Live Debate Puppy-Blogging!
A GayPatriot World Exclusive
A GayPatriot World Exclusive
Tonight, GayPatriot will debut a worldwide first: A Presidential Debate live-blogged by my dog, Shadow. I know, it is very exciting and groundbreaking. We aim to serve here. I have modified a keyboard in order for her to adequately type without a thumb with direction from the Dr. Emmett Brown Institute for Future Technology.
I will be monitoring her live-blogging and may insert my own editorial comments throughout. Shadow will begin posting here at this link shortly before 9PM Eastern time.
Finally, while I Vicodin-Blogged the Vice Presidential debate… I’m considering two options tonight. You get to choose!
UPDATE: Shiraz wins. Glass is poured.
I am now turning the blog over to Shadow for her live puppy-blogging.
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9:00PM - hello peeple. i am shadoe and i like sarah palin. is she on this debate tonight?
i am sowwy that i cant spell good. i am only three.
9:04 PM - first question is from mr. clean. did he look in the mirror with that color combination?
dad says every time obama says ‘aaaaand’ and ‘uhhhhhh’ i get a doggie biscuit he will be taking a gulp of wine.
who is the old guy in the undertaker’s suit?
dad says he wants the old guy to buy up his mortgage, too
they both look like undertakers. or dog catchers! boooooooooo
9:10 PM - oliver has a much better color combination than alan did. i’d like to hump his leg.
oh, i forgot. girl dogs don’t do that. saxby is here next to me on the coach and he says he would hump oliver’s leg.
ooooo. the old guy is going after obama on his cronies. what is a cronie? is that what it means when you are an “attack dog”? i do not like that term.
dad tells me that obama eats puppies. i don’t like him now. i like sarah palin.
obama says he didn’t promote fannie mae. is she that woman from hee-haw?
dad says that he thinks william ayers in the audience. i think he is drunk from the wine.
i see the old guy has his bracelet on. i wonder if obama will remember the name on his bracelet.
9:18 PM - teresa looks like a saturday night live character. but i like her black pearls. i’d look good in them. i think i will steal them from her
obama is going to spend money. that means less food and snacks for me.
dad just yelled at the teevee when the old guy said he worked with the feingold guy on campaign finance reform. whatever that means.
i haven’t gotten a biscuit yet. obama needs to hem and haw more. i don’t like him anymore. i’m hungry.
the old guy is frisky tonight.
9:24 PM - the old guy keeps saying he has a record. i asked dad what songs he sang when the radio was first invented.
obama says aaaaaaaaaand! i got a treat! wooooof!
i guess obama has a record too.
9:28 PM - an old lady has figured out how to use email. that is cool. she wants to know if we will have to sacrifice. i would like to have the old guy sacrifice that nasty cat that lives next door.
a spending freeze. brrrrr. luckily my cute black coat will keep me warm if the old guy freezes me.
dad just came unglued when the obama guy said 9/11. he wonders why obama is using 9/11 for political benefit.
i think the old guy is being more feisty than the obama guy. obama isn’t countering the old guy much.
9:33PM - tom brokaw has a funny voice. he also looks like joe biden with hair.
dad says he wants a tax cut. i think that means i get more food and treats.
9:38 PM - my doggie daycare is a small business. i don’t want them to get higher taxes by the obama guy.
i am sorry i fell asleep. i was dreaming of beef. dad says my feet were running. dad is still on one glass of wine.
dad was a lobbyist. i can see his horns and he keeps the pitchfork in the closet.
9:43 PM - wow ingrid. those earrings are fierce, girl. the old guy gets excited about climate change. he is talking about green things. our lawn is green until i pee on it.
“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand” ….. BISCUIT!
obama said the computer was invented by government scientists who wanted to communicate better? dad just spit out some wine.
did you know that cows cause global warming? cows are tasty.
9:49 PM - lindsey looks like a sheep dog. if i were a lesbian dog, i would probably hump her.
what was the question? i am getting bored.
dad… what is a mammogram?
(GP Ed Note: Is healthcare a right? Funny, I engaged with a doctor from the American Medical Association this year on this topic. He said it was a right. I asked him “oh really? Is that a moral right, an inalienable right, or a Constitutional right?” His response — a Constitutional right. WRONG. Looks like Obama agrees. Well, you can’t have a private market with a “right” — you need massive government regulation. Argghhhh. Ok, back to Shadow.)
dad took the keyboard away from me.
