Live Blog, Part II

Okay, now we're on to Iraq and Barack just kind of slipped in pointing to Biden covering his lack of his experience. Oops.

8:43 Whenever Barack directly addresses and attacks McCain, he looks and awkwardly smiles at Lehrer like he's being called out in a lie.

8:45 mccain just said that barack doesn't know the difference between a tactic and a strategy. but then he never really explains the difference himself. or maybe he did and i'm just too stupid to understand. yeah, that's it.

8:50 I have to say that it's a little discordant for Barack to talk about putting more troops in Afghanistan while running away from talking about the Surge. What's the difference between the two tactics?

8:54 Did McCain just fart? Did someone in the front row just flash him? I have no idea what just happened as he bizarrely looked out toward the audience with a confused look on his face.

8:55 Okay, Barack just got a good point in about our dealings with Pakistan. I was getting a little scared about the direction of this Afghanistan/Pakistan discussion.

8:57 McCain trying to pull at heart strings by bringing up military parents that he's met.

8:58 Ugh, now we're in a bracelet-from-military-mom off. But, I liked Barack's point about no soldier ever dies in vain because their doing their duty.

9:00 McCain starting to growl. Barack needs to poke at him more.

9:02 McCain takes bold stance against a second Holocaust. Now he's on about his freaking League of Democracy! Who exactly is going to join us in wielding our economic power against Iran and Russia?!? Does he really think France and Germany are going to join his club? Sheesh.

9:04 McCain keeps groaning off camera. It's gross.

9:05 Nice point by Barack tying Iran's gain in strength to the Iraq war. And, good show talking about the need for diplomacy.

9:06 Does it really show your foreign policy chops to completely fail to pronounce the name of a world leader?

9:07 Penny says, "[McCain's] like the crazy uncle you don't want to sit next to at Thanksgiving."

9:08 Oh but Kissinger agrees with Obama.

9:13 Barack just caught up with Bridget

9:16 Thank you, Barack, for bringing up the need to work with Russia to secure loose nukes, but I wish he'd push that a little further to talk about how our macho posture over the last 8 years has hurt our world standing.

9:17 McCain is flat out disrespectful to Barack.

9:18 I'm sick of McCain dropping names and dropping stupid Pop-Up Video asides! Okay, you looked at your briefing notes. We get it.

9:24 mccain refuses to look directly at obama. i just can't believe that he's winning this debate based on body language, eye contact, and creepy laughing.