"That One" really bothers me.

[Hepburn]

It is so dismissive in such a mega racist way. Like Obama is dirt under his feet and not worthy to challenge the great McCain. The more I thought about this, the more it bothered me. McCain is just sooooo yesterday. He is in the past and just a remnant of the all white, all male socially correct Country Club set who went to the right schools and live on the right side of the tracks.

Makes me want to hurl....he has NO CLUE that what he did was so way out of line. He treated Obama like he was some impersonal object that merely was in his fucking way...not even worth of personhood.

:mad:

[Iwasthere]

1. I agree

Would love to see how he would defend that statement. Can't!!

[phantom power]

2. Everybody predicted Obama's candidacy would bring the racism out.

I admit, I wasn't expecting what I've seen from McCain, but clearly he's showing his true colors now too.

Truthfully, I was expecting worse than what I've seen so far.

[wanpete]

4. I think the worse is yet to come, sadly...

[wanpete]

3. totally, totally agree with you. I was enraged last night when I heard it. and each time I see it,

I get angrier and angrier about it. He is a mean, angry, hateful, dismissive little man.

[hedgehog]

5. I think it does have a racist tinge, but the joke was on John. His "Town Halls"

are generally full of supporters, so his lame attempts at humor get a lot of laughs. He was really thrown off stride last night when he didn't get his usual response.

[woolldog]

6. I don't see it as necessarily racist....

I think McCain was contrasting "this one" with "that one" the "one" would refer to some underlying quality which they have in common, gender, profession, whatever, except that he abbreviated his thought. That's the only way the expression makes sense to me.

For example: aybe he was thinking "this senator voted against it , that one voted against it"

"this man voted against it; that one voted for it"

Make sense?

[Booster]

7. While it makes me shudder to defend McCain, I don't think he

meant it to sound racist, though I can see where people might think that. It sounded more elitist to me - like this "one" doesn't deserve to run against me, the POW. Only McCain could tell us if it was because Obama is black or not. Whatever the reason, it sure backfired on McCain big time.

[MorningGlow]

8. It's an old-man-thing to say

A lot of my relatives are in their 80s, and it's something they would say about any one they were dismissive of (any color).

Still, I agree that it was highly offensive. I found if very disrespectful and nothing a senator should have said about a fellow member of the Senate.

[nutsnberries]

9. it really bothers me too >

dismissive. rude. those are the first things i felt when he said it.

The more I thought about it, it felt even worse because I knew that so many that heard it would enjoy it because they are racist.
It's something I hear older people say though - people of my parents generation (they are in their early 80s). So, my train of thought ended with, "what a loser. does he realize what an old fogey he sounds like?"

every way i looked at it> bad