What we are expecting when we get excited for debates:
Sen. Obama: Good evening, and thank you to Belmont University for hosting this debate.
Sen. McCain: What about our soldiers?
Obama: Excuse me?
McCain: Aren't you going to thank our brave men and women in the military?
Obama: I was just about to.
McCain: Well, go ahead. We'll wait.
Obama: (cough) Um, thank you to our brave men and women in the military.
McCain: (blinks rapidly, grins, give both thumbs up)
McCain: That guy over there is going to raise taxes by 800 gazillion dollars...
Obama: What guy?
McCain: That guy! (points)
Obama: (Ducks behind a bleacher) Who? This guy here? (points to guy sitting in front of him)
McCain: No! That guy! (starts chasing Obama around the room, pointing) That guy!
Obama: Which guy! Which guy!
McCain: When are you going to admit you've been lying to the American people since day one?
Obama: I will never admit that.
McCain: Oh, so then it's true! You just won't admit it!
Obama: Goddammit.
Obama: You don't have a plan for the fiscal crisis - you don't even have a plan for how to get from your bedroom to the bathroom!
McCain: Are you implying that I wet the bed?
Obama: I am implying that you wet the hallway between your bed and the bathroom because you wander around looking for the bathroom.
McCain: (To an aide) How did this guy get inside my house?
Obama: It sounds to me like the wheels just fell off the straight talk express...
McCain: How dare you, sir.
Obama: Excuse me?
McCain: I lost ten dear close friends in that tragic bus accident, when all the wheels fell off that bus simultaneously.
Obama: I...I'm so sorry.
McCain: How dare you.
Obama: It was unspeakably irresponsible to select Sarah Palin as your running mate, knowing full well you have a 1 in 2 chance of even surviving to inauguration.
McCain: That is outrageous.
Obama: Are you willing to give Americans a timetable for when you plan on dying?
McCain: You just crossed a line.
Obama: Actuarial tables suggest...
McCain: Actuarial tables suggest I'm about to kick your ass. (rolls up sleeves)
Obama: And in conclusion, that is why I am running for President.
McCain: And in conclusion, that is why I am running for President.
Obama: Are you--are you copying me?
McCain: Are you--are you copying me?
Obama: This is very juvenile.
McCain: Are you--are you copying me?
Obama: Oh my god, call a doctor. I think that guy had a stroke.
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