Greetings Googlers…
My husband has removed from within reach anything that I might throw at the TV during tonight’s last Presidential debate. I refuse, however, to relinquish my laptop. And because he is a kind person (or, rather, a smart man)…I am allowed one glass of red wine as a crutch.
Here we go. Join me, won’t you? It doesn’t get more tense and interesting than this in American politics.
Onward across the abyss….
Ooohhhh it’s a round table….
October 23, 2012 at 1:03 am
Giselle Minoli I am watching via You Tube 🙂 or listening that is!
October 23, 2012 at 1:04 am
Hello Sheila B. DuBois. Most excellent!
October 23, 2012 at 1:04 am
And they’re off an running around the Libya issue…
October 23, 2012 at 1:06 am
Al-Qaeda-type individuals…. What is that?
October 23, 2012 at 1:06 am
Carry on Matthew Graybosch. You are here in spirit…
October 23, 2012 at 1:07 am
Marcvs-Antonivs Gvzman….Friends, Romans, Countrymen…. 😉
October 23, 2012 at 1:08 am
They used to make these red foam-rubber ‘TV Bricks’….
October 23, 2012 at 1:09 am
Oh… those people. The same as the ones who don’t like Big Byrd…
October 23, 2012 at 1:10 am
Romney can’t seriously be talking about “gender equality” in foreign nations. It. Is. Not. Possible.
October 23, 2012 at 1:12 am
“I know you haven’t actually been in a position to actually execute foreign policy, Governor Romney…” That was brilliant.
October 23, 2012 at 1:13 am
That was my point Marcvs-Antonivs Gvzman….that we don’t have gender or pay quality here…
October 23, 2012 at 1:15 am
Delighted to have you back Matthew Graybosch.
October 23, 2012 at 1:16 am
Two zingers….Obama made it clear Romney hasn’t executed any foreign policy…and that he (Obama) is Commander in Chief….
October 23, 2012 at 1:17 am
I’d like to note, for the record, that Obama’s tie is the color of my Mini Cooper Clubman. Exactly. It’s a sign.
October 23, 2012 at 1:18 am
Romney probably got excited at the word execute.
October 23, 2012 at 1:18 am
i don’t think i can watch this for another hour. Romney going after bad guys isn’t even mock debate in high school level rhetoric.
October 23, 2012 at 1:18 am
Hello James Barraford I was so hoping you’d show up!
October 23, 2012 at 1:19 am
Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Wood. Just take a B Vitamin. It helps. Promise.
October 23, 2012 at 1:20 am
Hi, Shaker Cherukuri Don’t you wish we could text him? Or use Flash Cards?
October 23, 2012 at 1:20 am
no reference to jack kennedy yet.
October 23, 2012 at 1:20 am
Giselle Minoli I just watched this weeks Homeland and had to stop in.
October 23, 2012 at 1:21 am
Just you wait Mr. Mittens, just you wait….you’ll be sorry but your tears will be too late…
October 23, 2012 at 1:21 am
James Barraford now that’s devotion…. I. Am. Impressed. And honored.
October 23, 2012 at 1:22 am
Forget the debate… What news is The Donald gonna drop on Obama this Wednesday? My first guess is Ivanka is the secret love child of Barack and Ivana.
October 23, 2012 at 1:23 am
James Barraford Did I miss something in the news today? I confess I didn’t read the Times.
October 23, 2012 at 1:23 am
Mitt’s tie is red for aggression. Obama’s tie is blue, for honesty and peace. Also a great color for a Mini-Cooper Giselle Minoli ~
Lawyers think these things through in court.
October 23, 2012 at 1:24 am
moderator had a cool tie
October 23, 2012 at 1:24 am
Giselle Minoli The Times? Pfft. TMZ!!!!
October 23, 2012 at 1:25 am
Mara Rose i was told a lawyer has to dress so the jury won’t remember what they wore…. remember LA law when Harry Hamlin closed in a gorilla suit
October 23, 2012 at 1:26 am
James Barraford I am addicted to the times.
Brian Altman is right about the moderator’s tie. The Moderator for President!
October 23, 2012 at 1:27 am
Am I the only one seeing Romney’s energy leaking out through the bottom of his feet?
October 23, 2012 at 1:27 am
A peaceful planet?
October 23, 2012 at 1:28 am
Romney is not a centered person.
October 23, 2012 at 1:28 am
Who gives a damn about what Amadinajad thinks is the definition of a strong country?
