Haha, this debate. This debate was so out of left field. Like, who knew to put Joe the Plumber down in their debate bingo square instead of maverick? If you for some reason had decided to take a drink every time Obama and McCain referenced their imaginary friend, you'd be dead. Dead of alcohol poisoning.
Who saw Bob Scheiffer being so in the bag for Obama? It was all over with the VP question, right? Look at McCain's reaction when he had to talk about why Sarah Palin would be a better president than Joe Biden:
As bad as that town hall presidential debate was on Tuesday (it was the worst), a lot of it could be blamed on the terrible format, the weird lights, and Tom Brokaw's incessant whining. So the third and final debate next Wednesday in New York is going to be better right?
Not if Bob Schieffer has anything to do with it. The anchor of CBS's Face the Nation is moderating, and yes, it will also be the worst debate:
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Despite John McCain's plea that the debates be postponed until he and Wall Street get their shit together, the Friday face-to-face with Barack Obama will still be happening:
"Organizers said Wednesday they were going ahead as planned with the first 2008 U.S. presidential debate, despite Republican John McCain's call to postpone the event in the face of the Wall Street crisis. 'We have been notified by the Commission on Presidential Debates that we are proceeding as scheduled,' said the University of Mississippi, which was to host Friday's encounter between McCain and Democrat Barack Obama."
The half-life on zinging Twitter ran out about three days after the microblog's conception, yet the users of the site keep managing to find ways to shoot themselves in the foot. Last week there was The Rocky Mountain News giving minutia updates on the funeral of a child shooting victim, now it's Al Gore's Current TV trying to cash in on the zeitgeist by combining it with blogger's other favorite activity, armchair politicking.
During the debates, the indie network will broadcast viewer-created "tweets," in as close to real time as the monitor lags allow. Cute idea, and it certainly fits into the Blog the Vote phenomenon that engulfed the conventions this year. But while Current TV CEO Joel Hyatt "lamented the limiting nature of debate coverage, populated by experts with axes to grind and predictable partisan arguments to make," you end up wondering: Who does he think Al Gore's desperate network appeals to? Or Twitter's? CONTINUED »
