John McCain scares Sean Diddy Combs even more than Sarah Palin. And he's right, we all should be scared of McCain's verbal slips.
This time in his video blog the rapper/entrepreneur is righteous, not goofing. Diddy saw McCain's use of "That One" referring to Obama as an grave and deep insult:
This is 2008, not 1962...He referred to a grown man as That One...Whether you agree with somebody or not, you are trying to be the President of the United States, and you're referring to another man as That One...I could say something real crazy about the That One right now, but I'm not. I'm gonna let the people decide...We will see you November 4th at the polls. We will see you November 4th at the polls. That's not right, man, that's not right. That One? I'm going to the polls right now.
Me, I saw "That One" (and the "my fellow prisoners") as asphasia, granted a very early stage/mild case of it, where people can't find the right word, and the brain, being an amazing, miraculous organ, pops in another phrase, or finds ways around the forgotten word, substituting "the thing I use on my teeth" for toothbrush. Or "fellow prisoners" for "Americans." Or "That One" for "Obama" or "my opponent." There is a weird logic in the substitution (the O in "other" for Obama/opponent; McCain's fellows in his POW camp were both citizens and prisoners...).
Maybe Johnny just needs a nap. Or a complete neuropsych work up with special emphasis on dementia and Alzheimer's. Just so we know when we go to the polls, like Diddy says, on November 4th. Because we all should be afraid, very afraid.
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McCain is profoundly unwell, and everyone around him knows it.
Thanks Lisa.
now *that’s* scary.
There should be a massive DEMAND for McCain’s medical records.
Too bad that Robert Greenwald made such a shitty commercial that no network will play it….
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Can we see a demand for medical records? This ain’t right.
He was answering a rhetorical question he had just asked about a Senate bill… Q.”Who (as in which Senator) voted for it?” A. “That one.”
Sounds bad when you take it out of context. But then, so do most quotes taken out of context.