McCain's black family ties touch on the GOP's racial faultline
By David Neiwert Tuesday Oct 21, 2008 12:00pm
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Normally, the story of John McCain's black family -- the ones who are planning to vote for Barack Obama -- might elicit some modest interest in terms of what it says about the complexity of race relations in America.
But what's been even more interesting has been how John McCain has responded to the story ever since it surfaced.
Initially, back when he first was doing the "Maverick" schtick in the 2000 primaries, he actually denied that the aristocratic Southerners from whom he was descended were slaveholders. But it really became impossible for McCain to deny their existence after a 2000 report in Salon in the course of which reporters showed him photographs and birth records in person and he had to concede to their existence.
One account, In the South Florida Times, describes how McCain has handled the connection publicly and privately:
White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.
“Why he hasn’t come is anybody’s guess,” said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a distant cousin of John McCain who is black. “I think the best I can come up with, is that he doesn’t have time, or he has just distanced himself, or it doesn’t mean that much to him.”
Other relatives are not as generous.
Lillie McCain, 56, another distant cousin of John McCain who is black, said the Republican presidential nominee is trying to hide his past, and refuses to accept the family’s history.
“After hearing him in 2000 claim his family never owned slaves, I sent him an email,” she recalled. “I told him no matter how much he denies it, it will not make it untrue, and he should accept this and embrace it.”
She said the senator never responded to her email.
In her CNN interview with Kyra Phillips, Lillie McCain discusses this further:
PHILLIPS: Do you think it could make a difference with regard to diversity issues, issues of race, if John McCain did participate?
L. MCCAIN: I think it probably could. It would give him an opportunity to know us.
I e-mailed him back in 2000 to remind him of his ties to Tiak, Mississippi. I heard him say on I believe it was "Meet the Press," that his ancestors owned no slaves. Well, I certainly have carried the name McCain from the beginning of my whole life, and I've known of the ties to John McCain and tried to get him to communicate with me about that, but he has been unwilling, at least, to date.
PHILLIPS: Well he found out in 2000, to be fair to the senator there, and he did come forward and gave this quote -- "How the Tiak descendants have served their community and, by extension, to their country, is a testament to the power of family, love, compassion, and the human spirit." And then he added in the statement, "an example for all citizens."
That sure is a warm, fuzzy little sentimental quote from the senator, and the fact that it really says nothing in reality says everything we need to know about John McCain.
Since the advent of the Southern Strategy under Nixon, the Republican Party has embraced its role as the Party of White Privilege. John McCain has made a modest career out of making rumbling noises toward some of the uglier aspects of this legacy within the GOP, and he's hoping that those rumbles will be enough to persuade moderate voters to back him.
However, the cold realities of the history of race relations in America -- dating back to those dark eons when black women held in slavery were routinely raped and impregnated by their white owners -- still hover like a dark cloud over whites' vision of Golden Age America, the very vision that John McCain and Sarah Palin like to sell to their flocks like so much Coca-Cola.
So it's perhaps not a surprise that, given the chance to banish that cloud by doing the human thing, the right thing, and embracing the black side of the McCain family, the Straight Talking Senator From Arizona chose essentially to run from them and hide. Because acknowledging them not only was too painful, but might prove too harmful to his chances of success in a political party predicated on white privilege.
Moreover, this also fits what we know about his reflexive predisposition on civil-rights matters. This is, after all, the guy who voted against a Martin Luther King holiday back in 1984.
Yes, as the wingnuts already note, Obama's maternal ancestors likely owned slaves, too. But then, it seems doubtful that Obama would hesitate to embrace the ancestors of those slaveowners, either.
Running away from black family ties is not exactly a problem for Barack Obama. But it is for John McCain.
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this country will ever produce anything other then negativity again.
LOOK IN THE MIRROR...PLEASE.
Seriously...
It's why people from other countries look at us and think Good God what in the hell is the matter with those people over there?
Isn't funny how Mr. Obama embraces both his African heritage and his European-American heritage, while McCain tries to hide in his dark little tomb afraid that the LIGHT of TRUTH will somehow taint him.
Why is he ashamed of having African-American relatives?
Could it be that he doesn't consider them relatives, or America?
Hmmmm ... isn't it funny... I guess people with dried up little hearts like his have to hide in the dark corners of self-delusion (tsk tsk)
Is this why this guy is such a racist piece of shit? Is it more than just using hate to lose an election....is it that he's ashamed of his family??
