McCain was "irked by footage of Obama swaggering along, dangling his coat coolly over his shoulder"

[ecstatic]

From "The Great Debates" article:

McCain's coaches worried about the candidate's undisguised disdain for Obama. McCain dismissed his opponent as grandiose. He found Obama to be affected; he was irked by footage of Obama swaggering along, dangling his coat coolly over his shoulder. For the battered McCain, whose arms were so stiff that he could not raise them to comb his own hair, Obama's smooth-operator style was pretentious.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167950/output/print

Edited to add one of the pics that might have upset McCain :rofl:

[polichick]

1. McShame is a BITTER LITTLE MAN.

[madaboutharry]

22. That is the best way to put it.

You're right. He is a bitter little man. Americans saw that and it turned them off. After all we have been through, we do want someone who we believe will bring this country into the 21st century and work hard to make us a better nation and a better people.

[City Lights]

27. Indeed. nt

[Whisp]

40. a bitter and jealous little man.

obama has it all going for him and the rotter can't grow old gracefully but will grind his teeth down in jealousy.

[Quantess]

61. Indeed. His bitter, grumpy, jealousy did him in.

McCain seemed so much more admirable before the election. People don't want a cranky, jealous leader.

[No Elephants]

99. "Seemed" being the operative word, IMO. He's been a rotter since he was a toddler.

[MyNameGoesHere]

95. Close bit it's "Bitter little half a man" n/t

[NYCGirl]

2. Grampy sounds like he may be a bit — excuse the term — bitter. NT

[stray cat]

3. McCain was always the attention seeking frat boy funny but not confident and cool

[ErinBerin84]

4. haha

I love the part about how they showed McCain a clip of Biden in the debate, and McCain laughed and said "He looks like an angry old man senator!"...and there was silence from his advisors in the room, wondering if McCain understood the irony...

[Dennis Donovan]

5. If THAT "bothered" him, his temperment was obviously unsuited for POTUS...

:thumbsdown:

[alsame]

16. Yep, and he couldn't even hide it. All that contempt came

through loud and clear during the debates and the public didn't like it.

[Supersedeas]

90. Pathetic really

[WI_DEM]

6. Oh come on McCain get real.

[smoogatz]

7. McCain resented having to run against a young, charismatic black guy

in other words. The whole Republican establishment was really behind the notion of Hillary's inevitability from the get-go; they had a game plan for her, but they had no idea what to do with Obama.

[coalition_unwilling]

78. I was not a big fan of Hillary (IWR), but I think she would have also

wiped the floor in a head-to-head with McBush. Hillary would have come across as statesmanlike whereas McBush never once did, imho.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

83. Same sentiment.

No (big) fan of Hill.

She would have equally crushed him.

[Kahuna]

104. Definately. I felt for Hillary on election night. Even though she

pissed me off royally during the primary fight, I knew that she was fighting so hard because she knew whoever won the Dem nomination would win the general.

[Auggie]

Obama drips cool

[ipfilter]

8. What was Obama supposed to do?

Tie his hands behind his back?

[Chulanowa]

67. If I understand McCain's campaign right

Obama should have been chained to seven other guys with ankle shackles, cleaning a roadside while singing "Wade in the Water"

Dumbfucks

[Arugula Latte]

80. And then at the debate McCain expected Obama to say: "Yassuh, Mistah McCain!"

"Yo sho' are correct, there, Suh!"

[budkin]

9. Sorry, appearance matters

It's just the way it is.

[Jawja]

100. Especially since

our current Moran occupant of the White House looks stupid and like a monkey a lot of the time. Americans were ready for a good-looking "cool dude." He will never embarrass us by looking like a chump or idiot.

[Betsy Ross]

10. What was Obama reading? n/t

[stray cat]

11. Fereed Zakara's book it looks like (sorry about the spelling)

[Connie_Corleone]

13. The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria

[Lex]

28. I love Fareed's show on CNN at 1pm on Sundays. He's so smart.

The book looks like an execellent read:

http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-World-Fareed-Zakaria/dp/039306235X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226078891&sr=8-1

[TwilightGardener]

12. He hates Obama because Obama has full range of motion? Does he hate Cindy for that too? Or

all of his advisors? Or most of America?

