McCain Meltdown on 'This Week' Updated w/ VIDEO!! from daily kos

[PerfectSage]

Although, I think that Barack Obama won the first presidential debate on Friday night I feel a major game enhancer (not game changer - because Obama is already winning!) has just taken place in the interview George Stephanapoulos had with John McCain.

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In this interview, John McCain was grilled on his debate and campaign tactics as well has his political role in suspending his campaign with regard to the potential bailout Congress seems in the process of compromising on.

McSame showed the same distain for Stephanopoulos as he did for Obama on friday. His posture was very uneasy and I think that he was unable to clearly articulate his thoughts in a way that will add on to his defeat in the debates and further boost Obama's poll numbers.



http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/28/10183/1097/61/613208

[grannie4peace]

1. priceless! k&r

[C_U_L8R]

2. McCain appears to be a master of "I Know You Are But what Am I"

What a dick.

[ladjf]

3. McCain might be a narcissist. If so, it would explain his unreasonable

anger level and his assumption that his position is always the one and only one. However, true narcissism is much more complicated disorder than the simple traits I have mentioned.

http://www.narcissism.com.au/Home.html

[harrison]

6. Indeed I think that McCain and Palin both

are narcissists McCain gives himself away when he can't stand to be challenged, and Palin gives herself away when she thinks she should be at the top without the necessary years of experience. Both of them seem to reek of entitlement and both share little empathy for other people, really the defining trait of a narcissist.

[BlueIdaho]

4. This bothered me when McCain said it in the debate.

His position is we should go ahead and attack anyone - anywhere but we should not tell anyone about our true intentions. We should hide and if necessary lie about any plans to use force inside another country's borders. When he said "You don't say these things out loud." It sent a chill down my spine. For John McCain - its ok to think these things, to do these things, just don't tell the truth about these things.

By the way - "Speak softly and carry a big stick" has NOTHING what so ever to do with hiding international intentions. For starters its based on a west African proverb and it refers to the notion that the US could, if necessary, interfere economically and militarily in the domestic affairs of our neighbor nations.

This guys full of shit and he doesn't know the first thing about Teddy R.

edit - typo

[depakid]

8. This guy's full of shit and he doesn't know the first thing about Teddy R."

but TR was never a POW.

[BlueIdaho]

17. No but he did

Make a speech with a bullet lodged in his chest and blood spreading across his shirt. There was an assassination attempt - Teddy was shot on the way to the stage - but he still spoke to the crowd.

John McCain ain't no hero and he don't know shit.

[RoccoR5955]

5. Mc Cain doesn't seem like an American here...

He is acting more and more like an Egyptian, living in da Nile.

[Cosmic Charlie]

7. McBuffoon!

[TankLV]

9. Absolutely NO "meltdown" by any standard...

his response was BULLSHIT spining, and he didn't answer the question, and steph didn't press him on his inconsistant stance, but is was no "meltdown" by any standard - even DU partisans' standards...

[quakerboy]

15. True enough

he did seem a little agitated by the idea that anyone might hold him accountable to his words, but there was no meltdown that I saw.

Its a very interesting statement, and makes his strategy make more sense. He doesn't believe that words matter, he can say whatever is convenient and then say something different later, and none of us should ever assume that what he says is what he will do.

Or, in other words, "elect me, because not a damn one of you knows what my actual policy would be"

[intheflow]

20. Agreed.

That title is OTT hyperbole.

[pdxmom]

10. McCain's response made absolutely no sense. Palin's response was

virtually the same as Obama's, with a major exception...Obama has always qualified his view with "if Pakistan is unable or unwilling". In other words, if we know exactly and positively where Bin Laden is and Pakistan continue to protect him, then we will take care of it.

McCain is dead wrong on his position on this one.

[MindMatter]

14. Nice. That will consume 2 days of her debate prep

Trying to come up with a way to explain why what she said is or isn't her position and why it differs from Obama or why it should or shouldn't differ from Obama.

Just another shovel of dirt out of the hole McCain/Palin are digging ever deeper.

[Overseas]

11. It is a kind of meltdown, saying he hopes George won't believe that something she says

when someone sticks out a microphone while she is talking with someone won't be taken as a policy statement !!

That is a kind of meltdown. I hope you won't believe what my VP choice says when someone puts a mic in front of her ??????????????

That's pretty damn weird.

So if we shouldn't believe what Palin says when asked at a campaign mixer about following terrorists into Pakistan, should we expect her to be lying ?

Is John Sidney McCain III saying-- DON"T BELIEVE ANYTHING SHE SAYS?

[knowbody0]

12. I watched the whole thing

what struck me hardest was how he kept saying "I'm so happy" about Sarah. He certainly did not appear to be a happy man. more like a very constipated invalid.

[tbyg52]

13. And how he kept repeating "Teddy Roosevelt,"

even though he did nothing to show what they have in common. (Of course, that's because he can't - most of the interview consisted of unsupported assertions on McCain's part.)

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Angry

Having to cover for a buffoon. IT makes old cranky guys really angry.

[samsingh]

18. mccain came across as a lying idiot - but no mettdown

i've been looking for a genuine meltdown where he tells people off and screams how good he is.

[TexasObserver]

19. McCain didn't feel that way about Obama's private comment re "bitter"