October 23, 2012 at 1:28 am
Giselle Minoli how did you spell that guys name without looking it up?
October 23, 2012 at 1:29 am
Okay, I’ve started to curse. This is not good. Those of you who know me, know that I don’t curse (publicly). Although in private I’m known as the reincarnation of Carole Lombard, who had a mouth I understand. Cursed like a truck driver.
October 23, 2012 at 1:30 am
The Combover says he’s got something big on Obama. Millions would believe if Donnie said Obama was the anti-Christ or Puerto Rican.
October 23, 2012 at 1:31 am
Shaker Cherukuri _of course_ Trump is senile. He is married to a woman who apparently hasn’t uttered a word in her entire life! How could he not be? Is there any conversation there? Comparatively, Ivana was Hillary Clinton.
October 23, 2012 at 1:31 am
Brian Altman For Susan Dey I’d have worn a birthday suit.
October 23, 2012 at 1:31 am
It’s all racism. Makes me sick. That smirk is driving me to cussing.
October 23, 2012 at 1:32 am
I miss LA Law. I loved that show. Those were the days. Hill Street Blues…
October 23, 2012 at 1:33 am
James Barraford susan wore that v neck silk blouse under her jacket and had that way when she pointed her finger.
October 23, 2012 at 1:34 am
Yes, Romney will create rising take-home pay by preventing a workforce that is equal for women. Brilliant strategy.
October 23, 2012 at 1:34 am
Hi Greg Vlahakis. Welcome!
October 23, 2012 at 1:35 am
Brian Altman she came a long way from that groovy bus in the San Fernando Valley to McKenzie Brackman and empty elevator shaft.
October 23, 2012 at 1:36 am
The Judge fell down that elevator shaft James Barraford. Remember? She was having a thing with a young lawyer? And then she was Charlie Sheen’s mother on Two and a Half Men.
October 23, 2012 at 1:36 am
James Barraford she was also in a movie called “Perfect”
October 23, 2012 at 1:37 am
too bad there’s a debate interrupting perfectly good discussion on LA Law
October 23, 2012 at 1:37 am
Giselle Minoli Diana Muldaur. Beautiful woman, evil on show
October 23, 2012 at 1:37 am
Greg Vlahakis, let’s hope those “undecided” voters are registering what seems to be so clear to at least two of us here – you and me!
October 23, 2012 at 1:38 am
Yea moderator – get em back on track.
October 23, 2012 at 1:39 am
Brian Altman First love was better. Laurie Partridge nude and Cat Stevens singing Morning has broken. The thread has been jacked.
October 23, 2012 at 1:39 am
Health care, under the bus.
October 23, 2012 at 1:39 am
Excellent question: Where are we going to get the money to fund a strong military and education when every single budget is going to be slashed? Eight to ten Years? He’s kidding right? And he’s been criticizing Obama for not having been able to balance the budget in four!
October 23, 2012 at 1:39 am
I AM LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO THROW AT THE TELEVISION.
October 23, 2012 at 1:39 am
Obama may win if he just doesn’t say anything and let Mitt be stupid
October 23, 2012 at 1:41 am
Health care and everything else Mara Rose. I am reeling over that projection of 8-10 years to balance the budget when his ENTIRE campaign is based on criticizing Obama for not having been able to entirely fix the worst economy since the Great Depression.
October 23, 2012 at 1:41 am
Right, Brian Altman but after the first debate do you think he can afford that tactic? This is the last hurrah!
October 23, 2012 at 1:43 am
Giselle Minoli in my Phineas Pudowsky column two weeks ago i took to task the undecideds. Seriously, all kidding aside., if you truly dont know who you’re going to vote for at this point please go back under the rock for the next three weeks. There are massive fundamental difference. It drives me crazy reading they are the other side of the same coin.
October 23, 2012 at 1:43 am
Have we ever had a President Matthew Graybosch who referred to the United States as a business? If the highest goal of the President is to maintain the military, how can it also be a “business?”
October 23, 2012 at 1:44 am
Giselle Minoli He is on drugs if he thinks he can do that….If I didn’t need to go care for my horse, I’d be drinking now. Only an excellent Pinot would do.
October 23, 2012 at 1:45 am
Greg Vlahakis The Republicans have pledged to filibuster and completely stymie Obama if he is re-elected. This is a Presidential quality? To threaten that prior to an election? In a “business” that would be seen as treason and everyone with that attitude would be fired.
