Live blogging the debate...

We're concerned that the Boy Wonder is going to fall down on the job again, so the Mr. and I have decided to step in and fill the void. With that, we shall begin "live blogging" the final presidential debate:

• I love Bob Schieffer. I wish he was my grandpa. He seems cuddly. And smart. Just what you want in a grandpa.
• We're playing a drinking game. We get to drink whenever John McCain calls us his "friends." Who I am kidding? We'll be drinking the whole time.
• McCain's response to the first question -- specifically talking about "fannie and freddie" causing this problem -- shows that he has no idea what this crisis is really about, or how it started. The housing crisis is now a relatively small part of the bigger problem -- he's pandering to the middle class because he knows he's in trouble.
• Obama has an awesome look. It says, in a friendly kind of way, "Dude, you are a total idiot d-bag."
• Matt, to McCain when talking about poor Joe the Plumber: "Say 'socialism.' Say it."
• I just changed the drinking game. Now we're going to drink whenever either of them mention "Joe the Plumber."
• McCain's crap about how he "knows how to save billions" -- how?!? how?!? don't hold out on us Senator! Dude -- enough with the f-ing projector! Obama nailed it when he said the earmark issue is basically irrelevant -- 1/2 of 1%! Why is McCain still talking about it? Because he just doesn't get it. Moron.
• If McCain wants to argue that he's not President Bush, maybe he shouldn't have his campaign being run by the Bush White House. He may not be Bush, but he's not doing anything substantive to truly distance himself from Bush.
• NICE rip on Fox NEWS!!! This is why I love that man. No, no. I am IN love with him.
• Q: "Will you say to each other's face the negative attacks launched by your campaign?" A by McCain: that man LIES! How can he possibly say with a straight face that he has repudiated every negative thing said about Obama? How can he say that? How can Palin say she was exonerated by the commission investigating her abuse of power in Alaska? They LIE! How DARE McCain suggest Obama needs to repudiate the comments of a man criticizing Palin & McCain for allowing their supporters to call him a terrorist and for calling for his assassination!
  
• You can see in Obama's face that he is essentially throwing his hands in the air when McCain is completely full of crap. He'll rip all over Obama and bring up Ayers, again, or Acorn, again, and then say the focus of his campaign is the economy. Who does he think he's kidding?
• Palin's qualification for the presidency of the United States is that she understands that autism is on the rise? That she understands special needs families? McCain, "Biden has been wrong on foreign policy issues. . . and that needs to be a strength." REALLY?!? So YOU put a first-term governor of Alaska in that role? I don't care how close Alaska is to Russia -- the hypocrisy is killing me here. I may have to stop blogging now, lest I have an aneurysm.
• Obama says "we." McCain says "I."
• Matt wonders if Joe's middle name is "Six Pack."
• Pro-choice does not mean the same thing as pro-abortion. The uncommitted Ohio voters approval (yes, we're watching CNN skyrocketed when Obama argued that no one wants abortion, and we should all be able to stand behind the goal of reducing intended pregnancies. Why couldn't McCain have just said, "absolutely. We, as Americans, should unite behind that goal." And leave it at that. His shit-eating grin during that argument of Obama's cost him more points than he earned by his conclusion on the point.
• Seriously, why does McCain have to be such a sarcastic shithead?
• "Go vote now. It will make you feel big and strong." Thanks, Grandpa. I love you.