I was going to liveblog the presidential debate while doing some sort of presidential-debate-related drinking game (possibly with video of my drunken commentary!) but then my stupid friends abducted me for dinner and I watched the debate with them and then played Monopoly and got drunk and argued for literally HOURS about whether rock-paper-scissors is a game of skill or chance.

FUCKING HELL.

Anyway, I'm a little eensy bit drunk right now... so I'll give you my delayed and truncated debate commentary (from memory, yay):

WHY IS MCCAIN'S LEFT EYE DROOPING? DID HE HAVE A STROKE?

PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN, FUCK YEAH.

OBAMA: I'D HIT IT.

OBAMA: FLAG PIN
MCCAIN: NO FLAG PIN
I THINK WE KNOW WHO THE TRUE PATRIOT IS NOW, BITCHES.

WHAT HAPPENED TO LEHRER? FACELIFT? COMMENTS, PEOPLE, COMMENTS.

ALSO OH GOD THE FOUNDATION ON THE CANDIDATE'S FACES. WTF, TOO MUCH. WAY TOO MUCH.

LOL FUNDAMENTALS. DOES MCCAIN EVEN KNOW ANY OTHER WORDS? EVEN LEHRER COMMENTED ON IT.

Anyway, my drinking game was going to be a shot for every time the word "fundamental" was used during the economic section, and "Iran" during the foreign policy bit. Would have been fun. But my friends thought doing shots was dumb because "IT'S THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE." But what better time? I mean, WHAT BETTER TIME!?

Also, I love every single political blogger who live-blogged while watching the debate AND fact-checking. God, having suspected lies confirmed/denied only moments after watching the candidates say them is AMAZING. fyi, my honestly unbiased opinion is that the candidates were just about tied on that front. If we let my biases in, I think McCain's lies/omissions were worse than Obama's... but I think they had about equal occasions of truth-twisting. Which is natural since they're just people, after all, so I'm not terribly bothered. Except for the part where McCain kept saying he was going to cut expenditures when actually his policies raise them. BUT WHATEVER. McCain flip-flops so much even his advisors can't keep up with his platform, so all of his prepwork was probably off the mark.

anyway leaving this out of the filter because, idk, tipsy ramblings about issues of national interest? for some reason it seems justified.

also fuck my head hurts now. also hot boys yay, completely irrelevant to everything else.