For clarity, it’s my position that Joe Biden won this round hands down for reasons published live to @twitter during the event:

• @joebiden seems to be having a good time getting trounced early, at least he's more pro-active than @barackobama was during his drubbing.
• @joebiden's strategy appears to ensure we do not forget that @barackobama executed his military promises #fact
• @paulryanvp's strategy appears to incite a war against the Middle East while simultaneously citing peace and democracy
• @joebiden: they don't have a weapon to put uranium in to, #Iran is more secluded than when we took office, #facts matter
• @paulryanvp: #Iran is more secluded due to our sanctions despite the @barackobama administration, we need to change the Ayatollah's mind #war
• @joebiden: we can get unemployment to under 6%, I don't know how long it will take, let's look at the #facts...
• Listen @joebiden, as much as I enjoy the #facts, you're arguing before Americans, they need to feel better, not know better #win
• @paulryanvp: did they inherit a bad situation? Yes, but we're going in the wrong direction, this is not what a recovery looks like
• @paulryanvp: here's a story about @mittromney's charitable givings to answer how long it will take unemployment to dip below 6%...
• @paulryanvp: @barackobama's stimulus plan was terrible, and yet, we requested money from said plan, thanks @joebiden
• @joebiden: @AmerMedicalAssn and @AARP supported #ObamaCare, seniors enjoy more benefits than they did, all without a voucher system
• Martha Raddatz is doing a stellar job, @joebiden vs. @paulryanvp is everything @barackobama vs. @mittromney should have been
• @joebiden: is @paulryanvp upset we're not sending more Americans into the worst part of #Afghanistan? We're sending more Afghans!
• #Syria @joebiden: please notice @paulryanvp never answers the question, pay attention as I reiterate a real answer
• Martha: what would @paulryanvp do in #Syria? We'd work w/ the freedom fighters, not call Assad a reformer, and fuck #Russia
• Martha Raddatz is trolling @paulryanvp, this beating is worse than the one @mittromney doled out to @barackobama; #debates knotted up
• #religion @paulryanvp: As a Catholic, @barackobama and #ObamaCare is infringing upon our first freedom.
• @joebiden: As a Catholic, I refuse to impose my beliefs on others #respect
• No mention of #nationalcomingoutday #omission #malarkey
• @paulryanvp: if you don't have a record to run on, then paint your opponent as someone to run from, did I say that already? Thrice
• @paulryanvp between the eye batting, water sipping, Forrest Gump smile, #stories, and purple striped red tie #Fail
• @paulryanvp would likely take @joebiden in a fist fight, and yet, I wouldn't be surprised if he lost; or saw Beau Biden, and left
• Two minutes into @cnn post analysis, this is despicable; @joebiden acted like @mittromney, why evisceration instead of praise now?

Listening to @cnn after the debate exemplifies why we have to watch the debates for ourselves, this is misdirection misrepresented as analysis for the layman. For clarity, it's my position that Mitt Romney won this round hands down, Barack Obama committed to a dignified, though failed plan. Below are my thoughts published live to @twitter during the event:

• Late, and we're live tweeting the #presidentialdebate, to be syndicated on @tumblr; and we're off with guest correspondent @mariamishka #fb
• The compliments begin, excessively sentimental early, happy anniversary @barackobama and @michelleobama
• @mittromney stays looking presidential, whoever did his makeup did a good job
• @mittromney's lack of filler language is noticeable next to @barackobama, although he's crushing the word #CRUSHED
• @mittromney the rich will do well no matter who the President is, however @barackobama has #crushed the middle class
• Chose the WRONG people to watch the #presidentialdebate with #headphones
• @mittromney is winning if you can't hear what's being said, @barackobama on one leg with a smaller flag lapel is not working
• @barackobama if we lower taxes and multiply the military budget, who shoulders that burden @mittromney?
• @mittromney is becoming petulant, he's gone overboard with the retorts and painted @barackobama as the bigger man
• @mittromney's test to eliminate programs: is it worth borrowing money from China to fund? There goes Obamacare.
• @barackobama looks to the crowd when he speaks, while @mittromney looks at the President
• @mittromney you've said before that you'd cut the deficit in half, except we still owe a #trillion dollars #fact
• @mittromney we don't want to go down the path of Spain, they're terrible #international #policy
• @barackobama if you've got a corporate jet, you can probably afford to pay full freight - @mittromney #shivers
• @barackobama right now, you can actually take a tax deduction for moving a job overseas - @mittromney #shivers
• @barackobama's recipe for growth PROMINENTLY involves education, while @mittromney hasn't mentioned as much at all
• Jim Lehrer: do you support the #medicare voucher system @mittromney? #Romney: *Everything except a firm yes or no*
• @mittromney and @barackobama both referenced Bill Clinton in their favor, didn't #Clinton himself clear this up? #democrat #arithmetic
• @mittromney WAS winning while @barackobama looked defensively tired and meek #possum?
• @mittromney sabotaged himself: too pushy, cutting off @barackobama and the moderator, and being the spoiled brat we know he is.
• Jim Lehrer: Your time is up sir. @barackobama: I had time left before @mittromney interrupted me.
• it's fair to say @barackobama advisers said, "Don't attack, it's not Presidential." #rope @mittromney #dope
• @mittromney's disgusted facial expression is disgusting, @barackobama's tangent parables earned it though; #freedom #rhetoric?
• @mittromney foodstamp recipients increased, graduates can't find work, @barackobama's policies are not working #fact
• Jim Lehrer just wasted thirty seconds explaining there are three minutes left
• @mittromney closed with an avalanche of #rhetoric, @barackobama earned the first light hearted crowd reaction in turn
• Can we the people witness the coin tosses next round? #gamble
• @cnn just fact checked @mittromney's #factual tax cut proposition against a #promise, and proved @barackobama false?! #SKEWED

Looking forward to the debates, please enjoy my notes.

