Young Audience Member to McCain: “Since you’re the oldest candidate, aren’t you worried that you could like die or get alzheimer’s in office…?”

McCain to Young Audience Member: “You little jerk.”

This may become an archetypal YouTube product of the 2008 campaign: the setting is informal, the question half-joking, the response semi-serious… The entire exchange is both entertaining and somehow extremely revealing. It’s sort of like how most holiday dinners ended at the house where I grew up.

Tags: little jerk