Official Debate #1. Snark here.

[thetinymagic2]

My first thoughts. Mittens needs to not open his mouth. It's embarassing. He's also getting that Richard Nixon sweat on the upper lip....Ann Romney's right...there a mental breakdown 'a comin',,,

[FindingNamo]

Is it sweat? It looks like a teeny tiny mustache.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I think something was wrong with my tv because I swear I heard Romney say he was NOT going to cut taxes for the rich.

[clever name]

CNN has the squiggly lines again! Yay!!

[Wynbish]

Yeah, I may have missed that part. How do the squiggly lines work?

[thetinymagic2]

Mittens needs some 420. Calm down, boy....

[thetinymagic2]

phyl, I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING??? He's dead meat.

[Wynbish]

[strummergirl]

The amount of passive aggressive seething from just his smirk is very powerful.

Obama started off a little slow with his slow delivery of diction surprising but he seems to be hitting his stride on medicare.

Poor Jim Lehrer. Getting bullied by Mitt Romney who also wants to kill his network.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Lehrer needs a squirt gun full of pee.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Should Romney be smiling when hearing about poor people with pre-existing illnesses not getting coverage?

[Wynbish]

He probably is just surprised that they're real. He thought they were like Santa's elves.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Why does Romney keep saying "ledislation" and "ledislators"?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I am convinced Obama keeps saying he likes when it's called "Obamacare" to simply get the Right to STOP calling it Obamacare.

I also like the part where Obama name checked a study and Romney retorted that there were five or six studies refuting that (including one he read TODAY) but never actually identified them.

[Jungle Red]

Think Progress has a live update

[strummergirl]

One of the more interesting things to happen during the DNC was there seemed to be relenting on the name qualifiers and embracing Obamacare pejorative as terms. Instead of just calling it ACA/Affordable Care Act there were speakers calling it Obamacare.

[SNAFU]

Romneyhas made eye contact with us, the voting public 4 times. He seems to be addressing only Obama. Obama o the other hand it looking directly int camera. It seems a bit more reassuring.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

[clever name]

I like that he's owning "Obamacare" too.

Looks like the squiggly lines seem to like both of them. I don't think they have ever dropped into the negative zone.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Weird. Romney has started stuttering. Not kidding.

[Jungle Red]

I hate being at work!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

[CapnHook]

Jim Lehrer understandably has a difficult job as moderator, but I think there are many who could do better than he. Can Anderson Cooper do the next one please?

[PalJoey]

I was at dinner with friends. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

[clever name]

I'm sad to say I think Romney did very well. Not what I was hoping for when the race seems so close.

[Jungle Red]

I want Rachel Maddow. If the debates ever get into womens' rights and gay marriage, she's the first one I'd go to.