Awkward!

I really don’t get what Obama has done to earn such hatred from McCain. McCain couldn’t even look at him for one second during the debate.
My take on it is that McCain has become ashamed of his own conduct. It’s not Obama he’s refusing to look at; it’s McCain circa 2000.

McCain needs some therapy. Why does he demonize his opponents? How is he going to negotiate with difficult people in this world if he can’t even bear to look at Obama! War is what gets this man excited (he also gets creepily excited when talking about Ms. Palin).

I seriously can’t believe the media would try to stir the pot when it comes to a matter of such importance to our country and financial stability.

What you won’t lay at Obama’s feet you have to lay at his supporter’s. This has become a mean, nasty campaign and the intimidation tactics endorsed by Obama have created an atmosphere of animosity that won’t be dissolved by a few Obama don’t-worry-be-happy speeches.

Wish we had a video of McGrouchy’s behavior. It must be hard for him though, knowing he’s going to lose.

What a big baby he is. You can tell he is another Bush… “someone who will not listen to anyone..someone who will do what they want when they want regardless the damage and outcome of it towards the American people.”

The reason Mccain CAN’T look Barack in the FACE .. its the simple fact he is totally ashamed of the LIES in his Ads he has running against Obama .
its one of those’ boy i need for the floor to open and swallow me up.. i am so ASHAME.

Obama is an empty cup and the lib media is filling it with all the Kool aid they can make up. The sad part is most Americans cant think on thier own to realize it.

Sam, quit with the “McCain is ashamed of his bad behavior” meme. I get so tired of people giving him a break for every nasty thing he does under the guise of how, deep down, he’s such an honorable man!
Honorable people behave honorably. McCain has not and therefore he is not.
He can’t look at Obama because he believes Obama is not a worthy opponent; he’s angry that he’s running against someone he sees as inferior. And the fact that he’s losing to him only makes things worse.
McCain behaves like a creep . . . because he is a creep!

Does anyone remember when Clayton Williams was running for governor against Ann Richards in Texas? They were at an event when Williams refused to shake Richards’ hand … he looked like a buffoon and it turned a lot of people off. Richards won the election and credited that moment in turning the tide in her favor.
What has happened to civility? What would it have cost him to shake the man’s hand, said something pleasant and then gotten on with his business?

How could McCain possibly work with a Democratic majority in Congress if he became President? I just don’t see the “bipartisanship” in him that he always talks about.

Wow, you folks will latch onto anything, won’t you? Democrats sure love to talk about how “open-minded” and absolutely free of any sort of prejudice they are, but all of the lily-white ones here seem to believe you can tell everything you need to know about someone’s character by witnessing – no, by reading a story about – a momentary exchange he has with his political adversary. I expect an attack ad from the Obama camp containing shocking footage of the awkward handshake by the end of the week. The rest of you, get back to work!

This is how McCain treated Romney. I think it’s sad.

Colbert made a joke of McCain doing this tongue-jutting thing, like a reptile, lately when he is speaking. Turns out it may be more than a joke. Keep an eye out-
Joe Navarro, former FBI and poker guru has this to say about the non-verbal behavior: Tongue-jutting behavior is a gesture used by people who think they have gotten away with something or are “caught” doing something. I have seen this behavior in flea markets both in the United States and in Russia, among street vendors in Lower Manhattan, at poker tables in Las Vegas, and in business meetings. In each case, the person made the gesture – tongue between the teeth without touching the lips – at the conclusion of some sort of a deal or as a final nonverbal statement. This behavior has several meanings – depending on specific situations – but is usually associated with one of these: I got caught (taking candy from a drawer), gleeful excitement (look at what I just did, Mom), I got away with something (and I didn’t get caught), I did something foolish, or I am naughty.

“One is kind of surprised McCain didn’t give this hothouse phony a punch in the tummy.”
Yes a 72 year old man who is so scarred by injury he can’t use a computer is going to “beat up” a athletic man 25 years his junior.
Delusional and immature at the same time….ladies and gentlemen I present the right wing.

Obama is owned and paid for by the left wing Marxist group of the Democrat party.

“I don’t think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful. I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle.”
- Barack Obama, acknowledging he doesn’t know how to do bipartisanship and that his whole post-partisan gestalt is about as fact-based as the Easter Bunny. H/T Dean Barnett

Joe Navarro spent over twenty-five years with the FBI, working both as an agent and as a supervisor in the area of counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
Through his work, he has become one of the foremost authorities on reading the nonverbal communications that human beings exhibit when they are lying.

“That went out the door with Obama giving the finger to Hillary Clinton, the brush off and the inability to address any of his opponents with respect by their titles even when he is accorded such respect.”
Why would McCain care about Hillary?
Some lady called Hillary a b%&$# to his face and he laughed.
And its funny you mention the debate and Obama calling McCain “John”.
You know when McCain wouldn’t even look him in the eye.
Obama is genial even in disagreement, McCain is bitter and nasty.
Its going to be a great day in this country when the McCain campaign goes down in flames on election day.

Do you have enough McCain points yet for a T-shirt or are you holding out for the handbag, Two Jakes?

It’s not as if McCain’s temper tantrums are new news. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi said, “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
After Senator Barbara Boxer began making an issue of it, Cochran claimed that McCain was trying to control his temper. Based on his interview with the Des Moine Register and his floor encounter with Senator Obama, it looks like he still has his work cut out for him.

“That’s your job, Ryan. Do it as politely as you can”
Len,
If you really want civility you cannot lecture one side while ignore the other.
If you truly feel that way, you should realize a rebuke from you to another right winger would carry much more weight than a rebuke from me.
I just doubt you truly feel that way.

