Rolling Stone locates the definitive MORANS: "Look, you either are or you aren't, and he aren't"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

From the current issue:

Full Metal McCain

Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger

MATT TAIBBIPosted Jun 26, 2008 12:04 PM

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/21129038/full_metal_mccain



A few paces away, I catch up with a man named Ron Saucier and a woman who would only identify herself as Mary. Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. "He exaggerates too much," Ron says. "He's not honest."

"OK," I say. "What does he exaggerate about?"

"Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother," he says.

I ask him how this is an exaggeration.

"Well, he was saying . . ." he begins. "As if that qualifies him to . . ."

Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes.

"Look, you either are or you aren't," she says.

"And he aren't," Ron says, nodding with relief.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Ok, Ron and Mary, out of the gene pool. Towel off. You're done.

[DarienComp]

2. you either are or you aren't WHAT?

What the hell are they talking about?

[geek tragedy]

3. They're saying Obama is racially impure--he can't point

to his white background because he's got those icky, nonwhite genes polluting him.

They're racist morans.

[nxylas]

4. I think the word they're looking for is "white"

"One drop of black blood" and all that bollocks.

[hisownpetard]

5. White.

[DarienComp]

7. Un-f*cking-believable.

I can't even fathom such a sick way of thinking.

[Liberal Gramma]

6. Oh, I'd so much rather be black than ignorant.

It would be amusing to see how convoluted some people's rationales for not voting Obama are, trying to avoid admitting they are racists, if it weren't for the fact that racism isn't funny at all.

[rAVES]

8. Fabulous Article!

delighted to be rec #5

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Yes, I encourage everyone to read the entire article...

...Rolling Stone is going to play a key role in getting this information into the mainstream. The days of McCain sitting back and relaxing in the shadows while Hillary and Obama duke it out are over.

:patriot:

[blondeatlast]

9. The attitude's sad, but I'm laughing hysterically at that. Bring the Neosporin;

there's gonna be a lot of latent wounds opening in the next few months.

[high density]

11. I'm not a huge Taibbi fan but this is a nice article

The person on the third page talking about the "anti-American" Obama shows what we are up against. They don't even know why they hate Obama, they just hate him. The campaign against Kerry was the same thing. Whip up a mob against the evil liberals, even though people have no clue what the evil liberal stands for.

[AspenRose]

12. Reading that made my head hurt.

"When I ask Mary Morvant, a pro-life Christian, why she's supporting McCain given his record on abortion, she gives a typical answer: "I'm much more concerned about Obama."

This is the Republican campaign, folks. 'Let's not talk about McCain. Instead let me tell you why I don't like Obama.'

And what is with this "back to Africa" crap?!

"I tell you," says one, "if Michelle Obama really doesn't like it here in America, I'd be very pleased to raise the money to send her back to Africa."

God these people have issues.

[rox63]

13. Definitely a worthwhile read - K & R n/t

[tulsakatz]

14. either you are or you arent?

so are they saying either you are or aren't white? Or are they saying either you are or aren't black?

Yesterday there was a letter in the opinion section of the Tulsa World that said in Oklahoma when a child is born, the state lists the race of the child the same as the mother. So even though his father was black, if Obama had been born in Oklahoma, he would be considered white.

[blondeatlast]

15. "..while George W. Bush may be unpopular as an individual, fear and hatred in this country

have never gone out of style."

And that, "my friends," is what the entire McCain campaign will be based on.

GREAT article.

[skooooo]

16. "The really dumb stuff is just beginning."

With the prospects of losing all their power, Tiabbi is right, we're just beginning to hear the dumb stuff. It's going to get reeeeeeaaaaal dumb before it's over.

[Bleacher Creature]

17. SO many great quotes in this piece.

"Rather than serving up the "straight talk" he promises, McCain is enthusiastically jumping aboard with every low-rent, fearmongering, cock-sucking presidential aspirant who's ever traveled the Lee Atwater/William Safire highway."

(snip)

"The instant (McCain and Clinton) crossed into the hater column and began feverishly jacking off the toothless racists of the Deep South with broadsides against the America-hating socialist menace Obama, all was instantly forgiven."

(snip)

"With his newfound opposition to his own attempts to reform immigration policy and campaign finance, McCain is perhaps the first candidate in history to stump against two bills bearing his own name."