Most pundits assumed John McCain would trounce Barack Obama at last night’s debate in Nashville. The town hall-style, some said, benefited the Republican candidate. Well, that didn’t seem to be the case, as neither candidate truly burst out and made a lasting impression. Not a good one anyway.
The majority of the conversation concerned the dying economy, but the most notable moment came as the men were discussing our nation’s energy policy. You know what we’re talking about – when John McCain referred to Barack Obama as “that one.”
There was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one. You know who voted against it? Me.”
The Obama campaign seized on the disrespectful moment as staffers criticized McCain:
“It reminds you that McCain is sort of angry and agitated. He looked uncomfortable,” Robert Gibbs said in the spin room, “I guess the pillow seat wasn’t soft enough. He stood and walked around.”
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Both David Axelrod and David Plouffe agreed that the comment was “odd.” “Last time we had the debate, Senator McCain didn’t want to look at Senator Obama and he made this reference today,” Axelrod said, “He seems a little bit irascible, a little bit peevish.”
The move also did nothing to win over voters. A CBS poll found that 40% of undecided voters feel Obama won the debate, while McCain only convinced 26%. Thirty-four believed the candidates tied.
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Nor were the media impressed by McCain’s performance. MSNBC’s Mike Barnacle this morning said it seemed McCain was debating an “incumbent president,” while the NY Times‘ Adam Nagourney wrote, “There was no indication that the debate did anything to change the course of a campaign that appeared to be moving in Mr. Obama’s direction.”
We’ve included the “That One” video after the jump…
Chris
And here I was hoping that instead of the “That One” video, you’d post Kylie’s “The One” video, and make the debates have actually spawned something good.
natasha
bwahahaaha..McCain supporters take heart..check out
this hilarious comedy vidoe i found the other day about why obama would be the most unconvincing aferican
american president ever…funniest stuff ive seen in weeks
http://effinfunny.com/saleem-muhammed/black-man-president
gotta check it out
ChristopherM
Natasha, it is called Spell Check. Look into it.
marco hussein channing
I don’t think I have ever seen McCain come across as any older than he did last night.
JPM
He even had psychic aliens get him the questions beforehand!
What’s a more reliable source than Weekly World News?
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/election-08/mccain-uses-aliens-to-get-town-hall-questions/
Trig Palin
What about McCains ties to domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy?
Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in “if necessary”; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention — a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.) During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy’s radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled “John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07” includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an “old friend.”
JJ
To me its interesting that the Obama staffers use all the code words (irascible, peevish) for old when discussing McCain’s comments. These words describe the old man on my block who yells out his window at children to get off his lawn.
I guess its good strategy to turn it around on McCain.
No matter how old McCain is, he really didn’t help himself by articulating so much contempt (“that one” is pretty dehumanizing and especially disrespectful when addressed to a U.S. Senator. McCain wouldn’t have said it to a white person, either). McCan’t has the racist vote locked up, doesn’t he know.
McCain should have more respect for his more than worthy opponent, but I guess he’s going down with the Republican ship. I don’t even think Sarah can rescue him now (see electoral college).
Nickadoo
marco hussein channing: You might be right. After all, he was in fact older last night than he’d ever been before last night.
politixican
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Several years after his terrorist bombings, Bill Ayers received his professorship in the field of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He became involved in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an ‘educational’ directive to radicalize American school children by reteaching them a revisionist version of American history (wherein Ayers attributes our government as being unjust, racist and imperialist), he was able to secure a $50 million grant. To administer these grant monies, Barack Hussein Obama was hired (Obama and Ayers knew each other at this time). These funds were increased to a final total of over $100 million which were, over a five year period, distributed by Obama to radical, left-wing extremist groups, such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN is a marxist organization promoting “affirmative action” lending practices by pressuring banks to make sub-prime loans to unqualified recipients under the guise of “fair housing”. They have been involved in many cases of voter fraud, as well. Principally, however, groups such as ACORN were instrumental in fighting to require mortgage lendors (like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to push the envelope of irrational lendng practices, and threats of legal action for “redlining” played an important role in their success, unjustly promoting a perception of racism.
In conjunction with a well documented history of predominently democratic senators and house representatives protecting both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with congressional support (including Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Charles Schumer and Barack Hussein Obama), an assurance of government backing were these institutions to need help, has led America today to the edge of financial chaos. Aside from Dodd, Obama received more monies for campaign support (over $126,000) from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than did any other member of Congress! Furthermore, it would seem appropriate at this point to question how it is that psyuedo-governmental agencies are legally able to in the first place extend finances as donations to political candidates? People need to be aware that it was in fact John McCain who sought to impose increased regulation on the mortgage lending industry, sponsoring a bill to do so in 2005. That bill was killed by democrats, the most outspoken of which was Barney Frank (D-MA, Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair). Recently, it was revealed that Frank had a gay-lover whom he referred to as his “spouse” that was an executive for Fannie Mae.
So, is it any surprise that, as part of the first “bailout” package that democrats in the House of Representatives brought forward sought to include a slush fund for ACORN? Were that initial House bill to have passed with republican support, then a provision to move 20% of all profits from the bailout into a “housing trust fund” (a fund which the democrats have traditionally used to infuse monies into political-action groups such as ACORN) would have carried.