You first. I dare you. I double dog dare you. (oh to be a kid!)
Ryan, you haven’t been on this blog or at least under that name for most of the election. I’ve actually done what you ask. I haven’t seen you do it once. You are all advocacy and no diplomacy.
Don’t doubt what you don’t understand.

I wouldn’t want to shake Obama’s hand either.
“[Obama] posed for report pictures with the staff when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate in his pocket on his right thigh – against which one woman was closely pressed.
“Now that’s my phone buzzing there,” he said, drawing a laugh. “I don’t want you to think I’m getting fresh or anything.”
EWW
McCain-Palin 2008
*Before a “moderator” deletes this, this blog posts silly stuff. CNN deemed this silly, okay.

I would agree with you, Ryan. That sort of reply doesn’t promote civil discourse. The problem of calming down the right is Obama teaching his surrogages and supporters to use radical street tactics. While I think fighting fire with fire burns down the forest, sometimes burning the rubbish ahead of the fire has its useful application.
Keep in mind, I’m not a Republican even if you can’t wrap your mind around the fact that many Democrats can’t sign up for Obama. A primary reason for PUMA is the way Obama treated Hillary Clinton. Winning by thug tactics means we lose the very values we prize.
I was blogging about the problem of civility and the nutjob right wingers even before Bush II. I refer to it as the value of values. If we continuously feed violent emotions back into the web, it becomes a violent place and since the tools shape the culture, promotes a violent culture.
Then there’s hell to pay. You called that “unhinged”. I know it to be the wisdom of experience, not wisdom of the crowd, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
I repeat: when this is all done, we will still face the same problems. Hopefully, by that time, we won’t have inflicted so many insults that we’ll preserve the problems for the opportunities they enable to continue the same mode of discourse.
Conflict is pleasurable. Nature wires us for that. It takes enlightened self-examination to rewire that.

“Ryan C, atleast Kathleen just got hate mail. Had she written the same thing about 0bama, 0bama would’ve order his Truth Squads to descend on her and she either would’ve been Vince Fostered or put in prison.”
LOL, wow Concerned is so flustered he had to go back to the REALLY old material.

ask Hillary Clinton about Obama’s lack of manners.

Concerned in Ohio -
Pls. stop peddling this Acorn and CRA nonsense. It’s simply not true and it ignores the role that Wall St. greed and manic deregulation played in creating this mess.
The CRA was established in the 70′s to counter red lining of urban neighborhoods and rural small towns. Credit worthy loan applicants were denied loans simply because of where they lived. CRA regulations were tightened up in 2004 and a recent analysis showed that 75% of the subprime loans came from financial institutions that had no connection to the CRA.
As for Acorn, Rep. Frank has said that there is absolutely no funding for Acorn in the House legislation.
It’s unbelievable that The Right Wing is trying to lay the blame for this Wall St. mess at the door of minorities and the poor. Distract, distort and divide.

Ryan C
Enemies with McCain? Didn’t Lieberman and Obama have a fight but they greeted each other warmly. More like McCain making enemies and infusing Presidential Politics into Congress.

“Enemies with McCain? Didn’t Lieberman and Obama have a fight but they greeted each other warmly. More like McCain making enemies and infusing Presidential Politics into Congress”
MM,
I am unsure what you are talking about here.

RYAN said:
Len,
I was a Hillary supporter and we gave as good as we got.
We went after the media, we went after Obama supporters, we fought every battle tooth and nail. Its been hard to reconcile with some Obama supporters whom I crossed swords with though for the most part bygones are bygones.
I love Hillary but she listened to that weasel Penn and decided not to build her ground game until it was far too late.
And that cost her the nomination.
I did like Obama though as I liked most of the Dem nominees.
So after a few weeks away from the fray, I decided to support Obama.
The more I see him the more I like him.
The more I see his campaign, the better I feel about our chances to win the White House.
Obama telling people to stand up against lies is not wrong len.
Its something every American should be doing.
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Well Ryan, nice try both good and original. Sadly, what was good was not original and what was original was not good. Seeing the above from the ever so obvious Ryan C. feigning, that he was a Hillary supporter is like watching Jake Tapper being vetted for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Neither ever did or ever will happen.

Someone has way too much time. Expecting a french kiss…sheesh…where’s the news?

“I’ll take your word for that, Ryan. I can’t transition from Hillary to Obama because he’s a Democrat anymore than it makes sense to transition from Hillary to Palin because they are both women.”
Len,
You could slip a piece of paper in the differences in the two’s policies and goals so its more than Democrat yellow doggism.
Though I understand if for you its a matter of campaign style.

Life just isn’t fair….The media calls me on my lies, now. The economy is tanking and I can’t remember how many houses I have…Wah….Life is not fair…..Wah…..Oh that Liberal, whipper snapper.

Funny the Bots are out in force condemning McCain – but refused to see anything wrong with Obama’s famous ignoring of Hillary in the Senate. I’m sure you can find the video on the web if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

“Funny the Bots are out in force condemning McCain – but refused to see anything wrong with Obama’s famous ignoring of Hillary in the Senate.”
Funny the RWBots are out in force defending McCain refusing to see anything wrong with his actions today while bringing up incidents that are months old.

Concerned in Ohio -
Pls. stop peddling this Acorn and CRA nonsense. It’s simply not true and it ignores the role that Wall St. greed and manic deregulation played in creating this mess.
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Don’t blame it all on deregulation….
And hile associating greed with “Acorn”, don’t dismiss the dirty money and unsavory deals which attached themselves to Obama during the course of his political career and went on to pepper
his unsavory real estate associates with equally their equally lucrative barrel of “pork”.
It began way back when in his days as a

Good for McCain. How do you recognize something that was made up?