9:59 PM - it is my bedtime. the old guy and the obama guy are snoozers. dad just gave me a greenie treat. yummy.
iraq. iraq. iraq. do you know that those bad terrorists strap bombs to dogs? booooooooooooo.
the obama doctrine — eat puppies. booooo.
dad just said to remind obama that there was ethnic cleansing in iraq. obama has big ears.
dad told me to stop saying obama has big ears. dad was called “dumbo” as a child.
wooo hoooo. i am getting a biscuit because the old guy has said “my friends” three times. my dad is so cool.
10:08 PM - ooooooo katie. easy with the eye shadoe. should not have been the same color as your blazer, girl.
i guess osama won’t be voting for obama. obama wants to kill osama.
where is this pakistan place? it sounds like lots of bad guys are there
10:16 PM - osama hates dogs too. i wish someone would kill him.
saxby is mad at me for typing. he is on the other couch whining. i am going to go nip him on the neck.
dad has fallen asleep. he won’t need ambien tonite. he has obama and the old guy.
10:21 PM - obama - “aaaaaaaaaaand” — BISCUIT!!!!
russia is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. the old guy likes to talk about energy. but he doesn’t like oil from alaska. booooo.
10:25 PM - terry asks about israel. dad woke up when he heard the words “united nations” and threw his wine glass across the room.
“my friend” — another BISCUIT!!!! i nipped dad on the hand to wake him up to give it to me.
no one seems to like iran. i think they eat dogs there too.
i KNOW they eat dogs in north korea. boooooooo
10:30 PM - the question is about what they do not knoe and how will they learn it. they need to learn not to put my dad asleep.
i do not think the obama guy answered the question.
dad woke up and said he thinks this was a softball question for mcccain. he can talk about ehckspieriense.
dad says i have to go now. i liked talking to you peeple tonight. when i see you… i will lick your face.
-Shadow (PatriotPuppy #2)
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It is 7:34. Gives us a sneak preview of your conclusions for the evening. Tell us how McCain won. You don’t have to tell us everything. Just a little bit of what’s already a conclusion here.
Comment by jimmy — October 7, 2008 @ 7:36 pm - October 7, 2008
Ayers. Keating. Debate. Let’s go. I want to see them go at it with character attacks.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — October 7, 2008 @ 8:02 pm - October 7, 2008
Ugh, I will be listening to the debate while I do other things. McCain has been apologizing for the Keating mess for over 20 years. Obama won’t discuss in depth his relationship with Ayers and Ayers isn’t talking to the press.
I regret to say that I think that Obama is going to win the election unless some miracle occurs. I understand that even North Carolina could go for Obama………….the spell of Obama continues to amaze me. What does Obama stand for. He sat in the pews of The Right Reverend Wright’s church for around twenty years and heard nothing hateful. And, he has had an on-going association with an anti-Vietnam war terrorist………..not protester, but terrorist………some who set bombs and tried to kill people.
I will be drinking some inexpensive petite shiraz, probably more than I should.
Comment by Swampfox — October 7, 2008 @ 8:36 pm - October 7, 2008
Shadow, trust me — you are the ONLY talking head I’ll trust for a reliable overview of tonight’s debate. Please tell GayPatriot that through you, he has done his entire country an invaluable service. Let him drink to excess tonight, if he wishes. Then be patient tomorrow morning if you can’t get out as quickly as you’d like to, well, take care of business.
Then, once all that is accomplished, prepare to be written in as a candidate for president of the United States.
Comment by Eowyn — October 7, 2008 @ 8:57 pm - October 7, 2008
I think you need to give Bill Ayers a second look.
The Weathermen were patriots, from the beginning. And from the beginning, they decided that, no matter their issues with the government per se, they were trying to change people’s awareness from a grass-roots level. They felt that nothing less than really radical action could accomplish that.
If you look into the beginnings of the movement, you’ll find that early on, they decided that NO ONE MUST BE HURT. That is, they would target buildings, to make their statements, but never physically injure anyone.
“The Rules” dictated that they couldn’t do something like blow up a building to make a statement. This is different from pouring tea into the ocean how?
We need to protect people’s ways of making statements by listening to what they’re trying to SAY by what they’re doing. And this is what the Weathermen tried to do, back in the day.
We must be very careful, here.
We must know what we are all trying to accomplish.
