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3rd Presidential Debate Oct 15 -- How many times will McCain address the audience as, "my friends"?
Background: Are you a friend of John McCain? You're not!?!? Well, he thinks you are.
McCain loves to use the phrase 'my friends.' He rocked it more times than I could count in the second debate. From the amount of times he uses it you'd he's the most popular man in the world. Unfortunately on Facebook McCain has 500,000 friends, while Obama has over 2,000,000 friends. If anyone should be using this, it should be Obama.
How many times will McCain address the audience as "my friends" in the third US presidential debate?
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McCain loves to use the phrase 'my friends.' He rocked it more times than I could count in the second debate. From the amount of times he uses it you'd he's the most popular man in the world. Unfortunately on Facebook McCain has 500,000 friends, while Obama has over 2,000,000 friends. If anyone should be using this, it should be Obama.
How many times will McCain address the audience as "my friends" in the third US presidential debate?
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How many times do we all need to say 'we respect you for what you have done for this country', 'but, what you did does not necessarily make you our chosen leader?'
He said it 21 times, 19 times, whatever. I know it was more than 12. I started thinking, where do I know this friend from? Is he a long lost friend? Why wasn't I invited to Sedona, Arizona for a BBQ?
Obama never claime me (nor should you) as his friend. It shows a lack of character judgement.
On the other hand, I find the "my friends" annoying too... I prefer something along the lines of "my fellow Americans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwKJ2bU2Sg
I just thought that was funny :D
Seriously, he'll probably reduce the use of it, not only because of the change of format, but because his people have probably made a point of letting him know just how many times he said it and how phony it began to sound after the 12th time....I swear, sometimes it seemed as if he said it three times in the same sentence....it was like instead of clearing his throat, he'd just say 'my friends' to knock the phlegm out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOxqVl5oP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOxqVl5oP4
However, I believe it is highly important that we know Obama's stance on pie. How does McCain stand on this vital issue? Does he support pie or oppose it? Would he rather have cake than a pie? Or are either of those a lie? We should try to get this question asked during the next debate.
Like me for instance. I'm thoroughly convinced that John is MY friend. Aren't you? If doesn't keep repeating that over and over again, I might find myself another friend.
I am a man that ALWAYS interprets things literally and then examines the evidence.
Luckily, this settled a 0-2, avoiding any problems, lol. =)
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