2008 Um, What?
posted by on October 16 at 8:45 AM
This moment flashed by in an instant right after last night’s presidential debate ended—John McCain, heading the wrong way off the stage, making a crazy expression in apparent self-mockery. I wasn’t sure if I’d seen what I’d seen. But the camera doesn’t lie:
And with slightly more tongue extension:
He's trying to grab Obama's ass?
Reptile! I like.
Which one of these candidates would make the better figurehead for our government as we try to get back in the good graces of the world? Hmm.
I thought that was his most human moment in the debate.
Woo-hoo!
Even with the seated format I got my "crazy old man dottering around the stage" moment! I couldn't be happier. :)
I hope the Funny or Die folks do some sort of McCain dance clip with that. It would be good if the music were that "Popcorn" song from the '70s.
McCain and the Debate Moderator did a little table tango when they attempted to shake each other's hands.
the first one is funny. The second one just grosses me out.
Stop it! Stop making me like him!
McCain's hands give me the heebie jeebies.
he's so damn awkward, the doddering fool!
i noticed him doing that a couple of other times. When they were all standing with their wives, McCain had his hands up and did the lizard thing again.
way to make me almost choke in public.
Lucky for McCain there isn't some kind of communications medium that would enable a still frame from that video to make it's way onto everybody's desktop by the time they'd had their morning coffee the next day. Otherwise he might be living with that picture a long time.
Talk about looking Presidential!
McCain reminds me of the senile nursing home friend of Grandpa Simpson in that scene where he has his pants down around his ankles and is shuffling back and forth singing "The Old Gray Mare (She Ain't What She Used To Be)" in the background.
Motorhead's "Love Me Like a Reptile" came to mind
@11: he's awkward because he can't move his shoulders on account of injuries sustained when he was a POW.
@9: completely agreed. When he does stuff like this you HAVE to like him. At least for the moment.
OMG what if he's a lizard alien like in "V"?!!?!
Ah yes, awkward senior moments - like when McCain used the work "cockamamie" pretty early in the debate.
My friends, I know how to communicate with the reptilian overlords.
Frankly, McCain's taste for analingus is none of our business.
Yeah Eli, I'm sure you didn't' see this on Sullivan's site, posted about an hour earlier. Lame.
@18 He's awkward because he can't move his shoulders? The shoulder bone's connected to the tongue bone?
I caught that weird last tongue flicker to the audience while he was standing with his wife. I've had similar uncontrollable tongue and jaw movements before... after partying all night in college.
mccain looks like the emperor from star wars mated with a bull frog, and smoked a fat joint of arthritis-haze during birth
@19: That is what I've been saying about McCain and (especially) his wife! They are V lizard aliens! They will eat us for dinner, and our pets will be snacks!
Brrraaaiiinnnsss!
And of course, there's this one from after the debate...
also, there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r8hhShMyZw
Hm, I'm thinking this is some sort of Maori-inspired fight challenge - McSame just didn't have time to wipe the stage make-up off his facial tattoos.
Yeah, what the hell was that about?
Maybe he was trying to remove the glue that was keeping his face stuck in that damned stupid smirk he had on his face ALL NIGHT.
#28.... that was the shot i saw. far weirder than the one Eli posted i think
If not for your description about McCain's exit stage wrong, I'd guess his ticker seized up for a second.
Holy Shit. David Icke is right:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/apr/07/society
#29 that made me laugh out loud, probably more than it should have.
At least it wasn't a spit take...Obama only has four suits.
... and before noon he could expect to see all sorts of juvenile mockery, such as this, making it's way around the planet.
I am the Lizard King! I can do anything!
@36: And only one house.
Good thing Obama's team prepared him to debate a Sleestack.
McCain was so awkward, frail and stiff getting up and around to the front of the stage that I *almost* felt bad for him. What's as bizarre to me as the lizard tongue is his two-handed, pelvis-level "wave" that he does. They're like sad jazz hands or something.
Braaaaaaaaiiinnnnsssss.
*runs to start photoshop*
Okay, when you see this on video, it doesn't look bad at all. It's actually sort of endearing.
looking at those just ruined my day.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the "HEHNHH HENNHH".
McCain's tongue & Cindy's face = lizards from V for sure.
That's classic. I want to see that on billboards.
Even John McCain can't keep away from that fine black ass.
"@9: completely agreed. When he does stuff like this you HAVE to like him. At least for the moment."
Nonsense...no one has to like this erratic, hateful, militaristic reptile.
And every time McCain resorts to the patently phony "my friends", I feel like barfing.
Memo to Lorne Michaels: Please find Tim Conway and team him up with Tina Fey for one final view of the future...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BMVmOWzfk
@43 One step ahead of you with the photoshoppage :)
http://tinyurl.com/4qyhne
Forget the presidency stuff, can he offer me the best deal on auto insurance or not?
Forget the presidency stuff, can he offer me the best deal on auto insurance or not?
Enjoy-
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