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McCain Insane On The Internet
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McCain abandons injured wife for wealthy drug user, Cindy
Cindy McCain Questioned on Being A Homewrecker
McCain Gets Asked About Calling His Wife a CUNT
McCain Volunteers His Wife To Suck Pickle
Cindy McCain loves her pills
John Mccain... Is Crazy!!! ...He's Psychologist Said "John Mccain Was Not The Same After The War".... "He's Crazy!!"
The Only Way McCain Wins Is If We Attack Iran
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
John McCain is the ‘Great White Hope’
John McCain is the ‘Great White Hope’
Published on Saturday, August 2, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
by Joseph A. Palermo
John McCain and Company are shocked, SHOCKED that their now infamous Britney Spears/Paris Hilton attack ad against Barack Obama has become a topic of speculation for its “racial overtones.”
Pop Quiz (Three Questions):
1). What American political party in the mid-1980s ran ads featuring a close up of a pair of alabaster white hands crumpling up a job application because affirmative action gave all the good jobs to undeserving blacks?
2). What American political party in the late-1980s ran an attack ad that featured a scary black convict who was released on a prison work furlough program and raped a woman?
3). What American political party in the last election cycle ran an ad featuring a seductive scantily-clad young white woman beckoning the African-American candidate to “call” her for a sexual rendezvous?
And John McCain says Barack Obama is “playing the race the card?”
As the nation grapples with its first African-American nominee from a major political party to come so close to winning the presidential prize it is perhaps useful to look at a bit of American history from the early 20th century. In 1910, the “Fight of the Century” took place between the defending heavyweight-boxing champion, John “Jack” Johnson, who was African American, and James Jeffries, who was white. Newspaper reporters and sports writers at the time referred to Jeffries as “the Great White Hope.” One sports writer from the “Chicago Tribune” opined that Johnson’s “innate conceit and vanity will cause him to strive for the theatrical, to pose for the crowd and the pictures, whereas Jeffries will go about his work in a businesslike manner.”
When I read that 98-year-old newspaper clip I couldn’t help but think of some of the words the McCain campaign (with a hefty assist from the corporate media) has tried to associate in the public’s mind with Barack Obama: “presumptuous,” “overconfident,” “cocky,” “out of touch,” “elitist.” Obama is in good company. These are the same kind of charges that white supremacists leveled at Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
McCain’s TV commercial smearing Obama for his “celebrity” with images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton dissolving into images of Obama is the first montage the Republicans have deployed featuring Obama and young white women.
It will not be the last.
There is a pattern here: John McCain willfully misconstrues things Obama says and then pretends to be “astonished” that Obama would say such things. McCain stands by his campaign’s attack ad that falsely accused Obama of snubbing troops in Lundstahl, Germany. He also stands by his campaign’s sleazy Britney/Paris ad claiming that some useful or worthy public information service was provided.
This election should be a referendum on eight miserable years of misrule by the Republicans. But the descendents of white people who used to picnic at lynchings are coming out of the woodwork — with the active encouragement of the McCain campaign. This silent army that is connected not only to the Republican Party’s Southern wing but to white supremacist groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC) needs no marching orders from Fox News, the McCain campaign, or the Republican National Committee. They know that if they cannot muster the resolve to stop a black man from becoming the President of the United States then what is the value of white privilege? McCain is carrying the torch to keep “hope” alive that wealthy white men will continue to be the center of the world.
John McCain is the “Great White Hope.”
Joseph A. Palermo is an Associate Professor of American History at CSU, Sacramento and the author of two books on Robert F. Kennedy, jpalermo@csus.edu
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Nutty McCain TV Ads Under Fire “Where Are The Issues?”
McCain TV Ads Under Fire “Where Are The Issues?”
McCain TV Ad Draws Scrutiny for Distorting Facts
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JUDY WOODRUFF: On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain started airing a TV ad that criticized Democrat Barack Obama's international trip .
Four On The Floor: Mac TV
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So why did lovable old John McCain suddenly put out FOUR negative TV ads in less than two weeks? After the latest (and rather good) version of his positive ...
