RawStory on "My fellow prisoners!" line: McCain flustered when crowd fails to erupt

[Bluebear]

:rofl:

At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Wednesday, McCain referred to his supporters as "fellow prisoners" in a botched attack on his Democratic opponent Barack Obama.

"You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office," he said. "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent."

Judging by McCain's pause, he expected that to be an applause line. Silence greeted him from the perplexed crowd.

Standing behind her father, Meghan McCain briefly furrows her brow, apparently recognizing the 72-year-old seantor's gaffe. Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin also is flanking McCain on stage, but it is less clear whether she recognizes the mistake.

McCain makes no effort to correct his mistake, but he seemed flustered when the crowd didn't erupt at the line. Glancing down at his prepared text, McCain charged on through to the next line in his speech.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_flub_My_fellow_prisoners_1008.html

[Ian David]

1. It COULD have been worse...

"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow penises and the same standards of clarity and chlamydia must now be applied to my opponent."

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The barracuda probably did not even notice....or if she did, she had no

way of understanding the situation. She is much too wrapped up in herself to worry about McSame.

[gatorboy]

6. I was about to say, she was probably day dreaming about taking over.

She doodled her presidential speech somewhere, I'm sure. :P

[tanyev]

7. She was too busy sending out little starbursts into the crowd.

It takes some concentration, you know.

[hatrack]

10. Too busy with happy, happy daydreams about being Hoovered to Heaven

:puke:

[Roy]

11. Actually, she was probably thinking about.....

how much fun Todd would be having with this new toy (USA) that she's trying to win for him.

[onethatcares]

3. jeez, he is a lot like the shrub, remember when

* said he was gonna balance the budget by cutting all the taxes and we'd be in clover in 5 years? What happened?

[jimshoes]

4. The frigging crowd was stunned into silence

McThuselah never even caught that he slipped up.

[hisownpetard]

5. Nah, they weren't stunned. No one listens to McCain anyway, so no one reacted.

He could say, "oogly boogly boogaly" and they wouldn't notice.

[Disturbed]

8. Will any Reporter ask him what he meant by "my fellow prisoners"?

Nah.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. He acts like he wasn't part of the federal government that ran up $10 trillion in debt.

He was right there along with the rest of the congresscritters who helped it along.

[IDemo]

12. I think the Ancient One had a Freepian slip

He let slip how he truly sees the citizens of the US.

"What we have here.....is a failure to communicate."