[ecstatic]

15. That would explain a lot! LOL nt

[ProgressiveEconomist]

91. "Does he hate Cindy for that"? Has anyone kept track of how often she raises her

arms in victory or in big"pageant" waves to audiences? You may have something there. Cindy's body language to me seems to yell, "Walking on eggshells" in a dysfunctional family.

[bobd0]

14. Has McCain been "irked" for the past eight years by Bush's swagger? n/t

[redqueen]

21. Considering what a suck up he's been, I'm guessing no. (nt)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

77. Bush in a flight suit rolling his hips on an aircraft carrier runway and doing his little turn

on the catwalk had to be hard to take for McCain. After all, he thinks he's the only war hero in politics and he must look upon Chicken George with disdain for parading his ass in a uniform like a war hero. If McCain could put aside his disdain for Bush, I think there must be a little more involved in his contempt for Obama than just his cool, calm, and collected look.

[Ian David]

17. ...

"What time is it? Oh, it's OBAMA TIME!"

Let's all put this photo on post cards and send them to McCain.

[Raschel]

73. That picture is the greatest!! It almost looks like he's whistling. lol I LOVE IT!

[Ian David]

18. What book is that Obama is reading?

[nyhuskyfan]

25. The Post-American World

The right tried to make it an issue on blogs - that he was reading a book by a Muslim calling for the end of America.

The author was Muslim - and also a Newsweek reporter (Fareed Zakaria - sp?). And the Post-American World he was referring to discussed the future economic growth of other nations, not the end of America (I haven't read it, so somebody else can speak better on the subject).

[Lex]

30. Fareed has an excellent show on CNN and the book sounds good

Go to the Amazon page and scroll down a bit and Fareed Z. and Thomas Friedman discuss the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-World-Fareed-Zakaria/dp/039306235X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226078891&sr=8-1

[Ian David]

31. If *I* were Obama, I would let myself be photographed carrying...

Reading Mastery II: Storybook 1 by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner (ISBN 0-02-686355-3)



See:

The Pet Goat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pet_Goat

[Earth Bound Misfit]

37. I got a chain e-mail from a freeper (ex) friend about that..

[ecstatic]

32. I wonder if Bush read one single book during his presidency

Besides, of course, the infamous My Pet Goat. :eyes:

[bedazzled]

96. i recall him carrying around a book about roosevelt

i won't say he read it because there weren't
enough pictures for him and it was wayyyy
too long.

don't think he's graduated to the hardy boys
yet

[No Elephants]

101. LOL< for a second, I thought you meant Obama. I was about to alert!

[bedazzled]

102. nah, obama gets to read the grown-up stuff - big words and everything!

it'll be nice to have a president who has
an i.q. above the single digits for a change.

[Drunken Irishman]

65. The Communist Manifesto.

[Dappleganger]

19. and McCain was the quintessential pilot

My father served aboard the Enterprise as an airman, and regularly serviced McCain's plane. McCain was well-known as a cocky, asshole of a pilot who bragged almost non-stop about his 'exploits', flying, family, etc. Hardly anyone who wasn't a pilot liked him, and the others just tolerated him on that ship from what my father recalls.

So for John McCain to have this kind of attitude, to me seems like karma.

[olkaz]

20. Can we back off McCain for a little while?

There is going to be an opportunity to get his help in the next few years.

I believe everybody deserves the opportunity to redeem themselves.

[Ian David]

33. I'm sorry, for a moment I thought you were serious. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

41. Yeah--I was all "WTF"? Back off?

[AzDar]

23. Obama is spaceman-cool, while McCain is the textbook example of 'white and uptight'.

Just LOOK at him...:loveya:

[zingaro]

24. Poor poor old McBitter.

McCain's hatred for Obama was so evident throughout the campaign. The debates illuminated it and that concession speech was nicely worded but very insincerely delivered.

It's time for McCain to sit down and shut up now. His "maverick" card has been revoked.

[Virginia Dare]

26. LOL! Maybe that's what's got Pooty's britches in a bunch!...

Obama's got some awesome psyops going there, keep it real O!....:applause:

[musicblind]

29. I understand where McCain his coming from given his injuries BUT

I really just think Obama is being himself. I mean, would you want a candidate to pretend to be stiff and uncomfortable if they are not? Obama is a new kind of candidate in many different ways.