October 23, 2012 at 1:46 am
Greg Vlahakis They obstructed Obama at every step. Horrible people. Now they claim he wasn’t effective. Hang banging on the wall.
October 23, 2012 at 1:46 am
People get shot for treason, don’t they Giselle Minoli ?
October 23, 2012 at 1:47 am
Obama can be a very funny guy. Did you all see Jon Stewart tonight? He trotted out a photograph of Barack and Michelle post-first-Presidential debate and then one post-second-Presidential debate. In the first she was scowling. In this second she was smiling. When Obama saw them he roared. He is a funny guy.
October 23, 2012 at 1:47 am
Hey Robert E. del Sol now nice to see you, read you, hear from you. YES…anarchists get shot…
October 23, 2012 at 1:49 am
Shake a tail feather Barack!
October 23, 2012 at 1:49 am
Oops. ‘Scuse me Matthew Graybosch. You are right There is a decided different. Long live anarchy. Off with the heads of fascists! At once.
October 23, 2012 at 1:50 am
Chest-pounding is all Romney can offer… How is that a foreign policy?
October 23, 2012 at 1:51 am
Interesting whats happening in Connecticut. Linda McMahon is now running commercials of Obama voters that are splitting ticket to vote for her GOP senate campaign. Shes spent 77 million in 2010 and 2012 trying to win a senate seat….. because she wants to fight for the middle class. WTF.. No one spends that kind of own money because they feel like helping a schmuck like me out. And some morons believe her.
October 23, 2012 at 1:52 am
I love that Obama just said that Robert E. del Sol. Romney just talks louder. That was his strategy in the first debate. Obama got every nation talking to us after Bush. The Bush years were the death of conversation with foreign leaders. It was downright scary.
October 23, 2012 at 1:54 am
Here it comes…
October 23, 2012 at 1:55 am
Recall Romney was a bully in High School. That’s his character. Real strength is quiet and deep and clear. It’s not chest thumping machismo. Love it, “Whopper”, You go Obama!!!
October 23, 2012 at 1:55 am
I’m really confused. He doesn’t want military involvement in Syria…but he wants military involvement with Iran. He wants to curtail the sanctions. He wants a strong military, but he doesn’t want war. Splain it to me Ricky, ’cause I don’t get it.
October 23, 2012 at 1:56 am
Hi Lance Hagood.
October 23, 2012 at 1:57 am
One of you who knows our “budgetary” history…has the US ever had a balanced budget when it was at war? Like we have been in Afghanistan and Iraq?
October 23, 2012 at 1:57 am
Mitt’s about to give us a physics lecture on how centrifuges spin?
October 23, 2012 at 1:58 am
Apparently Brian Altman. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s an investor.
October 23, 2012 at 1:58 am
Giselle Minoli He just wants to be argumentative and he wants a war. He couldn’t even go to the London Olympics without pissing everyone off. Now I’m starting to swear. Not good.
October 23, 2012 at 1:59 am
It’s true Mara Rose. There is something very Dick Cheneyish about him.
October 23, 2012 at 2:01 am
Repeatedly pointing out our challenges abroad does not make a Foreign Policy for Mittens…
October 23, 2012 at 2:02 am
Mara Rose Giselle Minoli i hope not – from what I’m hearing Iran would be a formidable foe and it wouldn’t be like Iraq or Afghanistan
October 23, 2012 at 2:04 am
That is exactly why I find the rush to War so frightening Brian Altman. I think it is the most difficult foreign policy decision we face. How does one make this decision in a knee-jerk way.
October 23, 2012 at 2:05 am
Afghanistan, the “Graveyard of Empires”. I trust Obama to get us out, Romney won’t do it. Ha! He said something different the last time, didn’t he? Am I right? I don’t think Romney knows his history.
October 23, 2012 at 2:05 am
I wish Romney would elaborate on what his relationship with Bibi is. He made it sound like some rogue relationship that he has all by himself.
October 23, 2012 at 2:07 am
Afghanistan – the birthplace of Rumi. A poet whose message was about love.
October 23, 2012 at 2:08 am
We know what Mitt will do as 17 of his 24 advisers are left-over Bush neocons led by the guy that architected our Iraq moment.
October 23, 2012 at 2:09 am
Thank God Obama has raised this issue with Veterans. I lived in New York City during the Reagan years when so many Viet Nam vets were living on the streets. It was absolutely heartbreaking and shameful. It was a dark time in our country. It is a continual horror that we send these young men and women off to War and we don’t take care of them when they come home.
