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So Angry
Talking Points Memo —
McCain's unwillingness to make eye contact with Obama through the debate seems to be getting picked up by a lot of observers. Here's an interesting exchange on the subject between Chris Matthews and the Post's Eugene Robinson ...
Here's one comment we got from TPM Reader EO ...
As a psychotherapist and someone who treats people with anger management problems, we typically try to educate people that anger is often an emotion that masks other emotions. I think it's significant that McCain didn't make much, if any, eye contact because it suggests one of two things to me; he doesn't ...
McCain "needs to make an opponent an enemy in his mind to kind of get up for this. He personalizes conflict..."
Althouse —
That's WaPo's Eugene Robinson, responding to Chris Matthews, who's fulminating about McCain's supposed contempt for Obama: I was watching the debate on a channel that mainly had a split screen of the 2 men head on, so it was hard for me to discern the level of interaction. But I do think McCain had a strategy of intimidating Obama and making him feel small and inexperienced. And, frankly, Robinson is right! McCain does personalize conflict. He has such a dramatic and profound personal story, and he's made it the foundation of his rhetoric. He uses it to reinforce his credibility and to add ...
Contempt
Political Animal —
CONTEMPT.... After the initial dust settles on a presidential candidate debate, Phase II begins -- the media moves beyond who said what, and starts looking for some overlooked trend to obsess over. The quintessential example was, of course, Al Gore...
Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 17 times) McCain and Obama I could barely watch the “deate” last night. Quotes are required as no “debate” ever transpires in these joint public appearances. It’s “Beauty Contest” all the way with Image Over Substance at every step. If you’re my age you doubtless recall the Kennedy-Nixon “debate” in which JFK’s handsome youthfulness trounded “Tricky Dick’s ” five o’clock shaodow, despite the fact that he had little of any real significance to say. This time out Obama’s composed cool won out over McCain’s rude smugness verging on angry explosion. One was expecting him to pop a vein any moment. In fact no less a meat puppet eminence than Tweety ...
McCain Contempt for Obama?
Garling Gauge —
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Brett Ashley McKenzie: McCain's Lack of Eye Contact Condescending
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
You have to try pretty hard to not look at someone while you're shaking their hand. Yet John McCain managed that feat not once, but twice during the debates.
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, given that McCain hardly glanced in his rival's direction at all this evening, even when he was being directly spoken to or prodded by Jim Lehrer to address Senator Obama directly.
John McCain has appeared out of touch all week, but Friday night, he appeared outright extraterrestrial. Barack Obama maintained his composure, unsurprisingly, respectfully agreeing with John McCain when he made a point that resonated, and interjecting confidently to correct ...
Old McCain vs. 'That One'
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Featured Stories, Debates If there was one answer that seemed to epitomize John McCain's lackluster performance in Tuesday's presidential debate with Barack Obama, it came when Tom Brokaw asked each man whether the federal government should start a Manhattan-project-like task force to attend to the country's energy woes, or whether it should fund the thousands of small business who are already busy picking up the government's slack response. At the heart of the question was what, exactly, the role of government should be to fix what both ...
“That one.”
The Republic of T. —
At least he didn’t say “That boy,” but he was just one word off. I heard it, and I saw it. I saw it first, actually, during the first debate when McCain refused to look Obama in the eye.
I heard it again when that white Republican congressman from Kentucky referred to Obama as “that boy.” I heard it before when that white Republican congressman from Georgia referred to Obama as “uppity,” and the later said that he had never heard it used in a racially derogatory sense. (Even though he grew up in Atlanta during the ...
"That one."
Booman Tribune —
I heard it again when that white Republican congressman from Kentucky referred to Obama as "that boy." I heard it before when that white Republican congressman from Georgia referred to Obama as "uppity," and the later said that he had never heard it used in a racially derogatory sense. (Even though he grew up in Atlanta during the 1950s.) I heard it again when a radio host promoted a video of a pastor calling Obama's mother "trash." At least he didn't say "white trash," but he was only one word off. I saw it again when a Fox News graphic labeled Michelle Obama a "baby mama." [image] I saw it when a Georgia bar owner sold ...
