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DES MOINES -- Clive businessman Marty Parrish was escorted from Sen. John McCain's town hall meeting by Des Moines police and members of the Secret Service after asking McCain if he had called his wife Cindy an expletive in 1992. Parrish, an ordained Baptist minister who holds a master's degree in political science, was questioned by Secret Service agents before being released. He was not charged in the incident. Parrish asked whether McCain called his wife Cindy an expletive related to the female anatomy, as has been alleged in the book "The Real McCain," written by Dem strategist Cliff Schecter. McCain's response got him a round of applause from the crowd: "There's people here who don't respect that kind of language, so I'll move on to the next questioner in the back." In an interview with IowaPolitics.com, Parrish said his intentions were simple in posing the question to McCain. The former Joe Biden campaign worker stressed he is very concerned about the Republican presidential nominee's temperament. "We have a man whose temper can get the best of him," Parrish said. "What I am worried about is his temper. Our country is in a serious crisis. This election is the most significant one since 1860. It appears America is asleep -- so I stood up and asked the question." Parrish signed in as a Huffington Post contributor and was taking pictures at the town hall meeting. He handed out a leaflet prior to the event alleging McCain called his wife the name in 1992 while on the campaign trail running for re-election in the Senate. The leaflet asked members of media why they were focusing on the controversial statements made in the past by Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright and ignoring the alleged comment McCain made to his wife. "Barack Obama spent three weeks defending that," Parrish said afterwards. "Why does the news media continue to ignore this outrageous statement by John McCain, but fixates on Barack Obama's truthful observation that some people are bitter?" http://iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=125056
I hate it when this kind of stuff gets dragged into politics. I don't think whether McCain did or did not call his wife a w**** would effect his ability or inability to govern.
Agreed 100% But it"ll be interesting to see how many replies this thread will get compared to an Obama thread.
Yeah this is the kind of thing the wingnuts would thrive on, and to be fair this would be fun as payback if I had more energy right now. But I don't. Maybe I could throw in this meaningless bit of info as bolded parts of other posts.
Did ya watch the video? Most women consider what he said (See you next Tuesday) to be much, much worse than w****. I too am worried about his temper, you can hear him say something like "You don't wanna go there." But agreed, has little to do w/ how he'd run the country.
If someone does have a bad temper it could affect how they run the country. I don't think anyone would go shooting off missles out of anger but they could not be as affective in negotiations or compromise or even cloud their ability to hear some truth that may be in the opposing position.
Maybe his wife is a (word that starts with 'C' and rhymes with runt). But really, if this is the worst dirt someone can dredge up on McCain, he will have an easy path to the oval office. Wrights comments were controversial, not because of the language used, but because of the ideology expressed. More power to anyone that has never called a loved one a bad name in anger, but it is a far cry from denouncing America and claiming that the CIA intentionally infected black communities with AIDS.
marc, may i assume you support drilling for oil in anwar, and not designating oil from canadian oil sands oil as "dirty?"
HA I laughed my ass off at that video. anything that heals the pain from the Rockets season is ok with me.
The crowd reaction was hilarious. But then again I think McCain admitted to using that word since he didn't implicitly deny the claim.
Not an issue in my book. Who in their private moments hasn't gotten pissed off at a signifigant other or a good friend and let one fly. If he did it in public or was beating his wife that might be a different matter.
What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. "I didn't vote for George Bush" the man confessed. "I didn't either," his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband). The fact that this man was so angry at what George Bush had done to him, and at what Bush represented for their party, that he did not even vote for him in 2000 shows just how far he has fallen since then in his hunger for the presidency. By abandoning his core principles and embracing Bush -- both literally and metaphorically -- he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn't stomach voting for in 2000. McCain's fall has been Shakespearean -- and really hard to watch for those, like myself, who so admired and even loved him. His nobility and his true reformer years have given way to pandering in the service of ambition. But a large portion of the electorate hasn't noticed the Shakespearean fall. How else to explain The 28/48 Disconnect -- wherein only a die-hard 28 percent of voters still approve of Bush, but 48 percent say they'd vote for McCain, who is running on the "more of the same" platform? The thing is, these voters clearly still think of McCain as the maverick of 2000, a straight shooter who would never seek the embrace of a man he couldn't bring himself to vote for, nor accept the regular counsel of Karl Rove, the man behind the vile, race-baiting attacks on him during the 2000 campaign. And the main reason for The 28/48 Disconnect is the mainstream media's ongoing membership in the John McCain Protection Society. They too continue to party -- and report on McCain -- like it's 1999. Look at the slack they cut him after his infamous stroll through a Baghdad market was revealed as an utter sham. James Frey was eviscerated for far less. Or the slack they cut him after his repeated confusion of Sunni and Shia. Or the slack they cut him when his promise to run a "respectful" campaign ran aground on his sleazy attempt to connect Barack Obama and Hamas. Every time McCain screws up, the media jump all over themselves to make it better, as if grandpa had said something embarrassing at the dinner table and it needed to be smoothed over as quickly as possible. The latest example came late last week when the Straight Talk Express hit an oil slick and skidded off the road. Click here for the blow by blow, but, in short, McCain implied that Iraq is essentially a war for oil, then tried to take it back, explaining that he was actually talking about the first Gulf War, then, when pressed, denied that he was actually talking about the first Gulf War. And, by and large, the media gave him a pass. Chris Matthews called the original war for oil comment "an astounding development," but most everyone else was too busy picking over the bones of the Wright/Obama carcass to give it much play. Interestingly, McCain's mental meltdown over the reason we invaded Iraq was prompted by a comment from a McCain supporter who said he hoped a group called "Swift Boats for McCain" would be formed to help McCain in the campaign. The gentleman needn't worry. The group already exists. It's called "the media." And they are very well-funded, and highly motivated. The Swift Boat Media for McCain are, for instance, going to make sure that we hear a lot more about the nuances of Obama's decision to not wear a flag pin on his lapel than about McCain's ideas on a little thing like the Iraq war. Witness the reaction to McCain's repeated declarations that he thinks we should be in Iraq for "100 years." The DNC had the gall to use McCain's own words in an ad, causing McCain to flip out: "My friends, it's a direct falsification," he said, "and I'm sorry that political campaigns have to deteriorate in this fashion." So, to review: using a candidate's own words against him is off limits, but making disgraceful insinuations about Hamas and Obama isn't. But instead of nailing McCain on the "deterioration" of his ethics -- to say nothing of his logic and reasoning -- the Swift Boat Media dutifully repeated his talking points, as in this AP lede claiming, without reservation, that the DNC ad "falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq." McCain tries to wriggle away from his "100 year" comment by saying that he wasn't talking about a hundred year war, but a very long term commitment of U.S. troops, like we have in Germany or South Korea. Maybe so, but the last time I looked no one was blowing up American soldiers in Wiesbaden. The New Yorker's Rick Hertzberg, a writer who hasn't drank the It's Still 2000 Kool-Aid, sums up McCain's Strangelovian "vision": "McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal -- that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay." The John McCain the media fell in love with in 2000 isn't on the ballot in 2008. And the proof has all but jumped up and grabbed the media by the throat: the ring-kiss of "agents of intolerance" Falwell and Robertson; the decision to make permanent tax cuts he twice voted against, saying he could not "in good conscience support" them; the campaign finance reformer replaced with a candidate whose campaign is run by lobbyists and fueled by loophole rides on his wife's jet; the hard-line stance against torture replaced by a vote allowing waterboarding; the guarded-by-a-battalion stroll through the "safe" neighborhoods of Baghdad; the use of Karl Rove as an advisor... and the embracing of the disastrous policies of a man he so abhorred he would not vote for him. What will it take for the Swift Boat Media to realize that John McCain jumped the shark a long, long time ago? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/what-john-mccain-told-me_b_100183.html
I don't get it. This is a minnow of an issue compared to the giant blue whale Hillary (finance and corrupt;ion) would ask us to swallow or a giant blue tuna Obama (Wright issues) would have us believe. My advice, such as it is, to Democrats (Obama not Hillary) is to stick to issues like the war, health care, the economy, energy, climate change, etc. -- and Obama wins in a slam dunk. Get into these tee-tiny snips and snipes and Obama loses.