/Serious/O/meter off
Comment by Eowyn — October 7, 2008 @ 9:29 pm - October 7, 2008
Shadow Teh awesome!!!1!1
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 7, 2008 @ 9:34 pm - October 7, 2008
Your spelling is fine, Shadow. Thank you for not blogging in lolspeak.
“Cronies” are like your friends at the dog park except less well-behaved.
Comment by Oh, bother — October 7, 2008 @ 9:35 pm - October 7, 2008
an Eowin too!!!!!11
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 7, 2008 @ 9:35 pm - October 7, 2008
I for one am glad the stumbling Obama is back…..yaoh yaoh.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 9:45 pm - October 7, 2008
Obama wants to create five million jobs making windmills..when oil jobs are proven high paid manufacturing jobs. Why do they hate oil so much? Because those studs vote Republican?
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 9:46 pm - October 7, 2008
I have given Bill Ayers a second look. Recently Ayers was down in Venezuela giving this thug his support……………..now, why won’t Obama come clean about his association with Ayers.
Comment by Swampfox — October 7, 2008 @ 9:53 pm - October 7, 2008
Shadow, when your dad spits out his wine or otherwise come unglued it means Obama said something silly or just plain wrong. He yelled at the TV because sometimes the old guy does silly things, too.
Oh, and another reason for you to like tax cuts is that my small business is making yummy organic stuffing for chew bones. Tax cuts will make my treats less expensive to make and ship to you and your friends at the doggie day care. Tax cuts help all of us!
Comment by Oh, bother — October 7, 2008 @ 9:59 pm - October 7, 2008
#11 Liberals always have to fake who they really are. They hate the label but love the policies of liberalism. They lie during elections.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 10:08 pm - October 7, 2008
Shadow, the Iraqis are among a billion people on earth who believe dogs are ritually unclean. That means disgusting. In some places they shoot dogs on sight. Remember when dad came unglued about 9/11? Your dad thinks those people are bad and we should keep them away from you. So does the old guy. Obama, not so much.
Comment by Oh, bother — October 7, 2008 @ 10:12 pm - October 7, 2008
shadoe is hte auwwwsum. I have been lmaf yay shadoe keep up the good wurk.
Comment by wendy — October 7, 2008 @ 10:20 pm - October 7, 2008
ooopsy daisy LMAO
Comment by wendy — October 7, 2008 @ 10:21 pm - October 7, 2008
I lov Brokaw, the government just committed to $700 billion dollar rescue package and Brokaw wants to know what the government is going to do about SSecurity, medicare, and helping our other countries. I serious candidate would say, “ah Tom we don’t have enough money to do any of that, where have you been?”
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 10:22 pm - October 7, 2008
Shadow, Pakistan is right next to Iraq. Osama lives there. It’s full of people who hate dogs. It is very important that we make sure to keep them away from you and from all of us!
Comment by Oh, bother — October 7, 2008 @ 10:24 pm - October 7, 2008
Gene, being liberal minded and educated in the liberal arts is not the same thing as believing in liberal governmental policies.
Comment by Swampfox — October 7, 2008 @ 10:27 pm - October 7, 2008
thank you shadow for your in-depth analysis of this crucial debate between Mr. Dork and Mr. Pork… GOD BLESS AMERICA and GOD SAVE THE USA!
Comment by wendy — October 7, 2008 @ 10:37 pm - October 7, 2008
Debate sucked. McCain sucked. McCain is a socialist who said he wants to buy the mortgages of greedy bastards who caused the economic crisis by purchasing homes they couldn’t afford. Fuck McCain. Every time he debates or even speaks, he hurts his case for Republicans and independents. They need to let the attack ad people handle the campaign.
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — October 7, 2008 @ 10:40 pm - October 7, 2008
I only caught the tail end of the debate. Did McCain tie the subprime crisis / economic meltdown to Obama, Barney Frank’s “Fanny” and the Democrats, as he ought to?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 7, 2008 @ 10:41 pm - October 7, 2008
Nicely done.
Comment by zombyboy — October 7, 2008 @ 10:43 pm - October 7, 2008
#19 duhh no kidding.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 10:48 pm - October 7, 2008
Most boring debate I’ve ever seen. These moderators are content to allow Obama to kick the can down the road and help him not to stumble.
did anyone learn anything from this debate? MSNBC implys that as long as Obama doesn’t drool all over himself, he wins.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 7, 2008 @ 10:50 pm - October 7, 2008
Not to answer my own question, but Beldar says McCain did OK:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/dde4aa94-ce19-4d9e-87af-3f2c6f3c1e72
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 7, 2008 @ 11:27 pm - October 7, 2008
If you look into the beginnings of the movement, you’ll find that early on, they decided that NO ONE MUST BE HURT. That is, they would target buildings, to make their statements, but never physically injure anyone.
