Obama A Decent Man, Not An Arab, Says McCain
Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008He’s an Arab, says the woman.
No Ma’am, says McCain. He’s a decent family man.
I see. So it’s one or the other, is it? In John MCain’s world, it seems, you can be an Arab or you can be a a decent family man, but not both.
Oh dear.
Sarah really has dug a big hole of bigotry for the boss to scramble out of. Watch this short clip. It’s a fascinating insight into a remote and primitive tribe: American racist redneck voters.
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Meanwhile, at a Palin rally, we see this racist holding a monkey doll with an Obama sticker on its head.
Man At Palin Rally Displays Monkey Doll Donning Obama Sticker
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Elsewhere:
Stumble it!
October 11th, 2008
he’s dug a hole so deep, he’ll never recover. palin will be a one trick pony and after this election (which they will not win) she will disappear. this is my personal mantra and i’m sticking to it! xoxo
October 11th, 2008
I’m tickled - I just posted about McCain’s gaffe (and Palin’s track record) and then came on over here to read about the match. Great minds!
October 11th, 2008
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
October 11th, 2008
Isn’t it stunning, and not a little delicious, when a bigot tries to say the thing he thinks people want to hear, but ends up just sounding like an asshole.
Of course, we already knew this about him and all the GOP sheep will spring to his defence?
It’s still great though
October 12th, 2008
There is sweet eff all remote about them, Bock. Even if 75% of them have no passports, they’re no strangers to the runways of Co. Clare. I am quite scared at how much of a grip SP and Grandad have in places that don’t get the mainstream media attention. Ohio is wide open, far as I can see. And remember our friend Chad in Florida? I don’t think that a US election has ever mattered more to the rest of the world, frankly, and I see little to be complacent about. I do however see people I converse with in the US - alongside the Springer fodder you link to here - who seem otherwise rational, sane and plugged in, but are blithely following McCain and the carefully-coiffed dash-aboot mom because they speak ‘for the people’. WTF is is with US elections? Where’s Hunter when he’s needed?
Never underestimate the cleverness of utter stupidity.
October 12th, 2008
I find the two questioners even more scary.
October 12th, 2008
What’s really scary is that the audience is not specially selected. I bet the hall was packed and many more outside.
Meanwhile McCain digs that hole a bit deeper elsewhere:
The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of “kill him” followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama’s relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.
SOURCE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html
October 12th, 2008
It’s baffling to me how they can believe the nonsense about Obama. A muslim with arab tendancies and who will bring the black panthers, no less. In the meantime, McCain the failure (see the Rolling Stones Mag profile) and Palin (see everywhere else) are ‘like us’. Bizarre.
October 12th, 2008
McCain/Palin are playing with fire. If they lose and Obama is elected, they may already have put him at greater risk than he would face already as President. I think it’s a disgrace.
Omaba was 8 years old in Bill Ayers’s radical days, and Bill Ayers is now a tenured Professor at University of Illinois. So they sat on a committe together. Boo-yah.
October 12th, 2008
Mc Cain is gona win.. The republicans couldnt have put forward a more unsuitable president and theyl still win. This is simply because the democrats gave the nation 2 options a black president or a woman president…All they had to do was get a white man nominated and they were laughing…Personally id love to see Obama in but my moneys on Mccain.
October 12th, 2008
Mc Cain will win and by a decent margin. Let me explain, briefly why. Do you recall back in the Nineties in Britain, Kinnock ws predicted to win? pollsters got it really badly wrong?
The opinion pollsters asked voters whether they would be prepared to take a hike in taxes to pay for better services, NHS, transport etc. The response was overwhelmingly, ‘Yes’. The liars - when it came to voting they didn’t want to pay higher taxes at all - but they were too ashamed to admit it to the nice young person with the clipboard.
In the privacy of the polling booth, many Americans who pretend to be liberal and inclusive will vote for Mc Cain. They’ll pretend they voted for Obama and the exit pollsters will be left scratching their heads.
A narrow win either way will do nothing for my hunch but if Mc Cain trounces Obama, I’ll be proved right.
October 12th, 2008
Isn’t this called the Bradley effect in the USA — people not wanting to appear racist, so say they’ll vote for Obama. But in the privacy of the polling booth, they don’t. I’ve heard pundits say he needs to be more than 7 points ahead to get over this ‘effect’.
October 12th, 2008
Thanks Nora. ‘Bradley effect’, eh?
The Mc cain gaffe reminded me of Reagan’s, ‘Innocent Victims of Aids’. Not just a slip of the tongue but an underlying prejudice.
October 12th, 2008
Well, CNN has him eight points over McCain, so here’s hoping that folks will still see the light.