McCain ad about 'celebrity' Obama pushes Ohio total to $6M
McCain ads go negative early on Obama
Boston Globe, United States
Independent analysts have said that several assertions in the ads are based on questionable claims or outright falsehoods. In the TV spots, McCain suggests ...
McCain defends Web ad mocking Obama
The Associated Press
The ad ends with Charlton Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea in the movie, "The Ten Commandments." The ad was not set to air on any television stations, ...
McCain takes aim at Obama’s character
In a year when polls show an easy victory for a generic Democratic candidate, McCain has until now been loath to employ the tack many strategists see as essential and which anonymous e-mailers and commenters with no apparent links to his campaign have been practicing since last summer: hitting Obama not on his record or his platform, but on his values and person.
The Democrat’s Achilles’ heel in this model is an inchoate sense among some voters that the new arrival on the national stage with the unusual biography — who’s the first black nominee from either party — isn’t American enough.
McCain defends Web ad mocking Obama
The Associated Press
The ad ends with Charlton Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea in the movie, "The Ten Commandments." The ad was not set to air on any television stations, ...
McCain mocks 'anointed' Obama in new broadside
AFP
The ad features moments from Obama's soaring speeches, taken out of context. In one clip, Senator Obama is seen being asked in a television interview: "do ...
4 Great Lakes states are hotbed of election ads
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jul 30, 2008
I think John McCain can win it if he plays his cards right." Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania account for eight of the top 10 TV markets in TV ads ...
McCain, Obama spend $7.2M on Michigan TV ads
USA Today - Jul 23, 2008
The nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network said Wednesday that a check of advertising data at television stations shows Republican McCain spent $3.2 ...
McCain says he's 'proud' of new TV ad
MSNBC - Jul 31, 2008
RACINE, WI -- McCain was just asked at his town hall here about his controversial TV ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. ...
McCain is outspending Obama in: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico, Minnesota, and West Virginia.
Obama is outspending McCain in: Florida, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Indiana, New Hampshire, and North Dakota.
What's interesting here is that McCain is outspending Obama in almost all the "traditional swing states." Most of the states Obama is outspending McCain in are states that most figured wouldn't even be in play this year -- Georgia, North Carolina, Indiana, and North Dakota.
It's also interesting to see that McCain has spent NOTHING in Florida while Obama has spent more there than anywhere else. This certainly explains why almost all the most recent polling out of Florida has Obama ahead of McCain. McCain is going to have to start spending in that state as his decision to let Obama have the airwaves to himself there has resulted in the state becoming a virtual toss up when many thought it wouldn't even be in play this year.
We can also see that, so far, McCain is not defending North Carolina, Indiana, North Dakota, and Georgia. Obama has the airwaves to himself in all of those states. I don't expect McCain to spend in Georgia or North Dakota, but not doing so in North Carolina and Indiana is a major risk. Obama is taking North Carolina and Indiana VERY seriously as he is spending more in both of those states than he is in the more traditional swing states of Missouri and Colorado.
McCain's investment in Wisconsin has clearly not paid off as he is falling further behind in the state despite outspending Obama there. Same in Iowa where McCain is spending more but has been consistenly behind for months. McCain's spending in Michigan really shows how seriously he takes that state, and the fact that Obama is spending so much there also signifies that he is aware that he could lose it. Likewise, McCain's spending in Virginia shows that he is taking Obama's challenge there seriously and feels the state could flip if he doesn't defend it.
We also can see that McCain doesn't really think he can win Minnesota as he is spending virtually nothing there. Considering how big a state Minnesota is, McCain won't be able to pull off an upset there without serious spending. Combine this with the fact that McCain did not include Minnesota in his ad buy for his new "celebrity" ad, and we can conclude that McCain has more or less given up on Minnesota.
Pennsylvania is obviously a huge battleground that is, so far, paying off for Obama. We have not seen McCain make up any real ground in PA despite spending big money there. But the fact that he has invested so much makes me think that he will stick to fighting for PA until the very end.
Also interesting to see how little is being spent in New Mexico and how much Obama is spending in Georgia. If he doesn't see some real movement in Georgia soon, a lot of people are going to start questioning how he can spend so much money in a state that he doesn't appear to have any real chance in. Obama is spending more in Georgia than he is in key states like Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, and Missouri.