Wouldn't this kinda mean McCain has more black relatives that he knows of than Obama???
I'm surprised he's not using that to try and score the black vote.....this guy is the ultimate devil.......ethnic cleansing anyone?
Wow, it's not about being ashamed of his family history of slave ownership at all.
It's about learning from the generations that came before him that they were/are superior to the blacks they once enslaved. It's about learning from his grandfather and great-grandfather that whites are superior to blacks.
Does anyone really believe that Strom Turmond did not believe in white sypremacy, even if he did have a black lover and father a black daughter, whom he kept hidden for decades? Being related to a black didn't make him less of a racist supremacist - it was just one more mark of his superority.
This explains so much more about McCain's racist attitudes, his history of racist votes, his antipathy to affirmative action, the way he fought MLK Day for years.
It also goes a looooooooooooong way to explain why he is so pissed at Obama. He is losing to a black man. It must be driving him insane with the humiliation of it all.
No wonder he's so content to let his campaign be as racist as it is. It isn't wrong to him. He's probably more comfortable with that than he's been with most of the rest of the campaign.
We have to stop giving McCain the benefit of the doubt on this kind of stuff. He isn't ashamed of having black relatives, he still thinks they are inferior. He's ashamed and furious that one of them could be so uppity and arrogant as to try and take from him what he believes should be his - the presidency. He's enraged at the thought that, after all he's been through, he could be losing - to a black man.
This is not how it was supposed to go down for Johnny McNasty.
WELL PUT INDEED!
What a shame that John McCain does not want to acknowledge what kind of stock he hails from. My Gawd - if I descended from a race that was pink and had purple polka dots all over, I would be proud. Hells Bells - hasn't anybody ever heard of genealogy? The great George Bernard Shaw once said "If you find skeletons in your closet, make 'em dance." McCain's got skeleton's in his closet - Slave owners that he descends from - not the black cousins.
I pray John McCain loses this race to Barak Obama - he needs to come down a peg or two anyway.
"He is losing to a black man. It must be driving him insane with the humiliation of it all."
That is exactly what I see when I have watched the debates.
ABSOLUTELY! WELL SAID...
What a pathetic, small-minded person he is
You liberals are the ones that keep racism alive in this country, contrary to the crap you spew publically. Personal attacks is what you are famous for. Now your base is stealing McCain signs and propogating McCain surpremacy views. You all make me sick.
Did you ever stop to wonder why your party works so diligently to recruit the poor, the uneducated and even the homeless to vote for their candidate.....Let me help you....Because you would lose your power without them. The educated, issue based voter is your enemy.
Keep plugging away at nonsense things like racism of the opponent and you will keep weakening this nation.
What ever happened to his "black baby" that Rove exploited in 2000? Haven't heard or seen word of her in this election.
The McCain's adopted a baby from Bengaladesh. She is very dark. that was Rove's "black baby".
McCain has hired the same co. that did that smeared his family in 2000 to help smear another family now.
And he can't figure out why Americans find him so unappealing.
AND he can't figure out why his adopted daughter won't have anything to do with his campaign.
Before the South Carolina episode in 2000 with McCain's daughter Bridget, he used to bring her everywhere. But after that happened, they quit exposing her to the public. I recently saw a documentary, and she appears in just about every campaign picture with John and Cindy from the time she was a toddler to the time she was about 10 years old, then she just disappeared. After finding out about the scumbags that are still in the Republican party, can you blame him? By the way, she was on the stage with him on the night he accepted the nomination.
My frustrations are beginning to show.
SO
you are not alone
As a native Southerner and as someone who has lived in South Carolina for the last twenty years, I still find it bemusing when I run across white folks who will acknowledge there are black folk in the community with their same last name, and will only acknowledge it's because they 'chose to take' that surname.
Oh. Okay.
Yes, as CNN's graphic said.
The question I found racist, which Lillie McCain gracefully let pass, was the one about what virtues the enslaved black McCains took away from those who kept them in bondage! Can you imagine! Those wonderful white people who taught us poor savage Africans so much. Retch.
I think that Lillie's answer, "determination", can be seen as learning in reaction instead of learning from, though she was too polite to say so.
And I say all this as a white man from the South whose one well-researched family line did own slaves, at least until the 1850s. Most white people from the South will assure you that their people never owned slaves. Statistically, they're lying. Five generations back, they have 32 ancestors, and the chance that all of them were too poor to own a slave is pretty low.
... my grandmother was Dutch.