October 12th, 2008
Isn’t it weird to be so concerned about an election we (Irish here) can do sweet nothing about. Frustrating. :)
October 12th, 2008
You’re right of course. Nobody would give a rat’s arse about an election anywhere else, but I don’t know if “concerned” is the right word.
“Afraid” maybe.
October 12th, 2008
Dont be afraid, the Bradley affect will not happen now that we have the palin panic.It will be ok I wish Joe Biden was on the top of that ticket I really like that man.
October 12th, 2008
It’s clear the woman was connecting Arab with terrorist, and McCain was merely defusing that. I doubt McCain meant anything by that and you should really chill out.
October 12th, 2008
You doubt McCain meant anything by it? Well, that’s very reassuring. Thanks.
October 12th, 2008
No, I doubt McCain meant anything more by his comment than “Obama is not a terrorist, be respectful.”
He didn’t say “He’s not an Arab, he’s decent.” He merely stated “He’s a decent man”. The woman was being bigoted by suspecting being Arabic meant one is evil, and McCain was merely addressing the second part.
I’m not voting for McCain and I know not to look to get angry at all this.
October 12th, 2008
I’m sorry, but that’s not the conversation that took place.
The woman says “He’s an Arab”, and McCain replies, “No Ma’am. He’s a decent family man, citizen …”
October 12th, 2008
Yes, I know, I watched the clip.
The woman was obviously insinuating that, by Arab, she meant terrorist and might’ve continued to say so if McCain hadn’t taken the mic away from her. He was rebuking her terrorist claim by saying he’s a decent family man.
I mean, if we’re allowed to assume McCain meant something else by what he said, we can assume that the woman meant something else when she said “Arab”, mainly “terrorist”.
Really, the only reason I can see to be pissed off at this is if someone were searching for a reason to hate John McCain and be even surer for Obama’s campaign.
October 12th, 2008
This is a pointless argument. You’re entitled to your interpretation of what McCain said, just as I’m entitled to mine.
I’m not looking for a reason to hate McCain. I don’t love or hate him, because this isn’t a personal matter. Looking for reasons to hate him would be a childish over-simplification of a very serious global decision.
I’m worried. It’s not that Obama would make things better, but I do think McCain’s nominated surrogate, Palin, has the potential to make the entire world’s future a whole lot worse.
That’s true for all of us, including those who have no say in this decision.
October 12th, 2008
I can agree on that.
October 12th, 2008
Excellent! We’re in agreement.
Now, if only the whole world could manage its affairs so well, we’d never need wars.
October 12th, 2008
Oh get a room.
October 12th, 2008
A war room?
October 12th, 2008
However shocking it is, maybe this exchange between this old white woman and this old white man is the stuff of what your man bangs on about…change.
October 12th, 2008
“The woman was being bigoted by suspecting being Arabic meant one is evil, and McCain was merely addressing the second part.”–topcatyo
And where did she get such an idea only from Pitbull Palin? If McCain wanted to “stop the second part” he could rein her in. Which he hasn’t so far. Hence all the shouts of ‘traitor’, ‘treason’, and ‘kill him’, about Obama. McCain was booed by the crowd when he said, “He’s a decent family man”.
Obama is ahead, and it’s fury that’s now driving the Republican campaign. McCain is a disgrace.
October 12th, 2008
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29czSGSPE7k
October 12th, 2008
I’m not a gentleman, Nick.
October 12th, 2008
He’s talking about me and the other fella.
October 12th, 2008
Just my little joke. If things get rough I’ll start crying.
October 12th, 2008
Take another look at that shower of fucking morons in the audience. The fate of the fucking planet rests in the hands of people like them. America touts itself as the most advanced nation in the world when nothing could be further from the truth. How many times have you heard the phrase, “America isn’t ready for a black president”, recently? Obama will not be president because a hefty amount of Americans are too busy trying to crawl out of the primordial ooze. To be fair, both candidates are weak but, if McCain does win, it will finally prove that Americans can’t be trusted with that much power.
October 12th, 2008
Talk of America being unready for a black president always makes me smile and think of this;
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28737
October 13th, 2008
America is ready for a black president but are they willing? It would be wrong to vote for Obama just because he’s black as it would be to vote against him for the same reason.
I think ’sophisticates’ scare the Yanks. They’d much rather have a folksy, ‘I’m sure I’ll think of something…, or, ‘Now watch this drive…’
Bush can’t be thick - he just sounds it - It’s actually an advantage in the States to be inarticulate. They seem suspicious of ‘intellectuals’. So while they wait for the ‘Rapture’ on the six thousand year old earth, it doesn’t much matter who is president as long as he’s a decent family man, i.e. ‘white’.
October 13th, 2008
They seem to be suspicious of anyone who can complete two consecutive sentences.
October 13th, 2008
I notice that you used only one sentence there, Bock. Is this you reaching out? You could be SP’s veepee maybe.
October 13th, 2008
Maybe.