Will McCain Get a Pass on Racist Video?

snood wrote:

What a fortunate lot are we here at A2K, to be inundated by your edifying wisdom.

My thoughts about you exactly Snood my friend.

Whenever I see Obama on the news, I squint trying to see the American flag lapel pin that so many other politicians wear. Am I missing seeing the lapel pin? If he doesn't wear one, what is the message?

Did you type that, or did you just lay it on with a trowel?

Last February, hard-line conservative evangelical Pastor John Hagee endorsed Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) candidacy for president. Despite Hagee's history of controversial and bigoted comments -- such as calling Catholicism "The Great Whore" and blaming Hurricane Katrina on gays -- McCain said he was "very honored" to receive the endorsement, one which he also reportedly sought.

McCain has since both "repudiate[d]" and defended Hagee's intolerant remarks. But McCain's double-talk on Hagee went a step further yesterday on ABC's This Week when he seemed a bit confused as to whether or not he still accepts Hagee's endorsement -- first agreeing that it was a "mistake" to accept it, but less than 30 seconds later saying he is "glad" to have it:

STEPHANOPOULOS: So was it a mistake to solicit and accept his endorsement?

MCCAIN: Oh, probably, sure. […]

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you no longer want his endorsement?

MCCAIN: I'm glad to have his endorsement. I condemn remarks that are, in any way, viewed as anti-anything. And thanks for asking.

Indeed, McCain has been confused quite a bit lately on a wide range of issues:

- McCain has said waterboarding "should never be condoned in the U.S." but voted against a bill banning the CIA from using torture, specifically including waterboarding.

- McCain says he is "a consistent supporter of educational benefits" for the military but has indicated he will not support the bipartisan 21st Century GI Bill.

- On at least three occasions, McCain baselessly claimed Iran is training Al Qaeda in Iraq but argued the error was an isolated slip of the tongue.

- McCain falsely suggested that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a "sect of Shi'ites."

- McCain falsely claimed Moktada al-Sadr "declared the cease-fire" after recent fighting in Basra and has said he is both a "major player" in Iraq and that his influence "has been on the wane for a long time."

- Economists and nonpartisan analysts have said recently that the numbers in McCain's economic plan simply "don't add up."

- McCain has made the elimination of earmarks a cornerstone of his presidential campaign but he can't name any he would eliminate.

- In a matter of one day, McCain said Americans are both "better off" and "not better off" than they were before President Bush took office.

McCain's latest 30-second flip-flop represents the political dance he must engage in to try to appeal to both the conservative evangelical wing of the Republican Party and independent-minded Americans. But despite all his back and forth, the media still seem happy to promote McCain's self-proclaimed persona as a "straight-talking maverick."

McCain stated his opposition to the bill as he campaigned in rural eastern Kentucky, where poverty is worse among women than men. The Arizona senator said he was familiar with the disparity but that there are better ways to help women find better paying jobs.

"They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else," McCain said. "And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them.

"It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least," he said.

No I am also worried about McCain's view on women. He wouldn't vote on the senate bill demanding equal pay for women (which we don't have yet) but said women need to go back to school instead. (as though there are not graduates with degress all over the place not getting equal pay.) But I guess they are only American women. McCain needs to get with the times. Women do not stay with their families because they don't have anyone to take care of them in these times.

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McCain stated his opposition to the bill as he campaigned in rural eastern Kentucky, where poverty is worse among women than men. The Arizona senator said he was familiar with the disparity but that there are better ways to help women find better paying jobs.

"They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else," McCain said. "And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them.

"It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least," he said.

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Oh please; it is not reasonable to say women find it hard to leave their families because there is no one to take care of them. That is a sexist outdated view along with answering the unequal pay question with saying women need to go back to school. Women have college degrees and are still not getting equal pay.

You need to quit living in the past. In this day and age; women have to have some way of making a living whether they are married or not, most of time that means they need some kind of degree or training in order to do it. They do not have to depend on someone "taking care of them" no more than a man does.

revel wrote:

You need to quit living in the past. In this day and age; women have to have some way of making a living whether they are married or not, most of time that means they need some kind of degree or training in order to do it. They do not have to depend on someone "taking care of them" no more than a man does.

Yea, I know, stay at home Mom's, caring and raising their children is beneath you. You expect the "village" to do that kind of un-important work, don't you.

We are rational human beings