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John McCain is a racist

capitolhillblue.com — This is explosive. The mainstream media needs to pick this up. If Doug Thompson heard these things when he was a Republican insider from McCain there have to be others who did and who are willing to speak out now.

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  • merersu, on 08/01/2008, -110/+230This definitely explains why he hates Obama so much. Cause how dare some upstart Negro, better looking, more talented, and far more intelligent usurp the position he's been trying to win for over a decade! But what's really frightening is how he must treat his adopted daughter. Remember, that adoption wasn't his choice. His wife surprised him when she returned from one of her trips oversees. Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on that freakin wall?
    • ZephyrNinety, on 08/02/2008, -21/+99Or maybe it's because Obama is his opponent.
    • macweirdo42, on 08/02/2008, -12/+58Not necessarily. Hell, my guess is he's flipping out for the same reason Hillary did. I mean, Obama basically just appears out of nowhere, and starts challenging the authority of "The Man." Not that I'm saying Obama is this superhero that everyone makes him out to be, but he's definitely going against the system. Hillary freaked out because she was convinced that the nomination was basically her birthright, and now McCain is in the same boat.
      • BoonTobias, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1cause he's the dark knight



        sorry sorry, jeez
    • whytheam, on 08/02/2008, -30/+23McCain doesn't hate Obama. In your opinion McCain "hates" Obama, but until McCain says, "I hate Obama" it's just gossip.
      • Aorawn, on 08/02/2008, -14/+27Your logic is flawed, because if I hate you, it will be true regardless of whether I say so or not.
      • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -23/+16Aorawn
        It's called hearsay dumbass.
        It's actually a legal term - look it up!

        How's that logic for ya?
      • rotundo, on 08/02/2008, -5/+12jabberwolf - just because it's hearsay doesn't mean it's not true. It just means it can't be used as evidence in a court of law.

        whytheam was right that "McCain hates Obama" is just gossip, but wrong when he said "McCain doesn't hate Obama". The fact is we don't know if he hates Obama or not.

        - your friendly neighborhood logic nazi
      • mattlohkamp, on 08/02/2008, -7/+3The evidence of absence is not the absence of evidence. There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know!
      • czeman, on 08/03/2008, -4/+2To the Obama fanboys in this thread:
        People have said lots of terrible things about Obama. It's just hearsay, but I guess it's all true since SOMEBODY said it. That's what your ***** up logic says to me anyways.
      • allisonaxe, on 08/03/2008, -1/+7McCain doesn't hate obama, he hates gays, lesbians, black people, mexican people, asians, etc.... Obama just happens to be one of those.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -19/+20So again, why should we believe this source on a blog ?

      With Mccain either tide or winning, I guess anything goes now.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/02/2008, -13/+20McCain's racism is kind of old hat. No one cares. No one cares that he wanted to remove sanctions on white supremacist terrorists in apartheid South Africa even though Ronald Reagan was against it.

      I'd call John McCain an asshat, but he's more like a douche.
      • allisonaxe, on 08/03/2008, -1/+4I don't like calling people Douches or Douche-bags or douche nozzles.... especially if its a guy. its like saying "you touched vagina." I prefer to call people of McCain's caliber "enema-bags" because frankly, thats much grosser and more insulting. ok, it doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but I'm willing to let that go for the extra oomph of burn.
      • RationalXubrnce, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1 If he had maybe that country wouldn't be facing certain death as it is now. I don't think South Africa will be recognizable as ever having been a first world nation within 20 years.
      • Bakka, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1allisonaxe, you're putting the pussy on a pedestal. Douche works just fine.
      • Iztikeit, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1I call people douchebags when they believe everything they hear, as long as it coincides with their personal beliefs.

        You are obviously an Obama fan or McCain hater. If you are neither of those things you are still a douche for believing McCain is a racist based on absolutely nothing.
    • Corrosionx, on 08/02/2008, -8/+10One or the other, they all work together to increase the size and scope of government.
      • EricSchC1, on 08/02/2008, -4/+6If those are our two only realistic options, I'll take the one who's not a racist, sexist homophobic *****.
      • Corrosionx, on 08/03/2008, -1/+0I don't know, I get the feeling people trust Obama too much, and that's more dangerous than a deluded old man.
    • swoopdog, on 08/02/2008, -18/+14"This definitely explains why he hates Obama so much"

      Where and when was this said? buried for being a moron.
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/02/2008, -24/+13"A typical McCain joke:"

      This is nothing but slander and the Digg liberals will eat it up.
      • rotundo, on 08/02/2008, -5/+16How do you know it is slander? The term for false printed statements is "libel" in any case, but we don't know if it is libel because we don't know if it is true or not. I would tend to think it is true because it is well established that McCain refers to his captors as "gooks". If the claims in the article are untrue, then McCain can sue the guy for libel. Until he does that, there's no reason to be sure it is false...

        Unless you just want to defend McCain because you like him, regardless of truth?
      • archiesteel, on 08/02/2008, -4/+10"Unless you just want to defend McCain because you like him, regardless of truth?"

        QuadZeroRoute is a propagandist. He's not interested in truth, only in helping to achieve his political goal. He's also not very bright, but I guess you'd figured this out already.
      • czeman, on 08/03/2008, -2/+4@rotundo
        There is no reason to believe it's true either. Automatically buying into negativity is what influences bad decisions.
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/02/2008, -15/+6akchrs wisely said:

      http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_presiden ...
      Quotes the Author of this and his website as "The Web site that reported those words has a history of quoting phony sources and retracting bogus stories."

      Maybe you liberals can come back when you can think up something better.
      • rotundo, on 08/02/2008, -4/+17I don't know about the rest of the article, but he did refer to his captors as gooks repeatedly, that much is well documented. And no, he doesn't deserve a free pass. He can call them jerks, evil assholes, inhuman slime, but by calling them out with a racial slur he's being racist by definition and disenfranchising a huge number of upstanding American citizens of Asian descent.

        My grandfather was imprisoned and tortured by the Polish and I never heard him use a racial slur against the Polish. He blamed his captors alone, and not the nation or the ethnic group. If McCain doesn't get that, he's not fit to be president.
      • supermanky, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Obama is a lesbian. A secret lesbian.
    • flink405, on 08/02/2008, -19/+18McCain a racist? No way.
      Have you ever seen his adopted daughter?
      Here are a few photos of her:
      http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=3183

      Guess what color her skin is.
      • Tenlow, on 08/02/2008, -7/+20Guess who made the decision to adopt her?
      • browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -7/+20The color that make's McCain's eyes burn. His wife adopted the child without his knowledge.
      • mattlohkamp, on 08/02/2008, -5/+25Dude, Cheney's daughter is gay, and he's not exactly in favor of gay rights, is he? This is the same thing. Hypocrisy is thicker then blood.
      • sgregory416, on 08/02/2008, -12/+5boy oh boy is she an ugly one, ill vote for obama just so i dont have to see that everyday.
      • bluevillage, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4From a CELEBRITY site, no less!
      • mohsenxp, on 08/02/2008, -7/+1sgregory416. I'd say that she suffers from some sort of mental disorder.
      • RationalXubrnce, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1 That's a man baby!
      • faatbuddha, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1...none of the colors mentioned in that article!
    • OpNash, on 08/02/2008, -4/+16I saw an interview where Cindy McCain was describing how "tough" it had been to raise a brown child in such a traditionalist family.

      • Dragular, on 08/03/2008, -2/+4So? As someone who has been in an interracial relationship, I can tell you it's "tough" to date a brown girl in a traditionalist family.

        Doesn't make me a racist, it's a ***** fact. And I'd love to see a video of Cindy McCain calling her "brown" in context.
      • Iztikeit, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2It is hard. Do you know how many ***** up external pressures America puts on you when you do something outside of the norm?
    • cotl, on 08/02/2008, -3/+16I'll believe it when there is some actual evidence, not just one persons allegiation. Doesn't anyone else remember that only a few months ago the accusations were that Michelle Obama was a racist because someone alleged that they heard her make racists remarks. It turned out that was all it was... an allegation and untrue.

