ANN ALTHOUSE WILL BE LIVEBLOGGING THE DEBATE. So will Jason Pye.

Also, Stephen Green is drunkblogging, and the back-injured Bruce Carroll is Vicodin-blogging.

UPDATE: Oh, what the hell. You liveblog too. I’m opening comments. Please try to wait a minute or two in between refreshing.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Hmm. Doesn’t seem to be working. Something in the site move seems to have screwed things up.

MORE: Extreme Mortman isn’t impressed with the debate so far: “Drunk blogging? Vicodin blogging? Heck, any instapundit readers up for Ambien blogging?”

And can we get rid of that lame Main Street / Wall Street dichotomy now that both of them have used it more than once? Please?

TigerHawk is liveblogging, too.

Speaking on behalf of PorkBusters, I’m glad to see the earmark issue getting so much attention.

But neither Obama nor McCain is on top of their game — they kind of sound like an SNL parody of themselves.

Jeff Garzik emails: “Both are floundering. The debate format is brilliant, primarily at drawing out the
soundbite-driven nature of both candidates.”

Heh: “I can’t stand this ‘main street’ rhetoric. I thought that there was no main street any more since Walmart spelled the death of it . . .”

More liveblogging from Jules Crittenden.

So is John Althouse Cohen, and it’s hard to argue with this observation:

“I’ve got a bracelet.” “I’ve got a bracelet too!” Are these serious adults running for president, or is this summer camp?

Yeah, McCain and Obama aren’t bad guys, but it’s hard to believe that these two are the best that a country of 300 million can produce.

More liveblogging at Gateway Pundit.

Wow, the debate isn’t even over and the McCain folks already have this video out.

Bob Owens: “Frankly, I think everyone, right and left, was expecting something far different than we saw here tonight.”

And reader Peter Sibley emails: “Strangest line of the night: From Obama: ‘I never objected to nuclear waste.'”