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August 17, 2008 2:10 PM

RENO, NEV. - At a town hall meeting at Wooster High School just now, a questioner whom Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., had called on, assailed the Vietnam service of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

"He was the fattest prisoner that got off the plane!" said the man. "He doesn't want to talk about how he turned in all those names."

With some impatience in his voice, Obama interrupted the man to ask if he had a question, and after the man offered a couple queries, Obama said, "Respectfully, I'm going to disagree with you when it comes to McCain and his service. I think his policies are terrible, I think his service was honorable."

The crowd applauded.

The moment stood in stark contrast with a moment in the 2004 election, when a town hall questioner told President George W. Bush about his then-opponent, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., "'We got a candidate for president out here with two self-inflicted scratches, and I take that as an insult.'"

"Well, I appreciate that, thank you," said Bush, who himself did not serve in Vietnam.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-disagrees.html

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"How do we beat the bitch?" McCain's supporter asked him. And as you can see, it appears that after McCain joked about offering a "translation" of his supporter's query, he said:

"That's an excellent question."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/11/full_video_mccain_says_supporters_bitch_query_about_hillary_is_an_excellent_question.php

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And, as we saw today, McCain is perfectly happy when someone calls Obama a terrorist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvXf9AUHTqM

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1. Yes. Obama has it. Dishonest John and his intern do not.

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2. I wish more stories like this were covered by the MSM. nt