Yep, he just lost my vote!

Kidding,

Go Barack Obama! Out with the old, in with the new!

Are you going to give us the entire conversation or just have us guess? What did he say after that comment? Senator Obama was reflecting what the other Senator said to him. I wish we could talk about issues.

The title suggests Obama is denigrating McDonalds.
Then maintains he prefers Applebees to McD's.
But what about the other senator who brought up the question “What do you expect me to just start eating at McDonalds all the time?”
Um, who's denigrating McD's?
And, yea, at $160,000 a year I think he can afford to buy his own lunch like the rest of us Americans do who dine at McDonald's!

Scrapiron, is that you Mark Penn or Karl Rove.

I do believe I ended up in the twilight zone.

Oh wow....Barack Osama, oops Obama can't do wrong, he is the ONE!

Nancy, you forgot Hussein. LOL

Yeah, try to be subtle and mention Osama, but luckily, almost everyone has figured out those cheap tricks.

Can Obama be anymore elitist and supercilious? This is something I have always noticed in him. This arrogance that he is better than everyone else!

ISSUES PLEASE!!...

This is news?? Anyway, you missed the point. He was being sarcastic. Applebees is a bit more expensive than McDonald's, but it is a chain restaurant, that most wealthy Americans eschew, in favor of those four and five star places. He wasn't putting down the restaurant chains, he was putting down the attitude that politicians want a free lunch!!!

Jonnie is absolutely correct. It doesn't take a PhD to see the extreme amount of sarcasm in Obama's response. But, moreover, this article just doesn't deserve to exist. It contributes nothing to the national debate, aside from confusing those people not literate enough to understand humor.

Sarcasm requires intelligence to be understood.

Obama is not saying that MC-is-wack he is arguing from the other senators point of view.
Not declaring his preference.

---- Whatever happen to the concept of slow-food, is MC not the symbol of “feeding the Pig”

Stupidest story ever! You have got to be kidding me.

Sam says "I wish we could talk about the issues". But this is a story about Obama, so the issues aren't relevant.

Remember Sam? He's about the audacity of hope? The only reason you've even heard of Obama is because the Chicago Tribune got Jack Ryan's divorce court file opened, otherwise he's be laboring in the Illinois Senate anonymously.

He doesn't have any positions on the issues, Sam. He's a fraud.

Nothing anyone says in these debates really matters.Seems to me they just use the platform to blame one another for things they so called promise us they would do when they got elected in the first place.I really wish they would spend more time helping the people of this country than going on tv and telling us what the other one didn't do........

It's called irony, people. Good grief.

Person of the Year award given to Barack Obama

Is this really a headline or am I still asleep? Are we really talking about candidates' fast food preferences now?

Relax, dear posters. You're reading too much into it. Obama's staying true to his liberal, eleatist, self. I know, he's my senator! He' better than we are!