Did anyone have "not just Wall Street but Main Street" as an item in your drinking or donating game? If so, you're going to be drunk and/or broke.
McCain seems a bit rocked back on his heels so far tonight. Not surprising, given one of the biggest champions of deregulation and the ultra-wealthy is attempting to claim the mantle of populism.
Obama meanwhile is getting to the punch much more quickly than he tended to do in primary debates. This is good.
Fact check:
REALITY: McCain’s Implication That His 2006 Remarks On Fannie And Freddie Were A Warning About The Financial Markets Disaster Is "Quite A Stretch" And "Barely True." "If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole,’ McCain declared in a May 26, 2006, news release. ... The implication in McCain's remarks is that his remarks in 2006 were in some way a warning about the financial markets disaster that struck in 2008. That strikes us as quite a stretch. ... His attempts to depict those efforts as some sort of early warning that could have lessened the current credit crisis just don't wash. All McCain was talking about then was the potential fallout of accounting troubles in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He didn't say anything about a freewheeling climate among creditors that had major financial institutions becoming badly leveraged on bad loans. We rule his claim Barely True." [Politifact, accessed: 9/19/08]
Now McCain attempting to paint himself as a friend to American workers. Pfft. The entire night would not be time to debunk that ridiculous assertion.
McCain returns to his "veto pen" schtick, though this time he doesn't attribute his pens to Reagan.
UPDATE: New thread. Go there, please, to avoid overloading the site.