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October 15, 2008
11 Seconds Of Self-Destruction
Posted by JumpyPants
The moment of the debate, THE moment, is when Obama said, "Here's your fine, zero." McCain: "Zero?" Obama: "Zero..."
McCain's blinking, dumbstruck, carp in the headlights look, in which his jaw ACTUALLY dropped (at which point he became the physical embodiment of a cliche), took 11 seconds (I timed it thanks to TiVO).
ELEVEN SECONDS before he finally could get his brain back on track. ELEVEN SECONDS of McCain realizing he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. ELEVEN SECONDS of McCain realizing that he knows less than a fourth-grader about math. ELEVEN SECONDS of McCain visualizing his campaign self-destruct. ELEVEN SECONDS of McCain having the awful, dawning, humbling recognition that his plan to metaphorically shiv his powerful old man who was on the Joint Chiefs, and to symbolically kick in the nuts his even more powerful grandad who commanded the Atlantic Fleet during WWII, was going up in smoke.
McCain has wanted to be president for one overwhelming reason: to be better than his old man and his grandpa -- and by better, of course, I mean more powerful. The only way for a failed, jet-crashing pilot like him to do that, someone who slummed his way to power sideways, through politics, through marrying a rich heiress to fund his campaign, the only way for him to be more powerful is to be Commander in Chief. That's a bigger, bossier, nuclear-codesier holding gig than either of those bastards. And he's never going to have the job. And in those ELEVEN SECONDS, he saw that.
Instead, the job is going to go to That One.
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Posted By JumpyPants | October 15, 2008 10:40 PM
Comments
Here's video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EASpPlcVbdI
Posted by: twoeightnine ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 15, 2008 10:27 PM
Bob,
Go give your parents a big hug from me and my wife asap...
Tell them how grateful we are for all the hell they've likely gone through and all they've sacrificed to place you here on earth, doing what you do... to elevate all of us!
Thanks Mom and Dad!
~ Shawn
Posted by: Shawn Phillips at October 15, 2008 10:31 PM
McCain has wanted to be president for one overwhelming reason: to be better than his old man and his grandpa...
Wow, insert "George W. Bush" in place of "McCain." Pattern with the GOP?
Posted by: Broadway Carl at October 15, 2008 10:31 PM
I think Obama missed the boat on the attack ads issues.
He didn't point out that he is attacking McCain's policies (McCain admitted this) but McCain is attacking Obama personally.
He didn't point out the percentages of attack vs. positive ads for each campaign.
Posted by: MatthewN at October 15, 2008 10:33 PM
Dear Mr. The JumpyPants: I love you, sir, because you said "nuclear-codesier." That's lovely.
Posted by: Elvis Dingeldein at October 15, 2008 10:34 PM
@MatthewN He did say that 100% of McCain's ads were negative.
Posted by: twoeightnine at October 15, 2008 10:36 PM
Is it just me, or is it 4:20 for Harold Ford?
Posted by: LeeroyJenkins at October 15, 2008 10:45 PM
It was a lovely eleven seconds, Jumpy Pants. I was mesmerized watching McPenguin imitate a fish.
Posted by: KatinWilm at October 15, 2008 10:51 PM
Hey, baby, it's always 4:20 somewhere.
Posted by: Elvis Dingeldein at October 15, 2008 10:51 PM
And after that 11 seconds was up, McCain asked again what the fine would be. He's lost whatever mind he came home from Hanoi with.
Posted by: ceu at October 15, 2008 10:53 PM
Hey Leave Harold alone!.. I louver him...and his 4:20 face :)
Posted by: JennyDemilo at October 15, 2008 10:55 PM
One of my favorite moments was when Bob said a question was coming up about "climate control" and McCain corrected him: "It's climate change" and Bob said okay whatever. McCain was checking his notes... I have a pre-recorded answer for climate change.
Posted by: MakeitStop at October 15, 2008 10:56 PM
I really like what Rachel just said about McPenguin's temperament and how that will turn people off - that he looks like he doesn't want Obama to be president more than he looks like he wants to be president (I'm obviously paraphrasing - I wasn't writing it down as she said it...I was too busy drooling over her brain).
Posted by: KatinWilm at October 15, 2008 11:11 PM
Hey, I got no chronic issues. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: LeeroyJenkins at October 15, 2008 11:28 PM
Oh that was epic!!!! I knew this moment would eventually come for McCain and the timing couldn't have been more perfect! I loved it! I never thought I would see myself feeling sorry for McCain but Obama showed so much intelligence (not to mention humor, no matter how unintentional it was) and he just seemed to refute every negative argument and attack that McCain has made since the campaign began. And McCain knew it. Barack is virtually untouchable now.
Posted by: Ranger75 at October 15, 2008 11:28 PM
By the way Bob, your site is great and I don't miss a day of it! Couldn't live without it.
Posted by: Ranger75 at October 15, 2008 11:29 PM
THANK YOU! My favorite moment too... thanks to whoever got it on YouTube!
Posted by: Matt Osborne at October 15, 2008 11:42 PM
I agree with MatthewN about Obama's response to the attack ads attack by McCain; I said to my mom the same thing, that he could have pointed out that McCain's ads are personal, not about policy.
However, I think Obama's response was good, and I really liked it when he threw it back in McCain's face over health care.
I think that health care reform should be linked to economic health...that because of high health care costs in this country, businesses opt to go overseas where they don't have to pay these costs at all. I wish someone would stress that point.
But beside that, I think Obama rocked and had his best debate, and McCain looked like a desperate man, snorting, twitching, and contorting his face.
Not a pretty sight.
Posted by: Gina at October 16, 2008 12:01 AM
Oh it gets funnier every time I watch it. He looked like he had his pants pulled down in front of the 7th grade girls gym class!
Posted by: Ranger75 at October 16, 2008 12:13 AM
