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McCain Ambushed With Obscene Question at Town Hall
Fox News ^ | May 1, 2008 | Mosheh Oinounou

Posted on 05/02/2008 12:59:09 AM PDT by red flanker

An audience member ambushed John McCain on Thursday at an otherwise placid town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, with a surprise question about whether he had ever called his wife by an obscene term.

The man stood up and first said he wanted to ask the Arizona senator about a “mental health and mental health care” concern.

“Previously I had been married to a woman who was very verbally abusive to me,” the man said. He paused and asked, “Is it true that you called your wife a c***?”

The crowd booed, and McCain responded:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; cant; cindymccain; heckler; hillarycanton; mccain; obama; plant; rudedems; temper
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To: carmody

I think Bill will have a lot of competition with Hillary for the interns. And while it would be amusing to see him be first lady I don’t want to be nagged for the next 4 years. At the very least we can respect McCains military record if not the last 30 years.


101 posted on 05/03/2008 7:53:24 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Swordfished

“Then the worst thing you could do is to get behind and vote for McCain. “

I disagree. The worst thing we can do is put Obama in office. Second would be Hillary.

We’ve been voting for the lesser of two evils for a long long time. I don’t see how a vote for the greater evil will get us anything except another Carter. Only in this case the Carter would be smarter and have a communist agenda.


102 posted on 05/03/2008 8:00:17 AM PDT by driftdiver
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