"That One"

I think McCain showed us his arrogance and condescendence more than once tonight.

The first one was early on the debate when he corrected the young black man who asked the questions about how the bailout would benefit him, he corrected him by telling him that he likes to refer to it as the "rescue plan" and then made the outrageous assumption that the young man probably had never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac :eek: , what the hell was that all about!!??

Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:

I think McCain showed us his arrogance and condescendence more than once tonight.

The first one was early on the debate when he corrected the young black man who asked the questions about how the bailout would benefit him, he corrected him by telling him that he likes to refer to it as the "rescue plan" and then made the outrageous assumption that the young man probably had never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac :eek: , what the hell was that all about!!??

Yeah, that was weird too. Even if you hadn't heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a year ago, which may very well be the case with some younger and first time voters--who hasn't heard about this in the last two weeks? And of those people who heard and wasn't familiar with either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac didn't bother to look them the fuck up? How stupid, careless or lazy do you have to be at this point to be a registered voter and not have at least some understanding of them at this point?

Again, condescending. Definitely a hallmark of McCain's campaign thus far.

Strangest Tribe wrote:

This is how my old man used to call out the farm help.

The farm help would gather at the barn in the morning for their instructions and the white help was always called by name and the black workers "that one"

"Floyd, set up the pivot irrigation on the corn today and take..... uh....that one and that one with you"

ST I can understand what you're saying with the comment of *That One* Earlier this year there was a case in a Palm Beach Florida private country club where something like what you're saying happened. The club who had Hispanic, Black people working there who never wore name tags and were never called by name. Whites who worked there wore name tags and were called by name, at this club Jews are discouraged into NOT becoming members.

They were sued and and had to pay out in the hundred of thousands range. I can't find the story but that kind of discrimination STILL exists today.

Peace

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Yeah, I caught that.... I had to ask my wife if she thought he was generalizing his statement or if he was directly answering the young man. She said she thought he was talking directly to the young man...I said I thought so too...that was kinda rude....

He has generalized that though because just a few days back he was talking to CNN in their morning show and he once again said "Most people probably hadn't even heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before this crisis" and I was like WTF??? what kind of uneducated out of touch bunch do you think we are??!! :eek:

anyone catch, earlier on the debate, "That One" is talking, and McCain looks into the crowd, makes a hand gesture, and gives a dismissive look? There was only one person on the stage tonight that was Presidential. And one person who was denied the Treasury Secretary job, even though he never applied for it. And meg Whitman for Treasury? She's an economist? What other jobs will McCain give his suporters? Rudy for Atty gen?

I don't feel like he meant it as bad as it came across. But he needs to think more before he speaks. God forbid he becomes President and says such offensive things to other world leaders. I'm no McCain fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the old guy keeps fucking up so much that I'm almost starting to feel sorry for him.

scb wrote:

I don't feel like he meant it as bad as it came across. But he needs to think more before he speaks. God forbid he becomes President and says such offensive things to other world leaders. I'm no McCain fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the old guy keeps fucking up so much that I'm almost starting to feel sorry for him.

how about when he walked right in front of the camera at the end of the debate, and had to be asked to move by Brokaw. Grampa Simpson is running for President.

nothinghead wrote:

You know, I didn't think it was so much a racial statement or a derogatory comment--I thought if anything it was a condescending remark (I know, McCain...condescending...you're shocked) more than anything else. Something that typifies the way that he either views Obama, wants his constituents to, or both.

Either way, the key goal of this debate seemed to have been (or should have been) to win over moderate and undecided voters. Saying, "that one," in the manner he did, was clearly not the best strategy for doing so.

this is what i thought. "saying that one, not this one" meaning candidate.

still fucked up though.

Big deal.

It's not like he said "that black one" and pointed.
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I do however think that McCain really hates Obama, not really because of race. But who knows, what we do know is McCain has a poor voting record, has bad policies and would probably make a worse leader than Bush.