Debate drinking game.

[jbissell]

I'm tired, however, of all these "Joes" They should have made one a "Joanne" to even the gender playing field. I call sexism! As an advocate for women's equality and supporter of other women, Sarah Palin should be on top of this.

I believe all these Joes are married to either Soccer or Hockey Moms.

Well maybe it's Jo-Six-Pack (Josephine?)

[Regular Joe]

Looks like McCain was playing a little Kings Cup of his own!

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Reading Politico just now I see that Joe a) now admits he isn't in the $250,000 tax bracket and b) apparently isn't even registered to vote.   I think Joe might actually be Raad-Man.

Say it ain't so, Joe!!!

[Chris L]

***JOE THE "PLUMBER" HAS NO PLUMBING LICENSE***  DEVELOPING...

Joe the Plumber said Thursday he doesn't have a license and doesn't need one. Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday's presidential debate, said he works for a small plumbing company that does residential work. Because he works for someone else, he doesn't need a license, he said.

He can see plumbers from his house.

[Fido]

Yeah, and what's worse, the whole premise of his question was really wrong. Business revenues are NOT the same thing as personal income. For chrissakes.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/?hp

Quite honestly, this should all be filed under Who-Gives-A-Shit.

[John Junk 2.0]

Yeah, and what's worse, the whole premise of his question was really wrong. Business revenues are NOT the same thing as personal income. For chrissakes.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/?hp

Quite honestly, this should all be filed under Who-Gives-A-Shit.

This guy coming under "scrutiny" is pretty much as idiotic as him being the new poster child of the republican party, but I can't pass up this little gem from the above article:

He went on, “You know, I’ve always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question,” he said, “for once instead of tap dancing around it, and unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance.”

He added, “Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.”


Attaboy, Joe!

[AllisonLeGnome]

[daveB from Oakland]

Welcome to your Howard Dean moment, Johhny Mac. Actually, he had a whole bunch of those moments last night.

[Fido]

What was he responding to at that moment -- anybody remember?

[Beth]

I'm not sure if anyone's posted this yet.

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[AllisonLeGnome]

What was he responding to at that moment -- anybody remember?

That was in response to "Even FOX News disputes it." I was watching one of the channels that went with the split screen the entire time, which turned out to be great for optimal McCain reaction viewing. He looked like a little kid just learning how to roll his/her eyes- it was very overexaggerated.

[John Junk 2.0]

A woman I work with has a theory that he had some kind of eyeball botox over the course of this campaign. 

[Fido]

Not to get all Milton Keynes on everyone's asses, but also McCain answered one question knee-jerkishly, "Well the first thing we have to do is control spending." I'm as much for fiscal discipline as the next person. Well, almost. Not kidding. But the beginning of a probably huge recession is the one time that it makes sense for governments to be running a deficit. If government spending were to increase now, that would probably be a good thing (for the next 12-18 months), not a bad thing.

If there were another debate, I'd consider having a drinking game at my place. You'd have to drink every time someone (probably McCain) criticized government spending or Bill Ayres (or made a face). And then I'd send everyone home in a cab.

[Emily]

Not to get all Milton Keynes on everyone's asses, but also McCain answered one question knee-jerkishly, "Well the first thing we have to do is control spending." I'm as much for fiscal discipline as the next person. Well, almost. Not kidding. But the beginning of a probably huge recession is the one time that it makes sense for governments to be running a deficit. If government spending were to increase now, that would probably be a good thing (for the next 12-18 months), not a bad thing.

If there were another debate, I'd consider having a drinking game at my place. You'd have to drink every time someone (probably McCain) criticized government spending or Bill Ayres (or made a face). And then I'd send everyone home in a cab.

I think he said, "the first thing we have to do is control sleeping" & that's why he kept doing that bug eye thing during the debate - b/c he's trying to shake off his old age narcoleptic tendencies.

[John Junk 2.0]

Not to get all Milton Keynes on everyone's asses, but also McCain answered one question knee-jerkishly, "Well the first thing we have to do is control spending." I'm as much for fiscal discipline as the next person. Well, almost. Not kidding. But the beginning of a probably huge recession is the one time that it makes sense for governments to be running a deficit. If government spending were to increase now, that would probably be a good thing (for the next 12-18 months), not a bad thing.

Even Ben Stein said that on Tavis Smiley