That Florida number will be one to watch. Obama is already leading in most Florida polls now. McCain will have to start spending there heavily, or risk falling further behind. Once McCain starts spending in Florida (which is a very expensive state), his spending elsewhere is going to be greatly reduced. It'll be interesting to see where McCain pulls money from when he makes the decision to allocate more to Florida. He is also going to need to defend North Carolina and Indiana, otherwise he could easily lose both those states, and finding money to spend there may come as the expense of other states.
Based on all that, I wouldn't be surprised to see McCain cut spending in Wisconsin and Minnesota completely.
Based on the spending patterns, it's pretty obvious that McCain's strategy to victory is to hold on to Ohio, Missouri, and Florida, and flip Michigan and Pennsylvania.
If he does that, he could lose Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Nevada, and Virginia, all states Bush won in 2004, and still sneak out with a narrow 274-264 win.
Of course, if Obama wins North Carolina or Montana/North Dakota, McCain would still lose under that scenario. So McCain's strategy is pretty risky considering he is currently polling consistently behind Obama in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Ohio and Florida appear to be toss ups.
But it's probably McCain's best bet considering that he is likely to lose Iowa, New Mexico, and probably Colorado, and has no real chances in any major blue states except Michigan and, to a lesser extent, Pennsylvania.
Obama's strategy is obviously to just hold on to the Kerry states (he is polling ahead in all of them), add Iowa and New Mexico as he is looking likely to win both of those, and then just add one of the following: Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Georgia, or Missouri. He also can add in smaller states like Nevada, North Dakota, and Montana as backups.
vietnam veterans against john mcmadman mccain
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain
MoveOn.org ad against McCain: "Bomb Iran" song
John McCain is Insane v. 1.0
McCain goes Crazy (Just through Rhetoric!)
Call Out The Squirrel Patrol!
One Of These Days We Might Even Get Around To The Real Issues On TV and then there are the Debates when McCain Has to talk for himself without note cards!
Let's be honest: John McCain does not have much to say about what he would do as President.
Let's be honest: John McCain does not have much to say about what he would do as President.
And when he does talk about what he wants to do, he only confuses himself, his supporters, and the reporters.
McCain to America's Youth: "Get Off My Lawn!"
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Let's be honest: John McCain does not have much to say about what he would do as President, and when he does talk about what he wants to do, he only confuses himself, his supporters, and the reporters who have the unfortunate task of trying to follow his shifting positions and garbling of the facts.
In the last few weeks, John McCain has told us that Iraq and Pakistan border on each other; that the Anbar Awakening, the uprising against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, began after the surge; that he is open to raises taxes; that he would never raise taxes; that Obama should visit Iraq; that he was a publicity hound for visiting Iraq -- this can go on for awhile, so let's stop now.
Wait, I can't stop myself. He was (and is) a major proponent of the war in Iraq, which he said would be short and paid for by Iraqis. He was against drilling off the coasts, but now he's for it. He was against tax cuts without spending cuts, but now he's for them. He thought the Religious Right was intolerant, but now he's tolerant of the intolerant. He is for reducing the influence of lobbyists, but lobbyists were running every aspect of his campaign.
I know what John McCain stands for -- he stands for John McCain. He stands for politics as usual. He stands for more of the same.
It was not that long ago that John McCain was the darling of the media. It was not that long ago that John McCain was a hero to Independents and even many Democrats, because people believed that McCain was the rare guy who could talk straight. I know you had Democratic friends who loved John McCain. I bet they deny that now.
In order to be President, McCain feels that compromises have to be made, and with the Oval Office so close, John McCain will do whatever he has to do to survive. That means that the John McCain of 2000 has morphed into what he fought against -- the George W. Bush of 2000. The candidate who spread false information, the candidate who attacked, attacked, attacked, the candidate who won through cynicism.
Because he has such a hard time figuring out his own views, the McCain is trying to put the Obama campaign on it's, and Paris Hilton's heels.
If I were John McCain's campaign advisor, I, too, would advise Senator McCain to run commercials that featured Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I would seek the politics of personal distraction. I would put Obama in commercials with public enemies Dina Lohan and Heidi Montag (oh, wait, she supports McCain and dines with his daughter -- perhaps the video of that lunch is the response ad Obama should offer). Ludacris would be Obama's best friend.