      Remember all the racist remarks the Clinton's supposedly made during and after their years in the White House?

      Everyone on this board seems ready to jump all over McCain for this without some proof... were you just as outraged when the accusations were made against Ms. Obama or the Clintons?

    • SolidSnak, on 08/02/2008, -6/+8John McCain doesn't like black people.
      • cotl, on 08/02/2008, -10/+6Based on what?

        I guess I could just as easily say that Obama doesn't like Hispanic people. Since it was "said" it must be true right?

        Has Digg been taken over by hormonal, irrational, teenagers? Most of the comments are just ridiculous.
      • macweirdo42, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7@cotl
        *whoosh*
    • NightVortez, on 08/02/2008, -2/+6He's actually claimed to respect Obama, and they've even hugged, but they are both competing for the same position, what do you expect?

      I take it this article is satire and so are the people's responses, because it's just too stupid to be real.
    • OffPiste, on 08/02/2008, -9/+3Wait racists adopt non-caucasian children? Man what are they up to? I'm very confused.
    • avatarpalin, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2If only fly's could Blog
    • nontoxyc, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3You make me sick.
    • Tommydukes, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5Are you stupid?

      "this definitely explains why he hates obama so much"?

      lmao. You think the top two candidates get along with each other normally, and that race is the cause for smear tactics and ***** talking among only these two parties? Nice try you ***** moron.

      This is why I hate digg
      • suedeb, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1"this is why i hate digg" amen and dude
    • Netwatcher, on 08/03/2008, -7/+9A racist Republican, who would have guessed?

      /sarcasm
    • FearLess77, on 08/03/2008, -2/+2You are such an idiot, lol....
    • wannapiece, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6Maybe that's why he called his wife a *****?
      http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled ...

      This man is just filled with hate.
      • BoonTobias, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3i'm pretty sure every man has done that so let's not base anything on that
    • suedeb, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5This actually doesn't explain *****. All this explains is that one political blogger doesn't like McCain. The author doesn't cite any references where the Alleged quotes came from.
    • poprocksandsoda, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3You are such an idiot, that I can't even find an adjective sufficient enough to sum up your statement. The fact that over 100 people dug you up just shows why our country can't compete with third world workers.
      • Iztikeit, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1We live in a time where people don't want to work, think or be reasonable yet want FAR more conveniences than that which was bestowed upon our ancestors. (and people in third world countries)

        People believe everything they hear, as long as it coincides with their personal beliefs.

        All the Obama fans will hang onto anything, true or not, which makes McCain look bad.

    • tbbuccfan, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1When are you people going to figure it out. WE ARE ALL RACISTS. Once society gets past that, maybe we can come together as a people. All you whitey's on this board need to realize that Black people are not impressed by your fake "caring" about them. Pay a visit to patriceoneal.com and get a true perspective on how black people feel about self hating white people.
    • Minarchian, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3"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?"

      People seem to have forgotten that the KKK were Democrats.

      Oh, that's right, they re-wrote that bit of history.
      • zombies187, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1"were"
        What party are they in today?
    • aristotle0dude, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1Yeah and it also explains why he has an adopted daughter that is not white.
      /sarc

      Get a fricken clue.
    • Iztikeit, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Why do people believe everything they hear?

      What would lead you to believe that any of this is true?

      Obama probably has more race problems than McCain. See? I can make an accusation without any real proof.
  • fzismyelvis, on 08/01/2008, -77/+151This man is not a nice guy. Never was and never will be. He will lead this nation to ruin if given the chance. Don't vote for this a$$h0le!!
    • psylemon, on 08/02/2008, -13/+13$$0!! ruined it for me
    • wphj, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4If he's really this bad it's only a matter of time before someone catches him on video, then it'll all be over.
    • BillOReilly, on 08/02/2008, -15/+8Ok listen up.
      He is a nice guy, sure he says some racist stuff. But who doesn't?
      I'd rather have him in office, I mean I certainly don't want osam...obama running this country.
      He's a POW for christ sake!


      Love,
      Bill O'Reilly
    • cubedw00t, on 08/02/2008, -1/+4Its time a reporter at a press conference called McCain out on this and asked if he stands by his use of the term "gook".
    • sleepysteve, on 08/02/2008, -0/+7So there is no confusion: I fully support Obama in the election.

      Making racial jokes does NOT make a person racist. I for one find (most) black jokes pretty funny, and I'm black. Don't condemn the guy for jokes he makes, condemn him for his policies and actions.

      If Obama doesn't play the race card, then you betray him by doing so(assuming you support him). In fact, one of the things I like most about his personality is that he has completely downplayed the fact that he is black throughout his campaign. He presents himself not as a black man running for president, but simply as a man running for president.
    • cutekelvins, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3McCain is a gay.
    • specialK16, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1" Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?

      Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer."

      This guy is amazing. He is the President America's been waiting for!

      /s
    • nontoxyc, on 08/03/2008, -3/+3obama is the *****. McCain is a hero.
      • BigYenYens, on 08/03/2008, -2/+0you are also a hero for saying what needs to be said
    • BigYenYens, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3I know I will be hissed and booed at for saying this, but it needs to be said. First and foremost, McCain is not, I repeat, NOT a racist. This article has no solid proof that any of these comments were actually made by McCain. This article is just part of Obama Inc's propaganda machine at work. Obama downplays it, but he is in fact pulliing the race card on behalf of his benefit. Does speculating that make McCain a racist? Secondly, Obama is the worst possible candidate for president. He stands for absolutely nothing and changes his stance on nearly every political decision under the sun. In the past 3 months he has changed his opinion on: Iran, the war in Iraq, the economy, border security, offshore drilling, NAFTA, and healthcare just to name a few. He believes in change all right. Changing his stance on important issues just to win more votes. And his followers are blinded by his (god forbid I say it) "Magic Negro" qualities, yet they fail to see that his speeches only sound good in soundbites. When you listen to them in durationi as I have, you find that scratching under the surface reveals nothing. This man stands for nothing. He has only had 118 days of experience in Senate and has never served in our armed forces. McCain has spent over a thousand active days in the Senate, and , in my mind, is a war hero who appreciates the military in a way Obama could never. I have no problem with electing an African American, but Obama is not this man. McCain 08', keep your change Obama, you haven't a clue.
  • laudyms, on 08/01/2008, -59/+131With recorded quotes like these, he should never have been considered as a candidate.
    • ruddy, on 08/02/2008, -42/+6why do you hate freedom of speech
      • homah, on 08/02/2008, -6/+23Your comment doesn't make any sense.
      • dinot, on 08/02/2008, -11/+17freedom of speech != freedom of bigotry.
      • willster580, on 08/02/2008, -5/+9Actually dinot, it is his freedom of speech. He can say whatever he wants, but should know that there are people listening.
      • dinot, on 08/02/2008, -4/+8That's what I'm saying. He's got a right to free speech, but that doesn't make it OK for him to be a dick.
      • dinot, on 08/02/2008, -3/+7Why are you people digging me down? Do you hate freedom of speech?
      • sysop073, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5It's perfectly legal to say everything he did, but that means we know what kind of person he is, and there's no way a person like McCain should be considered for President. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech at all
      • ummagummas08, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1This thread makes my brain hurt.
    • Stormwern, on 08/02/2008, -4/+16"I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to ***** my opponent to win I'll do it."

      The joint townhalls are a trap!!
      • reastydirtstar, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1 It wasn't nearly as good as
        "Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label? Because wetbacks always need a co-signer."

