it's a crazy big man with four arms and two heads!

residue, you are being silly. he was clearly deffending everyone else at his rallies who were acting normal.

he even refered to the racist hecklers as fringe people, meaning a faction of people outside the regular group who hold views that do not represent most McCain supports and are alot more extreme.

you need to listen to what is being said in this clip, residue, not hear what you want to hear.

i would downvote, if i could, for the title and blatant misrepresentation of your title and description, and for the fact that the four armed two headed man will give me nightmares for weeks.

I thought from this clip Obama made his points better.

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Not sure why wjolson objects so strongly. In response to Obama's mentioning people yelling "Kill him" and "terrorist" McCain did essentially say, "Everyone at my rallies are great people and I refuse to respond to anything they say regardless of what it is because they're that great."

Huh? explain where in that video does he defend the people yelling stupidities?

What he did was sort of missed the point and dodged a part of the question, I give you that. But defend the 'angry part' of his mobs? I don't know, point me out the part where this takes place because I don't see it or am missing it. A key word here was 'fringe' Given that word I don't see how you made the conclusion that this was about the defense of the racist, angry mobs.



The point was that those people yelling stupid stuff have been given enough, what's the word....clearance? incentives, etc to yell those things because of the nature of the ads and words from Palin.

He is not defending them but he did not admit responsibility for it, and probably tried to give his answer as if senator Obama had made a generalization about the entire group of people that was present in those town hall meetings, which Obama obviously didn't, but McCain I don't know what he was thinking when he gave that answer, it had little to do with the issue.

Just as mccain made the mistake of thinking obama was generalizing about the entire group of mccain supporters, I think we should not generalize that all the people present when those things were yelled supported those statements. There are always retards around, thing is in this case mccain's campaign allowed for them to gain more ground and attracted more of them. thats what he gets for playing dirty.

Obama's rebuttal hands McCain's ass to him.

I'm proud of these people?
Dedicated and patriotic to threaten to kill a presidential candidate? really?

McCain would have done better to change the topic.

He also manages to look completely insincere with his fake but frustrated smile while Obama is talking.

I understand your points, he just seemed to be more interested in how Obama is in the wrong for taking such offense to some silly harmless comments such as "kill him" by good outstanding citizens. I mean right after he said there are going to be fringe groups, he immediately attacked Obama for criticizing all of his supporters rather than addressing the issue with the fringe groups. If the topic is ABOUT the fringe groups, why pretend that Obama is attacking the collective group of McCain supporters?

McCain:
"But to somehow say that group of young women who said "Military wives for McCain" are somehow saying anything derogatory about you, but anything -- and those veterans that wear those hats that say "World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq," I'm not going to stand for people saying that the people that come to my rallies are anything but the most dedicated, patriotic men and women that are in this nation and they're great citizens.
And I'm not going to stand for somebody saying that because someone yelled something at a rally -- there's a lot of things that have been yelled at your rallies, Senator Obama, that I'm not happy about either."

All he really said to address the mobs was this:
"Let me just say categorically I'm proud of the people that come to our rallies. Whenever you get a large rally of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, you're going to have some fringe peoples. You know that. And I've -- and we've always said that that's not appropriate."

I mean cmon Obama, there's always going to be someone yelling they are going to kill you. quit being a baby