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.

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”It’s just malarkey, flat malarkey,” Biden said of the Ayers criticism. “The guy Barack Obama is going to turn and ask opinion to is me, not that guy.”

A lunch counter.

Barack Obama: The club sandwich looks good.
Joe Biden: It’s got turkey, number one.  Number two, it’s also got bacon.
Barack Obama: Although I always feel better after, after eating a salad.
Joe Biden: Let me repeat: the club sandwich also has bacon.
Barack Obama: These salads look pretty good too.
Barack Obama: But not as good as the club sandwich.
Barack Obama, to himself: I need to get an opinion on this one.
Joe Biden, waiting expectantly:
Barack Obama: Joe, do you have Bill Ayers’s number?  I remember he used to have pretty good thoughts on lunc
Joe Biden is holding a kitchen knife.
Barack Obama:
Joe Biden: I will not be ignored.

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[T]he campaign of Senator John McCain on Tuesday unveiled a new television advertisement claiming that [Senator Barack] Obama, the Democratic nominee, favors “comprehensive sex education” for kindergarten students [referring to a 2003 sex education bill proposed in the Illinois legislature, which Mr. Obama supported]...[T]he main objective of the legislation, as it pertained to kindergarteners [was] to teach them how to defend themselves against sexual predators.

In comments Wednesday, McCain campaign chief strategist Steve Schmidt explained the logic of opposition to such a bill. “Look, it couldn’t be simpler: a McCain-Palin administration will support abstinence-only sex education, because if you don’t teach teens about sex, then they won’t have sex. Obviously. By the same logic, if we don’t teach our children about sexual abuse, then they can’t be sexually abused.  So the real question is, why do Senators Obama and Biden want your children to be sexually abused? Right? Because that’s the real question.”

Mr. Schmidt went on to explain Sen. McCain and Governor Palin’s opposition to teaching our kids about obesity—"it makes them fat"—about pooping their pants—"it makes them poop their pants"—and about earthquakes—"it causes earthquakes”.

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