Hello hello hello
Okay, we're going to start out with the pregaming.
Uhhh, pregame commentary.
Those of you at home can commence with the pregaming if you want.
Anyone else here yet? Eisenhood, Charlie? Cain, John? Bueller?
Alright, looks like I'm on my lonesome for now. Daniel, unfortunately, will not be joining us tonight.
Alright, sports racers, let's talk pre-debate spin.
Conventional wisdom tonight is that John McCain needs to totally change the game if he wants any shot at the White House.
But I'm not sure how he can do that without launching an attack (cough cough Ayers cough) that will just blow up in his face
So unless he reveals Barack Obama to be a cylon, I'm not sure how much he can do here.
Please everyone disregard that last unbelievably geeky pop culture reference. I'm already regretting it.
But yes, Jon, I agree. And congrats for being the first person to figure out the ScribbleLive commenting system!
Oh thank god, I actually got to the free food this time.
This is already turning into the best debate liveblog ever
By the way, I'm over at the table with the very lovely Roosevelt Institute people on the 7th floor of Kimmel if anyone wants to holler
Full disclosure: I'm a member of the institute
On Schieffer bias: Perhaps a little of what Josh Marshall calls tire-swinging
But I don't know. Schieffer's a legit journalist most of the time
And, thank god, this debate isn't too heavily moderated
Sorry guys, I'm disallowing further commenting in the ScribbleLive software itself
It's too confusing for me to have to moderate comments in both, but you guys still have the WordPress
Okay, Schieffer's talking now
Anyone else home yet?
I am here. Let's do this thing.
Locked and loaded.
Cool beans
So, John Cain and Charlie Eisenhood, does McCain need to burn Obama with a cross and garlic tonight in order to win?
I mean, what's this magic rabbit he's supposed to whip out of a hat?
To mix all sorts of metaphors
I think he's got to have something up his sleeve that Obama isn't expecting. Doubt it's gonna happen. Obama will be prepared for all the narratives spinning about Ayers and terrorists blah blah blah.
"Good to see you, Senator Obama."
If I had to guess right now, McCain's strategy tonight is to pretend not to loathe Obama with a fiery passion
I foresee this debate will offer nothing new, and be a complete waste of everyone's time.
Sounds wise.
In that case, John, we're going to have to overcompensate with gratuitous sarcasm and pop culture references
I have a bad feeling about this.
Too bad the TV is set to C-SPAN in Kimmel instead of CNN. No awesome line graphs!
I'll keep everyone posted on the line
Ned Resnikoff
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