McCain gets angry at Hispanics: "You People"
By John Amato Saturday Apr 04, 2009 2:45pm
We wrote a lot about John McCain's temper during the election, but this latest one is a doozy.
“He was angry,” one source said. “He was over the top. In some cases, he rolled his eyes a lot. There were portions of the meeting where he was just staring at the ceiling, and he wasn’t even listening to us. We came out of the meeting really upset.”
McCain’s message was obvious, the source continued: After bucking his party on immigration, he had no sympathy for Hispanics who are dissatisfied with President Obama’s pace on the issue. “He threw out [the words] ‘You people — you people made your choice. You made your choice during the election,’ ” the source said. “It was almost as if [he was saying] ‘You’re cut off!’ We felt very uncomfortable when we walked away from the meeting because of that.”
The idea that when he said that "you people" were just voters who didn't back him rings very hollow. His intent was quite clear. If you brown people would have backed me--I would have won the election. There were a lot of people that didn't back McCain for the election and losing his temper just shows how unhinged these privileged men in power actually are. He did push the Bush immigration deal, but you know it was just response to the anger many Latinos felt overSensenbrenner's HOUSE bill.
But, as National Journal notes, “one person’s straight talk is another person’s vitriol”:
But one person’s straight talk is another person’s vitriol. “My hands were shaking,” one source said. “I was nervous as no-end.” The senator’s comments went on for several minutes at least. And by the end of the meeting, another participant, who had supported McCain in last year’s presidential election, was so shaken by the display of temper that he decided it is good that McCain isn’t in the White House.
I think one of the things I find most reprehensible about the Republican Party and their Big Money backers is that they think it's OK to play Russian Roulette with the country (and the world) by nominating people to power who have completely inappropriate temperaments for it. George W. Bush, with his thin skinned, shallow understanding of the world, bottomless need for flattery, is a good case in point.
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Get off my lawn!
the old bastard has completely lost his grip on reality.
That's what happens when you're in the halls of power for too long
The Hispanics didn't cost McNasty the election. His cynical political pic of the Wasilla Hillbilly as a running mate had more to do with McNasty loosing that anything else. That and his Straigtalk Express going over the cliff early in the campaign.
He became a neocon because he thought after the Bush years that's what America was. He selected a neocon as a running mate because he felt he wasn't neoconish enough to get votes of a dwindling base. He pretty much fucked up all the way. If he would have stayed true to himself he would have had a chance. A moderate Republican could have still won the election even with their numbers so low but they were in denial and still are. They're not changing a thing. They keep saying they have go back to their conservative values. Right, it's been rejected and will be in 2010 and 2012.
couldn't swith votes fast enough.
and margin of Obama's victory put it out of reach of brother Jeb and the 5 Republican appointed conservative activist judges on the Supreme Court.
Let's not get cocky. Diebold and Jeb will be there for us in 2010. Jeb Sarah, Mike, Newt and of course Paul will be there infuriating their base. It'll be four years, they might learn how to use a computing machine. Keep'em voting.
Ted Stevens, fresh off his corruption charges on a technicality, will back to help em with the internet's complex series of tubes.
How dare he call them people!
I'm outraged!!!
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Todd Palin has no comment.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/03/Gov-Pa...
Thats as good as Palin telling the Dem Senator that took Stevens place to step aside and let Ted back in
A Palin who has nothing to say to the media. It's a fucking miracle. There is a god. I'll be going to church tomorrow.
I remember good ole Lou Dobbs firing away at old man McCain. I remember McCain saying during a press conference he would pay any American $50.00 an hour to work in the fields like the immigrants are doing. Yes the old grumpy man (McInsane) sure understood the plight of the immigrant farm worker.
I guess now that there are no jobs for anyone, and, it's an employer's market... so, to hell with the browns. Right McInsane?
Great picture btw. That lump on his cheek is really getting big huh?
i cant make 50 bux an hour doing what i do...and i would be happy to pick letuce for that much for a season
never heard from him
and what about the plight of the citizen farm worker
chavez was against illegal immigration because he knew it would be used to destroy his farm workers union
and that is why mcinsane loves illegal immigration...he likes it when hispanics are treated as slaves
The election occured in November 2008, not Nov 2007, right?
During the January 30, 2008 Repuglican Presidential Debate when asked if he would vote for his own immigration bill he said "No I would NOT"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHOkSWCr6Q
He threw the Hispanics right under the straight talk express, so that is why they voted against him (oh and his party is a bunch of racists)
the great white hope pretended to cater to hispanics...when all he really cares about is cheap labor for his corporate masters
and please explain to me
why do naturalized citizens want open borders and cheap labor?
dont the middle class have enough problems?
McGrumpy was calling everyone 'my friends'.
Now he's talking about 'you people' who voted for 'that one'. My, how times have changed.
What a bitter, mean, nasty old coot he is.
right now, he would be flippin the bird to everyone in europe
Truly terrifying.
You want more terrifying than that? McCain keels over right after taking the oath of office, President Sarah Palin is in Europe right now.
Knowing Palin, she'd be making goo-goo eyes and winking at all of the good-looking men.
