"That One" John McCain Shows True Stripes in Second Presidential Debate

If there was any doubt before tonight's Presidential Debate, what John McCain's thoughts, disposition, and tenor were toward Barack Obama, then that doubt is clearly erased. It is not just that McCain has created a cartoon character with only passing resemblance to Barack Obama. A cartoon character who has been heaped with every form of blame from being associated with terrorists, to being the one, single-handedly, to blame for all of America's financial woes. An object of the McCain campaign's ridicule, hate, even fear. If there can be any doubt of the direct attempts to treat Barack Obama as, not a Senator deserving the respect of an equal and a rival, not a brother American who may have differing views and philosophies but is, in essence, on the same side, not even as a fellow human being deserving of that most visceral and basic respect, but as a sub-human thing, an object, "That one."

"That one."

If there were any doubt of the level of contempt John McCain has for Barack Obama then it was forever erased by those two words. Perhaps never in the history of modern, televised, Presidential debates has there been such disrespect of one Candidate for another. Perhaps never has there been the utterance of two words so filled with condescension and a self-assured sense of superiority.