Kevin Drum wonders where McCain’s annoying habit of using “my friends” like a teenager uses the work “like” comes from.
He initially picked it up during the primary when he was doing the whole “I’m Reagan 2.0” thing:
One of Reagan’s verbal flourishes was to interject the phrase “my friends” into his speeches, presumably to inject a sense of commonality and companionship into whatever he was saying. McCain having the keen political instincts of a Henry Clay and the insatiable drive of a DeWitt Clinton, stole the interjection and proceeded to use it as much as humanly possible, kind of like how Scientologists have you constantly relive a traumatic experience in order to move past it, except without the certificates of achievement or foot baths from Skeet Ulrich.
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Generally, when someone who isn’t a friend refers to you as “friend” it’s a threat. As in be my friend and do what I say or your my enemy and I will hurt you.