Today during a moment of “straight talk,” Senator John McCain promised to “whip” Senator Barack Obama’s “you know what” at the upcoming debate. While that sounds like a great idea to me, others felt his comment had racial undertones that could be used against the candidate. Read more about it and watch a fun motivational debate video below.
Yes he actually said that. Senator McCain referred to Senator Obama’s backside as his “you know what.” But beside the strangeness of that, the controversy seems to be around the sensitivity of the use of the word “whip” in light of charges of racial grievances of late.
Just last week, Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) likened the politics of John McCain and Sarah Palin to segregationist former Alabama Governor George Wallace!
Thankfully, McCain shot that down. Even though McCain has publically noted his admiration for civil rights pioneer Lewis, it is simply ridiculous to equate legitimate criticism of Barack Obama and his policies with Wallace. McCain responded calling Lewis’s ridiculous rant “a brazen and baseless attack on my character and the thousands of hardworking Americans who come to our events.” Amen.
McCain called on Obama to repudiate the attack, which the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign didn’t really do until later in the day — after any damage was already done of course.
Today’s comments were made to campaign workers at his Virginia campaign headquarters in the hopes of energizing them for a tough battle ahead.
“We’re a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we’re right in this game,” McCain said to cheers. “The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We’ll give that to America.”
“We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7.”
“I respect Senator Obama, we will conduct a respectful race and be sure everyone else does too. But there are stark difference between us,” McCain said.
National and many battleground state polls have shown McCain trailing Obama amid the deepening market crisis.
The next and final debate, in which we will watch John McCain whip Barack Obama’s “you know what,” will be this Wednesday at Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y. CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer will moderate the 90-minute forum so it should be a good one.
And as always, we here at Right Pundits will be covering all the details!
McCain to Whip Obama Video
“Devo – Whip It!”
October 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
McCain in an angry loser.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
McSame’s “Hate Talk” Express is going strong. Maybe we could expect Grampy to where a diaper on his head and burn a cross right on stage.
He won’t win the debate cause he ain’t got nothing. No plan, no ideas and only hate rhetoric.
When are you going to write a piece about Caribou Barbi and her ethics violation:
The bipartisan report from 10 Repubicans and 4 Democrats affirmed that, as governor, she had the constitutional right to hire and fire at will, and therefore her termination of Monegan was lawful.
However, the report found that Palin, her husband Todd, and her subordinates used pressure and intimidation to try to force the firing of Michael Wooten, beginning before her swearing-in ceremony took place, and therefore broke the law.
The investigation said she violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which states, “… each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Fine time for an impeachment, don’t you think?
October 12th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
You know, I didn’t even have to read the piece in order to get the punchline – as soon as I saw the word “whip” there was no reason to go any farther.
Maybe its just because I’m a typical white person thereby incapable of understanding the plight of the ethnic peoples of this great land of ours, but there seems to be an awful lot of claims of rac*sm coming from the Obama camp.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
bitter exactly.
come bring your bible and gun and sit by me for a while.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
ha ha bitter C, we gonna be under new house management. Hope they don’t make us sleep in black sheets and wear nike ball caps and purple shirts and nike sneaks. At least we can let our pants hang down to our knees.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I don’t know why this ridiculous middle-school level opining showed up on Google News, but I’m not at all surprised that you didn’t mention the “lipstick on a pig” — you know, a common phrase — nonsense which McCain/Palin didn’t at all bother to calm anyone down about. But for Obama to repudiate this current remark on the SAME DAY, that’s a fault because it wasn’t quick enough. Right.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
At minimum we’ll all need a list of acceptable words so that we don’t rattle anyones cage – then again, maybe the list of acceptable words would be shorter.
DISCLAIMER: the word “cage” was in no way intended to imply that Mr. Obama is related to any one or any creature that has ever, or still does occupy an actual cage as defined as –
1 – An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
2 – Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
October 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
sean your comment is all bass ackward and ground up and reflected in a mirror so it makes absolutely no sense whatsover. So what is it you are trying(so far in vain) to convey?? I really don’t have a clue.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
No racial undertones, of course… and on top of that you post a video that shows mods pleasing cowboys with guns by whipping a transvestite! You are so sensitive, I can hardly keep myself from voting Republican!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
You know – its sad that no one can say anything about Obama without being accused of being insensitive. Do we really want a president who can’t take criticism and tries to shut everyone up.
Its ridiculous. Does he really get his feelings hurt that easily?
