“That old white b—- be dope G. Straight up tol em like it be. Damn, dog, I’d kick it wid dat H- fo sho.”

My grandfather used to say “Swearing is the last resort of the inarticulate, whatever the hell that means.”
I agree with your post but not the headline. Of the leading candidates, McCain (and Huckabee) have done the least Hillary bashing on the campaign trail. It is fair to say the Republicans, devoid of credibility on spending, small government and security have been looking to Hillary as a scary monster (as Thinker pointed out in her Girardian way.) I don’t think it will get anyone elected and if it does, we really are in trouble.
As cowardly as that youTube video makes McCain seem, I haven’t seen him instigating against Clinton the way Giuliani is, pretty much any time his lips are moving and he isn’t describing his heroism on 9/11.

Donny, sometimes you are simply offensive. This is one of those times. You should be ashamed of yourself.

As an Arizonian who has dealt with McCain as an activist for many years now I must tell you that his comments are certainly not shocking to the ears of this state!
We know that he does not bend to the will of the people. He has stated this repeatedly BUT are the American people listening to his words and their intent? He is simply an extension of the disease called the Bush administration.
He believes that women of power and success are all bitches! He also has no tolerance for others religious beliefs as he and his mother showed the world in their comments concerning Romney’s Mormon faith!
Not only is this man sucking Arizona dry by NOT showing up for his job as a Senator of this great state but he has shown his true colors concerning diversity and lack of respect to women in general.
McCain is nothing more than a pariah on the backs of Americans and the world! He will never be elected president without the stealing of another election!
Denise Bensusan
Kingman Arizona

Thinker,
Why? I represented “your” inner city poor and the common tongue accurately. It is the way “they” speak and think. If you have any doubt research Bill Cosby. This is the problem with you progressives, you build the beast and then deny you know anything about it. And MY family has to suffer. We don’t have the money to live where your rich leftists do.
But anyway . . . I doon’t like to use paul, but he said something here that applies to the inner city dwellers and progressives.
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
And Paul was not talking about gay rights and evolution. He was talking about Christ Jesus.

I’m bored already. I’m not sure I can take another year of this drivel and planted questions (nice one, Hillary), and bashing each other over talking point memos and non-answers and empty rhetoric. Talk TO me, not DOWN to me. I can think for myself thank you very much.
I want something of substance, something bold and audacious. Fix, not band-aid Social Security and Medicare, cut wasteful spending, reform education, reform the tax code (go after hedge funds and these insane CEO salaries), let regulators actually do their jobs and not just bow to Wall Street’s every wish, reform immigration, fix our aging infrastructure…
Unfortunately, we get none of this and we don’t hold our politicians accountable. Who’s to blame? We, the American people are. We’re more concerned with Britney and OJ and whatever manufactured news story that is “breaking news” on the cable channels than actually knowing what is going on in our country and the world today.
We know very little of civics and history in the country and we don’t seem to care. Name the justices on the Supreme Court. Name your Congresspeople, heck know the branches of the government and what they do. We’re too self absorbed in our own little lives to care about the greater good. 64% of registered voters voted in the last presidential election. What the heck were the rest doing?(http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf)
Sorry for the rant but I’m tired and bored of this election cycle already and the yard signs aren’t up yet. (sigh)

Why is McCain supposed to have been shameful? Everybody in the room knew who was being refered to.
And that is the problem, for the Dems. Hillary’s negatives are so entrenched in the psyches of many Americans that “I’m not her,” is sufficient to motivate a large number of voters.
As to the coarse questioner, I sigh heavily. I would never think to stand up in a room full of strangers and, while addressing a presidential candidate, use such language. While I am not a fan of Sen. Clinton, she is a sitting senator, a former first lady, and deserves at least public respect.
Not McCain’s most heroic moment, or most chivalrous, but her aire of entitlement to office makes her distasteful to her detractors.

What has gone missing in all of this is WHY does this elderly lady have this opinion of Hillary Clinton?
If I was a politian referred to in this way, I would call this person.
Until the Dems desire to listen to why we Americans dispise them, ande stop sending their scream squads to shout down our questions, they will continue in the category of Liberal Elite. This divide between Left and Right is a scar we are going to have to deal with sooner or later.

Donny,
I don’t know that saying “we Americans” despise Democrats is going to help much in terms of dealing with the scar, and the divide between left and right that you mention. When you write “This divide between Left and Right is a scar we are going to have to deal with sooner or later” I wonder if the ‘we’ is the same as the Americans who despise Democrats, or some more general ‘we’ that includes Americans who actually ARE Democrats.
I won’t beat up on you much over this, because it’s Friday,and I’ve had a great week, and you’ve taken a real pounding on here lately, and I feel sorry for you.
Almost.

Sigh. That’s the same John McCain who showed up on Saturday Night Live a few years ago. His attempted parody of Barbra Streisand could have been gentle and funny, but he just couldn’t suppress an undertone of misogynistic resentment which ruined it completely. If that skit had gone on a few more minutes I’m sure more chauvinisms would have bubbled up.
The present hysterical anti-Hillaryism by activists in both Parties reminds me of Primal Scream Therapy in some respects, frankly. This particular episode with McCain says Republicans are losing control of it on their side. I’d point out that in 2000 anti-Hillaryism peaked shortly before the primary election in New York State, and what happened to Rick Lazio when he tried to ride that to victory in the general election. But I’m not sure anyone in the grips of it really cares.

McCain missed a great opportunity to show some class and set the bar higher.

I know McCain shoots off his mouth at times, but I still found it unbecoming of him (and mind you, I don’t like Sen. Clinton!!).
Then again, Bush 41′s “I kicked some @$$” comment about Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 were unbecoming of him, too.

Let’s switch genders…should someone have asked Hillary, “How are we going to beat that d**k?”, you’d be up in arms, Donny, would you not? In fact, you’d be up in arms if that question were asked of anyone. Why is b**ch acceptable?