... that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Thank you, Gene. lol :)
Admitting that your ancestors once "owned" slaves has to be a burden of inmeasurable weight. The fact of slavery in this nation is our "saddest" moment in an otherwise hopeful nation. McCain would have been well served to admit to something that he had no control over but now denounces. Of course he couldn't touch this issue today his "handlers" in the Republican far right would never allow it, shame
One Love is all I have to say
and I wonder just how much. Certainly the free labor they utilized helped them rise in wealth, which carries down to this day, just as the social and psychological sequelae of slavery carry down to this day.
Denial is powerful. Our country needs to deal with racial issues openly and get past them once and for all, including the horrendous racist treatment of Native Americans. If we don't, we'll always carry the guilt.
for some people. It's a matter of choice.
John McCain has proven to be liar, plain and simple. He's lost all his "honour" credits but the sad thing is he doesn't know he's done that. No honour, is a liar and condones racism and hatred in his campaign. Man, what a resume. He has been known to do the work of 3 men lately but they're Larry, Moe and Curly. Back to Arizona with you and good riddance to you and your failin', trailin', bailin', ailin' Palin. She's a piece of work, yuck.
I hope nobody is surprised that a white man (John McCain in this case) in America comes from slaveowning-family roots. Yes, McCain has benefited through the inhumane profiteering and evils of slavery and the slave trade.
When I hear about this "traditional American values" claptrap, one only needs to remember that the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council also talked in these same "white-like" terms. Everytime I hear the words "traditional American values" and being "strict constitutionalists" I immediately recall that the founding fathers owned slaves and wrote a constitution exclusively intended for white male property owners who did keep "their own money" on the backs of their slave workers.
I am so tired of the b.s about "traditional American values," or the other crap about "family values." The white slaveowners went out of their way to break up any semblance of the black family through local slave trade and auctioning off blacks on the local greene of their community, which became the same location of public hangings, as well.
So, would someone tell me, what the "F**K are "traditional American values"? As far as I am concerned, those "traditional American values," (rooted in racial and sexual apartheid), if one can call it that belong in the nearest sewage dump.
In closing I say: Take those "traditional American values" and stick them where the sun does not shine!!!!!!!!!!! Good day. Happy Trails!
When I hear about "Focus on the Family," I substitute "Focus on the Fathers," who are hanging onto their patriarchal powers for dear life. They will eventually fail. Reality has a liberal bias.
One other thing:
Black women were used to produce as many babies/children they could so slaveowners would have more and more free labor. But these same slaveowners did everthing they could to break up the father of those children by selling that male to other plantations. When I hear of this "traditional family values" nonsense I keep remembering how black families were never kept together but routinely broken up. Just remember that the white slaveowners routinely broke the black family apart when you listen to Sarah Palin or that evil bitch Michelle Bachmann again.
The only place blacks had for any type of sanctuary was the black church where many learned how to read and critically analyze issues.
When these same evil people go on the attack against Rev. Jeremiah Wright, just remember that he (Wright) lived in the Jim Crow era of America and owes "white America" nothing. The USA still has yet to atone for its evil slaveowning past. This is not "racial politics" but the truth that the likes of Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh will never grasp because they are ignorant. Ignorance runs rampant in white America over any issue or topic of race or racism or America's ugly past.
It's tough to atone for something that is still going on. The only difference is that it is not legal slavery, but it is still going strong.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dy...
JUST DON'T EXPECT JUSTICE!
I'm amazed at all those who keep sounding like mccain is some 'honorable' man. he has never done anything for anyone in his life without a quid pro quo.
fuck him and the plane he cashed in on.
hero my ass.
YES!!!
Dear Miss Lillie McCain,
I greatly respect your efforts to connect your family tree, even if it pains you. If you expect honor from cousin Johnny(particularly on the subject of racial harmony), you must not own a television...and don't wait for that card on MLK's birthday either.
John McCain is truly the black sheep of your family.
Please don't take it too hard. John has a hard time acknowledging the guy in Vietnam who saved his life by pulling him out of a lake and then again by waving off the villagers who wanted to kill him.
Let's see:
If you try to appeal to blacks with the excuse that you have black relatives, your racist base will attack you.
If you keep trying to appeal to your racist base, this revelation will make you look like even worse than before.
Old man McCain; you are so scr*wed.
What are you going to do Johnny? Let's see how you wiggle out of this one!
Family reunions are a wonderful place to meet people. Maybe when he gets retired by the U.S. voters, McAyn will have the chance to broaden his horizons, and his views. What a funny way to seek votes he's stumbled on.
