debate night

boy am i glad i watched the debate last night.

things i read today in the commentary:

"I like this format. I like to see one candidate actually move gracefully while the other lurches around like a drunk penguin."

"mccain: my friend my friends my friend"

"This debate started badly but its beginning to improve, in the same way that not being repeatedly hit on the head is a definite improvement on being beaten over the head."

“This is the man that sang ‘Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

"It’s so refreshing to spend an election cycle NOT talking about gay marriage, abortion, and windsurfing."

"Q: Senator McCain, this question is from the internet… A: What’s the internet?"

“… or som’in like that… uhhhh...” Wow. Really? Did he really just avoid actually talking about anything by summing it all up within “or something like that”? "

"Obama keeps talking about the government, what the government will do. It’s almost as if he’s applying for the job of running it or something."

"Hey, Senator McCain. Bob Dole and 1996 called. He wants his campaign back."

on a more serious note, i very much enjoyed obama's ideas on healthcare and the economy. they made sense to me, because i agree that healthcare is a right, and that the economy has stalled because of things other than the housing crisis which we need to also address (wages and benefits flatlining, deregulation, etc). mccain kind of came off as a crazy, twitchy old dude, which can't have been good for him.