MF'er - Why McCain can't stop saying "My Friends"

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.slate.com/id/2198660/

MF'er
Why McCain can't stop saying "my friends."
By Paul Collins
Updated Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, at 7:05 AM ET

"My friends," John McCain recently informed a crowd, "we spent $3 million of your money to study the DNA of bears in Montana."

McCain's meeting with parishioners at Rick Warren's Saddleback presidential forum certainly was a friendly one: He referred to "my friends" another 11 times. In the week leading up to Saddleback, the senator also friended, among others, a crowd in York, Pa., ("Two years ago, I traveled to South Ossetia, my friends"); workers at a locomotive factory in Erie, Pa., ("… my friends, look at the events that are transpiring in Georgia"); and Iowa state fairgoers ("My friends, I'm all in favor of inflating our tires, don't get me wrong ...").

John McCain's insistent recourse to "my friends" is easily the most mystifying verbal tic of any politician since Bob Dole's out-of-body presidential campaign of 1996, which featured Dole's not entirely reassuring promise that "Bob Dole is not some sort of fringe candidate."

[lapfog_1]

1. Just remember...

no drinking games involving the phrase "my friends" for Thursday night.

Your life would be at stake.

[Solly Mack]

2. It is annoying isn't it?

A lot of people do it to set tone...if someone is speaking to their friends then chances are the words will be accepted more positively. "my friends" - we're part of the same group, we're the same, I'm one of you, etc..

I note the difference between "my fellow Americans" - an appeal to a larger group - more inclusive...and "My friends"...a tad exclusive

[lligrd]

3. Because He's A Pretentious Arrogant Fool?

Only a question because, although he is, I am not certain that is why he uses the phrase.

[TXDemGal]

4. God help me, but sometimes I think

the main reason I don't want to see McMansions in the White House is because I simply cannot imagine having to listen to a presumable 4 years of "my friends"ing. :+

[lligrd]

5. If He Wins He Can Rightly Change It To "My Idiot Americans" nt

[lib2DaBone]

6. ..He forgets what he is saying.....

loses track half-way through the sentence. 8 years of Bush who couldn't put a subject and verb together. Now McCain who can't finish a sentence without falling asleep. ...."excuse me.... think I'll put my nuculer vocabulary to.. a....er... z-z-z-z-z-z-z-"

[Contrary1]

7. Because just like the bestest preznident ever...

he believes that if he repeats the same BS long enough, gullible Amurkins will buy into it.

[elshiva]

8. BECAUSE...

buffy/

[Skittles]

9. it is arrogant and presumptuous

I am not his fucking friend

[ladjf]

10. "My friends" = "Suckers"