Um, there’s probably someone who had a weirder debate performance. Somewhere. In the olden days, before not being a fucking crazy person was invented. Probably.
ACORN – the greatest threat to democracy EVAR. We should definitely bomb them. OOGA BOOGA! HIPPIES!! HIPPIES!! BABY KILLER!!!!
I will vote for John McCain to be President of Joe Wuzzlebooble, the plumber who makes more than I’ll ever make. Otherwise, he is the worst candidate I have ever seen. And a barking, wingnut loon to boot.
October 15, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Joe the Plumber is stackn’ bills to the ceiling.
Obama-Biden 4 McCain-Palin 0
I noticed the 6-7 point gender gap is still our margin of victory, (I love the ladies.)
Obama explained his and McCain’s positions better then McCain explained his own. Obama’s legal training allowed him to present a strong, cogent argument for himself and against McCain. McCain was scatter shot.
October 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm
McCain’s air quotes around “health of the mother” probably didn’t win a lot of undecideds.
October 15, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Congratulations, Joe, you’re rich!
October 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I will vote for John McCain to be President of Joe Wuzzlebooble, the plumber who makes more than I’ll ever make.
Word. That was weird.
October 15, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I sez Bob Schieffer won. The only moderator who made it kinda debate-y, although to be fair, this was probably the only format that suited an actual debate.
P.S. Not having posted here in ever so long (busy with life), I’m wondering if I get a alternate universe avatar, too. Also wondering what happened to Noodles, Pirate kitten?
October 15, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Yay! I did, and it’s purple!!!
October 15, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Political Wire:
Looking good.
October 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Alan Keyes is eating his heart out.
October 15, 2008 at 8:36 pm
But McCain really wrapped up the autistic vote. That and women who want to die to give birth.
October 15, 2008 at 8:50 pm
He’s big, getting around just like a normal cat, and a huge, spoiled whiner. His brother died of feline leukemia, which was sad, so now he needs constant, undivided attention. It’s totally pathetic.
October 15, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Pathetic indeed!! Get him a kitten of his own! Glad to hear he’s healthy.
October 15, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Too bad this is the last debate. McCain could single-handedly destroy the entire conservative movement if given enough air time.
October 15, 2008 at 9:40 pm
See, that’s why my plumbing is all screwed up. I suspect that Joe Plumber and Joe Sixpack are one in the same. Next time, I’m going to hire Jose Fontanero.
October 15, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Joe the Plumber thinks he’s smart; Joe the Plumber is a selfish idiot.
October 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Somehow I think the reason Joe the Plumber is really busy (and rich) is that Joe Six pack keeps clogging the toilet.
October 15, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I command the Moon, Sun and Stars. You have failed us merelings. Let your vote shine through unfailingly upon us. And lo, so shall we worship you as Messaih! Hosana! Amen and Ablem! Et cetera! Et Al!
Glory to Al! Weird Al! Al Queada! Glory to All!
THUS SAYETH THE LORD!
‘The Editors’ 34:1
October 15, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Shall we turn to the page upon which the faithful have shown us?
Also wondering what happened to Noodles, Pirate kitten?
Ramen Pirates? Need I say more? My faithful bretheren listen to the Word!
October 15, 2008 at 11:07 pm
The Editors is all lit up. Is it the drank, or the absence of drank?
Keep it coming.
October 15, 2008 at 11:16 pm
“I am not President Bush”
Indeed. Not even President Bush is President Bush, who played the character of President Bush to save America from liberal fascism.
I am also proud to be “not President Bush” as well. And with our support, John McCain will not be President McCain either.
October 15, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Joe the Plumber. Now we know who Theed’s sideburn guy avatar is.
October 15, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Oh yeah, this:
“Well, that’s about it. That’s what we have. And that’s what we owe. It isn’t very much. But Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we’ve got is honestly ours. I should say this, that Pat doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she’d look good in anything.”
Nixon speech, 1952 (fucker came back 16 years later and wrecked us good after Johnson, a nasty wretch, had proved to be the Dem Dubya of 1964-8)
So, if McCain lives to be as old as his mother has, will he be our president in 2024?
