Where’s John McCain?

Posted on 10/25/2008 at 10:35 am by Bob Cesca

Specifically, what does he have to say about his campaign actively pushing the “B” hoax story?

NBC’s Brian Williams noted on the air, “The McCain campaign steered reporters’ attention to the story” on Thursday. It sounds like a point in need of clarification.

The very acting of “steering” the press towards a racially charged story is, by definition, race-baiting. John McCain needs to account for this.

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  • bibimimi

    Did Ashley act alone? Is she on meds? Who will post her bail? Who does HER makeup?

  • J M Ashby

    On one hand I would like to think that the McCain camp didn’t plan this, but its really really fishy.If the McCain camp knew about the story and started doing their own reporting on it before the police could even issue a statement…Its not rocket science.

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    I’m confident in time we will learn that this is another Nixonian story of the plumbers doing he dirty work for McCain, with his blessing, but not his knowledge. This is part of an off-the-books voter intimidation drive. A chunk of that clothing budget was laundered through Neiman’s to fund this by buying clothes and then returning them for cash. No one was supposed to notice that the clothes weren’t around anymore…but now it’s gonna be BAD for Johnny. Really, really bad.

  • Alan4s

    It sounds to me like she acted alone in starting the hoax. The local McCain office heard about it when she was still talking to police. As desperate as they are, they jumped the gun to get it in the news. Seriously poor judgment, and obvious racial overtones that they wanted to exploit, but I doubt they were involved in planning it.In any case, the ongoing reaction (or non-reaction) by the national McCain organization is very telling. McCain should be denouncing this in the strongest way possible right now, and I’m not hearing him do that.

  • Poleezz

    The next story they will try to pass off is that she was practicing her make-up for Halloween and the “B” was for BOO!

  • solrac2002

    Friday, October 17, 2008John McCain’s Black Relatives Support Barack ObamaWell, this is an interesting turn of events. John McCain has black relatives and they support Barack Obama. I came across an interesting article on South Florida Times. Seems like John McCain has literally disowned them too.The South Florida Times states in that article that in the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.As excerpted from South Florida Times, some of McCain’s black family members say they are not sure exactly where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the McCains fathered with their slaves.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.Psst, John McCain, you have black folks in your family! Your family has a history of being slave owners. I bet that’s a revelation he didn’t want to come out. Talk about Roots. So, it seems a little hypocritical that he can tap dance around overt racism, while his family is somewhat culturally diverse as Barack Obama’s. Isn’t it funny how he could beam with joy at his adopted daughter from Bangladesh, but yet he has turned his back on his own black family members. This speaks volumes about the dubious civil rights record he has. Yes, I guess John Lewis was right. Let me take it a step further, this racial tension is in John McCain’s blood, going back generations to his racist forefathers.

  • dontpanic23

    We wouldn’t want him getting cooties this close to the election. He came awfully close during the debates but averting his eyes must have been his protection.Bastard.And good for them, voting for Obama. Can’t say as I blame them on multiple fronts.

  • bibimimi

    Joe McCain will vote for ObamaIF HE PROMISES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GODDAMNED TRAFFIC!!

  • animalhamilton

    where would we be with these story, if this jackass was “smart” enough to scratch an O instead of a B?

  • bibimimi

    “this jackass was[n't] “smart” enough to scratch an O instead of a B?”If it was just an ‘o’ I would have thought she fell on an open tuna can.If it was ‘B O’, I would have assumed she just smells.