I don't like those "sit down" debates...too informal or something.

[Peregrine Took]

I don't know why, exactly, I just like them to be more adversarial.

[Patsy Stone]

1. Let's look to see

whether McCain's feet reach the floor or not. I think he's going to look very small sitting there next to Obama.

[mentalsolstice]

6. Nah! He'll be sitting on the NYC Yellow Pages

After I outgrew my high-chair, my mom had me sitting on the Broward County phone book for several years at the dinner table.

[Patsy Stone]

7. Funny

Because I sat on the Dade County one. :)

[mentalsolstice]

11. You betchha! Back in the 60s

...that was the cheap and easy way to pull the 3-6 y.o. up to the dinner table. Too bad we won't see that his feet won't hit the floor by several inches. I loved the last debate with the stools. In order to sit in his, he would've had to take a big jump up, and his feet would've been left swinging, all the while Obama's stool seemed to be to short for him to comfortably sit in.

I need to preface this, that I'm barely 5'2", my husband is 5'6ish, so I'm not being snarky about being short. However, politics aside, Obama is just prettier, and he would still be even if he was short.

[Patsy Stone]

12. The Daily Show

said Obama looked like he was on the cover of a 60s soul album cover. :rofl:

And I'm just about 5'0". :)

[Hamlette]

2. and McCain can't pace around looking for his dog

ala The Daily Show....was one of the best. "I've got Snausages".....lol

[Patsy Stone]

4. Mr. Puddles!

Mr. Puddles?!

:rofl:

[Hamlette]

17. yes! I'd fogotten his name.....perfect. I LOVED that "bit". One of my all time favs. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

3. McCain's brain will become oxygen deprived because his blood will pool in his ass.

He'll be totally incoherent. Either that or he'll be talking out of his ass.

Not sure which.

[islandmkl]

5. how would one tell?

[David__77]

8. I hate it too.

A podium is fine, I guess. It looks lazy and "old boys club-ish" to just sit around.

[Raschel]

9. It's gonna be great. McCain will look awful in closeups.

He'll have on so much makeup he won't be able to move a muscle.

Plus, look how he avoids Obama from a distance. He's going to have a real problem close-up. He'll have the nervous creepy smile and the uncomfortable jokes.

He's going to lose more points tonite than any of the other debates.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Seated debates are a joke

They almost never allow for direct confrontation. The only way you lose a sit down debate is to be too meek and allow the other guy to dictate, like Gore and Lieberman both managed in 2000.

In this case it works in our favor with a substantial lead. McCain is going to be forced to be civil and that forced grin at close range looks ridiculous in a seated debate.

Actually, McCain was more combative than normal in a seated debate vs. Romney in the final Florida debate, a few days before that primary. He put Romney on the defensive, complaining about McCain's assertion that Romney favored a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq.

A younger, more telegenic, and better postured guy like Obama has natural advantage seated alongside awkward McCain.

[AlCzervik]

13. i bet Old man yells at cloud fiddles with his pen a lot and mumbles to himself.

[Patsy Stone]

14. Maybe he'll

tell the story about the onion belt.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

15. I snarfed-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5Eqycf4d4

[Patsy Stone]

16. That

was hysterical. :rofl: