Is Nancy Pelosi Really This Stupid? Yes! Yes she is!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
“What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies. That’s what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle. We have a planet to save. We have an economy to grow. And we can do that if we keep our — our balance in all of this and not just say, but for drilling in unprotected — in these protected areas offshore, we would have lower gas prices.”
Kerry uses racist term “Tar Baby” to characterize McCain attack
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Leave to your pal Snoop to remind y’all about the last time a Republican used the term.
Must be a Massachusetts thing, hell after all Boston and much of New England is one of the more racist areas in the country.
Responding to a question about the rights of divorced fathers during a town hall meeting in Cedar Falls, Iowa, today, John McCain said that he wouldn’t want to interfere in the decisions of divorce courts because doing so would be “getting into a tar baby of enormous proportions.”
Random House notes that “tar baby” is “used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people” and that “some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.” At a press conference after today’s town hall event, McCain said: “I don’t think I should have used that word. And I was wrong to do so.”
The Arizona senator isn’t the first Republican presidential candidate to use — and then apologize for using — the term. Mitt Romney was forced to apologize last summer after using it to describe a troubled highway project. Tony Snow also used the term in his very first White House press conference. Later, he said that he’d take “tar baby” out of his “toolchest of rhetorical devices” even though he thought people who consider the term racist just don’t understand “a hundred and fifty years of American culture.”
Someone in John McCain’s campaign needs to tell him that he’s not funny and that making crude jokes about killing innocent people is not presidential and inappropriate.
Most of you have heard of McCain’s Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran gaffe, and now the GOP presidential hopeful has made another crude joke about killing Iranians and again, its wholly inappropriate. The title of this AP story is “Wife Pokes McCain In The Back”
PITTSBURGH — Cindy McCain’s jab to her husband’s back came a second too late Tuesday to keep him from making a wisecrack about the health impact of Iran’s main import from the United States: cigarettes.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was asked about an Associated Press report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during George W. Bush’s presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country.
“Maybe that’s a way of killing them,” McCain told reporters, smiling as he waited for a cheesesteak sandwich at the Primanti Brothers restaurant. His wife, sitting next to him at the counter, poked his back without looking up. Read on…
How about, “McCain Makes Another Crude Joke About Killing Iranians?” Just kill ‘em all, right, Senator? You can tell this guy can’t wait to have his finger on the buttons, can’t you? Had Barack Obama made this comment the corporate media would run with it, wall to wall for weeks.
McCain: I appreciate his support. As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.
Q: Why snub the governor?
McCain: I didn’t mean to snub him. I’ve known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we’ve been good friends….I didn’t intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.
Q: Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president?
McCain: (Chuckling) And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago . . .
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