Debating McCain Reference to "That One"

The choice is quite easy:

McCain: Tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations and none for those making less than $100,000 a year. (and yet he says he is for 'main street')
Obama: Tax cuts for the majority of working Americans, modest increases for those earning $200,000 or more a year (less than they were under Clintons tax plan)

McCain: Shift health coverage to deregulated private sector with fixed tax credit to all income levels, more Americans would lose coverage (and again, favors the wealthy)
Obama: Provide an additional insurance carrier that would allow more people to get insurance, and with tax cuts to employers providing coverage saving them an annual $140 billion, which would also increase revenue for health providers by increasing insured patients.

McCain: Wants congress to investigate Enron loophole (even though congress has already tried twice to pass bills that would close it, and both were vetoed by Bush)
Obama: Wants to close enron loophole right away, causing an immediate drop in gas prices for all Americans

McCain: Wants to drill for more oil, and build nuclear plants (even though we would not see any output from them for 7-10 years)
Obama: Faster shift towards alternative energy sources and better utilization of existing resources.

McCain: a D- student with a navy background that was dismal in both character and quality (read his book!)
Obama: a Harvard Law school graduate, magna cum laude, and a constitutional law expert

McCain: Military shoot first ask questions later foreign policy stance
Obama: Diplomacy and dialog with military as option of last resort

McCain: No foriegn policy experience except for armed services
Obama: Member foreign relations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and subcommitties on European, East Asian and Pacific, African affairs as well as International development and security, specalized in International Relations in college.

McCain: Vast majority of introduced bills in Senate are directly related to the military.
Obama: Introduced bills for equal rights, environment, housing, health care, alternative and renewable fuels, safer drugs, constitutional rights, improved fuel economy and other issues relating to a better America and helping Americans.

Looking at the issues and what they would mean to our country, you would have to be as dumb as Bush to not vote for Obama.

"That One" is what old white people refer to black people as when they don't want to be bothered with their name. It drums up alot of harsh memories.

Seriously. Are you kidding me?

I'm an outsider (from India on a biz tour).. and watching someone standing for the highest office in this country say such low words shows the character of the person.

John McCain pointed a pinger and was not even looking. Its very disrespectful.

People of the United States of America, the whole world is looking at you.. Don't screw up this time.

"That one" is a dehumanizing reference to The Other. Just more of McCain/Palin appealing to their bigoted "base".

Obama folks have lost all their trick so playing low. Humm what a change!

McCain kept using the sentence
"I KNOW HOW TO DO IT" several times,
but elaborated little of how he
will do it.

I wouldn't say it was racist. Rude, yeah, damn rude. Seems to become the typical modus operandi of the Election 2008. First Hillary was bashing others for their 'inexperience' (a strategy which failed by the way), and now McCain is doing it.

If he just stuck to his guns instead of trying to be "snappy" and "zingy" - he's running for the President of the United States, not the host of the Daily Show. WTF.

who cares?? This is absolutly ridiculous, lets talk about the issues at hand, not how they refer to eachother!!!

I watched it, I got it, it meant absolutely nothing....Obama camp trying to make something of nothing. Move on.

Insulting the opponent is the last thing a presidential candidate can do!!. Insulting Senator Obama (twice) without calling the name shows the character of Senator McCain. It's very silly and childish.

Thanks for your service to our country John McCain. It's over now.

"That one"? That's it! McCain the chameleon shows his true colors!

just show behind close doors McInsane is a piece of work...he tries hard to behave infornt the camera.

last thing we need a derange man around the nuclear football.

Yes, I'm surprised none of the analysts picked up on the racist meaning of calling someone "one" or "that one." Here in Georgia some old white men from McCain's generation still refer to black individuals as "the one" or "that one" and sometimes "boy." Everyone in my house perked up when he said that. We were very surprised none of the analysts knew the old Southern meaning of calling a black man "that one."

FM, you nailed it. Not racist. Just disrespectful and inappropriate. He has a bad temper and its starting to show on stage.

McCain is getting more and more grumpy each day. I think this one was way past his bed time.

I was totally offended when Sen. McCain refered to Obama as that, I actually thought I was the only one that caught it but it seems many did aswell. It was totally condescending in tone, McCain might not agree on policy but Barack is still a US Senator and should be respected as one.

OK based on the comments here I did not dream about it. He did call him "THAT ONE" . Ok that about done it for me. We do not need an angry, old, senile, erratic, gambler jeopardizing our economy and international image any more. Mccain's anger is dangerous. Can you imagine him in a world summit representing our country!

OK based on the comments here I did not dream about it. He did call him "THAT ONE" . Ok that about done it for me. We do not need an angry, old, senile, erratic, gambler jeopardizing our economy and international image any more. Mccain's anger is dangerous. Can you imagine him in a world summit representing our country!

Let me guess: Racist, right?