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the question has been raised of whether Obama is a racist...sentences are lifted from his book "Dreams of my Father" they are twisted entirely and/or taken completely out of context to make this claim so that begs the question...Is John McCain a racist?
Example #1
in 2000 he called Asians gooks.
John McCain's racist remark very troubling
McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe | Capitol Hill Blue
McCain is racist, not Ron Paul
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some other examples:
John McCain voted against MLK day but has later said his opinion evolved... he was 50 when he voted against it... too old to be naive or uninformed of the contribution and sacrafice made by Mr. King.
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now...it's up to the McCain supporters to prove that he's NOT a racist....if the standards to the same for both candidates I mean.
Do you have something more compelling than an anti-McCain blogsite to post as evidence of these beliefs? There is nothing less trustworthy than a Cap Hill staffer.
On the "gook" comment, in most cases I would agree that this is a damning comment. In John McCain's case, I think that the fact that the greatest contact that he has had with Asians was 7 years of torturous captivity at the hands of the NVA where the guards were commonly referred to with this de-humanizing epithet, is probably what comes to mind first when using the term. He should be required to get past it, but I'm not going to get all exorcised about having a language problem after 7 years of torture. It doesn't excuse most things, but it excuses that.
The rest of your stuff was filtered by the content filter I'm behind. Oh except the MLK thing. Hmmm...on that, if you are old enough to have been around while all those events were happening, MLK was not recognized universally (even by non-racists) as a "peaceful or good" figure. There were many different views on his side, the opposition side and those in between as to the best way to do what he was trying to accomplish. Reasonable people could probably have disagreed as to what the historical significance of MLK should be dispite his tragic end. Since then, (the voting on MLK Day) the trend has been to see MLK as a peaceful uniter. He may or may not have been all that, but I can see how someone could be unsure of the message creating MLK Day could be in the first instance, and now believe that its creation was a good thing.
I'm not saying McCain thought any of those things, but the question to me was, "I cite for you these instances, now if someone did that aren't they a racist?" My logical challenge is to distinguish those citations and see if someone must be a racist is they said those things. If you came up with better support than some Hill staffer in blog for the first items, I'd probably say he has some racist tendencies.