And I get that McCain knows the only voters out there for him are older women and Republicans who have not yet decided whether to hold their noses and vote for him. Obviously, African-Americans aren't voting for McCain. Latinos are headed Obama's way. Young women are not going to opt for the guy who voted against equal pay for equal work. Young men are not going to vote for the guy who yells at them to get off of his lawn.
So, what's left for McCain? Scaring older people and Republicans into thinking that Obama is all style, no substance. McCain's ads are not about racism; they are about hope -- the hope that the American people are so stupid that they care more about Paris Hilton than they do about their jobs, health care, the environment, foreign policy, and their pensions.
The Karl Rove-acolytes running the McCain campaign know one way of winning. Destroy the other guy. It's worked before.
Will it work again? Well, McCain's climbed a bit in the polls in the last couple of days. But Obama's camp is tough. They know that criticism has to be responded to, no matter how inane, (or Insane Ed.), the ad. They know that Obama has to talk about the economy now, all day, all the time.
But McCain's people are smart, too -- they know that, in the summer months when there's not much news, McCain's wacky ads qualify as news, and the CNN's and MSNBC's repeatedly show and talk about McCain and whether he's right about Obama -- not about McCain's shifting positions on the major issues of the day.
They also know that the polls show a generic Democrat whipping a generic Republican, but the Obama-McCain polls are closer. Why is that, since we have just had eight years of Bush? Because the American people view the Bush Presidency as such a freak show that they do not believe any other President, of any party, would be such a disaster for the country. The American people believe Bush is an anomaly. They're willing to give a reasonable Republican a chance.
But McCain has shown, with his ads, that he's more of the same. He's running the Bush campaigns of 2000 and 2004. So it's hard to argue that he'd be much different as President, considering that he's also taken on many of Bush's policy views.
In the end, this is what will put Obama over the top -- people are tired of angry politics. At least, I think they are, but I say that because I'm tired of it. And it's only the beginning of August -- we have more than three months to go. McCain's anger, always boiling up inside of him, is bound to make the American people will grow tire of him soon. His lack of knowledge means that he'll keep making mistakes.
Yet if I were McCain's camp, I'd be running the same type of attack commercials and the same type of attacking campaign. When you have nothing good to say about yourself, slam the other guy.
A side note: I keep reading that if Obama selects Joe Biden for VP, it would be because he seeks to run with an elder statesman with foreign policy credentials. But the reason to pick Senator Biden is not just because of his leadership on foreign policy -- it is also because of his leadership on women's issues, such as the ahead of it's time Violence Against Women Act that has saved countless families; crime, for which Senator Biden has written the legislation that put 100,000 more cops on the street in the '90's and saw crime dramatically reduced; his leadership on the Judiciary Committee; and his knowledge of how to get things done in Washington.
When people say that Senator Biden has been in D.C. for too long, and that he'd muddle the change message, I say to them that the only way to make change is to get your legislation through Congress. Senator Biden has proven time and again to be ahead of his time on domestic issues, and he has shown he knows how to get things done in Washington. Those are fine reasons to select Senator Biden for VP.
Friday, August 1, 2008
McCain Is A Racist
John McCain Is A Racist!
“John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. His collection of off-color jokes is riddled with racist words and sentiments. Advisors have toned down the raunchy rhetoric of his early years in Congress but close aides say his attitudes have not changed.”
Bill Press: John McCain Plays the Race Card
Jul 31, 2008 ... If so, McCain has a funny way of showing it. All we've seen and heard from him for the last month is a string of personal attacks, ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/john-mccain-plays-the-rac_b_116042.html - 65k -
"I have great admiration and respect for Senator Obama."
If so, McCain has a funny way of showing it. All we've seen and heard from him for the last month is a string of personal attacks, culminating in yesterday's ad smearing Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency.
True? No. Childish? Yes. But that's not all. This ad is also deliberately and deceptively racist.
Of all the famous celebrities they could have compared Obama to, why not Tom Cruise? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Donald Trump, or Oprah Winfrey? Why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Why two white blond bimbos?
Only one reason. It's a somewhat tamer version of the white bimbo ad used so successfully against Harold Ford in Tennessee. In juxtaposing Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman. Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully.
