Live Blogging the (Canadian) Debate

I hadn’t planned on doing this… in fact, I’ve never live-blogged anything before.  And also, I kind of forgot the debate was going to be on so I didn’t prepare at all, but I found myself at the computer, watching TV and figured “Why not?”.

So I live micro-blogged via Twitter.  Here’s the transcript, including a few comments I received along the way:

Dion on the attack…. ooooooooo, it’s like being hit by a little girl.via Twitter - 9:07pm

Kim C. -Oh – so fast and swift and taken down unexpectantly? LOL

I like Layton… too bad he wants a socialist dictatorship.viaTwitter - 9:09pm

Go Harper… he’s mentoring them.via Twitter - 9:13pm 

Oh here we go… May is talking with about “rich people” – defined as “people with investments”. Woohoo – I guess I’m rich, I have an RRSP.via Twitter - 9:14pm

AnneMarie Krahn – If you’re rich why don’t I know about it?

Layton attacks Dion. Not nice Jack… shouldn’t pick on little girls.via Twitter - 9:20pm

Duceppe just asked about “reimborasabull” for “da turd time” – must be important.via Twitter - 9:23pm

Patrick F:

“Duceppe is doing it for the terd time”

Those jobs ARE going elsewhere Jack… but we’ve gained 100,000 new jobs… where’s the problem?via Twitter - 9:29pm

Marc M at 9:30pm October 2 -
We really need to abandon our senses and fully embrace Euro-liberalism. Pot, abortions, teen sex, gay sex, porn, gambling, draining taxes from hard-working citizens to fund nanny-state government schemes, violence and depravity in media, persecuting Christians, global-warming-Chicken-Little…all things that traditionally make the… the world a better place. Get a lobotomy, vote liberal like a good Canucklehead.

Dion: “Where… am I?”.via Twitter - 9:30pm

Duceppe, you’re not a party.. you’re a killjoy.via Twitter -9:34pm -

Harper sounds sane… but that haircut has to go.via Twitter -9:35pm -

May – Sweden, Germany, the Green Party, sounds like she lives on the wrong continent.via Twitter - 9:39pm 

Quick poll for those listening: Who will the new Liberal leader be after the election? Rae or Iggy?via Twitter - 9:42pm

May spoke and didn’t mention Sweden or Germany… progress.via Twitter - 9:44pm

Switch Dion and May… they’re heading the wrong parties.viaTwitter - 9:46pm

Layton is playing “Weekend at Bernie’s” with the corpse of Tommy Douglas. Psssst, Jack, we know…via Twitter - 9:52pm

Stephane “Afterthought” Dion – they wait for him to finish, and then move on.via Twitter - 9:55pm

May agrees with Harper about Jack using the private clinic.viaTwitter - 9:56pm

Deceppe def’n: The number of people in a country is that country’s “bobalashun”.via Twitter - 9:58pm

May, the “Creative Class”… mmmmmmm, elitism anyone?viaTwitter - 10:00pm

Layton: “The arts is important to I.”.via Twitter - 10:03pm

AnneMarie Krahn
I think that education should be important to him…specifically the grammar part.

Dion: “Its not the job of politicians to decide who will be helped by the government.” What? Really?via Twitter - 10:05pm

May: “mean-spirited cuts to artists.” When it involves artists, there are no other kind.via Twitter - 10:07pm

How can you accuse someone of making decisions based on their ideology? Is there any other way?via Twitter - 10:09pm

I may have to add a Green lawn sign beside my Conservative one. Is that allowed?via Twitter - 10:13pm 

Dion – Gotta get tough on the causes of crime: poverty, addiction, and mental illness.via Twitter - 10:14pm

Another cause of violence: competent leaders waiting in the wings watching current leader flush party down toilet.via Twitter -10:15pm -

May: literacy = no crime. Tell that to the white-collar criminals.via Twitter - 10:17pm

Layton is too patronizing sometimes… a little cheezy.via Twitter -10:19pm -

Layton: $400 per child per year will help families “get the right start in life.” That’s some frugal people.via Twitter - 10:19pm

Pete O
we get more than that right now with the conservatives

Harper is explaining the following to Dion: “Politics for Dummies”.via Twitter - 10:20pm -

Duceppe shouldn’t be allowed to speak on any issues that don’t involve Quebec.via Twitter - 10:29pm

I repeat: Steve Pakin is very good.via Twitter - 10:36pm

Layton wants Harper to guarantee that no one will lose their house or job. Can YOU promise that, Jack?via Twitter - 10:39pm

May on politics: spoken like someone who’s never been in power. Great aspirations but significantly more complicated than that.via Twitter - 10:50pm

I like May… it was the right decision to have her on… performing much better than Dion, Layton, and that guy who wants to leave the country …via Twitter - 10:54pm

Dion is so easily pushed around.. they’re toying with him.viaTwitter - 10:57pm

Good debate… I make a lot of fun of Dion but a person of his many weaknesses should not be the leader of a national party.via Twitter- 10:59pm -

CBC television just spent time analyzing Twitter updates during the debate. Interesting.via Twitter - 11:44pm

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