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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:10 PM
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Flashback: McCain joked about how much women love to be raped.»
As repulsive as this is, he IS the enemy and stuff like this shouldn't be forgotten. :grr:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/15/mccain-finds-rape-hilarious/

Flashback: McCain joked about how much women love to be raped.»

The blog Rum, Romanism and Rebellion pulls out a 1986 Tucson Citizen article recounting a joke about rape told by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Speaking to the National League of Cities and Towns in Washington, DC, McCain allegedly said:

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, “Where is that marvelous ape?”

McCain was swiftly criticized by women’s groups. A spokeswoman for NOW in Arizona said the organization’s members were “incensed by his cruel and sexist remark.” McCain said he did not “recall” telling the joke. More recently, the McCain campaign scheduled a fundraiser with a Texas oilman who compared rape to the weather while running for governor. “As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it,” said Clayton Williams in 1990. After public outcry, the event was “postponed."
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:11 PM
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1. I think McCain's telling the truth
In the sense that he honestly doesn't remember saying that because his memory is going.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:11 PM
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2. These days any outrage would be labeled "lack of a sense of humour"
:mad:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:13 PM
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4. Sigh. I hear you. nt
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:11 PM
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3. And he calls his wife a "c*nt" in front of reporters. What a charmer, that guy. -eom
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 12:55 AM
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17. Well, c'mon---she was late. Wouldn't anyone call their wife a trollop c*nt for putting on makeup
too long? (umm...mebbe not)
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:14 PM
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5. K&R
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:16 PM
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6. The freepers need tro see this.
Some of them actually might find it offensive.

BTW, K&R :kick:
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:35 PM
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11. they'd find it offensive that we're telling the truth about McSame ...
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:24 PM
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7. What A Sick Fuck
creepy old perverted men say shit like this shit!
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:24 PM
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8. I suspect that this is the cleaned up version of an old dirty joke
and that it wasn't a gorilla in the original!
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 01:00 AM
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19. Even better.... say it was Obama and the Republicon women will be swooning....
with "jungle fever".

Hell, it's not as if the wives are getting any at home. Between the pool boys, office boys, pliable hookers, aides and random hook-ups, what respectable Republicon has the energy to boink his own wife?
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Diane R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:30 PM
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9. Yet some women's groups vow to vote for McCain to punish Obama if he doesn't name Hillary VP.
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:37 PM
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12. That makes no sense to me at all.
Why would you vote for such a sick p.o.s.?
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Hope And Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:33 PM
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10. K & R!
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:25 PM
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13. I'm so tired, too, of the "don't recall" lie being taken at face value. nt
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:29 PM
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14. "Claytie" Williams
What a piece of work. What a POS.
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redstate_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:32 PM
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15. I saw some dog shit in the park today. It reminded me of McCain.
Asshole.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:15 PM
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16. Oh Yes...I've always thought "Rape Jokes" are SO Funny.
:mad:

Typical Repug Shit....all about Power. (Rape is not about Sex..per se...)
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 12:57 AM
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18. "women love to be raped"? - now how would Johnny know...?
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 01:01 AM
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20. Champion for the PUMAs. How twisted is that?
:sigh:
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 01:24 AM
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21. OLD sexist PIG
I would kick his withered nuts to the roof of his mouth if he said shit like that within my earshot. I don't care who he thinks he is.
Rape is NOT a joke and women do not "ask for it".
McCain is a psychopath asshole scumbag warmonger sexist abusive pig.
Some males(the abusive ones like McCain) do not deserve anything but to be despised by all women and decent men.
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