[alcibiades_mystery]

34. You can parse that anyway you want, but everybody knows what that signifies

It's racism. Pure and simple. His inability to even look at Obama at the first debate was another clear symptom.

[tigereye]

35. damn! Obama just looks good!

[LoKnLoD]

36. You could taste his bitterness

You could taste his bitterness in his posture, his refusal to look at Barack and his "That one" comment in the debates.

[NorthCarolina]

38. The jacket thing is BS, what really bothered McCain to his Core Being

is that Obama is BLACK.

[all.of.me]

39. It's called confidence, not grandiosity. Sheesh.....

I don't imagine McCain knows a thing about confidence, though. It's foreign to him, so it freaks him out.

[road2000]

76. Either word in McCain's case

is probably code for "uppity."

[all.of.me]

89. lol - You're right.

[Cha]

42. Fuck the LIAR mccain and his jealous ass

attitude. Maybe if his word were his bond then he wouldn't be so jealous of someone who is a genuinely nice person.

[old mark]

43. Ya know, I'll bet Obama looks like he does

just to piss McCain off.
Gosh, he's probably black just to piss Mccain off....

Another mentally ill republican.

mark

[TwilightGardener]

44. Sweetest of all is the fact that the two people who seemed to have the most

contempt and disdain for Obama during the primary and the general election were both whooped by him. I love it. Hillary seems to have more respect for him now, maybe McCain will too--I guess Obama's winning was the only way to command it from them.

[justiceischeap]

45. Hmmm David Axelrod is gloomy by nature

"Axelrod's gloomy nature was working overtime, imagining scenarios that would bring the whole triumphant processional to a nightmare ending."

It seems Axelrod and Rachel Maddow would get along perfectly! ;)

[zulchzulu]

46. I guess if I was a fake war hero whose first moves were with Keating, I'd...

...hate an uppity n*gger too...

Fuck. You. McCain.

[Gregorian]

47. Authoritarian.

He's jealous.

[yeswecanandwedid]

48. That's MY President, yo!!! Shine baby, shine! nt

[ecstatic]

57. I must admit... the coat picture is sooooo smooth!

Like Matrix cool. "Chill out, I got this!" :rofl:

[yeswecanandwedid]

59. yep..

"I got this"

[BrotherBuzz]

49. Muhammad Ali won some fights before he even entered the ring!

McLoser, you fell for it and got pwnd! :rofl:

[slampoet]

50. McCain was so angry he cancelled his subscription to GQ and Esquire.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

51. This coming from a man that divorced his

first wife due to her disabilities. Life has a way
of coming back and biting you in the ass.

Tough shit McCain!

[AtomicKitten]

52. Obama has left those that demeaned him in his wake.

[The Magistrate]

53. Indeed, Ma'am: President Obama Is A Smooth Operator....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLPunVhToo

[autorank]

54. What's the book he's holding?

Obama's cool, he looks good in Target or Armani.

McCain is finished. Adios.

[InternalDialogue]

55. McCain's disdain for Obama barely masks

what I believe is a bit of a man-crush.

"Thinks he's so cool... I hate him! "

[fed_up_mother]

56. McCain is envious of Obama's youth. That's not so unusual

Especially when that youth was used against him....in a thousand little ways. It must be so hard campaigning against someone like that!

[Eurobabe]

58. Hey McCrypt....SUCK IT. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

60. McSame needs to double up on his ExLax.

[maxsolomon]

62. obama's not THAT cool

he's wearing a PDA holster & pleated pants!

[progressoid]

68. Hey, some of us still like pleated pants.

Maybe they'll come back in style after Jan 20 and I can wear them again without abuse from my family
(if I can fit into them :eyes:)

[maxsolomon]

84. some people still like lard on their toast

doesn't mean it's good for them!

unfortunately, it's hard to buy a suit without pleats. at least it's single pleats.

[MaryEllen9399]

79. One question about the PDA

I know President-elect Obama uses a Blackberry (he has been on celebrityblackberrysightings.com) Once he becomes president, will be allowed to use his blackberry due to security reasons?

[Orsino]

63. "Uppity."

