# It's the official last Presidential Debate thread!

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 15, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001 "2008-10-15T03:20:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![sinical\_brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@sinical\_brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinical_brit)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/581 "2008-10-20T08:41:08Z")

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Just though i 'd share [these](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/20/uselections2008-barackobama) thoughts from a UK columist Charlie Brooker - who i think is rather funny:

"Obama smiled a lot, so much in fact that he started resembling a reality show contestant watching a compilation of his “best bits”.

McCain’s face didn’t know quite what to do with itself. It kept trying to look furious. Then you’d see him remember that looking furious doesn’t play well, so he’d arrange his face into a tight, eerie grin, while appearing to grow increasingly furious with himself for failing to hide his earlier fury, thereby creating an unfortunate anger-based feedback loop.

He should’ve worn a mask. Is the world ready for a masked president? Hell, yeah. How about one in a Sarah Palin mask? Or Chico Marx? Or Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th? That’d really have thrown Obama off his stride, and given the networks something else to debate ad nauseam, thereby putting McCain back at the top of the news agenda. Is this a new maverick strategy, or a mental breakdown? The pundits would be at it for hours."

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/582 "2008-10-20T13:10:36Z")

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> [@sinical\_brit](#):
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> Just though i 'd share [these](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/20/uselections2008-barackobama) thoughts from a UK columist Charlie Brooker - who i think is rather funny:

That’s hilarious.

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/583 "2008-10-27T18:10:13Z")

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> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Not to mention a fucking planetarium system is hardly a fucking “overhead projector”.

NPR had an interesting program about that.

[http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810244](http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810244)

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