        It's been a while since I laughed that hard. Once i wipe these tears from my eyes, I'll respect McCain even more.
    • ousthouse, on 08/02/2008, -5/+21yeah - but these quotes WEREN'T recorded.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -3/+11And DOUG THOMPSON is WHO ????
    • PHiZ187, on 08/02/2008, -3/+6He wasn't considered as a candidate. It's just that the entire Republican primary field imploded.
    • evilsnoopi3, on 08/03/2008, -1/+4Putting things in quotation marks does not make it a "recorded quote". Of course, John McCain realizes this and has even gone on record as saying he was "shocked to find the internet to be a place where people could say whatever they want, without any proof." He even promised to pass a law "requiring that any statement placed in quotations on the internet would have to be verifed by an independent 3rd party"

      See what I did there?

      Buried the story for shoddy journalism and being propaganda. Now where is my car that runs on hopes and dreams so I can get off this hell ride of defending a ***** presidential candiate and back to supporting someone who might get something done...
    • suedeb, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3Wow, I don't want to just outright call you a moron so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're just not real quick, maybe the observation skills are a bit lacking. 98% of what was "quoted" in that article was not recorded fact. The author doesn't cite ***** or provide any type of references other than that of the he said she said type.
    • faatbuddha, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1And his jokes aren't even FUNNY!
  • susan56, on 08/02/2008, -42/+28Come November 4th, will the electorate get off their behinds and go out, line up, and VOTE! Or will the american electorate still be whining about the republicans in 2009? I think you will be whining.
    • JekJob, on 08/02/2008, -7/+16We'll be whining about the Republicans until they cease to exist. But people will vote this year.
      • akchrs, on 08/02/2008, -15/+5Not liberals. They never vote.
      • JekJob, on 08/02/2008, -4/+10Did you see how many Democrats voted in the primaries compared to the Republicans?

        Good luck in November.
    • DoubleClef, on 08/02/2008, -3/+8You can bet your ***** ass I am voting.
  • bluevillage, on 08/02/2008, -42/+101Important to have this eye-witness account. His other reported comments -- calling his wife the C-word and the rape joke -- start to fit into a pattern. As does opposing the MLK holiday for so long. He's a total hypocrite. I hope this piece gets some traction. Pass it around.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -6/+8And all these quotes from people that head him say something... or heard someone else hear him say something about 20-30 years ago.

      And who the hell is DOUG THOMPSON ??
    • btrues, on 08/02/2008, -4/+5I actually thought the title of this was "John McCain is a rapist"

      I was very confused...I didn't think he was physically capable of such acts anymore.
    • eaglered00, on 08/02/2008, -2/+5John McCain has also personally told me that if he's elected president, he will kill every minority in America. Of course you have know way of backing this up, and must take my word for it. All a of the "witness" accounts aren't worth *****. That being he has said some offensive stuff along the way. As for the whole gook thing, I don't think any of us have a right to judge him. There are plenty of reasons not to vote for McCain with making unsubstantiated claims of racism.
    • 9inchesoftrruth, on 08/02/2008, -6/+3ya race is such a HUGE problem in this country these days...who the ***** cares...black america finally made congress apologize for something their great great grandparents. What else do you want...i wasnt a racist before reading these stupid comments but listening to you all the little whinners has made the choice clear. Obama presidency = a ***** load of programs for the little i cant people McCain = badass and if you dont want a badass running the country then it deserves the coming atomic war that Iran will no doubt launch during the Paris Hilton presidency

      WAKE UP PEOPLE
    • coffeebaby, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1i don't get the dyke joke....
    • Larsonal777, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1You know what... I think MLK was a great man... He did great things for America... and sure he maybe even deserves a day... what's wrong though is that there are soooo soooo many other great people that have done just as great of things for this country that DON'T have a day. I guess I'm not against MLK having a day... I'm against how big of a deal HIS day is when we have others without any day what so ever... I guess I'm against how much it Black history month is being pushed on us... why the ***** isn't women's history month... or a Native American History month or any other racial group's month such a big deal (I guess they aren't as politically correct enough). In fact most of them don't HAVE a month. I'm not against having history months for people to celebrate their history people should remember history... but its like... "OUR history is much better that YOUR history... we've been opressed blah blah blah"... When I go to a mostly white school (the majority of the blacks there are actually international students) which as it is in the midwest is very much NOT racist... and when black history month comes around its the BIGGEST deal... posters EVERYwhere... During MLK day they have people reading his speaches and all the street corners for most of the day... more activities than homecoming week... I dunno... it just gets me a little upset. Why am I and the majority of the people at my school forced to CELEBRATE (not remember) someone elses history.

      My great grandparents came to this country from Europe... they didn't have much... but today... today I think of myself as an American... My parents are Americans... in fact... my grandparents are americans. We are not Italian Americans... or Swedish Americans... we are Americans because we are from America... so why do people refer to themselves as African Americans when their ancestors haven't lived in Africa for generations.
  • buckpower, on 08/02/2008, -33/+36Nothing here surprises me. But I hope the kind of people who don't follow politics so closely see this. It will blow their minds.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -8/+8If they followed closely they'd realize that Mccain adopted a bagladesh girl and that this quotet Doug, is a no one trying to get attention on Digg.

      And its not like liberals will look up sources, that would be like "work" or something...
      • cubedw00t, on 08/02/2008, -4/+6and this justifies bigotry how?
        who is your source asswipe?

        Its time that people cried FOUL for all the ***** he gets away with. He is not teflon-coated, eventually some of his ***** will stick to his $500 shoes.
      • rotundo, on 08/02/2008, -3/+7So what if he adopted a bangladesh girl? That doesn't change the fact that he voted against MLK day and called people "gooks". That's well documented.

        Also note that any of these claims could be shot down as slander or libel if they were false. Not saying he has to take the time to do that, but until he does, your speculation that he didn't say these things is pointless.

        It's also worth noting that it's not like these same accusations fly around other candidates. Maybe just maybe there's some truth to it? Maybe at least you consider it as a possibility? Maybe it should inform your position on the candidates?
      • geebs61, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Could you speak up? I can't hear you with all that McCain ***** in your mouth
    • goofygarber, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Nothing in that article proved anything about him being a racist. I don't like John McCain, I CERTAINLY won't vote for him but all I see is someone with absolutely no proof on a blog that they write expecting you to take these very charged comments at face value.

      If there was a video or recording of him being racist, sure, but this is just hearsay as far as I'm concerned. (Yes, I'm aware there are other documented instances, but this particular article is a horrible example because its just "JIMMY HEARD BOBBY TELL SUZY THAT HE LIKES CINDY"
    • suedeb, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0Not that I'm a McCain supporter but I would give much more respect and credence to that article if it actually cited the quotes that McCain allegedly spouted. As for the jokes, I realize that can't exactly be cited like a fact so it's all hearsay. Even the non joke quotes there was no documentation of..this article was simply written by a McCain hater made mostly of opinions than documented fact, and for that even the title is grossly misleading. It should read "Bloggers Opinion: McCain Is a Racist."
    • Migito, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1If you Obama supporters are going to spread lies about McCain to scare people into voting for Obama, I'm going to stop convincing my fellow southerners that Obama isn't a muslim. You spread lies, and I'll let lies spread.

      Yes, I hate Obama's policies.
      Yes, I defend him on a regular basis anyway.
      Why? Because 90% of the south still thinks he's a muslim. Plain and simple. And it's wrong.

      Just as you people are WRONG right now.
  • IdigObama, on 08/02/2008, -46/+31Oh I knew he was a racist simply by the way he acts.

    He thought he would be able to breeze into being our next POTUS because Obama is a black man.

    WRONG!

    OBAMA 08!!!