October 23, 2012 at 2:10 am
Robert E. del Sol then it’s all about making money. It IS all about business. Halliburton anyone?
October 23, 2012 at 2:11 am
Culturally sensitive Obama will do much better with Pakistan than clueless, imperialistic Romney.
October 23, 2012 at 2:12 am
Seriously Lance Hagood? And, what, they think no gets the significance of that? Or was it intentional? That is shocking. And not much shocks me.
October 23, 2012 at 2:13 am
mitt doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on over there.
October 23, 2012 at 2:13 am
he acts like their all sitting down for a game of bridge.
October 23, 2012 at 2:13 am
After reading all this and listening to hubby mumble and curse at the TV I’m glad this is all almost done and we can move forward (hopefully)
October 23, 2012 at 2:13 am
No, he doesn’t. He couldn’t possibly. His life is far too protected from reality Brian Altman.
October 23, 2012 at 2:14 am
Of course it’s about opium, but I’m stunned they let a graphic designer put poppies, which are beautiful, mind you, on their sign. That is a stunning display of hubris.
October 23, 2012 at 2:15 am
guess i’m ready to vote now – time to go to bed
October 23, 2012 at 2:15 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one cursing Grace O’Malley. I’m in the good company of your husband. My own Brian Altman is off to snoozeland himself.
October 23, 2012 at 2:17 am
He’s done so much of it Giselle Minoli his little shadow (pooch #1) came into my office and sat with me. Daddy’s NOT a happy camper and he knows it.
October 23, 2012 at 2:19 am
The problem is that change, for a country that has not evolved, takes a very, very, very long time. Look at how difficult it is for any of us to really change in our own lives…to do something simple, compared to changing a country’s culture…like losing weight or starting an exercise routine. This conversation about forcing a country to change is so stunning naive and frat boy.
October 23, 2012 at 2:27 am
Every cycle its the same thing. We fight those that are not our true enemy while we befriend those who are actually seeking to destroy us.
October 23, 2012 at 2:30 am
Thank you all for keeping me company tonight. You made it so much more enjoyable than it would have been had I surrounded myself with things to throw at the TV.
October 23, 2012 at 2:31 am
We have work to do….
October 23, 2012 at 2:31 am
James Barraford it is very sad that we do indeed seem to often be on the wrong side, funding them and arming them…and then we have repetitive nightmares on our hands.
October 23, 2012 at 2:32 am
For the first moment there was a glint of respect on Romney’s face for our President. I saw it.
October 23, 2012 at 2:34 am
Giselle Minoli with friends like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, i feel safer in Teheran.
October 23, 2012 at 2:35 am
Yes Robert E. del Sol we have a lot of work to do. And that work isn’t just up to whomever is President. It is up to each of us….
October 23, 2012 at 2:36 am
Candy Crowley just said she felt that Obama came to “rough up Mitt Romney” and that “Romney came to do no harm…”
October 23, 2012 at 2:37 am
James Carville said that “someone gave Romney the same drug they gave Obama the first debate.”
And on that note, good night, everyone…
October 23, 2012 at 2:41 am
Thanks for having us, Giselle Minoli
October 23, 2012 at 10:07 am
Was travelling when this event ensued. Thanks for the entertaining comments.
October 23, 2012 at 10:39 am
I watched on Tivo, so was behind you all. Also kind of fell asleep toward the end, but I did see the bayonets & horses line, which was great. I think Romney looked especially foolish tonight. His “plan” to gut the country over 8-10 years so we can buy unwanted ships was downright offensive.
October 23, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Brian Titus I will put money down that the 8-10 years has cost Romney big time. He has slammed, lambasted, criticized and badgered Obama for not fix this financial crisis in 4 years. I was stunned (stunned!) by the 8-10 year remark. It was absolutely laughable. Can’t say I blame you for falling asleep. But I had to watch it til the bitter end…
October 23, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Hello dawn ahukanna where, oh where, were you traveling to? Do tell!
October 23, 2012 at 2:07 pm
When I woke up, the news anchors were displaying poll percentages that showed Obama handily “beating” Romney (as if we’re watching a sporting event, but that’s another issue). So, I felt a little better just getting off the couch and stumbling into bed.
The “louder” line was great also, and was the perfect soundbite to describe Romney, IMO.
Agreed Giselle Minoli that remark will hurt — he’ll probably start the backtracking ASAP!
October 23, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Hi G, i’m down under for a few days. Sore butt from 12 hr and 10 hr flights with 2 hr stop-over.