In addition to the hoedown at Coveritlive, I’ll be live-blogging here. Joe Patrice, a debate expert, will also be liveblogging here, logged on as me.
I’m drinking so I’ll start early. I’m watching MSNBC.
8:46 pm I’m kind of over Ezra Klein.
8:54 I think Biden may have already lost this debate.
8:55 This election is already over. Maybe next time we will nominate a real progressive.
9:03 Ryan just seems like such a douche.
9:04 Biden out of the blocks strong, IMHO.
9:05 Ryan sucks. Crappy voice. That sigh.
9:05 Ryan really is bad, just doesn’t come across well on tv. And I said that as someone who doens’t think Mitt comes across that badly.
9:09 “These guys bet against America all the time”.
9:14 The trouble is that no one really cares about foreign policy.
9:18. Martha Raddatz is very good. I like her.
9:24. Joe is better than I am at this, so just read him. I’ll be joking around over at Coveritlive instead.
9:47 Ryan is impish and glassy-eyed.
9:53 Comment of the night from commenter elizabelle: “Ryan’s forehead looks like corduroy.”
Redshift
If comments are enabled on this post, won’t it defeat the whole purpose of using Coveritlive?
jwb
Comments? I like how you play dangerously, DougJ!
maven
Does Ryan get to do exercises during this encounter?
Anne Laurie
I’ll be watching from the corner this time. Thank you, DougJ, and also MisterMix, for taking the time to deal with all this agita…
geg6
Thank heaven.
And yeah, I’ve been over Ezra for a while now.
dmsilev
@Redshift: I think the idea is to give a fallback
ifwhen the main blog software goes belly-up.Evolving Deep Southerner
@Anne Laurie: Anne Laurie, I’m starting to believe that if I met all of the Balloon-Juice front pagers in person, you might be the only one I’d generally like. Well, you and maybe Kay. She seems cool, too.
Joel
Well done, DougJ.
Joel
Well done, DougJ.
Joel
Well done, DougJ.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Joel: I just want to say good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Anne Laurie
Allergy season in Kentucky, if the CSPAN feed is any indicator…
hilts
Chris Hedges / Amy Goodman 2016
Evolving Deep Southerner
Ain’t trying that shit downstairs. I think I’d spend so much time fucking with it that I’d miss the damn debate. I think we’ve pushed the concept of synchronous communication past its practical boundaries. I’ll stay here and read at my own damn pace.
maven
Wow Doug. You and Andrew can share your Prozac…..
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Ezra is definitely a neo-liberal, but he did a great takedown of Willard’s variously dishonest stance on health care last week.
It’s on. Come on, Uncle Joe! Stomp his ass.
MomSense
C-SPAN!
Randy P
CSPAN is the only way to go
Tonal Crow
Don’t you mean:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Paul Ryan is looking down! Paul Ryan is looking down! AND TAKING NOTES! I hit the shift lock by accident, and this debate is over.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Holy fuck. The Fate of Civilization is on Joe Biden’s shoulders.
Maybe.
gsim
@Bill E Pilgrim: hilarious!
Randy P
Ryan’s first lie — no military guards in Libya. Was that 20 seconds in? Weren’t a couple of the dead guards?
Tonal Crow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Looking down and taking notes is a sign of intelligence and leadership for Republicans, and a sign of weak-mindedness, wish-washyness, and depravity for Democrats. Didn’t you get the memo?
Maude
OT
John, yer rotaters is off again.
Cassidy
The State Dept. doesn’t use “military” guards anyway. They have Diplomatic Security Agents and the SPS contractors, as well as the PSS contracts.