"Obama Makes McCain Very Uncomfortable"

"Let the record reflect that Barack Obama made the approach to John McCain tonight.

As the two shared the Senate floor tonight for the first time since they won their party nominations, Obama stood chatting with Democrats on his side of the aisle, and McCain stood on the Republican side of the aisle.

So Obama crossed over into enemy territory.

He walked over to where McCain was chatting with Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida and Independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. And he stretched out his arm and offered his hand to McCain.

McCain shook it, but with a “go away” look that no one could miss. He tried his best not to even look at Obama.

Finally, with a tight smile, McCain managed a greeting: “Good to see you.”

Obama got the message. He shook hands with Martinez and Lieberman — both of whom greeted him more warmly — and quickly beat a retreat back to the Democratic side."

Looks like the stress is getting to McCain...

For more irritability, see McCain's lengthy interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register.

At several points, McCain looks like he is about to lose it, then checks himself and resets his face into a "smile" reminiscent of a dog baring its teeth.

He did look pissed off with him at the debates too. As if he is appalled at the temerity of that young whipper-snapper to challenge his right to the presidency.

>3 jlelliott: You forgot to insert "uppity", right there before "young".

McCain has "pulled out" of Michigan http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/10/mccain_moves_out_of_michigan_w.h...

I also thought this during the debate... "If McCain has so much disdain that he can't look Obama in the eye, how can he exhibit any feelings of 'equality' when meeting other countries' leaders (specifically ones he doesn't exactly "admire"... Iran, North Korea, Syria, fill in the blank...)

In some respects I see Obama as the first real politician of substance to emerge after 9-11. With all apologies to Hillary supporters--things seemed to have changed--younger people see themselves or maybe their friends going off to war and maybe for them apathy is no longer an option. Obama at least in some respects represents a new way of looking at the future--beyond race--beyond particular religious dogmas towards something hopeful. When I say apologies to Hillary--it seemed almost as if during the primary season that she would sometimes look over at him in disbelief and wonder what he was doing standing in her way. Ditto with McCain--expect he's showing much less grace--which doesn't do him much credit and his hurting him in the polls. As an example I would cite the numerous times during the debate that he would blurt often angrily that Obama didn't understand or didn't get something. I think he's wrong. I think he's the one not getting it.

John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink "because life isn’t fair”.

I wonder if he said "because life isn't fair" to his first wife when she asked him why he was dumping her for the beer baroness?

I wonder why the "liberal" media is not, in the climate of 'stick it to Wall Street', reminding the public that McCain was one of the Keating Five (the politicians involved in the last, great financial bail out)? It's a credit to Obama that this isn't the first and last thing he discusses at every campaign stop.

I think it is odd that that never comes up as well. I mean he talks incessantly about his years in the congress, but nobody ever talks about what happened while he was there, and this is extremely relevant to today.

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Agreed. It was refreshing to see Biden in the debate when he called them on this "maverick maverick maverick" they keep saying. There's nothing more annoying than having the word "change" rammed down our throats without any real explanation what they plan on changing.

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Can someone explain to me how a vote for a Republican is a vote for change?

Well, when they stole the election in 2000, Bush got votes that were actually meant for Gore.

Hence, to actually vote "for" the Republicans is a change, technically.

McCain's also a "maverick" who agrees with the president 95% of the time. So that's still a 5% change. When you think about it, a 5% change is a change you can believe in!

It just goes to show that words like "maverick" can be thrown around loosely without really being addressed.

It's like how Chevy calls their one vehicle a "Trailblazer". Chevy's a lot of things, but it's no trailblazer.