    No Racist Pigs For POTUS!!!
    • joel8x, on 08/02/2008, -5/+17Seriously, are you even old enough to vote? What adult writes like that?
    • msheidi, on 08/02/2008, -12/+7You guys fabricate racism. :)

      That is scary.
      • solistus, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7Using racial epithets and making defamatory statements about entire races of people doesn't leave much to manufacture.
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/02/2008, -16/+7***** Obama.
  • Tootie5347, on 08/02/2008, -54/+62You cannot trust McCain.
  • KiminCA, on 08/02/2008, -31/+21Those jokes are offensive and Senator McCain has also made equally despicable "jokes" about women. Nonetheless, I'm inclined to agree with Senator Obama on this one. Neither Senator McCain, nor his Campaign are racist -- but they certainly are cynical by doing everything they can to distract us from the very real issues and problems that face our Country.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7539070.stm

    So far, Senator McCain has appealed to the lowest common denominator, run negative advertisements that are false and misleading and NOT set forth a single positive reason WHY any one of us should vote for him. Senator McCain certainly has broken his word to all of us; his campaign engages in personal ad hominem against both Senator Obama and the millions of Americans who support the Senator from Illinois. Bizarre tactics to insult millions of Americans; yet, very little of Senator McCain's increasingly negative campaign makes any common sense.
    • EntropyMan, on 08/02/2008, -5/+10"Cynical" in this case means exploiting the prevalent racism of certain groups of voters to win elections. It is not as ignorant as thinking that all black people like watermelon or Jews have horns. But it is perhaps worse because it is fully aware of the fact that it is actually perpetuating and exploting racist stereotypes for personal gain.

      Bigotry is simple ignorance and hate. Racism is the application of power (including speech) to oppress or demean a group of people.

      That "celebrity" campaign ad qualifies as racist in my book, without question. McCain and his top campaign staff are racist in the truest sense of the word. It doesn't take any bigoted jokes to demonstrate it further.
      • KiminCA, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3Of course cynicism is worse-- it is worse because these people should (and DO) know better.

    • JoeVet, on 08/02/2008, -2/+6I disagree. He is a racist. He comes from a generation when they didn't think about the effects of their hate speech had on others. It was also so prevalent back then that it was considered normal. While there may be some debate about just how much of that bigotry is really meant to hurt and how much it is just an old man's bad jokes and speech, it remains bigotry and it remains foul by modern standards and should disqualify him from serving as our representative to the world.
    • reastydirtstar, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1"...run negative advertisements that are false and misleading and NOT set forth a single positive reason WHY any one of us should vote for him"

      welcome to politics, Edna. this is what politicians do! Remember John Kerry's ads? A politician acts like a politician and you're stunned. Barack "Jesus Christ" Obama will air plenty of his own ads that are just what you described as we approach november.
      • KiminCA, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Senator Obama has not yet run a single ad. like this.
        Perhaps you had not noticed, but Senator Obama is trying to change Washington and this kind of mud-slinging politics and get Washington out of the gutter and back to the issues that are important to all of us.

        Politics as usual with all of their mud-slinging and cynical attempts to divide us and make us hate each other have certainly dominated the landscape for many decades. Senator Obama is trying to change that.

        Senator McCain also promised us a campaign about the issues that face us, rather than the character assassination and insults of Americans that usually predominate. Senator McCain broke his word. This promise breaking demonstrates that he is definitely the sort of politician to whom you refer.

        As for your blasphemy, I will leave that between you and your own religion, if you in fact practice one.
  • mkauai, on 08/02/2008, -60/+9Great, both leading contenders are friggin racists. Unbelievable that these two lying sacks o dung are at the top of their tickets. O America, how far you have fallen... Please everyone, do not throw the towel in with these clowns. Vote for either, and you will know you voted a racist into office. Vote 3rd Party this year, you'll sleep better at night.

    www.walk4freedom.com
    • EntropyMan, on 08/02/2008, -9/+15Obama has done nothing that qualifies as racist. The fact that you apparently think this is one of those issues that both sides are guilty of demonstrates your lack of awareness. The GOP is notorious for taking one of their perceived weaknesses and accusing the other guy of it first. They called Kerry a war coward, though Bush ducked is service. They called Gore stiff, though Bush can't speak. Now Obama is a racist, though McCain has a record of bigotry and actual racism.

      It's simply because you and the media you watch are unable to call ***** on false claims. The facts are against you.
      • johndavidjack, on 08/02/2008, -9/+4Oh baloney.

        Besides McCain's gook remarks, there is no RECORD of him being a racist.

        There is as much of a record of McCain's racist remarks as Obama going to a racist, un-American church.

      • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/02/2008, -9/+5Obama the racist!
      • archiesteel, on 08/02/2008, -2/+5QuadZeroRoute the racist!
      • archiesteel, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4"Besides McCain's gook remarks, there is no RECORD of him being a racist."

        The gook remarks are enough. But if McCain has nothing to hide, why won't he release his Navy records? Afraid we'll find out he was reprimanded for racist behavior towards black sailors?
      • rframpton, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1How about the "a typical white person" line? Or did you Obamabots forget that already?
      • EntropyMan, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2@rframton,

        There is nothing racist about saying "a typical white person." The comment is at most bigoted (i.e., using stereotypes vs. specific facts), if the context supports it (it doesn't). Racism implies an intent to harm or demean the oppressed group in some way. The most you can ding Obama in this case is that he was being overly general and not very PC.
      • rframpton, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1It's still racist, no matter how you slice it.
      • WhiteUnit, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1@rframton

        Wow, talk about holding on to petty crap. There is nothing racist about it, he was just referring to "white" people. But, there are always people like you just WAITING for him to say the word white so you can scream and shout "RACIST!!!!!"

        Hey, look! My name has "white" in it too! I must be racist....
      • archiesteel, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1rframpton: no, it's not. I'm white and I find nothing offensive in this.
      • rframpton, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Well shucks, if you say it's ok, then it must be! I find it offensive that he judges an entire race of people by the actions of a few. That's racism. Remember that whole "judge a person by the content of their character and not their skin color" thing? If someone else did it, you'd be all over them.
    • usamaizm, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4Vote Ron Paul 08
  • ricoboy24, on 08/02/2008, -48/+67McCain? Racist? Nothing new... (Don't forget he's sexist also)
    • funkyloki, on 08/02/2008, -4/+14Absolutely correct, evidenced by him calling the Vietnamese "gooks" for the last 20 years, only dropping it for the campaigning, as noted in the article.
      Here's food for thought. I see people commenting here about how the MSM is not going to pick this up and run with it. I have a theory about why. I believe some members of the "press" are sitting on this and stories like it. Their plans for releasing this information include waiting for McCain to win the nomination. Once it is confirmed the Republicans have their candidate, then they report on this.That would be the surest way to bury him and the Republican party's chances this November. If it comes to light before the convention, then the Republicans (read neocons) will have a chance to nominate someone else.
      It's a stretch I know, but something to think about.
      Or maybe I'm giving the MSM more credit than they deserve.
      • MajorLeague, on 08/02/2008, -8/+3You're a ***** idiot.
      • bluevillage, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2You're definitely giving the media more credit than they deserve, unfortunately.
      • tbbuccfan, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1The idiots are out in full force tonight. Lets see you get tortured for years by someone and tell me how you feel about them. BTW, the "neocon" moniker is not working LIBERAL.
    • RevMark, on 08/03/2008, -3/+1I would rather have a sexists (AS BILL CLINTON WAS!) than have a liberal socialist puppet for run by Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi.
    • Jerk, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1I read on the internet that he also eats babies.
    • CletusTSJY, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Have you got someone else to vote for that has a shot at beating Obama? Because there aren't a whole lot of people voting for McCain, we're just generally voting against Obama. Even if any of this is true, it doesn't change the fact that Obama is going to run the country into the ground if he makes it to the Oval Office.
  • jakeshdaddy, on 08/02/2008, -29/+4He hosed me down and unleashed dogs on me! Bastard!
  • martinvives, on 08/02/2008, -36/+36I can't understand how can he be so close to Obama in polls... In any other place, which such quotes, he would have been out of the game for a long time now...
    • TremorX, on 08/02/2008, -8/+22The Bible Belt.
      • GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1The dumb ***** misanthrope belt.
      • darkciti2, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Uhm, don't be too sure. Here in GA we're seeing quite a shift away from Republicans.

