McCain: "I hate the gooks." (house seat, voting, interviews)

[SuperIncumbent]

Originally Posted by norcalmom101

Last I checked, Rev. Wright wasn't running for POTUS, so what is your point?

My point is that 20 years of Wright and buddying up with Ayers essentially makes this quote a moot point.

[notasmoker]

Originally Posted by norcalmom101

Yep.

Or Yup

[Sunshine Chick]

Last time I checked Obama called Wright his mentor, his spiritual leader and a father like figure in his life.
Now, with that said Wright got into the head of Obama and therefore trained this man for what he is today, a racist pig.

[shipm8]

Originally Posted by Sunshine Chick

Now, with that said Wright got into the head of Obama and therefore trained this man for what he is today, a racist pig.

If he is he has a lot of company on this forum....

[beenhereandthere]

Originally Posted by cmacf1

While I certainly understand why he considers his North Vietnamese captors to be deserving of such a name (indeed they are beyond deserving of any derogatory name he chose to give them,) using that term publicly could get McCain into trouble. While he's using the term 'g**k' specifically for his captors, other vietnamese people will not necessarily see it that way since the term 'g**k' has been used for people from SE Asia since the 1800s. Just like somebody here in this country would be denigrated for using the N word for any reason. It's offensive to an entire group of people. So offensive that CD wouldn't let me use the word that McCain used.

This article was published in 2000. Is he still publicly using this term?

It's fair game, at least if the anti Obama, pro McCain crowd, wants to beat to death, the "association" that Obama has to Ayers, who was a 60's radical (even less recent than when McCain said "gooks").

[beenhereandthere]

Originally Posted by SuperIncumbent

Rev Wright: "I hate crackers"

What's your flippin' point?

There's evidence that McCain said I hate gooks.
I did a Google search, there is not a direct quote that shows where Wright said "I hate crackers".
Don't bring crap in here and not have any proof of it, ok?

[freefall]

Originally Posted by beenhereandthere

There's evidence that McCain said I hate gooks.
I did a Google search, there is not a direct quote that shows where Wright said "I hate crackers".
Don't bring crap in here and not have any proof of it, ok?

He hates them but he sure helped them a lot too.

[World Citizen]

Yep. Someone held me captive and tortured me... I'd hate them, too.

Even if you "forgive" them -- you will never fully forget what they did to you.

[mrbob]

Originally Posted by Art123

Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to apologize yesterday for his use of a racial slur to condemn the North Vietnamese prison guards who tortured and held him captive during the war.
"I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live."
McCain Criticized for Slur / He says he'll keep using term for ex-captors in Vietnam

Art123,

I don't blame him one bit for feeling the way he does.

He went thru years of brutal captivity at the hands of the North Vietnamese.

I think anyone would hate the gooks after what he went thru.

[freefall]

Originally Posted by World Citizen

Yep. Someone held me captive and tortured me... I'd hate them, too.

Even if you "forgive" them -- you will never fully forget what they did to you.

No, I mean he colloborated with them from day 1.