SNL Spoofs the Presidential Debate

In an amusing send-up of the Nashville presidential debate, Saturday Night Live pokes fun at John McCain wandering aimlessly around the stage, Obama's connection to William Ayers, and Tom Brokaw's obsession with the clock.

Watch SNL's presidential debate spoof, plus check out other recent SNL skits featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.

This Just In:

• Sarah Palin drops the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game and gets booed on the ice

• After receiving a brutal drubbing from David Letterman the past couple of weeks, John McCain is crawling back to appear on on the Late Show this Thursday

• Jon Stewart on whether he's taking sides in the election: "If you, out of nowhere, are going to grab a woman out of the woods and make her your vice presidential candidate, what can I do? [Sarah Palin] is like Jodie Foster in the movie 'Nell.' They just found her, and she was speaking her own special language. Have you noticed how [Palin's] rallies have begun to take on the characteristics of the last days of the Weimar Republic? In Florida, she asked 'Who is Barack Obama?' Hey, lady, we just met YOU five f**ing weeks ago."

• Gail Collins, writing in the New York Times: "Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It's only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he's beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll."

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