Now that his black ancestors have come forth, and put out the truth that McCain's family owned slaves, it's time for McCain to "share the wealth"?
i saw the story on cnn with lillie mccain who also served in the military along with mr douglas blackmon who brought this truth about john mccain now i wonder will cnn be rubbing this story in the mud like they often do when it come to something about senator obama may god keep him safe he is not afraid of his white family members, and i agreed with you are john mccain going to share the wealth, concerning his black family members and mrs. lillie mccain is right there is really no need for a dna test because it a known fact there mulatto in the family too that produce from a white and black person all slave masters had sex with their slave women and girls, sexually abusing children started in slavery. i am sure that one of john mccain grand parent is more black than white and he have black blood running though his veins to be ashame of who one is that a crying shame and i don't know why he just accept the reality of the fact that he is a black man so he need to stop attacking senator obama timeis very short now in this election yet john mccain can still come clean and let the american people know that all this time he have deceived them in believeing he was a white man while the records show that he is not the people will forgive him someday, but not at this short time.john mccain needs to get honest with john mccain.
If St. McCain had any balls or honor he would acknowledge the fact that his family had owned slaves and then apologize for it.
Instead, Gramps runs from the issue.
This post if very interesting because I had never heard about his extended family before. Why wouldn't he want to meet these people? If he can't handle meeting with family members how the hell will he be able to deal with foreign dignitaries.
Am I naive to think that only in reThuglican-land it would be considered an embarrassment to have family members, however distant, who are not perfectly lilly-white? Let us not forget too, that this attitude reeks in the McCain household, since his robotic, mannequin wife, Cindy, also refuses to acknowledge her scrub-poor, destitute half-sister - who, incidentally, happens to be voting for Barack. It seems that McShame would have preferred to keep this side of his family hidden under the rug or locked away in the attic. Literally. What an absolute shame.
POW?
The closet door is open and now we can call John McCain Brother John.
We learned many years afther their death that we have had President's who passed for White or just didn't want people to know. Like Hitler hated Jews only to learn he was Jewish.
I don't suppose there's any chance President Obama will start his first inaugural address with "'Scuse me while I whip this out."
McCain truly has pandered and race-baited himself into a corner. He can't accept them or denounce them without pissing someone off, so he's just ignoring them. Obama would have taken this as a chance to heal old wounds and bring people together. Grumpy McSame does what he always does with inconvenient facts (and people) -- pretends they don't exist. Why not, when the MSM plays along?
Uh, can I have the Madeline Kahn part? I make a mean schnitzelgrubben.
"Jim Crow" was a desperate attempt to chase this fact away.
I'm sure you all recall the brouhaha over Sally Hemmings, and claims that Thomas Jefferson's brother was the father of her children, despite DNA evidence to the contrary. His great grandson, a fabulous journalist and novelist, Lucian K. Truscott IV has always faced the truth and has been key to bringing the Jeffrson and hemmings sides of the family together in mutual hisotrical recgnition.
There's a marvelous new movie coming out this season calld "Moving Midway" which deals with a white southerner and his black relatives.
Don;t miss it.
It is surely sad that Americans are so, so ignorant of their nation's racist past AND PRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is the present day racism out of the legacy of slavery which shows America and Americans to be quite pathetic. Calling one's self a "proud American" has many evil connotations associated with it, even if the White Nationalists are uncomfortable with such truths.
John McLame's harsh liberal anti-murkan mistress.
to quote Mr. McCain..."this is a tough business"..."a tough campaign".
When you sling mud...everyone gets dirty.
John....your conscience called...it wants its integrity back.
At his age, I would have thought that John McCain understood the old adage that when you lie down with dogs (meaning Karl Rove) you are apt to get fleas.
When you lie down with dogs (meaning Republicans)you are apt to get fleeced.
Do yourself a favor. While you're writing your concession speech, write your resignation from the Senate too.
Best to get all the ugliness out of the way quickly...and slip quietly onto the trash heap of history.
This is dumb. We have better things to discuss than why John McCain doesn't go to family reunions. So his great, great grandfather or whatever owned slaves. What does that have to do with McCain today? This is as bad as labeling Obama a Muslim just because his father is Muslim.
Comparing Muslims to slaveowners? Maybe Americans should keep the Muslims out of our vocabulary...at least negatively.
