I just saw John McCain's SNL sketch, and I gotta say...

Bicoastal

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:26 PM
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I just saw John McCain's SNL sketch, and I gotta say...

...I was flabbergasted. When a presidential candidate goes on a comedy show the weekend before the election and makes fun of how poorly his campaign has been run and how detrimental his running mate selection was ...

...he knows it's over.

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ROakes1019

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:33 PM
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1. why?

McCain is looking for any free air time he can get, even if it means groveling and acting the fool. I didn't find much of SNL funny last night, with the exception of the KO skit. I'm a huge KO fan but that skit was hilarious. Just goes to prove that you can find humor when even your heroes are mocked. I just didn't think anything about the McCain bits were funny.

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THUNDER HANDS

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:35 PM
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3. seriously?

you didn't find the bit with the Palin 2012 t-shirt funny?

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AkFemDem

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:15 PM
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7. It was freaking funny and I don't care who you are!

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IsItJustMe

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:22 PM
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10. Yeah, it was funny. Now I guess I have to figure out if I want to drink a beer with him. After all

the msm told me last election that this was an important consideration in choosing a president.

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calimary

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:34 PM
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2. One look at Cindy's face, as she stood behind him at some rally this morning

will confirm that. She's SO over this. She's SO tired and fed up. All over her face it says - "for Pete's sake, john, can we just GO now????"

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Johonny

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:42 PM
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4. Going on SNL to humanize yourself

would have been a better idea in all that dead time he had. It was a terrible idea 3 days before an election. I just confirmed in peoples mind that he isn't presidential.

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patrice

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Sun Nov-02-08 12:55 PM
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5. True. We are in that phase in which people WILL vote for the perceived Winner. Absent

Edited on Sun Nov-02-08 12:58 PM by patrice

any other over-riding reason, they'll vote because they don't want to vote for the one they think will be the Loser, so a move such as SNL at this time is NOT a vote-changer, because he's saying something like "We might lose."

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donco6

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:03 PM
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6. I agree.

People want to be on the winning team at this point. And if you're still undecided, you're either not going to vote at all, or the votes will appear in a random data pattern, not all a flood for one candidate or another.

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patrice

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:19 PM
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9. Yep. Even if the "vote for the Winner" argument doesn't work, there're other candidates on the

ballots.

:hi: donco6 -> Hoping here, that no matter what happens on 11/04/08, you all are IN this thing for the long haul! NGU!!! :hi:

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donco6

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:45 PM
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13. Absolutely.

:hi:

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JohnnyLib2

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:16 PM
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8. Most of his stuff on SNL was funny., and sorta pathetic IMO.

I can't remember any other campaign event ever causing me to react that way.:shrug:

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stray cat

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:36 PM
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11. I thought it was great - and McCain does well on those shows as he acts more human

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TheDonkey

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Sun Nov-02-08 01:38 PM
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12. it was unusual, awkward, sort of sad. Especially trotting out his wife in that fashion

it was just weird.

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