Just to be fair to all the candidates ...
More questionable comments and affiliations from candidates for president:
Hillary Clinton has used anti-semitic slurs -- specifically, calling her husband's one-time adviser Paul Fray a "Jew bastard."
Rudy Giuliani's aides and associates keep getting caught making anti-Muslim comments, such as the suggestion by John Deady, New Hampshire co-chair of Veterans for Rudy, that America's Mayor would "chase [Muslims] back to their caves.”
Mike Huckabee wants to "amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view." He also called for AIDS patients to be quarantined.
John McCain plays footsie with the Christian right and calls Asians "gooks."
Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who inspired the title of Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, has equated Zionism with racism and is an admirer of open anti-semite Louis Farrakhan.
Can we have some new candidates now?
Some of these points bother me more than others (I'm especially frightened by the prospect of the Constitution being amended to make the country an explicit theocracy), but I think it's fair to air everybody's dirty laundry while we're at it.
I'm sure I've left somebody out. Let me know if I've unfairly spared any candidate.
Hillary Clinton has used anti-semitic slurs -- specifically, calling her husband's one-time adviser Paul Fray a "Jew bastard."
Rudy Giuliani's aides and associates keep getting caught making anti-Muslim comments, such as the suggestion by John Deady, New Hampshire co-chair of Veterans for Rudy, that America's Mayor would "chase [Muslims] back to their caves.”
Mike Huckabee wants to "amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view." He also called for AIDS patients to be quarantined.
John McCain plays footsie with the Christian right and calls Asians "gooks."
Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who inspired the title of Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, has equated Zionism with racism and is an admirer of open anti-semite Louis Farrakhan.
Can we have some new candidates now?
Some of these points bother me more than others (I'm especially frightened by the prospect of the Constitution being amended to make the country an explicit theocracy), but I think it's fair to air everybody's dirty laundry while we're at it.
I'm sure I've left somebody out. Let me know if I've unfairly spared any candidate.
Labels: popularity contest
posted by J.D. Tuccille at
9:41 AM
2 Comments:
Very true. Even Ron Paul is not without a fault - his proposal to end birth-right citizenship will be a nightmare for many male citizens. See this excellent article:
http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.285
Thanks for a great post,
Alex
Alex,
And not to mention the newsletters, I'm sorry to say.
I'm still voting for Paul, but I think we'll be best served to see the end of his campaign.
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