Why is McCain Allowed to "look Presidental" but if Barack does it he is being Presumptous???

[Heather MC]

I am watching McSAME Live on CNN
making delclaritions about what Russia needs to do as if he is the president.
Now the pundits have not started talking you, but you can beat you bottom dollar
that they will say, this is good for McCain to look Official and Presidental.

But when Obama appears to "look presidental" all he gets is HOW DARE HE!!

[TwilightGardener]

1. He's white.

[quantass]

6. +1

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. Yes it has everything to do

with Obama looking like an "Uppity N_ _ _ _ _."

"He acts white to win."

And I DO NOT see racism in everything - But this is pretty obvious.

[ecstatic]

15. Basically (sigh) nt

[book_worm]

2. because the media is biased.

[blondeatlast]

3. It's as simple as black and white.

You know it, I know it, everyone on DU knows it--only the m$m are fooling themselves.

[The Traveler]

4. What do you expect?

Clearly there are different standards for treatment of Republicans vs treatment of Democrats. Hell, there is apparently different enforcement of laws. When rule of law has become thus twisted, you expect the media to not play along?

[polichick]

5. Because he's the one chosen by corporate America to be their next whore.

[Benhurst]

23. Bingo!

[FrenchieCat]

7. A large apparent double standard,

and institutional racism hidden by blaming the one being discriminated against.

[PresidentObama]

8. They both look Presidential. That's not the point. Which one can lead...

...and which one will only move us in the wrong direction?

It's not presumptous to look Presidential, because they both do and position themselves to look overly Presidential.

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. I don't think he could look presidential if he was sitting in the oval office

He is not Presidential material. The Republicans had no choices this year.

[dkf]

10. Presumptuous = uppity

[blondeatlast]

18. Yup. They're so practiced on using "presumptuous" now they won't ever accidentally

use the "u" word.

But the thinking behind "presumptuous" is obvious. My mom was Southern (but not racist) and I guarantee she'd get that, too, if she were around to hear it.

[cliffordu]

11. I just saw that too - He talked about speaking with the president of GA. who he

said was a friend "for years." He basically gave a 3 minute speech on how much he knows about what just happened....It seemed oddly emotional for a speech from McCain..

The fade out was a slow wipe from McCain's image on one of their monitors to the fighting in another of the monitors, with really formal, kind of presidential music swelling in the background.....

Then the idiot fuck talking head said "We have a statement from Barack Obama, let me read some of it to you:"

He reads the statement and then explains that "We've had two or three statements from BO in the last few days over this crisis...."

I'd pay to see someone projectile vomit on this guy's suit....


:puke:

[Heather MC]

13. How much? I can pretty much barf on Command

and i have great aim.

It's a wonderful skill to have when a teacher would drop a pop quiz
hee hee hee hee

[Median Democrat]

14. Don't You Mean That McCain Is Good Friends With Wikpedia?

I guess McCain or someone in his camp knows how to use the internet, because portions of his speech were lifted from Wikpedia. Its not the plagiarism that is a problem. Its the misrepresentation that he is getting his facts directly from his buddies in Georgia.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/94652/did_mccain_lift_his_russia-georgia_speech_from_wikipedia/

[cliffordu]

20. The one I heard a while ago was live and different than the one he stole.....

He actually claimed he talked directly to the President of Georgia this morning, which apparently is more than Condi Rice has done....

This whole thing is kinda disgraceful on a bunch of different levels.

[Born_A_Truman]

19. Such good friends...he can't pronounce Saakashvili

Now I can't either, but then I'm not running for president nor claiming he's a good friend.

[cliffordu]

21. Rofl. I didn't catch that - I can't pronounce his name, either.....

[Overseas]

16. Media consolidation into Republican hands. /eom

[natrat]

17. uhhh....because the whole system is rigged and obama doesn't stand a chance unless

the people who own the votes somehow sit out the election so don't get too excited about any of it

[MidwestTransplant]

22. White people can't be uppity.

[Overseas]

24. And actually, Obama in casual attire gave a much better statement on the Georgia crisis.

Much more appropriate to the USA as it was before the Cheney administration really wrecked out international reputation.

So yes, I agree and wonder where the press was when JSM III was acting all presidential while W frolicked at the 'lympics, since they'd given Obama such a hard time about seeming presidential during his trip to Europe.

Maybe John Sidney McCain III's obvious reading of a prepared script in a monotonous manner didn't seem too impressive to them. It sure looked boring and robotic to me.

[BklynChick]

25. as Rachel Maddow so aptly put it, anyone who assesses things this way it says way more about them

than Obama nor McCain.

[barack the house]

26. He dares very well indeed and people will notice that.

[barack the house]

27. Whatever they call presumptuous he must do more of.

[nc4bo]

28. Sickening and a bit scary, isn't it? Must prop him up or he'll melt like a ball of wax. nt