizer in. (jk) @dksnyder you missed the bit where McCain talked over Obama when Obama tried to state his own record. Confirmation bias. #debate08