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Live blogging is now open. I’m going to go eat some dinner and I’ll be back with some pre-show “Great Moments in Debating History” in a little while.
Please feel free to fight amongst yourselves for a few minutes …
I’m back, and here we go with Great Moments in Debating History:
What if Kitty was raped and murdered?
Sen. John McCain has announced he will be attending tonight’s debate after all. I guess he got tired screwing up the economic bailout, grabbed a nap and upon waking realized that skipping the debate would be campaign suicide. Good to see McCain’s not suicidal.
As a reminder, we’ll be live blogging the debate tonight starting at 8 p.m. (Perhaps you’ve noticed our snazzy countdown clock at top-right.)
Be there or be John McCain square.
You didn’t think the McCain campaign’s little ploy would shut down the CL live blogging of the debates, did you? Not a chance! Tomorrow night at about 8 p.m. we’ll be opening a thread and hammering away at the candidates and the issues during the first presidential debate of the 2008 election season. Or we’ll be yakking about the most interesting town hall meeting of the campaign. Who knows, maybe even Bob Barr will make an appearance? No matter the news between now and then, bring your wit and wisdom to PoHo blog tomorrow night and let the debate begin!
Be there … or be McCain.
Faithful PoHo readers will note the addition of a countdown clock at the top-right of the blog. The tick-tock is counting down to CL’s live blogging of first presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. The debate is scheduled to begin this Fri., Sept. 26, at 9 p.m., and we’ll have a thread open for live blogging before, during and after the main event. Expect something similar to what we did for both party’s conventions, with participants adding color commentary, instant fact-checking and the analysis with attitude that you can only get from Creative Loafing.
If you can’t make it on Friday, fear not faithful reader: We’ll be also be live blogging the other debates (two additional presidential debates, one V.P. debate), giving you four chances to add your voice to the animated conversation surrounding one of the most exciting presidential elections in American history.
Hope to see you Friday!
“Did he really call her a pig!??!” That’s the question flying around the Internet today. Only in a society this sexist could a male presidential candidate refer to a female office-seeker with the phrase “I think they put some lipstick on a pig.” Shame on you … John McCain.
My favorite part of the “Palin — The Other White Meat” controversy is that the Republicans anger is entirely misdirected. With the “pig” comment, Obama is referencing the McCain campaign’s switch from “experience” to “change” as their talking point of the week. If you take the time to listen to the 47 second clip, you can see that. However, if you choose to willfully misunderstand Obama and want to stretch his words into a personal comment about his opponents, I think it’s fair to say that Palin is the “lipstick,” and it’s actually ol’ Johnny Mac who is the porker.
But it has been fun today watching the McCain campaign gin up phony outrage. Then again, what did you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Final night of the Republican’s big show. Last night was by far the best of the convention, nabbing huge ratings and keeping the chattering class buzzing. Tonight, the main event. Sen. John S. McCain takes the stage to make the case for why you should vote for him.
What do you think of tonight’s festivities? Sound off in the comment section.
John Stewart cut the hypocrites to ribbons this week in an excellent Daily Show segment on the media’s response to Sarah Palin. Enjoy. Live Blogging in 15 minutes…
While watching last night’s festivities at the Republican National Convention, I found myself coming back again and again to three distinct storylines floated by the speakers. The first is the obvious “Rah Rah McCain” story, which is quite easy to pull off when the candidate in question spent 5-and-a-half years being tortured harshly questioned by the North Vietnamese. Besides all that, there were the dual attacks of “Obama is not qualified to be president due to his youth and inexperience” and “Sarah Palin is a tough Washington outsider, a ‘hockey mom’ who loves her family, hates abortion and is out to clean up Washington just like she did Alaska!”
Here’s what The Washington Post’s excellent media critic Tom Shales said about Palin’s acceptance speech:
Somewhat predictably I’m afraid, those second two storylines and what Shales wrote are complete bullshit.
Here’s the truth: If Obama loses, it’s because he didn’t have the balls to stand up for his impressive record in the face of vacant Republican attacks.
The text message went out at 3:26 a.m. “Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3 p.m. Eastern on www.barackobama.com. Spread the word.”
We’ll have much more on the Democratic ticket on Monday.
As for that text message, the Obama campaign blew a prime opportunity. By sending the message at 3:26 a.m., they gauranteed that the recipients would almost all be asleep. Had they sent it on Friday, say right before lunch on the east coast, they would have caused a ruckus throughout offices across the country. My guess is that was the original plan, but the campaign didn’t want to knock John “I don’t know how many houses I own” McCain from the headlines.
Faithful readers please note: The Short List has moved. Starting this morning, my daily roundup of news and happenings will make a new home on CL’s latest and greatest blog, The Daily Loaf. You can view today’s List here.
See you on The Daily Loaf!
A fitting video of the arrival of Fay, a storm we in the CL Weathercenter 4000 find highly suspect. Stay dry, folks.
And in non-storm news:
Today’s feature presentation: Baracky II. (Which somehow uses Rocky III as its inspiration, skipping Rocky II entirely.)
