John McCain made the comment, "I hated the gooks. I will always hate them!" on his campaign bus when he was running for president in 2000 before a number of reporters. This story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. McCain was asked to apologize and at first refused, but did finally later apologize for the comment. But I mean this isn't something McCain's pastor said, MCCAIN made this comment himself. The Republicans are trying to grasp at straws. "Well Obama has never really said anything too controversial, but his PASTOR said "God damn America" in a sermon back in 1985 or something. And Obama has never done anything so horrible, but he met WILLIAM AYERS a couple of times and he was a member of the Weather Underground 40 years ago." I think we should be concerned with what these candidates are saying and doing themselves, not what their friends and acquaintances are saying and doing. McCain was calling Oriental people gooks back in a 1973 article in US News & World Report. And there're 12,000,000 Oriental Americans who don't want to be treated as second class citizens in a John McCain administration. And there are Oriental countries out there that as president he would have to deal with, that we owe a lot of debt to. See http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/mccain%E2%80%99s-macaca-moment --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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