US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions 698
Tonight's debate between the two largest American political parties' candidates for vice president of the United States takes place at Danville, Kentucky's Centre College, starting at 9 p.m. Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will face each other on stage, and are expected to talk about issues "including the economy, foreign policy and the role of the Vice President," according to C-SPAN, which will feature a live streaming view of the event. (Criteria from the Commission on Presidential Debates
means you won't hear tonight from other presidential candidates' running mates (like Cheri Honkala, Jim Clymer, and
James Gray, of the Green, Constitution, and Libertarian party tickets, respectively). If you'll be watching the debate tonight, please add your commentary below. It would be helpful if you start your comment's title with a time-stamp (to the minute), too, for context. (Like this: "9:08: $Candidate just intentionally mis-repeated the Q on taxes.") And Yes, we're posting this here in a vain attempt to keep the political discussion out of other story threads tonight.
Update: 10/12 01:18 GMT by U L : If you don't have flash, you can use rtmpdump and mplayer to watch (incantation duplicated below, in case the site is slashdotted).
Via Don Armstrong an incantation to watch the debate without flash:
rtmpdump -v -r rtmpt://cp82346.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live?ovpfv=2.1.4 \
--tcUrl rtmp://cp82346.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live?ovpfv=2.1.4 \
--app live?ovpfv=2.1.4 --flashVer LNX.11,2,202,238 \
--playpath CSPAN1@14845 \
--swfVfy http://www.c-span.org/cspanVideoHD.swf \
--pageUrl http://www.c-span.org/ | \
mplayer -xy 3 -;
Re:Uh, how is this a subject for Technology and Ge (Score:2, Funny)
They will surely be debating the finer points on Windows or Linux being better for government computing.
9:01, 9:02, 9:03, 9:05, 9:06, 9:07, 9:08, 9:09.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waste of time (Score:5, Funny)
Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney were the best assassination attempt prevention ever.
I'm thinking McCain was going the same route, but shot too far.
Biden (Score:3, Funny)
Looks a bit like the Jack Nicholson Joker...
Mod article (Score:5, Funny)
Can I mod this article "-1 Flamebait"?
Welcome to the Vice Presidentual debate (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo (Score:5, Funny)
the fallacy fallacy
Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo (Score:5, Funny)
During the Republican debate, I was with a bunch of Democratic activists.
Every time one of the debaters mentioned "Ronald Reagan", they had to take a drink. By the end of the debate, they were staggering.
When I look at our political options, a good choice is getting drunk until I pass out.