Johnny McCain, the You Come Back Here Right This Instant (and get off my lawn again) Kid
October 15, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Nothing says “What do you mean, ‘that didn’t work’?” like this facial expression:
http://donklephant.com/2008/10/15/cbs-post-debate-snap-poll-obama-53-mccain-22/
October 16, 2008 at 12:04 am
http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/1054/mctongue.jpg
October 16, 2008 at 12:28 am
Those pesky teacher credentials. Soldiers should go straight from the battlefield to teaching. Certification? HA!
What was that all about? Not even the Troops To Teachers website says that.
October 16, 2008 at 5:18 am
To think that the Soviets spent 70 years and trillions of dollar equivalents trying to overthrow the U.S., and all they had to do was hire some black people to go out and register voters, some of whom would seditiously give false identity information on their applications.
Stupid Soviets! Your power is no power! ACORN has real power! YOU FAIL!
October 16, 2008 at 7:09 am
Does anyone find McCain’s whistling “s” as annoying as I do?
October 16, 2008 at 7:36 am
Health of the mother: bad.
Safe nucelar power: bad.
What was the GOp slogan from that old Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa go to the conventions? “We want what’s worst for everyone.”
In other news, I watched the debate in one of those hip new bars on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. And it was packed! With hipsters! And so were the two bars across the street, which were *also* showing the debate! I sure don’t remember anything like this in ’04. What’s happened to the country?
October 16, 2008 at 7:39 am
That tongue thing reminds me strongly of Bill the Cat. Lucky for McCain that Breathed is not the litigious type.
October 16, 2008 at 7:45 am
Johnson, a nasty wretch, had proved to be the Dem Dubya of 1964-8)
Right. Because Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, ending 100 years of legal discrimination against African-Americans, while Bush…
OK, wait, Johnson created Medicaid and Medicare, the single biggest expansion of health coverage in American history, just like Bush, um, …
I’ve got it! Johnson pushed throught he first major immigration reform in 40 years, ending the quotas that had effectively barred non-whites. And Bush *also* tried to pass comprehensive immgiration reform … and completely failed. Oh well.
October 16, 2008 at 8:00 am
Good things happened on Johnson’s watch, much of it through Johnson’s supreme political skills, but he was an exceptionally nasty bit of work, and he took Viet Nam to a place that rendered the magnificent reformatory momentum of the late 50s/early 60s a background to the center stage spectacle of napalm and carpet bombing and My Lai.
Suddenly, instead of pinning flowers on the lapels of proud domestic reforms, we were sticking flowers into rifle barrels (until Kent State).
I want someone to write an Orwellian parody about a flower reaming the bore of a rifle over and over… I guess I’m someone?!
October 16, 2008 at 8:12 am
Not wishing to turn this lovely mayhem of kittens and thonged hairy beats into a typically civil intern forum for bashing heads with hearts et vice versa, I still feel I must note the following most of all:
“The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President the exclusive right to use military force without consulting the Senate, was based on a false pretext, as he later admitted. It was Johnson who began America’s direct involvement in the ground war in Vietnam. By 1968 there were 550,000 American soldiers inside Vietnam; in 1967 and 1968 they were being killed at the rate of over 1000 a month.”
That’s wiki. I don’t recall Johnson admitting the Tonkin scam was such, but then, I have to ask my cat where the toilet paper is most days too.
October 16, 2008 at 8:15 am
Resuming normal poor man transmission mode:
Whoa! Sideburn Guy looks different with bald pate and face.
October 16, 2008 at 8:21 am
kenmeer,
Yeah, there was Vietnam. That was bad. but the comparison to W. is still imbecilic.
October 16, 2008 at 8:55 am
Nice Lester Bangs reference.
October 16, 2008 at 9:05 am
George W. Bush says, “Joe the Plumber, where were you back in 2005 back when I needed you?”
October 16, 2008 at 9:51 am
I can only assume that Joe the Plumber is the last Undecided Voter in America, and that’s why McCain and Obama were fighting so hard for his vote.
October 16, 2008 at 10:12 am
October 16, 2008 at 10:13 am
But Joe the Plumber doesn’t resemble Kevin Costner.
