It’s got to be frustrating as heck to be a McCain supporter – or campaign worker – these days.<\/p>\n
We had a debate tonight in which – reading the transcript – McCain more than held his own. But watching it on TV in a bar (as I did), Johnny Mac didn’t do so well…<\/p>\n
I said a while ago that the race would depend on which McCain showed up at the debates, the smiling fighter jock or the grumpy old guy.<\/p>\n
McCain had two “grouchy old guy” moments – the “that one” moment when discussing the banking crisis:<\/p>\n
By the way, my friends, I know you grow a little weary with this back-and-forth. It was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney.<\/p>\n
\nYou know who voted for it? You might never know. That one.<\/b> You know who voted against it? Me. I have fought time after time against these pork barrel — these bills that come to the floor and they have all kinds of goodies and all kinds of things in them for everybody and they buy off the votes.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And then after the debate – and maybe I was the only one who saw it – as Obama was working the audience (and did you notice how everyone in the audience – all those undecided voters – wanted a picture with him) McCain came up and tapped him on the shoulder. Obama turned, and reached out to shake his hand, and McCain refused, gesturing at Cindy as though she had asked to shake his hand.<\/p>\n
That deep dislike came across during the whole debate. I don’t know why Obama is such a target for McCain, but it keeps McCain cast in that “get off my lawn” mode, and the simple truth is that grouchy old guys don’t get elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Armed Liberal wants to get off McCain’s lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}