Ok. So the guy is a right-wing douche-bag… but I fail to see what’s so creepy about this video. Yes, it’s staged… yes, it seems forced…. but it’s not creepy.

The sexualization of children now seems to reach down to three or four years of age.  You see girls that old wearing bikini tops at the beach.  I guess it goes along with the infantilization of adults.

I wouldn’t cross the street to spit on the likes of Chambliss—well, maybe I would, at that—but this is definitely a cheap shot.

I can’t draw any conclusions from the report that an apolitical 17-year old found it unacceptable; Amerika is so terminally neurotic about sexuality and physical contact that what’s “normal” is… well, up for grabs.

But I think that we can all agree that the important thing is that no exposed nipples were used in the making of this video.

People I don’t like are evil; I just know it.

By Grousefeather, December 2 at 6:30 am #
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“My take on this awkward moment is that Chambliss isn’t a man accustomed to physical intimacy. Therefore he miscues when called on to act the part of an affectionate family man….he has no practice at being a regular loving guy.”

The creepiness is the plasticity of the whole family, the falseness, the fakeness - and did you hear them call him “Big Daddy”?  Shades of antebellum Georgia.  This guy is more than likely (I’m not being definitive; I have no proof) a fat-cat crook, who has probably skimmed millions from the debacle we are having with our economy, and the hypocrisy shows.

Speaking of the senate, guess who ain’t going away?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28037591/

He will still try for the white house and most probably get it one day and that coveted senate seat. Why? Because the american citizen is so snake fasinated with the bush crime family that they will keep electing them to some office just as the kennedys are elected as some sort of paradigm of truth, justice and the american way when in actuality they are part of the lowest life forms to inhabit the earth.

Fist bump.

The logical extension of the “creepy” argument (with which I vehemently disagree) is that we are soon going to be afraid to touch our own children, much less let others touch them.  Is that what we all want?  Children afraid of affection, and adults afraid to give it?

Those who find this “creepy” are the ones who are TRULY creepy.

Peace.

I agree with those who DID NOT find this disturbing. He hugged his grand daughter for crissakes. If you’re going to pounce on the man, find a REASON. I wish he had lost the Georgia seat too, but not for this crap.

Behind all this is the lowlife campaign that this scumbag ran against Max Cleleand, a man who left several limbs on the battlefield in service to his country. 
The big fraud deserves whatever he gets.

Appearences are everything when doing ads especially political ads. Marketers are so shrewd in their ability to put the precise movements, prescise words, precise backgrouds and a place for everything and everything in its place mentality that I agree with several of these commenters that it is just an appearence of family love and togetherness but that last hand action should have been spotted at the time it happened and redone without it or cut out altogether for a political ad. Especially with all the staunch religious appearing republicans being caught in their republican forbidden past times red handed.
Yes, this is as innocent as it should be but not very practical for a political ad as has been shown by the several negative responses it was intended to produce, including my own that started these comments.
The good news, if republicans are this shaken to produce ads as this then they will just dig a little deeper hole for themselves.
But this IS a political ad and be it dem or repub, the whole disgusting scene and begging comments of the family hoping ‘big daddy’ gets re-elected to provide for their financial security makes me ill.
Oh, saxby, keep that pr team.

I have to say, in all my years I’ve never seen an adult touch a child in this manner.  Totally inappropriate, at best.

The insinuation that Chambliss has pedophilic tendencies is rather repugnant. This is similar to how some people pointed at photos of Obama dressed in traditional Kenyan garb and came to the conclusion that he was a secret muslim.

So, creepy-Truthdig-person-who-posted-this, aren’t there better arguments against Chambliss’ reelection than just the assumption that he’s a secret pedophile?

By expat in germany, December 1 at 9:45 pm #
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“...I didn’t find this clip disturbing at all, even after watching it twice. Molesters don’t molest in public,...”

And how would you know?  Is there something else you’d like to tell us, or maybe you had better let it go at that.

For shame, for shame. Gramps sure got himself a handfull. I won’t go futher with this.