As I sit watching follow up coverage/spin/punditry, I thought I’d offer my notes, in raw format and in tag form transcribed more or less exactly from my iPhone notepad. Video, links, and more to follow:
- McCain re-frame: “Ask Paulson to step down” vs, “If I was president I’d fire him”
- McCain laugh line in opening comments on economy
- First Back and Forth
- Use of, “Mainstreet”
- Another McCain zinger on Bear legislation, “legal vs paternal”
- Use of , “Fundamental Difference”
- McCain, “The Sheriff”, “Ms. Congeniality”
- “Tomorrow, er the next day, or sometime next week”
- “On Paper”
- Camera angle differences when in split screen
- Amount of time spent on wide shot
- “Hard to reach across the aisle from that far left”
- New Challanges=?
- Fix-Kill-Prison
- Obama, “Components we can’t do”
- Obama, “Tom err John” (Tom Colburn)
- Obama, “I have a bracelet too”
- Spending Freeze
- $700b per year overseas to countries that don’t like us, some to terrorists!
- Values
- Major Health Care Decisions (weighing heavily)
- Vital Part
- Jim…John
- Obama, “Orgy of Spending”
- Miss Congeniality
- Surge (40 min in)
- Difference between a tactic and a strategy
- Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
- Don’t say, just do
- Prudent
- August a year ago
- McCain. “Take up issues on MY subcommittee…”
- Russia not democracy?
- Achmadenijad?!
- Port…port…perestroika
- McCain’s notepad (70min in)
- Kissinger toss
- Meeting w/Spain
- McCain, “I don’t even have a seal yet” (snarkey but funny)
- Obama, “I’m against nuclear waste…”
- McCain, “Nobody could be against alternate fuel, Nobody!”
- Obama, “Snukes!”
- Obama: Conspicuousness of their presence vs. our absence…
- McCain: comparing Obama’s stubbornness to Bush
- In this administration
Well there you have it. If you watched the debate, some of that might ring a bell, if you didn’t, I’m sure most of it won’t.