I'm not comparing Muslims to slave owners but in the current cultural climate of the US it would probably be easier for a slave owner to be elected than a Muslim. If that weren't true Obama and all of us on the left wouldn't have spent so much of our time fighting that smear.
you said this is dumb what about your dna do you have black people in your family what wrong with all this john mccain is hiding from who he is as a person with mulatt in the family most likely john mccain is a black man who is hiding behind his light skin mccain knew about his black family since the year 2000, and never once did he tell the american people the truth about him. mccain is ashame of being who he is are you ashame of who you are? john mccain want to paint hisself to be almost a saint he want people to feel sorry for him having been a pow as if no other veterans was pow. and beside that john mccain is mentally sick anyone who have been a pow for as long as he was have some deep emotion and mental problems and he is not being treated for post tramua stress disorders. we also need to know what in his medical records as well we don't need another sick person in the white house as we have now with geroge bush and had with president johnson plus john mccain is old but you sir believe mccain is a white man with mulatto in his family there is no way possible that john mccain is a white man, this is mccain greatest fear he already know to have a dna test he would learn that he is as black as senator obama. truth is what it is we can run but there no place to hide mccain is a black man
and that is not fiction.
Every other white person who opines against reparations, says "I didn't own any slaves, my family didn't even get here till 1920".
Well if anyone could be the poster boy for reparations its Senator McCain, his family still owns 1500 acres of the McCain ancestral (i.e. stolen from Indians and cleared by slave labor) home.
(For the record I think reparations may be valid issue for some corporations, but shouldn't affect individuals or be public policy.)
A few years ago I decided to look into my family's genealogy. I was surprised to find out that I not only had Black and Hispanic relatives, but I also have Chinese relatives. I think many Americans would find out that their family tree looks a little like the United Nations roster. If you go back six generations you have 256 great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents to choose from, and six generations from now you'll be just one of those 256 great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. Even Alex Haley had to zig zag back through his family tree to find his roots in Africa. He could have just as easily found his roots in Europe.
why did no one care to ask about mccain's votes against The MLK holiday
All other family issues and the hypocrisy of his behavior towards his black linage aside... I just don't care what colors exist in his ancestry.. Black, white, purple?? It's all about the same to me... I don't know if that makes me a racist, a bigot or what... But what it does mean is I'm basing my nonsupport of McCain on his personal background as a politician and as an unprincipled man. I think John McCain is unfit to be president on the merits of his own personal character, his own personal history and background, and his positions on the issues.... Not on which hot slave honeys his great great great grandfather might have been pokin on the side way back when men in wigs was a hot fashion statement....JD
"Not on which hot slave honeys his great great great grandfather might have been pokin on the side"
Please! Do you not understand rape? Do you not understand coercion, threats, survival of the most compliant? This was not "massa havin him some fun" - this was rape, and the ownership of human beings. Please do not s****** as if it was just a party with some strippers.
well you sure told her, there was no partying going on when white men attacked the black women in slavery and it was not just getting a piece on the side many of these women that was rape by the slavemasters had husband who could not do anything to protect his wife from these beast of a people, many of them was made to watch as the white man raped their wives the woman who thought it was fun and game she need to be made a slave and see if raping is something to poke fun at , and most likely some of her family members did the same thing to black people they owned as slave guilt is really something isn't it only a heartless person would write that foolishiness that she wrote
slavery is something to poke fun at maybe one reason for the united states to be having all the problems they having is because they mistreated the black people in this country what happening now is like it written in the bible the fall of american, she have a great many things to pay for and her money is useless to god.it is not worth anything to him.
We all know that when we cut off parts of our own family, we divide those parts of ourselves which make us whole.
John McCain's spiritual evolution is so ground-floor that he doesn't recognize this reality.
By dismissing his own relatives, he's closed his own heart in the process.
Now we can legitimately say that John McCain is a "hard-hearted SOB".
A few years ago I decided to look into my family's genealogy. I was surprised to find out that I not only had Black and Hispanic relatives, but I also have Chinese relatives. I think many Americans would find out that their family tree looks a little like the United Nations roster. If you go back six generations you have 256 great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents to choose from, and six generations from now you'll be just one of those 256 great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. Even Alex Haley had to zig zag back through his family tree to find his roots in Africa. He could have just as easily found his roots in Europe.
I agree that our family trees are probably full of all types of nationalities and ethnic groups. I'm half Native American, so that would be hard too figure out what tribes I have in my tree. On my white side, I supposedly have English, Welsh, and French blood, but I have no idea how true that is. For all I know I could have Jewish, African, Slavic or who knows what in my tree.
