When McCain says "my friends" WTF is he really saying?

[RiverStone]

Can someone translate his repeated, ad nauseum, tired and worn out use of the term.......

:wtf: is he actually meaning when he says it?

[MadBadger]

1. He's Channelling Reagan.

[ngant17]

6. It probably means he's just an old-fashioned, classic imperialist

imperial as in 'Roman Imperialist'. See Shakespeare, "Julius Ceaser".

Marc Anthony excerpt: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them...My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me."

Well, maybe he's not that old. And it's one thing to be a classic imperialist, but I am fairly sure he will become the American Cato, i.e. "Carthage must be destroyed!". Has the Cato Institute officially endorsed him yet? Will there be many Carthages?

[sandnsea]

2. "hello friends and conservatives"

Merle on Maher, said with a totally straight face. :rofl: I thought I would die. What a dis.

I don't know what the hell McCain is doing but I'd rather hear "hello friends and liberals", at least it's honest!

[Azathoth]

3. He's such a friendly guy

[rodeodance]

4. kinda like what biden said about rudy applies to mccain-a noun, a verb and 'my friends"

[cyclezealot]

5. You really think he is not a neocon /federalist type.

Probably Paul Wolfowitz and William Kristol.

[Byronic]

7. He wants to be Teddy Roosevelt.

It's an interesting, almost Victorian, vocal trait. I think only somebody who was probably around at the time of Teddy Roosevelt, maybe even Abraham Lincoln, and William Ewart Gladstone, could get away with it. So that's McCain's niche in this race: 19th century statesman (His TR side is his bold, modern look).

He loves Teddy Roosevelt, who often spoke this way.

It's like when some politicians for years after the Kennedy Presidency used JFK-esque mannerisms. He became a model to emulate.

Unfortunately McCain's model to emulate (a fine president admittedly) died in 1919.

[Tennessee Gal]

8. That habit has really gotten on my nerves.

What is he channeling?

[cboy4]

9. It's a substitute for the word "dumb fuck."

I notice he's always saying it when he's getting angry.

[zbdent]

10. like the host of Romper Room ..

"I see Billy, and Cindy, and Joseph, and ..."

Rattle out a bunch of names, and the target sheep think he's talking to them ...

[FormerDittoHead]

11. The people who are telling him what to say and do, of course. W's friend is Cheney... n/t

[leftofthedial]

12. you poor, powerless fucks, whose support I need now,

but for whom I really have nothing but contempt