A-zing-a-ling-a-ling!

That's what Pic says when someone gets a good zinger in there.

I'm up so early because I just finished creating a test for my faculty mentor that was technically due last night, but whatever, as long as she wakes up this morning with it sitting in her email inbox, she's cool.

I went to a debate watching party last night hosted by Pic. He posted it as an event on barackobama.com on a whim, and someone contacted him and brought two other people with her! In all there were 8 of us, including Pic's mom. I will admit that I felt like a part of something new and awesome, I guess because of the people's response to Pic's party posting online and because we were a racially and culturally diverse group all brought together by a common desire—we want to see Barack Obama in the White House.

This debate was by far the best. McCain definitely stepped up his game. I have to be fair and hand it to him for that. This was his last chance to do it big, my friends. (And he only said "my friends" once! Egads!) He dropped the first zinger when he said, “Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.” A-zing-a-ling-a-ling!

But then we gave a standing ovation when our boy came back with, “The fact of the matter is that if I occasionally mistake your policies for George Bush’s policies, it’s because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people — on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities — you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush.” A-zing-a-ling-a-ling!

But McCain was tenacious. We all went "Ooooh" when he threw down the gauntlet on Ayers. Everyone was in suspense, wondering if he was going to go there, and he did. But whenever he does go there, he always looks bad because it's negative and irrelevant. Seriously. Most folks don't care about what "a washed-up terrorist" (as McCain referred to Ayers) did when Obama was in 2nd grade. Um, economy? Er, health care? This was the best zinger of the night: “I think the fact that this has become such an important part of your campaign, Senator McCain, says more about your campaign than it says about me.” A-zing-a-ling-a-ling!

I wish someone in the media would get on the ball and find Joe the Plumber. (I started singing "Joe the Plumber" to the tune of "Bob the Builder" and drew good laugh.) I'd love to know how he felt about being referred to as some kind of icon over 24 times during the debate, but most importantly, who is he going to vote for? The Joes are the ones who are really going to decide this thing.