Obama-McCain Debate

Barack Obama and John McCain decided to hold a presidential debate which had an odd format. It was sort of like a press conference. The two sat at a cheap table with a light blue tablecloth on it. They sat side-by-side, very close to each other, both facing the press in the same direction. They would each make short speeches, back and forth, about 3 or 4 minutes each. The rules were that they were not allowed to interrupt each other.

McCain finished with one of his speeches, Obama was giving his, and somehow the venue came up, and Obama said something like "and of course, thanks to that we can be here having this debate at the [location] on [channel]." (can't remember the loc/chan) As Obama was starting to say the location, McCain looked over at him and gestured with his hand at some large poker-chip-like discs that were sitting on the table. The small discs had logos on them. One was for the venue, and the other for the channel. In response to McCain's gesturing, Obama put the chips in his own hands and held the first one up in one hand as he mentioned the location, and then the other up in the other hand when he mentioned the venue. Then Obama continued his statement: "...and when I'm the President of the United States, we won't have to put up with this type of corporate ass kissing." Or perhaps it was a bit lighter, like "corporate pandering".

The entire crowd exploded in cheers. McCain had his "here I am humbly looking down, uncomfortable, and in the minority like when I was on Ellen" face on. As the crowd continued to cheer, McCain wanted so badly to make a comment into his microphone, but knew he couldn't break the rules. So resisting commenting, with his mouth at the microphone as if he was about to comment, he turned his head completely sideways leaning to one side of the microphone, holding that for about a second, then leaned his head sideways the other way, on the other side of the microphone, then sat back.