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Anyone who’s my friend on Facebook is by now well aware that during each debate I kept a running commentary of my own snark about what people are saying.

For those of you who arent my FB friend, I present for your amusement, my commentary from the third Presidential debate, in chronological order for your pleasure.

Jeremy wonders what number McCain thinks would be okay for Obama’s tax plan to consider “middle class”…. $500k? $750k? 9:14pm

Jeremy during the depression era, “we”… oooh not a good thing to say. 9:17pm

Jeremy thinks these are the same talking points from the last debate. 9:20pm

Jeremy maybe mccain was associated with the worst chapter in american history…the civil war! 9:27pm

Jeremy is amused by Obama’s “Whatchoo talkin bout, Honky!” smile. 9:36pm

Jeremy waits for the moment when McCain realizes he’s monumentally screwed. 9:41pm

Jeremy out with the old, in with the fresh air in washington…is that really the argument you want to make, mister 26 years in congress? 9:44pm

Jeremy wants to build 45 new nucular powered pants. 9:47pm

Jeremy is sick of McCains stupid hook-around left-handed writing on his pad. 9:50pm

Jeremy is surprised McCain can IDENTIFY eloquence, mister stutt-stutt-stutter. 9:53pm -

Jeremy is getting hammered, just like the auto makers. 9:54pm

Jeremy can’t believe mccain is citing Colombia as a good partner…how much money spent funding both sides of the drug war? 9:56pm

Jeremy wait…did he just call me fat? 9:59pm

Jeremy wonders if Joe the Plumber is the same as Joe Sixpack. 10:03pm

Jeremy notes that one can be anti ‘roe v wade’ and also not necessarily pro-life. 10:09pm - (note: this one got me a lot of confused IMs. I’m not pro-life, I just think that theres an argument that isn’t pro-life as much as ‘let the states decide’

Jeremy thinks theres gotta be someone who’s pro-abortion. 10:15pm -

Jeremy thinks Obama is now just ripping stuff out of West Wing Season 2 scripts. 10:18pm

Jeremy went to a charter school. What do they have to say about Regents exams? 10:20pm

Jeremy thinks that every school with more than 300 people needs to be split up. 10:21pm

Jeremy did he just say that he belived that children are our future? 10:23pm

Jeremy McCain/Rain Man ‘08. 10:25pm -

Jeremy loved Bob Schieffer when he played Mark Twain on broadway. /obscure? 10:37pm

..fin *bow*

facebook Politics snark

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26
Sep
08

Some thoughts on the debate, not that you asked.

Sad but not surprising that there was no mention of Darfur
Why does ‘a debate on foreign policy’ exclusively mean war and talking about countries that hate us
I found it interesting that McCain referred to Obama ‘Senator Obama’ and Obama called McCain ‘John’
Neither side had a slam dunk
Some of the Obama Magic is wearing off the more he talks about policies and things in Washington-ese
I’m not sure it was the best idea to allow direct interaction between the candidates, although I’m not happy about not thinking its the best idea
Somewhere in an attic, there is an portrait of George Stephanopolis that’s aging.
The snarky Facebook status messages were flying a mile a minute. I’m sure Twitter was the same way.

Your thoughts?

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24
Sep
08

The inevitable meeting of the Dem’s fantasy ideal and reality-based ideal

Maureen Dowd convinced Godlike scribe Aaron Sorkin to write a scenic interaction between Barack Obama and “The West Wing”’s fictional prez Jed Bartlett.

And I do hope he reads it.

Here’s your sample:

BARTLET Senator.

OBAMA Mr. President.

BARTLET You seem startled.

OBAMA I didn’t expect you to answer the door yourself.

BARTLET I didn’t expect you to be getting beat by John McCain and a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story, so let’s call it even.

OBAMA Yes, sir.

BARTLET Come on in.

Available via nytimes.com

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| Posted in Politics

2
Sep
08