The Beginning

• Having watched the #rnc on @cnn, perusing @foxnews coverage of the #dnc now; Hannity is immediately, unintelligibly smug #republican
• Hearing @foxnews @hannityshow use the words, "Let me educate you..." is the definition of irony #dnc
• #dnc @foxnews @hannityshow conversation: Guest says, *this and -* Hannity interrupts, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!
• #dnc @foxnews commercials are presented in a large *picture in picture* format, advertisers pay for this? http://t.co/cSkL0Rc5
• #dnc without airing speeches, the @hannityshow is about multiple people appearing poised while simultaneously speaking loudly, back to @cnn
• #dnc to paraphrase Sandra Fluke's speech, in six months, we will be led by a man who fights for women, or against women, now we choose which
• #dnc @cnn correspondent blocks the aisle as she discusses Fire Marshall procedures ensuring clear aisles...
• #dnc Elizabeth Warren turned me off the instant she snapped to quiet her adoring crowd, Massachusetts must be full of masochists
• #dnc WAIT, HOLD THE FUCK ON! Why was he introduced as PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON? That's some fucked up shit from the home team #fb
• #dnc I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America? Why are you making me critical of you Bill Clinton?
• #dnc is Bill Clinton running for office?
• #dnc SWEAR the crowd just chanted *FOUR MORE YEARS* at Bill Clinton ... for Bill Clinton.
• #dnc teleprompter keeps pausing as Bill Clinton keeps speaking extemporaneously ... used a large word in a tweet @redstripe Hooray Beer!
• #dnc that excessively LONG shot of that eagerly gazing woman even made her feel uncomfortable; she was eight when Clinton was President
• #dnc keys to Clinton charm, thanks everyone, thanks his opponent, promotes cooperation, compliments wives, cites facts, shares beliefs, ...
• #dnc okay, okay, key to Clinton charm is simple, be Bill Clinton.
• #dnc Bill Clinton just looked at the teleprompter for a second with a confused look, those words aren't better than these words
• #dnc Bill Clinton addressed the #gop #rnc attacks, the elections are over; call your bookie, bet your iPhone 5 money on @barackobama
• #dnc election season speech rankings so far: Bill Clinton > Ted Strickland > Mitt Romney > Michelle Obama > Deval Patrick > Clint Eastwood
• #dnc how can Bill Clinton irritate you? He rubbed me the wrong way to start, and now he's convinced me to look forward to gray hair
• #dnc if you want things that good people would ideally want, then you must vote @barackobama! - Bill Clinton
• #dnc if ALIENS came to earth and asked for it's leader, even Russia and China would turn to Bill Clinton for representation
• #dnc heard Bill Clinton and @barackobama weren't exactly friends, their awkward embrace confirms as much, and yet ... the #RESPECT
• #dnc someone mentioned as much and confirmed my initial arousal, that speech turned me on...
• #dnc @barackobama needs Bill #Clinton to pull him over the finish line, and Bill #Clinton needs to be needed #arithmetic

The End

• #dnc @cnn referencing 2008 election information while discussing @barackobama's current ratings, and @mittromney http://t.co/dHRKThFt
• Choosing substance over style, politics over fashion, #DNC over @fnonyc; enjoy the entertainment, I'll deliver the information #fb
• #dnc @marcanthony sang an original rendition of the American anthem, is a God in his native land, was married to @jlo, is about that life.
• #dnc Jill Biden has been a full-time English professor at a Community College for thirty years, including the last four #professional
• #rnc neglected to mention military veterans, #dnc over compensated
• #dnc Joe Biden describes his wife as the love of his life and the life of his love, like the antithesis of #vma2012 female misogyny #fb
• #dnc listening to Joe Biden boils down to anticipating gaffes, this speech places somewhere between Deval Patrick and Clint Eastwood
• #dnc Joe Biden just tried calming a calm crowd
• #dnc Osama Bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive @joebiden @barackobama
• #dnc ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now than he was four years ago @johnkerry #late #quote
• #dnc gambling references continue, who are these people betting against America? Where can we wager on what? @joebiden
• #dnc Malia and Sasha Obama have to go to school in the morning, on a Friday, after missing #FNO @fnonyc #vma2012 #scholars
• #dnc would love if more women dressed their daughters like the Obama girls than #vma2012 wayward sex symbols #personal #thoughts #fb
• #dnc @barackobama never pretended the path was quick or easy; you didn't elect me to tell you what you want to hear, you wanted the truth
• People won't realize this is history until they're helping their grand children with their homework and see @barackobama #dnc @derrickjaxn
• Republican prescription: take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning #dnc @barackobama @nuevoestilo
• #dnc we're not moving backwards, we're moving #forward2012, that's why I'm running for re-election @barackobama
• #dnc ten years ago I promised to end the war in Iraq, we did. More promises, we have.You sit, you stand. You applaud, I pose @barackobama
• #dnc @barackobama just channeled his inner Bill Clinton, no party has a monopoly on wisdom #compromise #arithmetic
• #dnc @barackobama will never turn Medicare into a voucher, reviving the fire and resolve of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• #dnc did you see the Arab American Democrat? She held a sign, it read *Arab American Democrat* and said #VOLUMES
• #dnc @barackobama ! > ? @mittromney #easy #simple #obvious
• #dnc @barackobama could lead Moses with that flurry at the end #forward2012
• #dnc final election season speech rankings @barackobama / Bill Clinton > Ted Strickland > Mitt Romney > Michelle Obama > ... > Eastwood
• #dnc @barackobama clearly took advantage of closing convention season, answered all attacks, and left #rnc in doubt