Just as the Bush administration has insisted for 8 years that either you agree with them or you're a traitor, tonight in the debate McCain kept stridently insisting over and over that if Obama didn't agree with his assessment of things, then Obama didn't understand the situation. 

I find this maddening! I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of this disdainful attitude from the Republicans.  It's an arrogance based on some delusional imagining of their own greatness and the infallibilty of their arguments, which, needless to say, you and I both know is complete crap and totally unsupported by facts. 

Tell me, how, other than ripping all their heads open with a ball-peen hammer, do we put Republicans in their place and effectively counter-act this galling arrogance and disdain for any position other than their own during a debate? 

Obviously, facts alone are not enough.  Obama had facts. McCain just kept insisting the facts were meaningless because Obama didn't understand. 

Personally, I thought it made McCain look entrenched and unflexible in his opinions. Perhaps the way to counteract that arrogant disdain is to point out McCain's unwillingness to acknowledge anyone else's views but his own ...

I thought Obama showed great restraint.  I would have walked over to the grumpy old guy and smacked him into next week.