Try telling John Murtagh.
What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon. -Rush Limbaugh
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 7, 2008 @ 11:37 pm - October 7, 2008
I think Andy McCarthy at The Corner has this pegged:
Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do.
All Barry needed to do was avoid coming off as a left-wing kook. Done.
Does McCain even want the job? Are we having another Dole moment?
The Dems could wind up with a filibuster-proof Senate; the House is theirs; and Barry could win.
Unless the libs get seriously mugged by reality, I’d say we’re in for a bumpy future. (I sure hope I’m wrong, wrong, wrong).
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmFkOTk5MTNhZjVjMmYzYzhlY2RiYmQzN2Y3ZGZjMTg=
Comment by SoCalRobert — October 7, 2008 @ 11:56 pm - October 7, 2008
PS: particularly attractive debate blogger this evening… better than anything we saw on telly.
Comment by SoCalRobert — October 7, 2008 @ 11:59 pm - October 7, 2008
Truly, John McCain is the finest man ever to walk for President.
Comment by Nurglitch — October 8, 2008 @ 12:46 am - October 8, 2008
Sorry, Shadow, I had to run help my friend find her neurodog who got lost (he’s fine). You did a fine job and I enjoyed watching with you.
Comment by Oh, bother — October 8, 2008 @ 12:54 am - October 8, 2008
One is left ot wonder if McCain even wants the job. It also begs the question “How on Earth did McCain win the GOP nomination when all he does is frustrate us?”
Comment by Right Turn — October 8, 2008 @ 6:34 am - October 8, 2008
Comment#27…Well, Rush got it right again…..Rush also asked yesterday how many voters for McCain were voting for McCain because Sarah Palin is on the ticket….I was in my car driving and said “Me, Me, Me” and then I added to myself that before that I was really deep down inside voting for McCain because I was voting against NObama.
Then Rush asked if Palin were on the top of the ticket how many of us would be voting for Palin for President and as per my zillion posts I will say it again, ME, ME, ME.
I am of the conclusion that McCain won’t fight hard enough to want to win. He didn’t go against the extremely poor judgment and leadership skills of Nobama in associating with Bill Ayers. On that note, I find it extremely hard to believe and the MSM wants us so badly to believe it since they have no respect for people actually thinking that Nobama who was in charge of $50 million dollars that he gave to Bill Ayers to run radical programs had no contact with him during that time period except for a few Board meetings. If Nobama didn’t look after the money and what was done with it, then he really has no executive skills and should NOT be put in charge of running anything no less the Presidency. Never mind his extremely poor judgment in granting money to a terrorist and one that wants to radicalize students
I also agree that Brokaw ran the worst debate I have seen in way too long and chose the canned questions we all have heard forever….and I tend to believe there were better questions he could have chosen based upon what was submitted to him.
As to McCain saying he was going to forgive principal on loans etc….I wasn’t sure if he meant that the government would offer mortgages but to forgive principal and engage in socialist policies was freaky. Carly Fiorina was on Greta Van Sustern’s show saying that its part of a program that he has been pushing since April. I wonder if he will spell it out more in campaign stops. I am guessing he does.
In any event, after one term of Marxist Nobama as President, I am hoping that a Palin/Jindal ticket will win in a landslide in 2012 (or if Palin takes Romney as VP given his business acumen.)
I see 1976 all over again…..where Ford came close but didn’t win. As Yogi Berra would say its de ja vue all over again.
and we know what hell Carter gave us (the worst economy and worst foreign policy disasters in decades……Nobama will make Carter look good….yikes, this is going to be such a huge mess but I sure hope that Palin is elected President in 2012 and I am hoping that the GOP is smart enough to nominate her and not have a huge nomination fight since we will need a united party to vote out our first Marxist President, the Chose One.
Comment by Rocket — October 8, 2008 @ 11:21 am - October 8, 2008
As I understand it, McCain’s plan is for government to buy up bad mortgages - presumably at some degree of discount, not enough to ruin the holding companies, but punishing them a little - and re-negotiate them to a lower principal and/or interest. Thus, the government becomes a lender. The company eats part of the lost value; the taxpayer eats as much or more.