:puke:

[yellowcanine]

64. Heh. Nixon/Kennedy redux. Nixon used to get irked that Kennedy was always being shown sailing, etc

So Nixon's aides set up a photo op of Nixon walking along the beach at San Clemente - in his street clothes, right down to the dress shoes. :rofl:

"Recalling pictures of Kennedy at Cape Cod, Nixon decided that he too should be photographed strolling the beach. So one summer day in 1970, after weeks of high-level planning, reporters and photographers were summoned to a picturesque San Clemente bluff near Nixon's California home. But when the president emerged, the reporters were stunned. "Good Christ," one remarked, "he's wearing shoes!" The president, marching stiffly across the sands in trousers and formal shoes, looked not Kennedyesque but like someone trying to look Kennedyesque."

[ecstatic]

69. rofl. Thanks for that

History tends to repeat itself.



EPIC FAIL

[yellowcanine]

72. OMG. Had not seen "that one" before. With a fedora, it might "work".

[MaryEllen9399]

82. Nixon was pathlogically jealous of JFK nt

[yellowcanine]

85. And note that this "photo op" took place in 1970 - after JFK was long gone and Nixon was prez.

Clearly a pathological fixation.

[TexasObserver]

66. Why would a really short, bald, fat, ugly, inarticulate 72 year old man be jealous of Obama?

It makes no sense!!



I would love to watch that little dork blow his stack good over Obama, and you know he'll be doing that once a week the next four years.

[Clio the Leo]

70. There are those BLASTED pleated, tapered legged pants again....

.... see how much better the pants in the second picture look?

(Just ignore me.)

[Raschel]

74. Why do I keep thinking of the song "I'm bringing sexy back"?

Those pants are funny and Obama's a nerd. But he is one sexy nerd!

[beachmom]

71. I couldn't figure that one out.

That is not a real reason to dislike someone.

[silverweb]

75. That fits.

McCain was a narcissistic spoiled rich brat... a lousy student... a lousy pilot... and a hard-drinking, bad-tempered party boy who treated others (especially women) like shit. His nickname from those days, "McNasty," says it all.

His "war hero" status was something thrust upon him that he merely managed to survive, and he built his entire subsequent career on a carefully crafted mythology surrounding it.

Now, in his declining years, he's lost what he feels has been his due. He's been defeated by a brilliant, graceful, faithful, honest man who actually cares about the people who make up this nation as well as the rest of the world.

Sorry, McNasty. Your sense of entitlement and your bitterness mean nothing. Your day is done.

[Jennicut]

81. My God, talk about petty jealousy. It was not Obama's fault that McCain was a former POW

and had injuries. I also disliked his use of "Joe the Biden" for his "former " friend. McCain's jealousy and dislike for both men showed through during the campaign. Barack and Joe always said nice things about McCain personally and while many here did not like that it served to show a contrast to McCain's and Palin's pettyness.

[Blue_In_AK]

86. And McCain is no doubt pissed

that his trophy VP pick didn't make him look better. :rofl:

[youthere]

87. Fuck McCain...Obama is like a page out of GQ.

[Dem2theMax]

88. Can we help it if our President is cooler than James Bond?

:loveya:

[PatriotGames]

92. I think Obama looks "cool" and commands repsect. That is a good thing, IMO. n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

93. Who gives a flying fuck what McCranky thinks?! What a loooooo-ser!

[liberalla]

94. What weird stuff to be irked by...

how he walks and how he holds his coat? bizarre...

:wtf:

and grandiose? I don't get even the slightest hint of 'grandiose' when I watch him.

[bedazzled]

97. obama's got this rat pack ocean's eleven level of cool going on

mccain can never command that level of style
and class and is to immature to accept it

[No Elephants]

98. Soooo....Does he bend his head, or does someone else inflict that combover on him?

[WinkyDink]

103. Even hot-shot pilots get old, Johnny.

[bunkerbuster1]

105. Excellent point about Saddleback that I'd missed

from the newsweek article linked in the OP:

He knew that he had delivered a mediocre to weak performance at the Saddleback forum in August. In what amounted to a preview of the formal presidential debates, the two candidates had agreed to be interviewed back to back by the Rev. Rick Warren, the bestselling evangelist, at his megachurch in California. McCain delivered short, punchy answers, and most pundits declared that he had won the day. Obama plowed along in his ponderous professor mode.

I guess we should thank Rick Warren for those sandbag questions and ridiculous format. It was a wake-up call and made Obama redouble his efforts to shine in the debates, it would appear.