The Debate Begins

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Barack looks and sounds presidential. And, dare I say, kind of hot. ilsa

8:05 McCain's first joke falls flat. Not a wise move to crack wise about your age when you're the oldest presidential candidate ever.

8:06 McCain's alternate reality has the House GOP who blocked the bailout serving as the solution to the problem

McCain says we're at the end of the beginning of the fiscal crisis. what the hell does that mean? ilsa

barack sounds smart and sharp. mccain sounds like grandpa sitting in the lazyboy in the corner of the living room.

8:12 Lehrer's trying his damndest to get the two to scrap, but so far their not buying

8:14 McCain blames the financial crisis on budget problems, and displays the pen that he'll use for vetoes. Huh?

8:15 Nice! Barack answers McCain's grumbling about $18 million in earmarks by pointing out the $300 million tax cut McCain wants for richies

we're all trying to figure out where mccain's "the wall street" is? disneyland?

mccain won't even look at barack when barack is speaking. not good. he looks smarmy and condescending. oh, and elitist.

can we get off earmarks? does anyone even care about them? it certainly didn't cause the problem on the wall street.

8:23 Penny wants Barack to remind everyone that McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time.

8:24 McCain smiles. My blood runs cold. Bridget

8:26 Ummm....Barack's kinda not answering the question about what programs he'd cut due to the bailout package. But, McCain has yet to talk about how this relates to earmarks.

8:27 McCain actually says something I agree with when he rails against military contracts. Stop making sense, dammit!

8:29 Yikes, Lehrer just drove the point about the programs to cut

8:30 Okay, this is good, Barack found some stuff to cut involving insurance companies and turned McCain's quip about him being too liberal by pointing out that he disagrees with Bush

8:31 McCain just stood up for freezing all government spending aside from the military, veteran's affairs, and entitlements. Looks like he's keeping the option of taking breaks from important things--like debates--when he's in office, too.

8:34 still talking about the economy. mccain must be pissed. i love how obama smiles at mccain --it's warm and kind of sad.

8:35 if mccain says spending is the big problem in the economy one more time, i'm going to have to get up and get another glass of wine.

8:36 Penny gets her 90 percent.

8:37 Maverick makes a debut!

8:40 Obama makes good eye contact, looks cool and calm. McCain, not so much.