Charles Krauthammer on McCain's debate performance: 'He looked odd'
By John Amato Sunday Oct 19, 2008 5:42am
I didn't get a chance to post this video from FOX's post debate wrap up, but I still think it's interesting. Krauthammer agreed with all of us and pretty much said that McCain looked like the old man who didn't get his morning newspaper during the last debate Wednesday night. He gave the decision of the third and final debate to Obama because he thought McCain had a weird way of delivering a blow and never following up with it while Obama was just too cool. And he made this candid observation about McCain's split screen performance. Even Brit Hume thought McCain looked "peculiar."
Hume: And as looking at the screen we were kind of struck here by the contrasts and the facial expressions of the two cont4estants as you will when they were not talking. Obama at times seemed to smile and amused while he was listening to some of Sen. McCain's charges. Sen. McCain in the meantime listened to what Sen Obama said he had a somewhat peculiar expression on his face, at least it struck me that way. He looked, I don't know, what did you think?
Krauthammer: I thought he looked stern, he once raised his eyebrows and lowered them rapidly which looked extremely odd (Hume laughs) and Obama as usual was remarkably unruffled. You could have had a grenade go off in the back of the room and Obama would have smoothly spoken right through it and that's his gift. He's a man of remarkable self containment and even on Palin, he was given an opening, did you see his discipline on Palin? He didn't say a single word attacking her knowing it could only alienate a lot of people and wouldn't have advanced his cause.
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McCain is whipping up fear and racist bigotry in a last ditch effort to make the polls seem close enough that the 'Bradley Effect' will be accepted as the reason he wins instead of the vote-rigging and stolen election.
If Obama was a Canadian, he would wil 80% of the seats in Parliament.
It is annoying to see the bizzaro-world that the USA has become.
What is the Most Annoying Thing???
When you go to Buffalo to shop for Communist Chinese-made tools at the Harbor Freight store, and the smell of cheap wine and body odour from the throngs of limbless aging wretches in motorized wheelchairs covered in VFW stickers begging for change in exchange for "Support the Troops" magnets, reminds you that you are now in a very foreign country.
The really annoying part is when you ask, "Should I support the ones who murdered Pat Tillman too?" and they get all red in the face and start shouting and doing wheelies chasing you, and then their colostomy bag ruptures and they suddenly realise they're covered in their own shit and the only thing they have to wipe themselves with is their handfull of of "John McCain '08" flyers.
...... wait -- that's the funny part -- the annoying part is that you wish it was Dick Cheney and George Bush sitting in those wheelchairs, but it isn't.
"Should I support the ones who murdered Pat Tillman too?"
Pat Tillman was a liberal, so yeah!
I'm joking, but the part that's not a joke is that I actually have to say I am.
if mclame wins i will be moving to Canada
hahahahaha
Very very Funny
Thank you for the laughter
LOL
you are the best.
again, thank you for the laughter....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Just because Americans wash their dirty linen in public does not mean others do not have dirty linen. Barak Obama would have a hard time winning his own riding unless it was predominantly non white. Couple of years ago, a black community center was burnt down in Nova Scotia by some racists. It was hardly a news. Just imagine similar things happening in USA. I have lived 8 years in Ohio and 4 in Ontario. People seem to have a romantic idea of Canada being devoid of racism or having less racism than USA. Only thing which is not present in Canada is the vigorous debate which happens in USA.
Agreed. There is racism in Canada.
I believe that it is not as ingrained as in the USA because the slavery heritage is different here. There is only a small black population, much smaller than the Chinese population.
We have a much more regional racism: it is OK to hate black Jamaicans in Toronto, but not Nigerians or South Africans because they have really nice British accents and sound smart.
Halifax is a hotbed of anti-black racism due to poverty.
Quebec is a hotbed of anti-Semitism, but has embraced black Haitian refugees because they speak French.
Our worst racism exists among whites near First Nations reserves.
Our shameful Indian Reservation system was what South African Aparthied was modelled after. Disgusting.
"Immigrant to Canada" seems to have missed the decades of vigorous debate about this, and the official apologies and billions of dollars in reparations paid out to try to atone for the shame of it all.
I'll vouch for that. Crossing into the USA is entering bizzaro land. Fer sure. When I get home I feel relieved.
(Although I haven't entered the USA for years and years, nor will I, not since my "journey to Auschitz" harrowing train crossing, the one with the attack dogs, automatic weapons and guys with badges terrorizing all the passengers.)
Powell endorses Obama! Watch the vid.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27265...