McCain's friends are those who were yelling about Obama "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!" at the McCain/Palin rallies. "That one" (Obama) and "you people" (sane Americans who didn't support him or Palin) are the ones who gets the brunt of his nastiness.
C+L should acknowledge McCain when he does something right for a change.
how is that going to help even one of those that he is supposed to represent?
But he's been such an idiot on most race-related issues, that this is a breath of fresh air.
It would have been much more symbolic if he would have done more for the families of th MIAs in Viet Nam.
That picture reminds me of the Katherine Helmond face-lifting scene in Brazil.
http://www.buyscaryhalloweencostumes.com/acc_...
Senator McArsehole.
You people need to remember this next election.
I am thrilled that Obama won, but I'd have voted for anyone over this idiot. How his elderly based distemper has allowed him to hold on to office this long is beyond me.
It's silly to assume all Latinos are brown, many look like Europeans and are blonde, etc. McDiapers is a loser because he was a weak and terrible candidate, he knew nothing about economics, and his awful choice of a running mate. That he is a bigot is nothing new, he treated Asians like shit and called them names. He was also born in Panama and if he had any brains he would realize he is "you people" too.
Gus Garcia and his co counsel Carlos Cadena argued that while the state of Texas said Mexican Americans were white, they weren't allowed to serve on juries, and that Mexican Americans were 'a class apart' from other whites. The Supreme Court Justices had to be schooled on what a Mexican American was. There was a big deal in the Latino community, they wanted to be considered 'white' because if they weren't they might have been considered 'black' and thereby subject to Jim Crow laws. Garcia and Cardena won, Hernandez earned his right to be tried in front of a jury of his peers. The Court's legal reasoning – a holding that Mexican Americans, as a group, were protected under the Constitution's 14th Amendment, in keeping with the theory that they were indeed "a class apart."
Ian Haney-López: "The victory in Hernandez was huge for the Mexican American community. They now had the highest court in the land saying it’s unconstitutional. Indeed, symbolically it’s un-American to treat Mexicans as if they’re an inferior race."
Did you get that, John McCain?
Everyone should have a look through the transcript. That was such a great documentary, about something so important to millions of people in this country...
As perhaps C & L's resident Latina, I have to say I kind of don't know what to say. I shouldn't be surprised, not at all. And this just cements the promise to myself to never vote GOP, *but* I am still a little discombobulated right now.
alerta antifascista. STFU McCain! Shove the whole Fascist GOP up your arse!
What do you expect from that one!
what would you expect from "that man"?
to go asking someone like John McCain why the pace of Obama's immigration reform is or isn't happening at this or that speed. of course, McCain is an unprincipled opportunist, and I think we all learned that several times over during the last election cycle.
going to him, instead of finding a Dem who has been consistent on the issue, is kind of a strange move at all, when you think about it. hopefully people will learn over time that the GOP means what it says about this stuff, whether McCain occasionally leaves the fold thinking it will gain him an advantage or not. and they almost always come back to suckle at the same evil teet, no matter how far out they go.
The President has been in office for:
76 days which is equal to 10.857 weeks.
We have a financial meltdown, high unemployment, people being evicted from their homes and their possessions dumped on the street, homeless veterans, two wars, vererans suffering from PTSD who are not getting proper care, veterans killing themselves at a high rate, thousands of people living in their care or in tents, millions of people with no health care and many others who are unable to pay for life saving speciality drugs, and so and so on and so on.
And people complaining to Grampy McCain about the President not having solved the immigration crisis in 76 days (or 10.857 weeks).
As if Grampy would have solved the immigration crisis in 76 days (or 10.857 weeks)?
Are we really living in the Twilight Zone? Or the Outer Limits?
of the Twilight Zone. It's an exurb of reality.
You People: Made me proud by electing Obama! I am SOOOOOOOO Glad this jerk didn't become president. I am SOOOOO glad that Sarah and her Snow Machine Dude went back to Alaska (of course they haven't really gone back, just ask the people who feel they need her in her home state) and I am so glad that we rejected the BS and put someone in office who can do the job.
Remember last year when they said Barak didn't have enough experience? Could you imaging McGrandpa and his Nurse in europe this week? - I am so glad you people helped us elect the right man for the job!
Give hothead McCranky and douchebag Palin the codes. Yeah, right.
Sammy 67:Frustrating,indeed..Agreed with your list of the repercuccions of this mess and would add another, as a animal advocate:The heartbreaking added result of this mess: Thousands and thousands of innocent animals abandoned,left behind, turned into shelters.Heartbreaking.........
Deb,Vegas
Exactly.
We lost our house in Dec 07 because of my medical condition and not enough to cover. We lived in North Las Vegas close to the Cannery north of Graig.
We are now renting in the west valley. We could not sell the house even when we listed it at $175K. We had two dogs, one a shelter pickup and a Shorthair Pointer. We had to turn them over to Lead Shelters due to no dogs allowed at the rental. It still affects me not having Sadie.
to the excellent X-File show in Season Five filmed in black and white with Mulder and Scully finding the monster played by Chris Owens. Xcellent!
They don't call him McNasty for nothin'
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