WTF is McCain doing by repeating "Obama doesn't understand" over and over?

[Bozita]

The guy who graduated 894th out of a class of 899 is telling us what a former law professor understands?

What a fucking joke!

[Stinky The Clown]

1. What he's doing is trying to win a presidential debate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Code... he could not say uppity negro... but this is code for exactly that

I hate to translate code and the decoder ring

Oh and would use the N word in an even more condescending way

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Some Americans read it loud and clear

Obama's too uppity. It's a miracle that McCain didn't call him "boy."

[godai]

4. McCain was trying to play the experience card but it came off as condescending.

Several comments that this wasn't presidential, seemed disrespectful and was overdone.

[McCCain4retirment]

5. He was like a wind up doll

[ogneopasno]

6. Well...it clearly worked with you.

nt

[vanderBeth]

7. The pundits are saying he came of condescending.

[Mike Daniels]

8. Creating a sound bite that the average voter is going to hear time and time again

on commercials starting prior to midnight tonight.

[LostInAnomie]

10. Exactly

That is going to be what most people take away from this.

[OhioChick]

9. Repetition works well with the politically ignorant. n/t

[JDPriestly]

11. McCain's disparagement of Obama failed.

It cast doubt on McCain's credibility. That is because Obama proved it wrong by answering the questions so capably.

All Obama had to do was to show that he does understand the foreign policy issues, that he has the facts and figures at his fingertips. I loved Obama's response to McCain's tired old campaign speech chestnut about the bracelet.

Obama made big points with that one. In fact it showed the world that Obama does understand.

Again when it came to sitting down with leaders of countries with whom we disagree. Obama prevailed because he was able to show that he understands the difference between conditions and preparation. Obama turned McCain's accusation right back on McCain.

The number of times that Obama turned the debate tables on McCain was just amazing.

Good job, Obama.

McCain lost big time. He lost on the level of the subconscious of the voters.

Obama seemed like a cool, collected, in charge kind of man. He really seemed up to the job.

McCain's worst faux pas was at the end when he criticized Obama as lacking the experience that McCain has.

When he said that, I saw Sarah Palin's face right before my eyes and laughed and said out loud, "Sarah Palin." I suspect that viewers were thinking and saying "Sarah, Sarah, Sarah" all across America.

McCain made a horrible mistake with that comment. It made him seem mean but also two-faced. Not only that, but it made me (and I'm sure others) wonder whether he remembered at the moment that he said it that he chose Sarah Palin.

If I had been Sarah Palin watching the debate, I would have cringed and sunk down into my chair. I sure hope Ms. Palin turned the sound down real low before McCain made that remark. That was the remark that will be remembered long after this presidential election.

[vanlassie]

13. I agree. McCain was an Asshole. Obama was Rational and Informed.

[suffragette]

12. Trying again to co-opt Obama's points

McCain even said "doesn't get it" in there. Trying to steal and undercut that phrase just like he has tried with "Change."
He parrots the words, but clearly has no concept that there needs to be substance behind them.
He and his campaign can't seem to come up with anything original.

[Naturyl]

14. First rule of sales: repetition, repetition, repetition.

And some more repetition for good measure.

[Wizard777]

15. Let keep it up. If you were watching CNN's audience reaction graph.

When Mc Cain went negative on Obama like that. So did the audience reaction with Dems and Independants. It dipped right into the negative range. So going negative cost's McCain. He gets no gains with it outside the republican party. But when Obama went negative on McCain. He drop into the negative range. At some points he even derived gains from it. So Obama has the greater latitue to go negative.

[malaise]

16. Obama will throw that back at him in the next two debates

The American people understand eight years of failure. The American people understand you budget cut backs. Throw it back at him.