... but check your math. 2^6 is 64.
John gets 1000's of emails every day, it's very easy to overlook the emails from black relatives!
It is the ultimate irony to find that a man like McCain who has used race baiting as part of his campaign strategy might somehow have blood relatives that weren't lily white.
This is why this racist bullshit has no place in America. Anyone's bloodline could be mixed, and who the hell cares anymore.
only a white person can say something like that which is so dumb if white people made they own way without slaving black people there be no mixed up blood, most slavemasters had wives. as for john mccain he could not be honest with the american people about who he is as a person we shouldn't had to find out that his a black man he could have told the people the truth about him and his family he knew these truth since the year 2000, why try hiding the reality of who he is as a person that don't make amy sense then he got the nerve to always be on the attack of senator obama who is not ashame of his white family members one should never throw stones while they are lying about themselve john mccain is not a white man and now many of us know this truth about him. thank you
*facepalm*
...he's just chock full of fear, denial and self loathing.
Three wonderful traits for an American presidential hopeful to possess in this baby millennium..
David, you are pretty new here but I wanted to tell you that you are rapidly becoming one of my favs. Good job, man (not just for this but for all of the posts you have done.) I am digging you.
C&L has some of the best authors throughout the blogosphere (well, aside from my peeps at TheZoo, of course). C&L, Digby and Steve Benen are the best around.
Kudos!
That's all I meant to say.
I don't care about his family reunion. I really don't. I reserve all my outrage for the McCain-Palin platform. And so should his family and anyone else who cares about this country.
Are there no longer any editors at the South Florida Times? Twice the reader is faced with the phrase, ‘John McCain who is black’. Though we might leap to the conclusion that this is simply a poorly-placed modifier for McCain’s cousins, I can’t be sure it’s just a grammatical problem. What if Elgin Jones, the writer of the piece, has settled this matter finally? John McCain is black. What will he do next to garner votes – become the bankers' socialist in the Senate? To each according to their $70b needs?
It's the Twenty-First Century, Mr. McCain. You don't have to disown an entire branch of your family just because your skin colors don't match, anymore.
of McCain to deny, that a family of wealthy land owners in the south, almost 200 yrs ago had slaves. But then lies fall from his mouth as easily as half truths.
Skeletons in McCains Closet ..... OOOOOooooooooooooo......
And their black ones ...... I love this shit.
that John McCain and his immediate family (including ancestors) were career Navy officers during a time that black people in the navy were limited to service as stewards who served officers as manservants, waiters, etc. on shore and ship. This surely has affected his outlook from the time he was a child through his early days as a navy pilot.
This does not justify his outlook but only helps to explain it.
Lillie McCain is one very gracious lady. They even gave McLame the benefit of the doubt that his "schedule" didn't allow for him to attend the family reunions. He's had time to run 2 presidential campaigns in the last 10 years and has the luxury of Cindy's jet and money to take him anywhere he wants. Just one day out of the year, John. Couldn't manage that?
McCain could have learned so much this lovely woman. Completely HIS loss. The Black McCains sure haven't missed out on anything.
The company was reported on MN news last weekend. FLS and its head is a Republican, Jeff Larson, who apparently tries to keep a low profile. The reporter mentioned his hometown. I searched white pages.com. Two Jeff Larson's come up in Hudson Wisconsin. He is the first listing. I called the second listing first (don't know why) and that Jeff is an Obama backer. At Robocall's house a teenage son answered so I didn't say anything.Had Jeff Larson answered I was planning on calmly telling him what I thought of his contribution to this nightmare campaign season.
I don't advocate yelling and screaming (and especially not to his children) but I do advocate disturbing his evening of counting the 8 million dollars he received from McCain.
I see no reason why this Republican operative is allowed to keep a low profile. Those calls go right to American homes with smears and lies that HONORABLE Republicans don't approve of.
company website: www.flsconnect.com
thanks for this info. i am cross-posting it on my blog today, along with his infamous (and also not widely-reported) characterization of asians as "gooks" that he "hates".
i am a daily reader of crooks & liars via RSS.
Ted Nugent is a preacher for Guns and Ammo and threatened Obama with a Machine gun. Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI3ZrUI2Pwo
No surprise he wants to stay clear of them. McCain is an Old School White Guy...Not that there's anything wrong with Old School White guys, but if they are honest, that is not what this country needs right now.
Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_KvCLUTr8
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