Jack & Jill Politics

Was Stephen Price wearing his “Yes We Can – Obama 08t” T-shirt at the time?

McCain's people really can't get him to grasp the concept of the information age. He still thinks this is 1984 and you can say whatever you want and there is no record of it.

This Week With Barack Obama is up…

I think you're exactly right about that. In 1984, we would never hear about this reporter unless we were in Florida reading the Tallahassee Democrat days later if ever.

In 2008, we are reading about it around the world 2 DAYS later!

Have you seen this? Why hasn’t this been re-aired on a loop on MSM? This is McCain’s respond to, or lack thereof, –in an effort to clarify his seeing the race card played, as well as what he has done to further racial progress in this nation.

What happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkKk2C1W1c

fyi ref. McCain's lies about Obama……check out the comments this journalist made about Jonathan Capehart in repeating lies about Obama.

you can read the whole article at pundits.thehill.com

“August 1, 2008
McCain, Media Allies Play the Uppity Black Card (Brent Budowsky)
@ 9:28 am
John McCain is strong on duty and country, but consumed with ambition, he campaigns without honor. His campaign and those in the media he calls part of his political base have degenerated into slanders and falsehoods that appeal to the lowest instincts.

Recently I challenged what I called three McCain lies about Obama and wounded troops. Today I challenge a lie that was included in the recent Washington Post column by Dana Milbank, repeated without correction many times, and used by Joe Scarborough and others to demean Obama.

Even Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post repeated the falsehood and, amazingly, raised the “uppity” issue (he used that word more than once) in one of the more disgraceful appearances I have seen on television.

Milbank's misquote of Obama, one of the worst misquotes that I have ever seen in a major newspaper, misrepresented what Obama told the House Democratic Caucus. Milbank's misquote was not only inaccurate and factually false; his version was literally the exact opposite of what Obama said………………………………….”

McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe
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 (overheard at Bullfeathers):

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 near by and one turns to the other and says: “I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke.”

Or another (also overheard at Bullfeathers):

Question: Why does Mexican beer have two “X's” on the label?

Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.

(McCain has a documented history of lesbian jokes. He's also come under fire for other jokes about rape.)

Exampe:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?

Because Janet Reno is her father.

Another example:

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

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.

McCain's so-called sense of humor has no limits when it comes to simple human decency. Shortly after former President Ronald Reagan announced he had Alzheimer's Disease, McCain told this joke at a GOP Fundraiser:

Do you know the best thing about having Alzheimer's?

You get to hide your own Easter eggs.

Even his wife is not immune. Writes Cliff Schecter in his book, The Real John McCain:

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, “You're getting a little thin up there.” McCain's face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.” McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

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. A retired Naval officer who says he served with McCain in the Navy says he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. McCain refuses to release his detailed military record and some sources say that record includes incidents that include issues with black sailors.

Such attitudes are part of his family history. As noted by a black poster in Talking Points Memo:

I can't love America the same way John McCain does. When his daddy was Admiral, my daddy was mopping floors. And when his granddaddy was Admiral, all the Blacks in the entire Navy were mopping floors. But they still volunteered and went to war, even when their commanders didn't think they were brave enough to fight. So who loves America more? The cook on the ship who couldn't vote in 15 states, or the Admiral who dined on the meals he slaved over?

McCain's collection of off-color jokes are 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, bigot and homophobe?

(Updated on Aug. 2 & 3, 2008, to include additional material and links)

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/10086

Attempts to paint McCain as a racist will continue to fall flat with most voters and it will turn off the white independents Obama needs to win come November. While Democratic primary voters responded like Pavlov's dogs to claims of victimhood when race was involved, the rest of the population is inclined to weigh the merits of the cases cited by Obama and his supporters. Since McCain has not come close to attacking Obama on racial grounds, Obama will have to campaign on the issues, and his efforts to distract voters by crying “wolf” on race won't succeed.

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Hey! I'm learning so much! I didn't know all this existed! WOW! :>)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CazKanlYDg&feat…

Senator “Mcancient” hard at work -Dissing someone who asked him a question!!

Now, if he acts like this NORMALLY, then he must be medicated erry time they let him out in PUBLIC!! :>) :>) [with all due respect for using meds. They are helpful. We've all taken them for headaches. So I'm not trying to disrespect the use of meds. Just so you know.]

It's not about turning him into a racist, it's about putting the truth out there. Somehow McCain has been skating by and no one EVER questions what he says/does.

It's a bit suspect that the only reporter asked to leave was the Black one, and then when someone else stood up for him, they were asked to leave too.

He tries to avoid nasty situations like that by having people thrown out and arrested.

The problem is NO ONE ever questions McC[ompl]ain about his record, they just take whatever he says as the gospel truth. It's really quite aggravating.

Obama's recent attempt to play the race card against John McCain hasn't succeeded. Democratic primary voters responded like Pavlov's dogs to claims of victimhood and race-baiting but the rest of the population is inclined to weigh the merits. Since McCain has not come close to attacking Obama on racial grounds, Obama's use of the race card fell flat. Obama will have to campaign on the issues, and that his efforts to distract voters by crying “wolf” on race won't succeed.

Who played the race card? Rasmussen finds that Obama did

“Dollar bill” line about race, while Brittany ad not

Rasmussen actually asked people:

As for Obama’s comment, 53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters.

So who was racist?

Unaffiliated voters, by a five-to-one margin, said the McCain ad was not racist. By a much narrower 50% to 38% margin, unaffiliateds viewed Obama’s comment as racist.

Perhaps the press and the lunatic lefty bloggers will stop now. They are knifing their own candidate by screaming about this.

Even David Gergin is saying that the GOP is engaging in race-baiting. Pointing out that this may happen is not playing the race card. It's called pre-emption.

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It's a clear political trap, set by accident or on purpose. The Obama campaign should ignore it. Only the McCain campaign could benefit, once the general media picks up the story. McCain operatives, as we all know, already wallow in the glow of that so-called “race card” fiasco.

It's a clear political trap, set by accident or on purpose. The Obama campaign should ignore it. Only the McCain campaign could benefit, once the general media picks up the story. McCain operatives, as we all know, already wallow in the glow of that so-called “race card” fiasco.