        Remember, it's the ***** Republicans that bought into the "Jesus wants you to drive big SUVs" nonsense. They're the ones that are hurting the most from the high gas prices. I live in a rural county that voted 70% for Bush in 2004 (one of the highest in the state, the rest of the state was around 51% Bush / 49% Kerry), and around here the Obama bumper stickers are outnumbering the McCain ones. This county was riddled with those stupid W and "still W" stickers until about 2006 when they started disappearing. Now I'd be hard pressed to find a car that had one. If they're so proud of their douche Bush, they should stick it out until the end and put a McCain one on top of it. But they aren't.

        They've been peeling them off so their friends don't know that they douche in the booth.

        I think GA has a serious chance of becoming blue in November. We're definitely a state to watch.
      • TremorX, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1You must live in Atlanta or Macon.

        The rest of THIS backward-ass state (yeah, I'm here too, kiddo) hates the uppity negro who wants to kill babies and enslave white people.

        Yeah, it'll go blue, but ONLY because of Atlanta and surrounding areas. Virtually every county south of Macon WILL vote McCain, I assure you.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/02/2008, -4/+5USA! USA! USA!

      We need to show all of those people playing the race and gender cards by pointing out scandalous ***** he keeps doing that we're Americans and we don't care about what a man says or does, only what the Vietnamese did to him.
      • t0x2c, on 08/02/2008, -2/+3Since digg is obviously full of morons who don't understand sarcasm, I'm going to append (yes, that's 'at'), a /sarcasm to ZenMojo's post.
    • iizh, on 08/02/2008, -8/+2Uh... because he's running against a junior senator with an empty resume? Believe it or not, Americans do give a ***** about things other than good speeches. Shocking, I know.
    • 9inchesoftrruth, on 08/03/2008, -3/+1doesnt it make u wonder...the race is tied and the other guy makes racist remarks...gee maybe you and the rest of the the dem bloggers here are idiots n people r realizing that talk is cheap and action is results. i wonder who does more talking n who does more action?
      • darkciti2, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2Clearly the Republicans do more action. Failed action.

        Elect McCain for more Republican failure "action".
    • sysop073, on 08/03/2008, -1/+4Because there's a sickening number of people in America that think he's right. NPI
  • trumpcard, on 08/02/2008, -38/+25McCain isn't racist then why would he adopt some bangladeshi girl.But Ron Paul is a racist.
    • DigDugDigger, on 08/02/2008, -16/+13Ron Paul merely had a racist writer. Odds are there are a few racists you work with that you don't even know are racist.
    • homah, on 08/02/2008, -7/+17his wife adopted the girl without his knowledge. maybe he is a racist, maybe he isn't, i don't know.

      ron paul gave free medical care to minorities who couldn't afford to pay. mlk is one of his heroes. but he is a racist, sure.
    • 0nslaught, on 08/02/2008, -5/+7"The final proof Ron Paul is not racist"
      "Everyone that's worked with Ron Paul or knows him on any level says this isn't Ron Paul that it's too out of character and not even his style of writing. Consider what the head of an NAACP chapter says about Ron Paul and the charge of racism:"
      http://www.nolanchart.com/article1136.html
    • trumpcard, on 08/02/2008, -13/+3So check out the end part.I still can't believe he gives such a lame excuse.

      http://www.tnr.com/downloads/december1990.pdf

      McCain >Rudy Guiliani>Ron Paul.
  • personalj, on 08/02/2008, -69/+69McCain isn't racist this is garbage, this is nothing more than slander and libel.
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -11/+41Does matter, if some Diggtard finds a blog with a no one trying to get attention who never knew Mccain and it says it on a Blog, IT MUST BE TRUE !!!
      • exomni, on 08/03/2008, -4/+5Dude, how old are you? I'm old enough to have followed McCain while he was a senator. The man was one nasty *****. He still is. I'm not going to go one by one and say whether or not each and every one of the claims are true of false, but the general sentiment is the same, and believe me, he was that way. He is so extraordinarily lucky they didn't tape senate hearings, or record much of anything, because nowadays nobody trusts something unless they hear it recorded.

        And remember this: all of these reports were made well before McCain every formed an exploratory committee, and while McCain was the liberal's favorite republican. And most of them were made by people who would have no reason to try to take down the republican candidate for president.
    • xBarium, on 08/02/2008, -23/+9The truth is not libel
    • cubedw00t, on 08/02/2008, -14/+7Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6iqLcidbhg
      http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ...
      http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/01/28/joh ...
      • personalj, on 08/03/2008, -3/+5The people who did those things to him were gooks, they were assholes and should be shot.
  • SevenTwo, on 08/02/2008, -18/+19Site is down due to the digg effect, can someone please explain the article?
    • MajorLeague, on 08/02/2008, -5/+21Doug Thompson has a hard on for Barack Obama.
    • t0x2c, on 08/02/2008, -7/+2Barack Thompson has a John McCain for Doug Obama.

      Live Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksyUQz7nL3o
    • CletusTSJY, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1You could probably just look at the front page of Digg at any point over the last six months and pick an article that had the word "Obama" or "McCain" in it. You would get the same thing out of it.
  • mastermemorex, on 08/02/2008, -29/+12A white catholic racist republican candidate supported by corporations?
    Nothing new... Next!
    • mchisari, on 08/02/2008, -1/+9
      He's Baptist, not Catholic. We've only had one Catholic president, and he got shot.
    • boombye, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4Catholics vote Democrat usually. McCain's a Baptist as mchisari points out.
      • Troy64, on 08/02/2008, -2/+2That's not necessarily true anymore. Catholics are very pro life and that issue has driven many of them away from the Democratic Party.
      • boombye, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry but we aren't very pro-life. We tend to stick to the idea that if it's not our business we shouldn't force our beliefs on other people. It's not Catholics that are preaching on television at 4 in the morning or ringing your door-bell several times until you open it when you're trying to sleep in on a weekend.
    • reastydirtstar, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1what? a hippie not being able to get one sentence without mentioning "corporations"? what a stunner
  • eLuugy, on 08/02/2008, -36/+8arent we all racist to some degree, these are just jokes...
    • akchrs, on 08/02/2008, -18/+5I'm not. But I'm a Republican so that's a given.
    • BestJaxx, on 08/02/2008, -3/+7Most of us are racist to a degree, but most of us very little. Not to the point where we would actually consider it in good taste to call somebody a "*****", whether it is a joke or not, and let's not forget that this man is running for president. He is supposed to be better than us, and he goes around throwing out derogatory words for people of different sex, religion, orientation or race. Joke or not, it is derogatory, and it is offensive.
      • eLuugy, on 08/02/2008, -3/+0"suppose to be", no one is perfect. Obama use to do weed and cocaine. the past is the past, racial comments as jokes were made, so what, its not like McCain looks down on different ppl.
      • BestJaxx, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1@eLuugy, you don't believe McCain looks down on people? "I will never trust those Gooks" (not word for word, but that is the extent of what he said). He makes the racist jokes because he IS a racist, who believes that he is above other people.
      • eLuugy, on 08/03/2008, -1/+0he only used the word gook back in the vietnam war era. Hey! if u got captured, tortured for some odd years by a group of race, wouldnt u be mad...


        .. and dont give me that gook stuff, im vietnamese

        ... and dont u think i support mccain, im all obama. my message is simple: we are ALL HUMAN!
    • zombies187, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Whether they are racist or not, they are REALLY bad jokes. Unforgivable.
  • tewstep, on 08/02/2008, -13/+166Ok. Being that I'm voting for Obama anyway, am I incorrect in reading that this article talks about racist jokes the author of the piece overheard? There's nothing on tape or directly documented (save the 2k 'gook' issue)?

