7 p.m. - Tom Brokaw - ha-ha, we're not so constrained!

7:01 p.m. - McCain does not like to look at Obama

7:03 pm - Obama is not addressing the specifics of older people whose retirement accounts are getting hit. John is going to walk into the stage and he's going to sit in Tom's lap (the questioner, not Brokaw).

7:09 p.m. - McCain believes it's rescue? I screwed up and stole a bunch of money and now we're bankrupt...RESCUE ME! Fannie Mae started this! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He's drunk. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not indulge in subprime lending. Too much metamucil.

7:11 p.m. - Obama is answering Tony directly instead of first flying off to respond to John McCain's bs. 

7:15 p.m. - McCain hasn't yet bared the scary racism teeth yet that we saw yesterday. I'm waiting. 

 7:16 p.m. - This lady doesn't trust government. Keep talking about domestic issues...keep looking sharp...keep McCain fading.

7:19 p.m. - John McCain has fought the broken government, dammit.  He fought excessive spending and voted for a $780 bailout bill.  Uh oh. Election over. Obama greedily got an overhead projector at an aquarium. DEATH BLOW!

7:21 p.m. - John's got to write down the three priorities and now he's prioritizing all three at the same time. Now he's going to talk about the need to screw over Social Security. Do 'em all at once.

7:23 p.m. - Tom is all worried about the rules. Obama IS prioritizing. How naive.   Obama looks fluid to me. McCain is looking better than before.

7:25 p.m. - TOM'S FREAKING OUT ABOUT TIME!

7:26 p.m. - Sacrifices. Good question. McCain is answering well - mentioning cutting Pentagon. OH NO THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR REARS ITS HEAD AGAIN! That's how we got here, that damn overhead projector. 

7:28 p.m. - Obama uses sacrifices question to attack Bush to tell us to go shopping. My kids are TOO DAMN LOUD!

7:31 p.m. - They are arguing the same stuff as first debate - earmarks. Obama is talking straight to the middle class. 

 7:33 p.m. - McCain is comparing Obama to Herbert Hoover? Obama's secret! OHHHHHHHHH. 50% of small business revenue. Hmmmm? Where's he get that? Why does he call everyone his friend? Beware of he who has too many friends, I always say.

7:35 p.m. - Entitlement programs. Straight talk express lost a wheel, jello has been hammered to the wall. And I have a tummy ache. 

 7:38 p.m. - McCain's gimping. I love it when he talks about Reagan. One old wannabe president talking about another old president. Nice association. Oh, the 94 times stat again. Man, no WONDER I'm not getting a paycheck anymore. All those Obamataxes.

7:40 p.m. - Climate change. Poor McCain. Not his topic. Oh, he disagreed strongly with the Bush Administration. Oh again with the nuclear power. SAFE AND CLEAN AND KEEPS YOUR TEETH SPARKLY FLOURESCENT GREEN! Am I the only one in the world who thinks nuclear power is a huge national security risk as well as toxic and dangerous?

7:43 p.m. - Climate change is an economic opportunity - swift, deft and smart. I think I'd like to vote for that savvy politician. Will people please discuss what to do with nuclear power waste?!!! 23 times against alternative fuels, like the 94 tax increases. God, I hate both of them now. I'm voting for Joad Cressbeckler.

7:45 p.m. - TOM IS A LIGHT NAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7:46 p.m. - Pork barrell! It's a full 3% of the budget, it's VITAL. Cure all way to save everything. WE MUST CUT PORK BARRELL SPENDING OR WE WILL BLOW UP.

7:48 p.m. - Obama - answer the specific healthcare question first and then go into your talking points. ATQ first. Why am I the only one who knows this? This is the same debate as before. I don't like that he's not really responding to the specific question of whether or not healthcare should be considered a commodity. That's a lob for a Democrat.

7:50 p.m. - McCain and healthcare. A great marriage. I'm sick of the word "fundamental." STATED. I don't go across state lines for healthcare, John. When I have a flu, I don't drive to Spokane. Sorry.  Hair transplant joke falls flat. John with a hair transplant. Not ready to lead.

7:54 p.m. - Healthcare is a right. WAS THAT SO HARD TO SAY? TWO FUNDAMENTALS IN 10 seconds! NO MORE!! Obama nailing healthcare. NAILING. This is good. OUTTA DA PARK!

7:57 p.m. - John tried to get the number on the Obama fine. OBAMAFINE. JUST SAY NO. Peacemakers and peace keepers. Just ask the Iraqis. 

7:59 p.m. - Obama doesn't understand how we could invade Iraq. He just doesn't get it? Is he ready to lead? Pardon me...but wasn't this about the financial crisis and how it will affect our foreign policy? Did I miss something? Answering the question is not really a requirement anymore, I guess. Obama is getting to that now. That's good.  Oh lord, fundamentallly headache. 

8:02 p.m. - Humanitarian intervention....hmmm. Obama is making the case for doing it when it's necessary. If we don't - "that diminishes us." BUT. Ooops, the but. Sorry Myanmar. Helping Darfur plan - very good, best answer of the night. 

8:03 p.m. - McCain is going back to the surge/timeline. We would have had a wider war, al qaida would be running the world. McCain said fundamental. Again. Temper your decisions. Decent response, but not as good as Obamas to that. 

 8:06 p.m. - The Pakistan question...again. PAUkistan. That's probably how you say it, but isn't it a bit ohhh...whatever...elitist? Pakistan issue is where Obama kicks McCain's ass. TALLYbaun. Again, that sounds so goofy. But that could be my problem.

8:08 p.m. - McCain said that Obama announced that he's going to attack Pakistan. Hmmm...I'm not sure that's what he said. But I kind of am a stickler for the specifics and the context and nuance and all that stupid shit. 

8:11 p.m. - Obama is responding when he wasn't supposed to. Oh, digs in the knife of the speaking softly thing. ZING.

8:12 p.m. - "I'll get him." His rebuttal is nonsensical. As was the initial charge.

8:14 p.m. - Afghanistan changes. Obama will move troops over there. Same ol' pitch. McCain just said Obama is correct on something! Wow. Back to the surge. IT WASN'T A STRATEGY, IT WAS A TACTIC!!!!

8:17 p.m. - Russia. Oh, the Putin KGB thing at the same time he says we're not going back to a Cold War. Am I the only one struggling with that cognitive dissonance? Ukraine! I'm now taking the time to give McCain credit for keeping the tone of the debate non-hostile. 

8:19 p.m. - Obama on Russia. Agrees with McCain. Anticipate problems. Obama is setting himself up for McCain to rip him for his initial response to the Russian invasion.

8:22 p.m. - We officially have a love fest on Russia. 

8:23 p.m. - McCain is about to have sex with the petty officer. Is this safe for all audiences? WOULD IRAN EVER ATTACK ISRAEL WITH A NUCLEAR WEAPON? Think about it. Why? To get all of Europe and the US dropping weapons on them? Oh no, the sit down with Iranians AGAIN. Deja vu debate. 

8:25 p.m. - No weapon for Iran because they'd bomb Israel and then be destroyed by the globe because they're CRAAAAZY! Obama isn't answering the question about whether or not we'd put troops in if Iran attacks Israel.  Bugs me when they don't answer questions. 

8:27 p.m. - What don't you know? Obama is buying time on this hard question. He's answering what he does know. And he's actually just using it for his closing comments. OK. Same debate.

8:30 p.m. - McCain is answering the question a bit, more than Obama anyway. "What I don't know is what the unexpected will be." That's tough. He's doing the "I know what it's like" thing. He's actually trying to be more like Obama than before.