Did anyone see the McCain ghouls rubbing their hands with glee yesterday?

[Generic Other]

I happened to catch a clip on CBS Morning of John and Cindy rubbing their hands like fiends. They had been pressing flesh with the unwashed masses and so had to quickly wipe off the "GERMS" with hand sanitizers. While I realize that such precautions are reasonable, it just struck me as an odd picture--the geezer wiping the people's germs off his sacred self. It seemed a symbolically laden image to me. The subtext so obvious.

If nothing else, it reminded me that such a "grooming" habit might be more politely engaged in in the restroom not in front of the very people whose Republican hands you just shook. Suggests that McCain can't even stand his own base. Guess we need an etiquette policy concerning hand sanitizing in such a strangely public manner. I wish I could provide a link. It was a surreal moment watching the ghoul like rubbing of the hands moment.

They looked like gloating old fools.

[monmouth]

1. I heard that "Monk" was a relative of McCain's.....n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. actually, all pols should do that.

given how few people wash their hands after using the bathroom.

[Generic Other]

5. People should wipe their butts after pooping too

...but not on TV. Sorry to put it so impolitely.

It just looked strange for them to blithely groom themselves in front of a national audience...kinda like when Wolfowitz slicked his hair when he was combing it before appearing on TV. Gross television moments. Complain to the FCC!!! Worse than Janet Jackson's boob! YUCK. BLECH.

[On the Road]

11. Yes, People SHOULD Wipe Their Butts!

and not everyone does it. We need a public health campaign:

[Frank Cannon]

3. I don't fault anyone for doing this

Everyone should wash their hands after shaking hands with a bunch of people. That's not elitism; that's just common sense.

[Generic Other]

7. I am not disagreeing...but in private maybe?

It just looked bad. Like they think their base is a bunch of germy, disgusting, filthy vermin. Wait, they are! Okay. Never mind.

:rofl:

[Frank Cannon]

10. Well, maybe they could have been a little more discreet

Plus, they could have been more careful about their "EWWWWHHHHHHHH!" facial expressions. :)

[DemoTex]

4. CA MRSA (Community-Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staph. Aureus)

I had a wicked staph infection last year. I keep alcohol-based hand sanitizer ever where. If I can't wash with soap and water I use the sanitizer. I understand completely. It's not always practical to go to a restroom to wash.

[Generic Other]

8. I do it too so I am not being hyper critical just vowing to myself

not to do it on TV in front of millions when I want their votes.

[slampoet]

12. Those kind of infections EVOLVED because people where too gung ho with the anti-bacterials.

[DemoTex]

14. I'm not a bacteriologist, but I do know what "nosocomial" and MRSA mean.

And I think they refer mostly to desensitization to antibiotics. Isopropyl and ethyl alcohol are anti-bacterial agents (not antibiotics) that I have never heard associated with nosocomial or otherwise resistant bacterial infections. The Purell hand sanitizer by my computer lists the active ingredient as 66% ethyl alcohol.

[WePurrsevere]

6. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!...

.... -One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!
<snip>
The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'
that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with
this starting.
<snip>
Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand. Oh, oh, oh!"

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act5-script-text-macbeth.htm

[Generic Other]

9. PERFECT image!!!

You nailed there. Exactly what I was seeing!!!

[WePurrsevere]

15. }:-D The hand santizing to me isn't as much the problem as....

his doing it in front of those he just shook hands with. That just seems so incredibly rude to me. Besides as long as he washes his hands really well after that and before touching his (or someone else's) face or wiping his butt he probably would be just as safe from germs as he is just mingling and all the germs in the air.

[Generic Other]

18. yes exactly

it was a dee
I wonder if he will wash his hands like this after meeting heads of state. "Hello Putin. Shake on it. Now let me wash your russkie germs off!"

[slampoet]

13. If you think Your body parts are cleaner than everyone elses, YOU ARE A BIGOT.

[leftofthedial]

16. they know that two-thirds of their base are booger-eating morons

they have no respect, no morals, no souls...

[Generic Other]

19. oh the humanity!!!! UGH

LMAO

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. Yes, they should have done that in private

Doing that in front of the cameras does send a negative message, IMO.

[Generic Other]

20. Maybe he will cut off his hand if he touches a liberal

Anyone game to see? Will he run for the disinfectant if he has to shake hands with Cindy Sheehan? Hell, the CodePink girls might drive him to take cipro and penicillin.

I really want a president who is scared of germs! Maybe he should wear surgical scrubs and a mask. Like Michael Jackson!!