    If there's no direct proof other than hearsay that backs up this authors "I used to hear him" claims...I don't see much becoming of this.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/02/2008, -13/+8It also mentions quotes from actual newspaper sources.
      • tewstep, on 08/02/2008, -0/+5I'll reread it again, but all I saw was a) the author talking about how he used to hang out at the local politicians bar in DC when he'd hear the jokes, and b) the 'gook' comment in 2000 which McCain had said to reporters, and got some press.
      • dreamweaver1984, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2as if the newspaper always prints accurate stuff
      • livetolearn, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2While it substantiates the newspaper comments with references, the other quotes are without such documentation. To be perfectly frank leveling the charge of racism is a very serious thing, and should be completely substantiated. I will not likely be voting for McCain but I would still rather hear constructive attacks against his policy issues.
    • AwakeningAZ, on 08/02/2008, -5/+5Whitey Whitey Whitey. I didn't see much becoming of that either.
      • teraken, on 08/02/2008, -2/+2I sure wonder why. I mean, it's not like she was saying "Why'd he" and idiots desperately tried to spin it into supposed racism... Oh wait.
    • DoctorFaust, on 08/02/2008, -4/+5Don't forget the votes against MLK's Birthday as a national holiday. All of the arguments here seem to focus on proving he actually said racist things while completely avoiding that recorded fact.

      And everyone who's defending McCain and saying racist jokes don't make you racist probably isn't Vietnamese or black or lesbian or whatever minority in the first place, so who are you to decide? It's not about being overly politically correct. That kind of language doesn't come from respect and terms of endearment; it's genuinely offensive.
      • cotl, on 08/02/2008, -1/+10So that's your litmus test, voting against MLK National Holiday?!?! Since MLK was black your assumption is the only reason that McCain could have possibly voted against it was for racial reasons? So basically there is no winning, if you disagree with a 'black' issue it is only because you are a flaming racist? Unbelievable!!!!

        I'll assume that you are also the type of person who has decided that anyone not voting for Obama in November is also a racist.

      • DoctorFaust, on 08/02/2008, -5/+2I was simply saying that was a legitimate, recorded claim. BUT... if you can come up with three good, plausible reasons for him to vote against the holiday, I'll only consider McCain an ***** based on everything else he's said and done.

        And I'm not going to judge anyone about their vote in November because the two-party system has clearly made fools of you all.
      • soupdawg30, on 08/03/2008, -1/+2Only presidents deserve their birthday to be National holidays.
      • kmr13, on 08/03/2008, -3/+0I have decided that anyone not voting for Obama (or more specifically, for McCain) in November is simply an idiot.
      • PubeStache, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2I've decided you're an idiot.
      • Larsonal777, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1@DoctorFaust... How about we list the hundreds of people who have done just as much if not even MORE for this country and yet they don't have their birthday's as national holidays.

        hmmm... we've got...

        Abraham Lincoln yeap... definitely did a lot for this country as well as abolished slavery

        Susan B. Anthony... yeap... definitely did a LOT for this country as fighting for the rights of HALF of this great nation.

        Frederick Douglass... Yeah... I think it's argueable he did more for blacks in this country than MLK.

        I mean MLK was a great man but the list of people that have done MORE for this country is great... and currently there is only 10 federal holidays.

        New Year’s Day
        Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
        Washington’s Birthday
        Memorial Day
        Independence Day
        Labor Day
        Columbus Day
        Veterans Day
        Thanksgiving Day
        Christmas Day

        Of course there is the good reason that celebrating a champion of a race that claims it wants to get rid of racism might actually lead to racism... back AND forth between blacks and the rest of us.

        He deserves monuements... he deserves our respect... he deserves a LOT of things... but does he deserve one of our national holidays. I don't even think Columbus deserves a day... exept for the fact that we are celebrating his finding of America and not the man himself.
    • 9inchesoftrruth, on 08/03/2008, -7/+2as smart as your comment is you really need to consider things like THE FUTURE if you are voting for obama
      • tewstep, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4nah, I was considering through June of '09 actually. Of course I'm considering the future - at least the next four years of it.
    • alkajazz, on 08/03/2008, -2/+2Everyone on here has told a racist joke or two. I don't like McCain but this hardly makes him a racist.
      • Phyraxus, on 08/03/2008, -1/+3I don't know about you, but I have two racial slurs against me in this article.

        So, please, explain to me how a man saying racial slurs doesn't make him a racist.
      • alkajazz, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1I must confess that I didn't read the article past the jokes that McCain was overheard stating. I should go back and read the whole thing.
  • JamesZB, on 08/02/2008, -12/+19Mirror?
    • brad3378, on 08/03/2008, -0/+3The Huffingtonpost.com is a great mirror for negative McCain stories.
    • MrBabyFan, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0The story is basically: Some random person supposedly heard McCain telling jokes at a bar. It's as worthless as it sounds.
  • MasterTroll, on 08/02/2008, -51/+7Obama is black, which by default makes him a racist as well.
    • Brassbud, on 08/02/2008, -12/+3If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

      Oh wait, doesn't that make him white?
    • BestJaxx, on 08/02/2008, -3/+6So...black people hate anybody who isn't black by default. I don't understand your logic.
      • sysop073, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4His name is "MasterTroll"; his comments aren't going to have a lot of logic
      • reastydirtstar, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1Yes. According to the latest poll referenced on ABC a couple days ago, 97% blacks who say they will vote say they will vote for obama. If blacks aren't racist, it's a phenominal coincidence that 97% all just so happen to share the same core beliefs as the hippie party...

        If 97% of whites voted for McCain, we'd have jessie jackson and al sharpton yelling racist from the rooftops. then hopefully falling off those rooftops and breaking their spines.
      • zombies187, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2reasty, your logic is wrong. If they only wanted to vote for a black guy then why didn't they vote for Alan Keyes? Don't bother to reply, because the answer is that they don't like conservatives. According to your line of thinking, black people can either 'prove' they aren't racist by voting against their own interests or they are racist. That's the race card. But keep making the argument because its clear that McCain supporters like you want to use peoples race to prove they are racist. "97% of black people people are racist because they won't voe for me," should be the McCain champagne's slogan. The race card sounds so natural when McCain supporters play it.
    • GassyTurd, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5Racist.
    • abby11, on 08/03/2008, -2/+0You are stupid,which by default makes you a MORON!
  • psylemon, on 08/02/2008, -18/+111nothing like sensationalist titles to bring in the diggs
    • BobTheTaco, on 08/02/2008, -2/+1Look a couple comments below
    • androothebear, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9jesus i love how hypocritical digg can be. If someone poses a sensationalist attack against a liberal standpoint, they are laughed at and shunned. But as soon as the exact same slander is posted against a conservative, Digg bands together and agrees in perfect biased harmony.

      I'm very liberal, i just hate how stupid digg users can be.
      • reastydirtstar, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1well androo, see my comment history. i've posted several remarks over the months regarding this same phenomenon. I'm very not liberal, and i hate how stupid digg users can be as well. See? we can get across party lines.
  • subbieone, on 08/02/2008, -27/+32McCain is viewed favorably by 56% of voters, Obama by 53%. McCain earns positive reviews from 86% of Republicans while Obama does the same from 82% of Democrats. Among unaffiliated voters, 60% have a favorable opinion of McCain. For Obama, that number is 50%. Gallup has Mccain 44% Obama 44%
  • Barackalypse, on 08/02/2008, -22/+62Why is it that these jokes make McCain a racist, yet in your minds Democratic Senator Robert Byrd isn't one, even though he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan? Buried for being asinine, come get me when you're got footage of him beating his black servants.
    • ajwinder, on 08/02/2008, -13/+21Because a person's life is a dynamic experience - so yeah, Byrd definitely was a racist. But when you've lived as long as he has, through the different periods in American History he has, you'd hope he discovered the errors of his ways. Considering he endorsed Obama and has talked numerous times about his regret for his ignorance in his youth, I'm willing to say hes probably not a bigot today.

