Apologies if this has been printed before, just thought this was an appropriate thread for it if it hasn't - I recieved this via email - if it has been debunked, again, apologies...
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This was written by a professor at UCSC. She teaches Classical Literature.
She's a calm, wise person. She's real. This is not a chain letter. You can email her if you'd like.
MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN
It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential nomination in
2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John
McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted
Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters
with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle Island has a small number
of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a pile of
William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out of them. As an
English Literature major myself, my first thought was 'if he likes this so
much, why hasn't he memorized any of this yet?' I soon realized that McCain
actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience for his
'readings' which then became a regular part of each meal. Out of politeness,
none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into their
blissful holiday, but people's buttons definitely got pushed as the readings
continued day after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine women had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn't meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to my, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight. McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other side of the table from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.
Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego and his rude behavior towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have some redeeming qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh. I asked him
about this one day, and his response was shocking: 'Oh, that was Cindy's
idea b I didn't have anything to do with it. She just went and adopted this
thing without even asking me. You can't imagine how people stare when I
wheel this ugly, black thing around in a shopping cart in Arizona . No, it
wasn't my idea at all.'
I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he engaged
me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of the active US
bombing of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he said, 'If I was in
charge, I would nuke Iraq to teach them a lesson'. Given McCain's personal
experience with the horrors of war, I had expected a more balanced point of
view. I commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear attacks on Japan during WWII b- but no, he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that if it was up to him he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on Japan. I rapidly extricated myself from this conversation as I could tell that his experience being tortured as a POW didn't seem to have mellowed out his
perspective, but rather had made him more aggressive and vengeful towards
the world.
My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was leaving Turtle Island. Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when McCain arrived and told Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she needed to lose weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I felt fiercely protective of Amy and immediately turned to McCain and told him to leave her alone. He became very angry and abusive towards me, and said, 'Don't you know who I am.' I looked him in the face and said, 'Yes, you are the biggest asshole I have ever met' and headed back to my cabin. I am happy to say that later that day when I arrived at lunch I was given a standing ovation by all the guests for having stood up to McCain's bullying.
Although I have shared my McCain story informally with friends, this is the
first time I am making this public. I almost did so in 2000, when McCain
first announced his bid for the Republican nomination, but it soon became
apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I did not act
then. However, now that there is a very real possibility that McCain could
be elected as our next president, I feel it is my duty as an American
citizen to share this story. I can't imagine a more scary outcome for
America than that this abusive, aggressive man should lead our nation. I
have observed him in intimate surroundings as he really is, not how the
media portrays him to be. If his attitudes toward women and his treatment of
his own family are even a small indicator of his real personality, then I
shudder to think what will happen to America were he to be elected as our
President.
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| Mary-Kay Gamel
| Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Theater Arts
| Cowell College
| University of California, Santa Cruz
| Santa Cruz, California 95064
| mkgamel@ucsc.edu
|
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Democratic Club of Claremont
(formerly Jerry Voorhis Claremont Democratic Club)
"Liberal Voice of the Pomona Valley"
P.O. Box 1201
Claremont CA 91711 |
I mean really, even if he wasn't running one of the more reprehensible campaigns in recent history, does America really want yet another POTUS that embodies the very worst cliched and caricaturistic traits of the 'arrogant, obnoxious American'?
This movie was pretty awsome if u like the 80's B horror. Its on Netflix
Where the hell are u gonna find gravey flavored condoms in any other movie ...........huh............... I LOVE U TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was very excited to see the American Reunion movie. I saw American Pie just after college and remembered it was quite funny. Jim, Michelle, Oz, Heather, Stifler reunite for their high school...
this is the song to have fun on.
