Let me just say categorically I’m proud of the people that come to our rallies. Whenever you get a large rally of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, you’re going to have some fringe peoples. You know that. And I’ve—and we’ve always said that that’s not appropriate.

But to somehow say that group of young women who said “Military wives for McCain” are somehow saying anything derogatory about you, but anything—and those veterans that wear those hats that say “World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq,” I’m not going to stand for people saying that the people that come to my rallies are anything but the most dedicated, patriotic men and women that are in this nation and they’re great citizens.

And I’m not going to stand for somebody saying that because someone yelled something at a rally—there’s a lot of things that have been yelled at your rallies, Senator Obama, that I’m not happy about either. 

An Obama rally.

Barack Obama: ...It’s very simple: the Rousseauist notion of a citizen-magistrate majority is not only unattainable, even in a sort of figurative sense, it is—
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: MCCAIN’S TAX PROPOSALS SUCK
Barack Obama: I beg your pardon?
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: MCCAIN’S TAX PROPOSALS
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1:
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: THEY SUCK
Barack Obama: Now, that is not a fair thing to say.  I repudiate that statement.  That’s—that’s over the line.
A Lone Voice from the Audience #2: MCCAIN’S TAX PROPOSALS ARE ILL-CONCEIVED
Joe Biden: I would agree with that one.
Barack Obama: Yeah, that one I can get behind.  They’re definitely ill-conceived.  You can’t just say that they suck.
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: WHAT ABOUT MCCAIN IS AN OLD CRAZY COOT
Barack Obama: No.  Absolutely not.
Joe Biden: You’re calling him a “coot,” number one.  Number two, you’re also calling him “crazy.”
A Lone Voice from the Audience #3: IT IS ENTIRELY LEGITIMATE TO CITE JOHN MCCAIN’S AGE AND HEALTH IN A DISCUSSION OF HIS FITNESS TO BE PRESIDENT
Barack Obama:
Joe Biden: I’d buy that one.
Barack Obama: Not something I intend to spend a lot of time talking about, but fine.
Joe Biden: Let me repeat:  I’d buy that one.
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: AWRIGHT LEMME TRY AGAIN
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: UHH
Barack Obama: I feel like we’re getting sidetracked, here.
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: SARAH PALIN IS A [VAGINA]
Joe Biden:
Barack Obama:
Michelle Obama: Sarah Palin has a [vagina]?  Or Sarah Palin is a [vagina].
A Lone Voice from the Audience #1: IS
Barack Obama: Yeah, again, that’s not gonna work.
Joe Biden: Kind of a tough word, number one.  Number two—well, yeah.
Barack Obama: Friend, you’re conflating—you’re proposing a significational dynamic known as ‘synecdoche.’
Barack Obama: In other words, you’re being a synecdochebag.
Audience:
Barack Obama: It’s a lot funnier if you know how that’s spelled.

Tags: politics, barack obama, john mccain, joe biden, synecdoche, sarah palin is a [vagina]