      McCain, on the other hand, has a long history, continuing up to this day, of bigotry towards minorities and women. He has referred to his wife by multiple sexist titles, with this link pointing out a sampling of his racist remarks. Beyond that, this man is running for the presidency, while Byrd is a senator from WV. I don't really care what West Virginians choose for their representation, but when it comes to the presidency, well, I expect more. A lot more, as it would be, than John McCain is offering.
      • Barackalypse, on 08/02/2008, -6/+17Its rather amusing to me that you've concluded several decades of telling racist jokes makes McCain a racist, but you're perfectly happy to accept that a multi-year member of the KKK can change and not be a racist. You seem to treat Byrd's membership in the Klan like a dad might treat his son's drunk one night stand, as a sign of poor judgment but ultimately no big deal, when in fact participating that organization is among the clearest signs of hate in our times. Yet you forgive all because he said he was sorry and endorsed Obama.
      • omnis, on 08/02/2008, -2/+5And his endorsement if Obama clearly was an example of his changed ways and not a means to trying to say he's changed his ways, right?
      • tbbuccfan, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1Jeez, He is telling freaking jokes and Byrd was a member of the KKK for God's sake. You Liberals are a piece of work. Let me guess Mr. Obama has NEVER told an off color joke or made a sexist remark. Give me a break. It is amazing to me that we have advanced as far as a people with morons like you walking this earth. I am not sure what color your skin is but I am going to assume that you are trying to make your self feel better about yourself by your comments. I have news for you pal. African Americans are not impressed.
    • CryRightardCry, on 08/02/2008, -10/+16What does that have to do with McCain?
      When Bird is running for President you'll have a valid argument.
      Until then you are STRETCHING for some way to drag the Dems into this.
      So you have no condemnation for McCain?
    • boombye, on 08/02/2008, -8/+5Sorry, I'm a Democrat, but who the hell is Robert Byrd and why is he relevant? I don't think you need to bother explaining to me because he's nobody special, he's probably just another relic from the past that probably that hasn't switched to Republican like some of the old school Democrats from the south did.
      • Barackalypse, on 08/03/2008, -1/+5Senator Robert Byrd is President pro tempore of the United States Senate, that puts him third in line of succession for the Presidency of the country, but you don't think he's important enough to need to know about? This attitude explains so much about what is wrong with your party.
      • boombye, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1I don't think he's important because he seems too old to give a damn about. I'm not going to worry about someone who could keel over at any moment, that nobody else seems to care about or give attention to. He's got nothing to do with me or my candidates, he just likes his liberalism, and hasn't switched to Republican which is pretty much the same thing but it has a lot more of those country folks and rednecks who can't seem to trust people who are different from them, which would be a perfect party for him, but I'm sure he disagrees with the way they handle money.

        Alright fine, we have a racist in our party. OoooO yay for us right? How does that impact me more than all those racists on the right... 3rd in line, I don't think things are so serious that I should have to worry about that.
    • Cuchanu, on 08/02/2008, -9/+7Robert Byrd has nothing to do with this. People can change; yes he was a member of the KKK, but he seems to be a changed man. Would I vote for a former KKK member? Hell no. Especially for president.

      Honestly I have no idea what the article is about it's down. But telling racist jokes isn't acceptable for a president that is supposed to treat all of his constituents equally. Besides he has said, "I hate gooks and I'll hate them till the day I die." So I guess Asian people can count on having a president that loves the non-gook portion of our country...
  • helloemptiness, on 08/02/2008, -28/+92John McCain is a racist
    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 "*****" 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 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:

    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 ***** 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 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?
    • iopine, on 08/02/2008, -5/+8Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "*****" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."

      For those of you who are to young to remember the 80's, it was common for everyone to use these words. This is about the time the asinine political correctness started.

      He who has not sinned, cast the first stone.
      • kineticarl, on 08/02/2008, -3/+5Give me the rock.
      • ru1dt, on 08/02/2008, -2/+2oh, it's cool then. don't worry about it, you know, unless you actually care about "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "*****" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."
      • spiltmilkblog, on 08/02/2008, -2/+3There's no evidence to support that he said it, though if I were to gamble, I can totally imagine these words coming out of his mouth. He's been recorded saying "*****" and "gook" - so it's not a real stretch of the imagination. Plus he seems to have that kind of arrogant ***** type personality.
      • Skurt, on 08/03/2008, -2/+6Hmmm Just how long was he in a Viet Cong prison? Over 6 years... Do you think the nice guards treated him fairly?


        Wonder why he calls all those people gooks? It's because the US taught him to be that way to his enemies. Just like we were taught that Krauts and Nips were OK in WWII.


        Not saying that he is right, just have to realize the circumstances.
    • mattlohkamp, on 08/02/2008, -5/+2Wheee, rock-chucking time. I was born in the 80's, and although I've obviously said all those words (and more) I haven't used them in a derogatory sense or as a pejorative, not even in anger. I just never learned to talk that way, I guess.

      ps - how do you pronounce "*****"?
      • Archer007, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3Its pronounced a little like ----, but with less emphasis on the *.
      • Asheis, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1/pheeeeee
      • aristotle0dude, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1You may have been born in the 80's but you obviously failed reading comprehension. Are you trying to tell us that you are innocent? Are you saying that you have never said anything pejorative about a person's, weight, appearance, nationality, political affiliation, religious beliefs or personal values?

        People in glass houses should not throw rocks.
      • mattlohkamp, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1@aristotle0dude - Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying. I don't give a ***** if someone's skinny or fat, cute or ugly, local or foreign, conservative or liberal, christian or jewish, or about their views on abortion. Why should I care about crap like that? I care about two things - how people think and how people act. Those are the things that people choose for themselves, and those are the things that it's fair to judge them by.

        Why would I make ***** like that up?
    • rgodfrey, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4Tar baby isn't racist. It just means a sticky problem.
    • XDingoX83, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1I'd just like to point out that MLK is the only person other then a president to get a holiday. There are hundreds of other people in our history who did more then him and yet they have no holiday. All MLK day is a feel good holiday to make minorities feel good. I would have voted against it too. He was not the only person in our nations history to fight against injustice what about the people who fought for woman's right to vote? What about those who fought too keep this nation together during the civil war. What about great inventors who created things that made this nation what it is today. The only reason MLK day exists is because if someone was to vote against it they would be called a racists like McCain is being called now.
      • ajames01, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1But don't ever mention that while MLK fought for black rights.... he was a serious womanizer who treated women like they were there for his own pleasure. Who cares if he cheated on his wife numerous times with no remorse... he was a civil rights activist! Lets give him a holiday and name two hundred streets after him!

        What a wonderful guy!
    • bogshrink, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0Note that the author has updated the column. I think he addressed some of the criticisms raised by some Diggers.
  • fadeout, on 08/02/2008, -10/+55What's really shocking here is that he tells the only racial jokes I've ever heard that aren't even remotely funny... where does he he get this stuff, mad magazine?
    • vermax, on 08/02/2008, -2/+8seriously. publicly, I'll furrow my brow all haughty at an offensive joke, like a good dog, but i still love to read them. but at least be ***** funny.
    • Oea420, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1Two McCain's are talking at a bar and one leaves. As he walks toward the door, the other watches him leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat him 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 McCain."
  • cubedw00t, on 08/02/2008, -24/+19why is the media not running with this
    • miked123, on 08/02/2008, -10/+2Thank you!
    • atmenterprises, on 08/02/2008, -8/+5Because they haven't run any news on Barack playing the race card. Fair is fair I suppose.
    • Aorawn, on 08/02/2008, -9/+3Because then christian conservative grandpa might not get elected?
    • jabberwolf, on 08/02/2008, -2/+24"why is the media not running with this"

      Did you check the source, I'm sure anyone outside of highschool has, and maybe thats a good tip off.
      Especially since this is a blog, and checking the source, as most journalists do, they dont print it.

