a small tip of the hat to John McCain

[leftofthedial]

for finally calling one of his followers on her bigoted ignorance.

and aHUGE F U to mcsame for letting this go on for so long.

[still_one]

1. That is what hate radio and his campaign have and are still doing

stroking the seeds of racism and hate in a crowd that already inclined toward that direction

You cannot say one thing to a crowd, and then continue your ads pounding the racist theme, and at the same time have your vice president continue to exploit the hate

[napi21]

2. NOPE! No hat tip from me! He's covering his own ass again!

His internals showed this BS idea wasn't working and he was still in freefall. That honorable man has lost all the honor & ethics he ever had.

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. I'm afraid all the media will talk about is "look how noble he was,"

and ignore the ads he's still running and the fact that his VP is still saying this crap.

[puerco-bellies]

3. I think he had a moment of clarity.

He knows what he is doing and has done. He hasn't changed, he just caught a glimpse of the monster he has become.

[Swamp Rat]

4. don't you mean, 'tip of the hood'?

[firedupdem]

7. exactly! n/t

[Caliman73]

6. I agree with Napi21

No tip of the hat from me either. This is classic Rove politics. Set up your surrogates to bash away then come in as "the voice of reason". The pundits were all talking about "maverick" McCain, bucking his own campaign. I think it is an act. McCain despises Barack Obama. He doesn't care about the tone. He only cares about how he looks. I wouldn't put it past the campaign to have had those "concerned citizens" planted in the audience to stage the whole "good guy" McCain act.

Damn I am getting jaded here, but gotta call em like I see em.

[magellan]

8. He didn't actually

The woman called Obama an Arab and McSame responded “No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen.”

So then...McSame thinks Arabs can't be decent family men and citizens?

No pass from me. Correcting one form of racism by invoking another is NOT a quality we need more of in the WH.

[gratuitous]

16. TPM has it that the woman said Obama is an Arab terrorist

The mic either moves out of range of the woman's mouth or is cut after she said "Arab," and if you watch, she's still speaking for a moment before McCain shakes his head (at last), takes the microphone back, and goes into his "No ma'am" spiel. Talking Points Memo has some additional background on the campaign appearance. It was only when one of McCain's supporters actually said "terrorist" that McCain remembered he was supposed to be decent and honorable.

[Vinca]

9. If McCain hadn't seen devastating internal polling numbers,

he wouldn't have tried to quiet the mob. As Ana Marie Cox said on Rachel's show last night, McBush is pretty much down to wingnuts for support.

[Bluebear]

10. His hat is white and pointy though. He fostered this atmosphere, let him wallow in it.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Not only did he let it go on he helped it along until it blew up in his

face. He fanned that flame ALL WEEK LONG!

No, this guy is a total ass. No mercy for swine of that kine! The only thing that matters to McCain is McCain...JUST LIKE BUSH!

[leftofthedial]

12. he's a hateful putz

I must admit the tip of the hat was just to get people to read it.

What I really give mcsame is a giant F U.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. I'll give your thread a kick to help you get a few more reads.

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

14. Pass it over here and I'll shit in it for him!

[leftofthedial]

17. LOL

that's a hatful of shit. I mean he's a hateful hatful of shit.

[JustJeking]

15. I'm still on the huge FU to mcsame

He lost any shred of respect I had the day he refused to look at Obama at the first debate. And to think I actually liked him in 2000!

[leftofthedial]

18. I haven't liked the sonofabitch since he went to Congress

[TankLV]

19. a day late and a dollar short...

NO EXCUSES!

Sorry, it's WAY past time for forgiveness...

THAT ship has sailed - LONG ago...

[MtUpWithWngsAsEgles]

20. Just wait

Palin is already trying to get him to bring up Rev Wright. If the polls don't change her blind ambitions to get to the WH will win him over soon.

In an interview with neoconservative columnist Bill Kristol, Palin said: "To tell you the truth, Bill, I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that -- with, I don't know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn't get up and leave -- to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/palin-goes-against-mccain_n_132187.html

[beac]

21. Not from me.

He was back on the trail today talking about how "angry" everyone was and that they had a right to be.


And his half-hearted attempt to educate her failed. She was interviewed later and said her impression was that "he just didn't want to say it out loud."