The no-eye-contact thing with McCain not looking at Obama all night

[mtnsnake]

makes McCain look rigid, redundant, un-presidential, disrespectful, fearful and worse than anything....prejudiced.

McCain's failing to look Barack in the eye when speaking won't go over well with most voters. It will be one of those intangibles that won't be discussed that much or even thought about by most voters but will be a subconscious turn-off in most peoples' minds who watched last night.

[bunnies]

1. Couldnt agree more.

I expected a certain amount of hatefulness out of John McCain, but what I saw last night blew my mind. He couldnt possibly have been more rude or nasty.

[speedoo]

2. But it is being discussed.

Virtually every non-RW tv pundit was all over it last night.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. Yeah. It was weird.

You had Obama constantly addressing McCain and looking at him while McCain was looking at his notes or looking straight ahead as if Obama wasn't even on the stage with him.

It was disrespectful.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Makes seem to have low self esteem and lack confidence.....

nothing one wants in a President.....or wait! We've already had that...which is why they do the Cowboy routine with the big guns and shit.

[alsame]

11. I agree. McCain seemed to be looking down or out into space,

which made him seem weak and insecure.

[hisownpetard]

5. It was beyond rude - it was despicable. To have Obama politely addressing him, looking over at him

each time he spoke only to have McCain stare straight ahead as if he didn't even exist,
showed the true character of both men.

McCain is a jealous, petty, small-minded, condescending, desperate, bitter old man.
Obama is a gentleman, a conciliator, a consensus-builder, a man who is capable of building alliances
even, if necessary, with the dregs of the earth - like John McCain.

[Boz]

6. His person tence was off to, Obama said When I m President,McCain was alway saying Obama shouldnt be

But he never said he should be president.

He was too tied up in passive aggressive attacks to stop Obama rather than win for himself it was very telling and very subtle, but just as powerful as the non eye contact failure.

[saltpoint]

7. Yes. 'Am wondering if it was his handlers' idea

or one of McCain's own cockamamie schemes.

It may have had the effect of driving up McCain's negatives and creating more positives for Obama.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. McCain was a fool not to address Obama eye-to-eye

[MadrasT]

9. Do you think he is prejudiced? Or just a jerk-off?

It was beyond disrespectful. It was despicable.

[BeyondGeography]

10. It'll be half of the conversation by Monday

Reporters will be dogging him about it. Why can't you even look at him? Do you hate him? Do you think he belongs on the same stage as you? Meow.

Sit back and enjoy.

[graywarrior]

12. Yes. He may well have just used the word "boy."

He's disgusting and he's going down hard along with the rest of his crew.

[NewJeffCT]

13. I was thinking that myself -

it's far worse than when Bush referred to Kerry as "my opponent" or "the senator from Massachusetts" and not by his name.

I'm white, but I thought there was a racial element to it as well. But, maybe I'm too sensitive?

[Pirate Smile]

14. We need to push it so it is discussed as much as Gore's sighs. If it becomes a

main point of discussion re the debate, that would be good.

It makes McCain look like the petulant, pissy asshole he is.

Hopefully, SNL makes it the focal point of their opening tonight.

[marshall]

15. He was trying to follow classic debate technique

But this isn't really a debate, at least not in the traditional sense that follow rules. You'd have to have moderators that know what they're doing in order to do that.

[medicswife]

16. He was really "shifty" too. And he kept clenching and working his jaw.

Obama got under his skin.