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Exactly. There are ways to handle questions like that. A good candidate knows how to calm crowds without completely destroying the main reason people are voting for him.
McCain’s strongest argument has always been that he is the safe choice, the known quantity who can be trusted to lead the country, unlike that other guy with the weird name and dubious background. He has now utterly and completely undermined that argument. The swing voters who are doing a final gut-check on Obama just got told by McCain, of all people, that is safe to vote for Obama. In words that McCain can understand, “Whiskey tango foxtrot!”
How long before McDole starts refering to himself in the third person?
RE: “In the future, McCain should either say nothing, OR the best thing to say is “I’m sorry to hear people say these things BUT I’m here to tell you all what I can do for this country. I don’t speak for Obama.”
That would be good —
The last debate is coming right up and even before that night McCain will have opportunities to refer back to today’s misstep and say something to the effect that while he tries to see Obama as a decent family guy, he realizes his comment was misinterpreted by many and that he truly does NOT feel Obama is appropriate nor prepared to be President.