Not great for John McCain to refer to Barack Obama in the second presidential debate as “that one”. And – call me flippant – but I couldn’t help thinking of Andy in Little Britain. The trouble for the Republican candidate is precisely that the American public, like the wheelchair-bound Matt Lucas character, do indeed seem to “want that one”.
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