Posted on 11/15/2007 8:43:53 AM PST by jdm
US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has caused an uproar after he laughed when an audience member called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a "bitch" instead of telling the woman off.
At a campaign event on Monday, the woman asked Senator McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?''
Senator McCain laughed along with the crowd as he said, "May I give the translation?''
"That's an excellent question,'' he said.
"I respect Senator Clinton. I respect anyone who gets the nomination of the Democratic Party.''
Overnight, Senator McCain said his response to the woman's comment was "appropriate", the Associated Press reported.
"She made a comment, I made light of the comment, and then I said very seriously I treated and continue to treat Senator Clinton with respect and I've said that many times,'' he said.
When asked whether he thought the woman's comment was funny, Senator McCain said he laughed because he wanted to move on.
"I can't dictate what other people say - that's not my business,'' he said.
Yesterday,CNN journalist Rick Sanchez raised the question of whether Senator McCain should have admonished the woman.
"Most people who have seen it are looking at it as a real mistake on his part in terms of the way he handled it,'' Sanchez said on the cable network's Out in the Open.
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I have mixed feelings about this. It might just get Hillary sympathy. Would anyone ask a candidate with a male opponent how to “beat the bastard”? Probably not. It would be considered disrespectul. Hillary is being subjected to worse name-calling than a male candidate would be subjected to, and she and the media will use it to her advantage.
No, it isn’t. She’s still a US Senator, as low as that title has dipped in the last 10 years.
It’s also lazy, and not specific enough. Someone as ruthlessly ambitious as Hillary Clinton deserves a little more effort in description.
Your contempt for Hillary is also felt over here.
OK? hell, it’s her formal title!
"Bitch," is a perfectly good word in English. If and when the Archbishop of Canterbury uses it in reference to a human female, I would be happy to join him in so describing the wife of former president Clinton. In the meantime, Mrs. George H. W. Bush, a former first lady, said it best in regard to Mrs. B.J. Clinton: "She's not very nice. I would privately use a word that rhymes with witch to describe her."
Key word: "privately."
I explicitly said it would hurt our side. Do you have a problem with that?
Well, yeah. Why continue public use of the word if it hurts our cause? Why not explicitly explain in accurate English that this woman's real place in the Clinton WH was as the "Bimbo Eruption Handler?" In fact, that is pretty much the sum total of her "experience." We have real evidence that she used physical force to coerce her husband's victims into silence with private detectives she and her staff hired to actually threaten their safety.
Now ain't that a bitch? (Referring of course to the situation, not the person.)
HEHE Just send me FReepmail. I like hearing those choice words about the witch.
Dunno, ask Mrs. Willey.
Hillary has shown with her support of amnesty and the DREAM Act that she is happy to sell out this country, breaking her oath of office. Thus, she does not deserve our respect.
As for being offended - I am offended that someone such as Rich Sanchez who has killed a man while joyriding drunk - moralizes on CNN. There is no comparison between saying a bad word and killing a person.
You nailed it, you couldn’t have said it any better than you did especially about Rick Sanchez being a man killing drunk driver. Here’s some food for thought, how would you like to run into these five folks while your driving down a country road coming at you head on, Rick Sanchez, Ted Kennedy, Jack Cafferty, Janet Reno and DeDe Meyers (she likes to speed).
Scary.
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