One thing for sure. This isn't the John McCain we first saw in 2000, running a campaign on the issues. And this isn't the positive McCain campaign he himself promised us for 2008. This is a campaign that, from the beginning, is nothing but negative, personal, dirty and, yes, racist.
McCain Camp: Obama Playing The Race Card
Jul 31, 2008 ... McCain is a twit - he's taking a page out of Hillary Clinton's primaries play book by insinuating that Obama played the race card when Obama ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080731/obama/
After months of contending that their campaigns would eschew personal attacks as part of a new kind of politics, the presumptive presidential nominees of the major parties turned nasty over what Obama meant when he said McCain and other Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out that the Democratic candidate "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
McCain took on the role of aggrieved victim, his campaign waiting almost a day after Obama's remarks to charge that he had injected race into the presidential campaign. "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. Its divisive, negative, shameful and wrong," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said.
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, 'He's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'He doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.'"
But by flatly accusing Obama of having "played the race card," McCain ensures that the issue, already looming over the historic campaign, will now take a front-and-center position in a contest that is increasingly being fought more over character than issues.
After countless failed attempts to define Barack Obama in some kind -- any kind -- of negative light, the McCain campaign has come up with a new one. After Obama's triumphant "grand tour" of the middle and his obvious popularity in Europe, McCain's handlers have decided that Obama is acting inappropriately presidential. We wouldn't what a president candidate to act presidential, would we?
So the McCain campaign has not very subtly decided to push this meme by calling Obama presumptuous. McCain's campaign is, of course, being aided and abetted by the always cooperative (so called liberal) media. This time the "liberal" Washing Post columnist Dana Milbank is leading the charge. Here's the first paragraph of his July 30 column:
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.
That's a good one, Dana. Really clever.
And I'm not the only one who thinks so.
liberal constructionist's diary :: ::
The Obama is presumptious theme is so good that McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis sent out an e-mail to all "interested parties" with the subject line Barack Obama's Celebrity. It quotes Milbank's "presumptuous" statement and pumps it up a notch by referring to "Barack Obama's presumptuous arrogance".
I predict we'll be hearing the word presumptuous a lot in the next few days -- and much longer if the McCain campaign, with the help of its media enablers, can get it to stick. In fact, it's pretty much a perfect Republican campaign theme because it not only accuses Barack Obama of being something presumably bad that no one can prove or, more importantly, disprove; it blows the kind of racist dog whistle that Republican love to use against African American Democrats.
Dog whistle politics is a key component of the infamous Republican Southern Strategy that has been responsible for the election of all Republican presidents since Nixon. So it's inevitable that the McCain campaign has rolled it out again against the biggest target ever, Barack Obama. The temptation is just irresistible.
In this case the dog whistle is that Obama is being presumptuous. To most Americans presumptuous means, well, presumptuous. But if you check your thesaurus you'll find that a synonym for presumptuous is uppity. You know, uppity as in uppity n*****. This connection will not be lost on the racists among us. They will chuckle to themselves about the clever way the McCain campaign and their media enablers are calling Obama uppity without actually using the word.
And of course to them it's so obvious that Obama is being uppity. After all, what could be more uppity than a African American candidate acting presidential even before he's elected president? Maybe an African American actually being president?
John McCain is a racist | Capitol Hill Blue
Aug 1, 2008 ... John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect ...
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John McCain's Racist Remark Very Troubling
On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." Although McCain said he was referring only to his prison guards, there are many reasons why his use of the word "gook" is offensive and alarming.
It is offensive because by using a racial epithet that has historically been used to demean all Asians to describe his captors, McCain failed to make a distinction between his torturers and an entire racial group.
It is alarming because a major candidate for president publicly used a racial epithet, refused to apologize for doing so and remains a legitimate contender.
Contrary to McCain's attempt to narrowly define "gook" to mean only his "sadistic" captors, this term has historically been used to describe all Asians. McCain said that "gook" was the most "polite" term he could find to describe his captors, but because it is simply a pejorative term for Asians, he insulted his captors simply by calling them "Asians" -- a clearly disturbing message.
