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Lonnee Hamilton: Hillary Clinton: Remember When John McCain
huffingtonpost.com — Lonnee Hamilton: Hillary Clinton: Remember When John McCain
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- NoDrama, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6for those Hillary supporters under the impression that John McCain would better serve their interests, I urge them to read the following post written by commentator Paul Rogat Loeb.
Dear Hillary,
Remember when John McCain slimed your daughter?
Reasons abound why you should do all you can to defeat John McCain--but for you, it should be personal. Maybe you've forgotten in the heat of the Democratic contest. But remember McCain's cruel joke about your daughter, when Chelsea was 18 and vulnerable? This alone should give you every reason to stand against McCain -- and nothing to boost his chances:
McCain made the joke at a 1998 Republican Senate fundraiser. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" he asked. "Because her father is Janet Reno." Chelsea was a lovely young woman then, and is even lovelier now. But when you're 18, an attack like that can be deeply wounding. It's outrageous for McCain to slime an innocent young woman who'd done nothing to offend him -- just to throw red meat to a Republican crowd.
Sure, McCain apologized after a flurry of media coverage, but talk of that sort is cheap. It's like his using the excuse that he'd had a long day, after telling his own wife at a 1992 campaign event: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c$%t." That was his public response to her teasing him about his thinning hair. But the Chelsea "joke" was from a prepared text, not accidental. It's a window into McCain's cruel side. Your lovely daughter was the target of his abuse.
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