Yes, it’s socialism. Companies and individuals who richly deserve to fail, and who must fail if the overall system is to be healthy in the future, won’t be allowed to fail.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 8, 2008 @ 12:24 pm - October 8, 2008
ILove Capitalism: Thanks for the clarification. I haven’t been able to find any articles on this issue. What scares me is that this form of socialism really is going to call capitalism and a free market economy. Beyond that and the real estate market will not find its proper fair market value and the methods used will then only “kick the can down the road” so to speak and when we reach the end of that road things will be far worse.
It would have been far better to say to homeowners…the government will offer FHA loans of 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 50 year loans and you pay the balance on your loans and the government will offer a lower interest rate (say a 1/4 percentage point below current rates or 1/2 point to a one percent point if you have good credit)
Then that would help and let mortgage companies offer those loans and participate in the FHA program. If its a bad lender, then they don’t get to participate or offer the program to your local community banks who might want to participate. But socialism..hell no….and we know that offering such a plan as McCains will then add fraud into the system and those that bought home to speculate and rewarding bad banks/lenders who get to take the investments off their books and survive to go out and do more bad loans is not what the free market economy is all about.
I fear that if McCain takes us there then he is heading to be just as bad as Marxist Nobama by allowing a redistribution of wealth, etc.
I wonder if having McCain lose the election and 4 years of Marxist Nobama will in the end be the cure needed for America to come back and say we are a capitalist free market economy and we want the likes of a Sarah Palin to get in there and put us back on track toward freedom. The part that scares me is will there be an America left as we become the next USSR.
Comment by Rocket — October 8, 2008 @ 12:56 pm - October 8, 2008
As I understand it, McCain’s plan is for government to buy up bad mortgages - presumably at some degree of discount, not enough to ruin the holding companies, but punishing them a little - and re-negotiate them to a lower principal and/or interest.
The principal part is what bothers me. I’d rather see the government alter the interest rate to a market-comparable fixed rate, alter the terms, i.e. extend a 30-year out to 40 years, offer that to the homeowner, and then pay the bank the value of the mortgage based on that — which will be much lower than the value the bank booked for the mortgage under the higher interest rate and lower term.
The big issue with all of this is that we’re trying to artificially inflate home values today to a place where they would get naturally in another decade or so. Banks need to take a hit for irresponsible lending and consumers need to take a hit for irresponsible borrowing.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 8, 2008 @ 1:32 pm - October 8, 2008
One other feature of McCain’s plan I should note: He *SAYS* that his plan would only be extended to people who were credit-worthy at the time they got their mortgage. If they falsified their income, for example, they’re out.
I emphasize *SAYS* because I have a feeling it will not be implemented that way at all, and will become just another government give-away.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 8, 2008 @ 2:30 pm - October 8, 2008
Dude, best laugh I’ve had all week!!! Shadow should blog more often. I’m gonna be wearing this goofy grin all day now! Awesome! Thanks. Shadow for President!
Comment by MikeInSedona — October 8, 2008 @ 2:53 pm - October 8, 2008
North Dallas 40, I totally agree with you. From what I read (I found an article on Bloomberg) and to readjust the mortgage value is outrageous. To me, if you owe say $100,000.00 and the fair market value of the property is only $50,000.00, well you don’t get a $50,000 reduction on what you owe. You do what you said, and offer an affordable fixed rate interest rate over say a 40 or 50 year period. If you take it, then you stay in the house and if you don’t well then if the property goes into foreclouse, then it goes into foreclosure.
I don’t think the taxpayer should be paying for someone’s bad bargain and the rest of those of us who have mortgages and willing to continue to pay even if the value of our home is down should then be given the same choice. I mean if you follow that argument, close up the country since we will be way past bankrupt as a country.
So, I agree with you and that was what shocked me about McCain’s proposal.
Plus, then again, if you had a sub prime loan, too many were given to those where they had horrible credit or the Lender was submitting fraudulent documents or making them up or accepting fraudulent documents from the borrowers.
The point is for this country to come out of this mess, free market forces will have to be allowed to occur and let fair market values of homes occur and then we get past the pain in a few years and come out of this mess a far healthier economy.
I just still can’t believe the race to Marxism is occurring in this country and it is worrying me beyond belief.
Comment by Rocket — October 8, 2008 @ 5:12 pm - October 8, 2008
oops…that is North Dallas 30..sorry about that.
Comment by Rocket — October 8, 2008 @ 5:13 pm - October 8, 2008