October 12th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
well there are a fair number of those kinds of tones in this race but what you have is the harvard lawyer versus the navy jet pilot. Weird combo. Obama may look black but he’s half white and nobody gives that part any respect or notice. McCain realizes now the utter brutality of modern presidential electioneering being older. I have see pictures of obama wiped out campaigning too, like ready to keel over. Its too much for both of them so if they both start swearing and throwing knuckles why should we be surprised. It the campaigning wasn’t so hard on everyone they could probably carry on in a more dignified manner. Race is still a big issue in the US and why should we deny the obvious. Maybe talking more openly about it we will do better. The dichotomy between middle class blacks and poorer blacks is huge. The disparity between white incomes is less obvious as the poor ones live in rural areas where the sense of sensational crimes is much lower except for the occasional crazy church goer or meth laber. They just don’t get the media coverage till a bus tips over or some old geezer is kidnapping people. The real issue among whites is the steady erosion of their lifestyle and now they are being pushed into the pits. Nobody likes to lose what they got.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Even though Obama’s background probably does not include relatives who endured the horror of slavery, I would still avoid the image of “whipping” in a campaign against a black man. And for all the people saying “oh, the left injects race into everything,” and counter that Obama is half-black, get real; Obama is a black man. Sensitivity is mandatory.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
And that is because Barack Obama identifies with a horse? Pray tell us why, mcshame, whipping is no longer a horse-racing analogy in your Orwellian world. Truth is Obama?
October 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
wrong on a lot of counts. obama is half white. and his black half is from his kenyan father visiting on a student visa, so he has no black roots into the american black slavery “problem”. So he doesn’t have all that multigenerational grudge and hostility and complaining including the US prison and courts interferance with his life. He didn’t grow up in a black inner city hell hole with a single black mother with a bunch of weird black boyfriends and men in her life likelly contaminated by the legal and prison system as well. His stint in Indonesia was more student tourist than anything else. He has not grown up in the angry black american experience and that is profound. Now he committed to being a community organizer as being socially almost peace corps proactive so thats fine. His wife went to princeton and is a lawyer also in a nice university advocacy position not driving a bus for the Chiccago Metro line. So again, he has no real first hand knowledge of the angry afro american experience reaching into his personal life. So he is actually more grounded in successful white culture than “being black”. I would suggest obama is more white than black.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
i would suggest he is at least 3/4 white with a chockolet coating that led him into trying to understand some aspects of the black experience with his community organizing, trinity church, etc, and bill ayers. What a lot of people do not understand is afro americans are like all a mix of other races than just black, white, hispanic, native american, japanese,korean, whatever. its just that the “black” dominates their other races and is culturally reinforced on a lot of levels such as using insane levels of anger to solve all disputes whether in the family or on the streets. They sort of got the irish in them without the jesuit training.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:59 am
ay, pple dnt waste time dealing wth petty issues. luk at both men and c wt ey have to offer. who is a corn-man and who is not. its al abt america gaining back its respect and good image in e eyes of e world. nw who is more suited 4 that job. a man who has been supporting the current policies or a man who has been opposing these bad policies… simple as that
October 13th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Pulling the race card here is just stupid but both campaigns have been practicing a lot of fake outrage over the last few months (pig/lipstic, that one…) – it’s basically become modus operandi.
About McCain actually whipping Obama – highly unlikely. I mean, how? Looking angry and talking Ayers and Wright? Obama will stay cool and calm, looking presidential.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Hahah.
Can the decrepit old costermonger even raise his arms to crack a whip?
October 13th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Stag.
I’ll bet you couldnt take one ounce of the whipping that man took.
They broke his arms in Nam you inensitive schmuck
October 13th, 2008 at 6:51 am
McCain will whip Obama’s SKINNY LITTLE ASS!
October 13th, 2008 at 7:54 am
So much for being the post-racial candidate – whatever in the hell that was supposed to mean.
It seems to me that Obama’s blackness is the cornerstone of his political foundation.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Bitter, I would say that Obama’s campaign strategy is to polarize the electorate along racial lines. He is only going to get 40% of the white vote, and 95% of the black vote. As a result of his campaign’s divisiveness, Obama would enter office as a weak, marginalized president lacking any clear consensus or mandate. Not what we need to deal with economic crisis.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:41 am
this is all getting so ridiculous.
can the adults please step up!
little barrys followers need to stop blubbering and crying race everytime mccain or his people speak.
get a new schtick, this ones getting real old!!
the past few speeches mccain gave in the midwest must have really gotten under their skin. its real people saying they’re real mad!
if that scares them who cares, they need more of it.
put your big girl panties on and get over it!!
October 13th, 2008 at 8:58 am
chi r/o!
kratten: thats the problem with you obamabots…you have no sense of humor. sad really.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Golly, will the PC Daily Kos police let McCain say “beat”, “pound”, or “hammer him until those missing chest hairs resurface”? Or must he say something like “I will do my best to turn in a debate performance which is superior to than that of my honorable opponent Sen. Barack Obama, to whom I intend absolutely no disrespect by this statement”?