He spelled it out pretty good.
What an eloquent and well thought out statement from Powell on his support for Barack. This is certainly not good for McCain, especially in light of Powell's comments on Palin's total lack of experience.
Big Deal...
The Bush regime and their scorched earth fascist machine has rendered Powell as a grime statistic...
Sure he backs Obama, ... He also Backed the War in Iraq.
Even these two extremist Repiglican sewage swimmers Hume and Krauthammer can read the writing on the wall.
Between the 2:18 - 2:21 time points you can hear Brit Hume whisper, "...to what?" and something else (undiscernable) as if someone (producer in his earphone?) was instructing Hume him to ask Krauthammer a particular question or perhaps to challenge Krauthammer on something or to ask for clarification so that his commentary wouuldn't seem to be so strongly detrimental to McCain or so strongly complimentary to Obama?
he looked old
HEY HE IS OLD and cranky
check the depends
Sociopaths are able to control their facial expressions.
While we are busy with these stupid distractions, let us NOT forget that GWB is STILL IN OFFICE! Look what his group are shoving through as we are transfixed on McCains superficialities... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/...
How bad do you have to look for The Child Catcher to call you "peculiar"?
[if that doesn't make sense to you, go rent "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"]
My respect for Powell just skyrocketed. I just heard him slam Michelle Bachman for her apparent insanity. The soundbites he's provided the blogs is overwhelming. He sounds more progressive than most Democratic congressman and senators.
Also, he WILL campaign for Obama, especially if this race-baiting shit and right-wing hatred keeps up.
I missed the comments on Bachman, is there a video of it?
Powell endorsement follows the Powell Doctrine - always have an exit strategy. What good does it do when the election is already a "slam dunk"? Of course if it was closer Powell would never have risked alienating his masters down in Houston. Forget him.
When you've lost Krauthammer and Hume, you've really lost.
This was out there two weeks ago! I have admired Barack Obama's unflappable demeanor since I heard him speak in Oshkosh during the primary cycle late last winter!
http://th37.photobucket.com/albums/e52/losh61...
...Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portray...
Very sad, McCain left on campaign bus overnight.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/john_mc...
"Just to be safe they're going to take him to the D-O-C-T-O-R."
Love The Onion!!
When your own supporters start calling you "peculiar" and "odd", maybe it's time to release some medical records proving you haven't got some screws loose.
He looks heavily medicated to me. I think voters have a right to know what medications their prospective President is on.
Some of the footage from McCain rallies shows Ol' John making the weirdest faces while he's listening and reacting to what he hears. I can't decide if they shoot him up with something to perk him up and make him look alive or if he's just now started listening to other people speak and doesn't yet know how to keep a straight face.
As a Minnesotan, I am hoping that all this publicity that Mad Dog Michelle has brought upon herself, wakes up enough of her district's voters to the fact that they have an insane person representing them in the House.
McCain's expressions during the third and final debate indicate only one thing: disturbing and unstable affect along with inability by his brain to censor them. That intimate connection in McCain's brain no longer can censor inappropriate muscular reactions - dx: Invasive Melanoma may have metastasized.
McCain's facial tics and tongue thrusts seem to align pretty clearly with Tardive Dyskinesia which has shown to be present after long term use of older psychotropic drugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardive_dyskinesia
wikipedia gives a decent summary.
Which might explain the campaigns refusal to release Johnnie's medical records as there may very well be some history of mental illness.
Colin Powell definitely distances himself from the sleaze of the McCain campaign along with his disgust about his own party, namely the ideology of Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin, and Nancy Pfotenauer.
This endorsement is gigantic for Obama. Not only is Powell a staunch Republican but he's one of the foremost experts on national security issues in this country (sorry, Sarah, you've just lost your #1 spot!).
I expect a deluge now of newspapers throughout this country endorsing Barack Obama.
In fact, this is interesting and here's the link: GOP Dallas Chronicle Endorses Obama! It's getting better every day. Now let's see McCain use the "washed up old line" "We got 'em right where we want 'em" without sounding totally delusional - which he's providing to americans every day of his campaign.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/19/2122...
Even more amazing---The Trib endorses Obama---the first time in their 161 year history that they endorsed a Democrat for President.
Why should ANYONE care what water-carrying wimp-boy Colin Powell has to say?
The man will live in colossal disgrace for all of eternity and deserves absolutely no respect. How completely suspect that he is coming out and backing Obama. It reeks of the good ol' establishment rearing its ugly head.