Obama, OTOH, has a sort of Sammy Davis, Ben Vareen, Dionne Warwick kind of a thing going, I can’t put my finger on it.
(goddam lack of a preview button)
October 16, 2008 at 10:25 am
Joe the Plumber = Poochie
http://policomic.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/just-what-this-sitcom-needs-a-new-character/
October 16, 2008 at 10:56 am
Yes, but Joe the plumber’s name is actually Sam! More kittens please.
October 16, 2008 at 11:14 am
“That tongue thing reminds me strongly of Bill the Cat.”
Due to his increasingly poor health and age, McCain is not able to sweat anymore so me must rely on panting to cool himself down
October 16, 2008 at 11:18 am
It gets better.
Some are saying Joe isn’t even registered. This piece says Joe isn’t even a plumber, and hasn’t currently paid up on the old tax system he so favors.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/
The Thomas Eagleton of Voters, 2008?
Could there have even been such a thing?
Only for Manic McCainic.
October 16, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Preznit debates: 3
Flagpins worn…
Obama: 3
McSame: 0
Just needed to be pointed out for inclusion into the upcoming “Why McThuselah sukd teh dillweed in ’08″.
October 16, 2008 at 12:37 pm
What was that all about? Not even the Troops To Teachers website says that.
Yeah, my family and I caught that too. Umm, if you’re worried about getting rid of bad teachers, the solution probably isn’t to hire a bunch that aren’t certified to be teachers.
October 16, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Umm, if you’re worried about getting rid of bad teachers, the solution probably isn’t to hire a bunch that aren’t certified to be teachers.
I think the wingnut thinking goes something like this: Only those people genetically hardwired to be bad teachers ever have the desire to be teachers in the first place. Therefore, never hire anyone who has actually gone to the effort to be certified to teach. Only hire people who never thought they’d ever want to be teachers.
See?!
October 16, 2008 at 3:13 pm
“Yeah, there was Vietnam. That was bad. but the comparison to W. is still imbecilic.”
a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDrg4dUj_E&feature=related
b) Love that War Powers act. Sure made Dubya’s wrecking job easier.
c) Imbecility is requisite aspect of ANY comparison to Dubya.
d) It’s not like I compared your mother to Madonna.
October 16, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Umm… Joe The “Plumber”, 34, from suburban (really, don’t laugh) Toledo, not actually a licensed plumber (for which he and his boss may be in some trouble with Ohio trades licensing authorities), actually registered Republican, earner of a whopping $40K last year according to divorce records, has “talked to his boss now and then” about maybe someday buying the boss’s $100K/year (not $250K) plumbing business (yeah, and I’ve talked to my boss now and then about maybe someday going in together on a “medicinal” pot-growing venture in Humboldt County, CA), says Social Security is a “joke” (different from a “disgrace” I suppose) and the Iraq War is, like, totally awesome.
Yeah, good ol Joe “Undecided Voter” Wuzzlebooble, not at all a McCain-supporting straight-up doctrinaire righty Republican plant — no sir — just tryin’ all entrepreneurial-like to make a buck but, so sad, soon to be slammed by the Marxist tax policies of B-Rock “The Islamic Shock” Hussien X. Superallah Obama.
Still just selling “The Bridge To Nowhere” by another name, and, as planned, getting (most of, for now) the tire-swing media to chase the soccer ball like the 6 year-olds they are. All lies, all the time. I’m sure this means Obama’s toast now.
Man, this election is the best ever (well, no, that was ’68, but all the hippies are dead now so no one remembers).
October 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm
That’s what happens when meddlers shave Sideburn Guy’s hair down to the skin. He becomes… The Anitieditors.
October 16, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Anti. I’d have had it right but this site has, suffix to say, no prefix function.
October 16, 2008 at 6:04 pm
[...] another possible contender for “dumbest political controversy of the month”. El Cid: To think that the Soviets spent 70 years and trillions of dollar equivalents trying to overthrow [...]
October 17, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Also note that a registered Republican not only gets into an Obama event, but is given the opportunity to ask hostile questions directly to the candidate in front of the news cameras. Compare this to the tight control of every Republican event and their use of Secret Service and local police to keep any dissenters out of McCain’s events.