Who could argue? In my post I added “from his point of view” - which biting my tongue, I didn’t say (but I hope inferred) is fucking insane.
And it’s a hell of a lot easier to make charges in a debate, it’s something else to refute them in real time.
Or, as we say here on the Dope-“CITE?” McCain makes the claim-it’s up to HIM to back it up, and provide a cite for it.
I don’t think he’ll blow up-but I don’t think he’ll own up to it. He’ll probably end up choking.
That’s a damned good point. I’m starting to think he’s showing early signs of senility-he’s older than Reagan was when the latter took office.
Look, I want nothing more than McCain to fall on his face, but this is an Obama circle-jerk. Association doesn’t require photographic irrefutable proof, it only requires insinuation, it’s the 21st century Red Scare. I don’t see a See It Now moment with Murrow coming anytime soon.
“Full extent of the relationship”? WTF? Does he want Obama to admit they dated for a few months or what?
Obama gave one of the lengthier explanations regarding Ayers I’ve heard recently.
I typed out a transcript of Obama’s explanation from the audio but it occurs to me that it may violate SDMB policy to post it. The article gives a pretty good condensed version if you can’t listen to the audio for whatever reason.
Just a booty call. Not really dating.
Yeah. They both agreed that since neither of them was with someone, and you know, they were both cool, they could be cool with it. And if either of them found something serious, the other one would bow out, like, no questions asked. And together they would destroy America, you know, unless things got weird.
This of course is the point. It looks bad if he doesn’t say it to his face and it looks bad if he does. If he does then Obama can calmly call him out on the low road the McCain campaign has travelled and it would be hard for McCain to not get at least “testy” responding to that. Plays into the “erratic and angry” McCain storyline that Team Obama is promoting (with some justification). The format at the town hall protected McCain from his temper some; perhaps the next debate won’t be so kind.
I thought one of Obama’s best moments in the primaries was when Clinton took up Ayers and the Weather Underground and just ran with it… long after people were interested- and what a disgrace Ayers/Weather Underground were to society.
Obama responded by pointing out that her husband had pardoned or commuted the sentence of Weather Underground members, thus her own association might need some vetting. Major applause.
I think he may have something like that about McCain. I’m really amazed by how little’s been made about the Keating Five concerning current banking scandal headlines (and the fact McCain was “older and more experienced” then than Obama is now).
John Stewart said it best. “Looks like beneath Mccain’s gloves… were softer gloves!”
Interviewer: “…have you always been covered in your adult life by a taxpayer financed health care plan?”
McCain: “blah, blah… astronaut… blah, blah…”
Sweet.
If I had to pick one, it was the day McCain announced he was suspending his campaign to save the economy. He’s been bouncing from one odd decision to the next ever since.
It was when he picked Palin for his running mate. The early adulation, the sudden realization, the sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach, the dread of impending catastrophe, the manic denials. Marvelous stuff.
I think I should compose an opera about all this.
GOPerdammerung?
For McCain? Il Sciocco
Posts like this are why I was happy to pay the $15. And jayjay’s, immediately after it.
POWgliacci
I’ve never seen an opera, so I don’t get these jokes. Dammit, I should have known this was some kind of elitist messageboard. Where do the regular joe sixpacks hang out? 
They already wrote an opera about it. La Traviata is about a dying whore.
Powlgliacci = Pagliacci = opera about Johnnio a fucking clown