Rupert Murdoch backs Obama for chrissake. What does that tell you?
Hey Colin--Go back to your hole, you P.O.S. WAR CRIMINAL.
Hey America, get your head out and realize the two parties are both sides of the same corporate coin.
I've done a lot of caregiving and this is what I see. It's either medication or a medical condition itself. The tics, the eyebrow raising, the tongue extension, the hand tremors, etc. I feel sorry for McCain, even while he continues to try to recapture his youth in a most pathetic way.
guy on tv says you look odd, that's saying something.
The once-revered, venerated bastion of truth in the eyes of the american people has been "outed" for it's disgraceful manipulation of the facts.
Gallup was on with the bobbleheads this morning try to "spin" it's way out of this disgraceful, now nationally recognized "total manipulation" of the polls and will cease to represent truth to the american people.
Just like Lehman Brothers who went down with the Titanic, so Gallup Poll no longer has an ounce of credibility.
If you see it coming from GALLUP POLL, know that it's a disgraceful, shameful manipulation of the true facts.
LET'S PUT GALLUP OUT OF BUSINESS TODAY!
I play a lot of poker, and I would love to have McCain at the table. All his money would be in my pocket.
Probably why Grampy prefers craps
better not be casting stones. He is super creapy looking in his own right. I dont get this guy "Charles". I reallly dont!
Did you all forget what circus these clowns travel with?
They look so sad.
It is just sooooo funny. They all look so sad. The people at Faux Noise just don't know what to do with themselves.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
is one to talk about looking odd. Back in yer hole, Chuckles!
Krauthammer looks odd. Always has.
He's also the one of the biggest neo-con pricks out there. Who gives a flying fuck what he has to say? Give me a break. The man is evil incarnate.
That other blowhole Frank Luntz said John Kerry looked like the trees throwing apples in The Wizard of Oz.
Krauthammer is the tree if ANYBODY is!
Krauthammer was still saying a lot of insane crap,... McCain 'had' Obama on abortion? What? STILL with the terrorism? Because we know how many Marxist antichristian socialists get into politics in CHICAGO.
UGH.
wingers can't help it.
thats right...i went there
obama is not hypocritical on late term abortion...or on abortion
doctors do not use the health of the mother as an excuse
ayres, wright, rezko, etc are not legitimate talking points...especially when you look at mccain's associations throughout the years....associations that have hurt this country much worse than anyone that obama has had dealings with
this little shit has been a cheerleader for bush's war and his economic policies...both which have brought us to the brink of ruination
fuck him
Yeah, it's all about style, not about substance, right. What a bunch of B.S. These clowns still don't get it. They failed and they will always be doomed to fail because they are wrong and delusional. They are failure incarnate. Hey, but, it's a way to make money if you can stomach the B.S.
saying that the bar is low. thus diminishing the Obama victory.
Is Brit, and Charles conceeding election probabilities? Now begin shifting to post election attacking of a democratic president?
You must know that they will relentlessly attack and smear until the pigs with lipstick come home.
Rush, Hannity and all the stenchy water carriers for the Republican party seems to be accepting the election of Obama and are stting the republican attack movement in motion as the promoter of the conservative agenda and try to hamper Obama and his direction.
The pot calling the kettle black?
)O(
I haven't seen Hume that befuddled in along time LOL!
I'm really concerned and annoyed by this on-going repug rationalization that bringing up these absurd allegations concerning Ayers and Wright are valid and appropriate.They are NOT.They have nothing to do with anything and are laying the ground work for a 4 year assault on Obama's presidency.Clintons time in office will seem like a walk in the park.
If Obama was looking amused it was one of two things in my opinion. He was either trying to be mannerly and annoying. Or he was trying to annoy the hell out of McCain. A smile like that says "what you're saying is really stupid but I'll listen and counter with rational thought". It also says "you're making America turn off the TV."
Charles Kraut is one of the most nasty, mean and annoying neocon pundits out there, he is John Stossel with a pedigree.
If his wheelchair was as tilted as his view of reality, he'd be on the floor continuously and we'd never have to hear from him again.
This is a man who daily pulls the libertarian/conservative line while obviously benefiting quite well from the efforts of those who fought for the governmental intrusion of the ADA.
He's one that I'd love to see demonstrate in real life, how we'd all live in a purely libertarian utopia.
Are "odd" and "peculiar" new, polite ways to say INSANE?
Forget McCain, Brit Hume looks like rigor mortis has set in, and Krauthammer looks like the embalming fluid wore off.
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