Let’s Live Blog the Debate

OK. Here it comes.

I can’t tell much of a difference between the two of them on the bail out.

Health care. Yeah, there’s no way that we’re going to be able to do this after the bail out.

Maverick. Ew. Nobody should call themselves a maverick.

Dan Drezner is live blogging, too.

Obama makes a reference to Biden’s foreign policy experience. Perhaps a jab at Miss Alaska.

Obama points out that McCain was wrong about the war in 2003. Stop talking about being right about the surge, please.

Afghanistan. Obama – Poppies. Got to do something about them. Should be there. McCain – Don’t want to get tangled up in Afghanistan like the Ruskies. Don’t want to tick off the Pakistan. We should be friends with the people there. But the Iraqi people are a different story.

Hmmm. Need a dress for a party next week. Let’s check out what’s on sale at the Banana.

McCain keeps hammering on the lack of frequent flier miles of Obama. McCain clearly feels that his military cred is a high card in his hand.  "I’ve been there and had a beer with General Petraeus."

What to do about the baddies in the world? Should we talk with them? McCain says no way. But he has no problem talking with the baddies in China.

Who’s winning? McCain just scored points. He clearly feels very confident on foreign policy.

Russia. I looked into Putin’s soul and I saw KGB. It was a good line when I first heard it several months ago. Again, again with McCain’s travel experience.

Terrorist attack again? McCain – much less likely today. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to be another topic that they are both going to say the same thing. We have to do more – border security, container ships. This is a no brainer response.

Dates for withdrawal in Iraq. This is one major difference between them. Well, isn’t Iraq giving us a time table for withdrawal now?

Overall – Really disappointing. Too much agreement. No clear winner. No zingers. McCain probably scored a lot points by name dropping and location dropping. But there were small points. I would have liked to have a better discussion about the two or three real differences. I would have liked a whole lot more on the economy. I thought Obama was a bit shy about attacking McCain, but did a good job of responding to every jab that McCain threw at him.