I can’t believe he has the nerve to say (at the end of the video, after all his laughing and joking about the question): “I respect Senator Clinton.”
actions speak louder than words…

Camille always writes eloquently on Hillary
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/11/14/hillary/

Perhaps the fascination with Mrs. Clinton – we’ll call her Elphaba for those who are familiar with the musical – is our cultural problem. We need someone on whom to place all our resentment, our anger, our pettiness and darn if she doesn’t fit the bill (no pun intended). I’m not a fan, but she is not and cannot be the scapegoat for our weakness, our failures to forgive, our sheer nastiness as a people. Should we – as a people – have to give up the Hilary hatred or the Bush hatred – we might just turn on one another.
My disgust at this answer from McCain is compounded by the admiration I once had for him. Desperation for the presidency seems to have taken his character (which I once saw as admirable) and what is left is a bitterness, a meanness and a reputation for temper that is perhaps a reflection of our own national character at this point. Whenever someone gets that “clinton” gleam in their eyes – the one that says – oh we know who the real devil is – I can only distrust that attitude. Problem is – I need to also make clear that that gleam that comes into many of our eyes at the mention of Bush or Cheney – is the same scapegoating energy. Of the three – Hilary perhaps has the least reason to be treated with such animosity. Gandhi once said something about the only devils are the ones we create in our minds.
A better answer and one that would have made me remember the McCain I admired would have been, ‘I cannot answer such a question about any woman. I find the word demeaning. The way we can beat Mrs. Clinton is to run a campaign about issues instead of made up personality issues. Next question, please.
One simple remark could have changed the tenor of this campaign and McCain’s resentment, envy and desperation got in the way of his character.

The book is even better than the musical, Thinker! Great analogy!
Many of us are disappointed in McCain. He has sold his soul, as it were, to pander to the ultra-conservatives and religious nutcases, and still they rejected him. For this reason alone, he should retire, go home, dream of what might have been had he not kissed their pharisaic asses and been found unworthy.

why, there must have been 35 people in that room, 37 if you count the cardboard cut-out military figurines; Hilary should be very afraid!

My disgust at this answer from McCain is compounded by the admiration I once had for him.
Oh, boy, Thinker, you nailed it.
I once considered John McCain a personal hero, for going through a terrible experience for our country, and emerging with a sense of humor. (I was deeply, viscerally offended by the rumors in the 2000 campaign that he was crazy owing to his time as a POW).
And now, after he’s called anti-escalation folks traitors, and capitulated on torture (!)… it is all too depressing to think about.

If Him or Rudi-boy get that nomination…wow..the Dems will never let go of the WH again…I hope I live long enuff to vote for Chels!

Your intelligence continues to impress, Donny.

“used by the Black Community wrongly”…says who?

Donny, for a Christian, you seem to harbor an awful lot of hatred in your heart.

Now, back to topic…
Mr. McCain should have upbraided the citizen with the filthy mouth. It is attitutdes like hers that have polarized America lo these last 12 years or more.