OK, so some of us are not going out tonight to hang out and watch the debate. I’m just too tired to go through all of that. But I’ll be watching. And if you are hanging at home, feel free to join me 🙂 The debate starts at 9pm EDT.
According to the AP:
The debate, expected to reach a huge viewing audience, was supposed to focus on foreign policy, a topic generally viewed as a McCain strength. But given the roiling economic situation, moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS indicated he wouldn’t be constrained by the boundaries the two campaigns negotiated months ago.
I suspect we’ll hear quite a bit about the economy tonight, with some foreign policy stuff thrown in for good measure. And from the above linked article, it appears that the campaigns are trying to downplay expectations.
We’ll find out soon enough.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Hah! “Your president” over this “orgy of spending!” Touche!
Oh god, can he stop with the Miss Congeniality line? Is “maverick” next? Oh look…yes!
McCain has OPPOSED torture, including water-boarding.
It would have been no war at all if you and Republicans hadn’t cheered it on right down the line.
No war = no deaths of soldiers, no $1t cost. etc ad nauseum.
Hey y’all – try not to put more than one link in a comment or it ends up in spam. (Got out yours @ 9:34, Mark.)
Did anyone answer the question?
Yeah, McCain talked about being against it, while giving Bush a reach-around on the same subject when the cameras were not rolling.
Pro torture. Pro bailout of his pals. Pro Charles Keating. Pro weasel behavior.
Which McCain will be here today? McTemper?
Maybe Obama should have sent Biden to debate foreign policy.
Thanks, Vivian; I thought it was an important point.
Obama warms up on McCain on the war in Iraq.
Feeling snippy, eh?
McCain voted against a bill to bar use of torture by the CIA. Anyone who characterizes that as opposing torture is just as much a moral failure as McCain is.
You can put the time-table into another bill. They dems were using funding for the troops as a terrorist uses a hostage
He sounds so much more credible than JSMCIII.
Wow … Obama won the going into Iraq question … a real question of “Presidential” judgement
Surge and future … “Senator Obama doesn’t understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy” … what crap
Watch what you write Anon … “They dems were using funding for the troops as a terrorist uses a hostage” … or meet me outside
People who complained about the war have been characterized as unpatriotic from the very start of the cluster****.
I am a veteran, so you can imagine how well that goes over with me.