      I mean seriously , EVEN HUFFINGTON didnt print this crap.
    • Squidly, on 08/02/2008, -2/+16Because it's unsubstantiated.
    • cubedw00t, on 08/02/2008, -4/+4"I hated the gooks (North Vietnamese). I will hate them as long as I live." -- this is a verified quote. Maybe it doesn't count because it demeans Asians, or it is acceptable because he earned the right to use... Wait. It is not acceptable. It is racist. Who "played the race card"? Did anyone notice the level of discomfort on his face whilst holding the Dalai Lama's hand? Bigot.
      • justinx0r, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1Yes, John McCain (who was tortured for five years by the Vietcong) is so racist and bigoted that he has an adopted Asian child. Oh, wait, that doesn't fit your preconception so you have to conveniently leave out that fact.
    • browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -5/+2Because the conservative right owns the media.
    • QuadZeroRoute, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7akchrs wisely said:

      http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_presiden ...
      Quotes the Author of this and his website as "The Web site that reported those words has a history of quoting phony sources and retracting bogus stories."
      • Archer007, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1I was suspicious when sources for this "article" were never fully cited.
    • Transporter2000, on 08/02/2008, -1/+0because if there's no proof of it, it's slander and defamation of character. Thus since they are not running it, it raises suspicions that this article is likely full of crap.
    • 9inchesoftrruth, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2i bet you read the tabloids
  • stinkymonkey, on 08/02/2008, -8/+67Anyone have a video of him using any derogatory term?
    • TheSwashbuckler, on 08/02/2008, -13/+1You'll never see it if there is one, I'm sure any person who has one is fond of breathing...
    • nuentendu, on 08/02/2008, -5/+17Exactly.
    • BestJaxx, on 08/02/2008, -9/+4What about when he called his wife a *****? That counts as derogatory. It isn't racist, but it's still sexist.
    • fadeout, on 08/02/2008, -7/+7"I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live." - John McCain, in 2000, IN FRONT OF REPORTERS. Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 ...

      There is, unfortunately, no video. If you doubt that paper, google it, there's literally hundreds...
      • akchrs, on 08/02/2008, -15/+10"for the first time in my adult life, i'm really proud of my country."

        Michelle Obama hates America.
      • 380ppm, on 08/02/2008, -5/+10he should hate the vietnamese considering the time he spent in prison camp
      • AeroZeppelin, on 08/03/2008, -2/+1"Gook" doesn't refer to just the Vietnamese, but people of Asian-ethnicity in general. The fact that John McCain openly used such a taboo term (even during his time) does show his obvious racial biases.

    • stinkymonkey, on 08/02/2008, -3/+3Again, i don't think there is any video or tape of him saying any of these things.

      But even if its true, telling horrible over-the-top racist joke does not make someone a racist. In fact, I laugh because it plays on ridiculous stereotypes that are NOT true.
      • parabolee, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1I would buy that if the jokes in question didn't use racial slurs as part of the "joke". The "wetback" one has no need for that slur for the so called "joke" to work.

        If you tell or like jokes that include "*****", "spic", "wetback", "gooks" or any other racial slur, then your a racist!
      • stinkymonkey, on 08/03/2008, -0/+1So Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, George Carlin, Carlos Mendoza, Gilbert Gottfried and Chris Tucker are all racists, to name a few?

        They have used these terms 1,000 times worse. Are you living in fantasy land? Wake up.
    • Transporter2000, on 08/02/2008, -3/+12We don't need proof, he's guilty before proven innocent! This guy says he heard him say this stuff, and it agrees with most liberals view of him, so it must be true! /sarcasm
      • geneusutwerk, on 08/03/2008, -1/+1Yes yes! Obama a Muslim, McCain a racist, Ron Paul a...wait who the ***** is Ron Paul?
  • banido, on 08/02/2008, -33/+59Wow, you know what I was invited to a dinner with McCain too and I saw him eat babies still alive while telling jokes about handicapped and lepers, he is a bad man.
    Now I will write an article about this and everyone will believe me.
    • Sharky35, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2It might even drive some traffic to your website. (runs off to add blog entry to website)
    • thankyousir, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2zing!
  • tomarocco, on 08/02/2008, -20/+11You gotta admit the Dos Equis joke was pretty good.

    That is an economic joke, not a racist one. Mexicans are caucasian.

    DISCLAIMER: This comment in no way supports or endorses John McCain for jack *****.
    • EntropyMan, on 08/02/2008, -5/+9Racism has nothing to do with skin color. African Americans are not a race. Scientifically, there is no such thing as race. Racism is a term applied when one group is discriminated or mistreated by people who have power (economic, social, political) over that group, typically using bigotry as tool.
      • tomarocco, on 08/02/2008, -2/+2You are correct. The Austrailian aboriginals are Caucasian.

        I completely disagree with you definition of racism. Nothing in your definition pertains to a peoples' race, per se.
      • bitbytebit, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3actually the very term 'race' is racism, the heart of it in fact.

        You are correct in saying that there is no such thing as race from a biological/scientific standpoint. And truely that is the only standpoint we as humans should be concerned with.

        I will never understand 'racism', I grew up with some preconceived prejudices that I got from my father and other adults of the time (the archie bunker generation), but as soon as I was able to form my own opinions those went away.

        I do consider myself smarter than the average person, so maybe thats it.

        bottom line - if you are intelligent enough to think for yourself you should be above racism in all its forms.
      • thorstrongstone, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3From Merriam-Webster:

        racism


        Main Entry:
        rac·ism Listen to the pronunciation of racism
        Pronunciation:
        ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-
        Function:
        noun
        Date:
        1933

        1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
        — rac·ist Listen to the pronunciation of racist -sist also -shist noun or adjective


        I think you may want to stop lying about the definitions of words.

        Race:

        1: a breeding stock of animals2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics3 a: an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b: breed

        (specifically) c: a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits
    • goteki, on 08/02/2008, -5/+3you must have missed that memo about Mexico's heritage that says that 70% of its populations are Mestizos...
      • tomarocco, on 08/02/2008, -2/+2Mestizos are 100% Caucasoid. That is an ethnic classification, not a racial one. The use of the term La Raza is inaccurate and only results in self-denigration of the Mexican people by failing to use a correct definition of themselves.
    • msheidi, on 08/02/2008, -3/+2Mexicans are only part caucasian. Indian is not caucasian. Get down to it, most people are mixed these days. Most african Americans are not 100% they are mixed. So what is the point in carrying on?
    • boombye, on 08/02/2008, -2/+1Mexicans are Caucasian since when? The Spaniards were, but they bred with the natives who weren't Caucasian at all, like the Aztecs and other various natives cultures. They're Mestizos. Then you try to say it's not racist because they're Caucasian? So it's not racist when you diss on people who are the same as you right? Well turns out they're not Caucasians, so that makes you a racist. I like how you try to rationalize it by saying they're Caucasian so it's not racist.
      • tomarocco, on 08/02/2008, -3/+3boombye, I stand by my original comments and submit that the Mexicans are racist: La Raza

        Mestizos are mixed ethnicity, not mixed race. The fact that they WANT to be their own race is racist in itself.

      • boombye, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Mestizos are everywhere from the Philippines to Mexico. You're a racist piece of *****. La Raza is a racist movement yes, but I don't know any Mexicans that give a ***** about that other than illegals and racist white movements who are obsessed with that *****.
  • Elliottx, on 08/02/2008, -17/+4"And in other news, John McCunt......oh god...." *Walks off camera*

    *Bursts back onto camera* "JohnMccaincalledhiswifeacunt!"
  • beaker37, on 08/02/2008, -7/+101I'm not saying that McCain isn't a racist... maybe he is, maybe he isn't. But what makes Doug Thompson so special that we should believe him? This is the same sort of crap that people have been pulling against Obama... people trying to discredit him by telling unverifiable stories about his past. If I worked for a news agency, I wouldn't touch this until I knew more, or at least until there were more people willing to go on the record and verify these claims.
    • vexingmodstwo, on 08/02/2008, -2/+21Among the list of complete ***** that Doug Thompson has written is a story in which he claimed that Nancy Reagan supported John Kerry for President back in 04.

      Doug makes stuff up to drive up hits every once in a while and the lefties lap it up like it's buttermilk.
    • 9inchesoftrruth, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0u sound too smart to lack on to the obama train...disappointing