To the Asian American community, the term is akin to the racist word "nigger." A friend of mine, a white male Vietnam veteran, pointed out that veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, know how spiteful the term "gook" is. It has everything to do with labeling someone as "other," the enemy and yellow. McCain sent the message that all Asians are foreigners and remain forever the "other" and the enemy.
The perception of Asians as "foreigners" or "the other" isn't new. This sentiment is what led to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Japanese American internment during World War II. The internment of Japanese Americans is now recognized as one of the worst civil rights violations in our country's history and a powerful lesson in what can happen when race alone is used as a test for loyalty or who is defined as an American.
We've made tremendous progress as a nation in overcoming racism. That is why it is so disturbing that a major candidate for the U.S. president can perpetuate the stereotype of Asians as permanent foreigners, hurtling us backward to a time and a place where such racial epithets were an acceptable part of mainstream discourse.
What makes this incident even more disturbing is how neither the media nor the other presidential candidates have highlighted that his use of a racist term is unacceptable.
Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing minority populations in the United States. And the media's choice to ignore or excuse McCain's behavior is a painful reminder that Asians remain outsiders on the back steps of national American politics.
McCain's main campaign message is inclusion. What his actions have told me, however, is that his inclusion does not include people who look like me.
I love this country just as much as McCain does, and I am committed to serving my community and my country. That is the reason I have entered a career in public service and why I am committed to making America a great country where equal opportunity and justice for everyone is a reality and not just a vision.
This is also why I am so hurt by McCain's comment: He has reminded me that despite my commitment to serving my country, there are still some people in this country who would first perceive me as the enemy.
Katie Hong is a Korean American woman who lives in Seattle and works for Washington state government.
Do you really want a president who is stuck in the 50s way of thinking?
He was against MLK? I dont want to go back to the racist days of the 50s & 60s... What do u guys think about McCain's old school mentality & racism ?
August 1, 2008 - 7:14am.
By DOUG THOMPSON
John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.
As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.
McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.
Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "niggers" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."
A typical McCain joke:
Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat her out."
Two men are standing nearby and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke."
Or another:
Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?
Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.
When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:
I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I'll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won't give it a second thought.
This is the man the Republican Party thinks should be the next President of the United States. What else should we expect from a party that promotes racism, homophobia and discrimination against anyone with a different skin color, sexual orientation or ethnic origin?
So we shouldn't be surprised that McCain's campaign strategy seeks to raise racial fear about Barack Obama, the first African-American with a serious shot at the Presidency of the United States.
John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. His collection of off-color jokes is riddled with racist words and sentiments. Advisors have toned down the raunchy rhetoric of his early years in Congress but close aides say his attitudes have not changed.
McCain opposed making the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King a national holiday. During his 2000 campaign for President, he told reporters on his "Straight Talk Express: "I hated the gooks (North Vietnamese). I will hate them as long as I live."
Katie Hong of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who reported the remark, wrote:
It is offensive because by using a racial epithet that has historically been used to demean all Asians to describe his captors, McCain failed to make a distinction between his torturers and an entire racial group.
It is alarming because a major candidate for president publicly used a racial epithet, refused to apologize for doing so and remains a legitimate contender.
For his 2000 campaign for President, McCain hired Richard Quinn, founder and editor in chief of Southern Heritage Magazine, to serve as his spokesman in South Carolina.
Notes Salon.Com:
Quinn's articles have called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" and King a man "whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul." In another piece, Quinn said of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, "What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?" though he did condemn Duke's bigotry.
Irwin A. Tank, author of Gook: John McCain's Racism, notes a long and sordid history of racism from the presumptive GOP nominee, including:
- McCain's use of the anti-Asian slur "gook" publicly for 27 years before dropping the use for his current Presidential run;
- McCain's endorsement of George Wallace Jr., a frequent speaker at white supremacist events;
- His vote against establishing a holiday for Martin Luther King's birthday and then another vote to rescind the holiday.
- In answering a question about divorced fathers and child support, McCain called the children "tar babies."
The list goes on and on. What else do you expect from a racist?
Analysis: Race remains the political wild card
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“John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. His collection of off-color jokes is riddled with racist words and sentiments. Advisors have toned down the raunchy rhetoric of his early years in Congress but close aides say his attitudes have not changed.”
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