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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:56 PM
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All these 'McCain called his wife a cunt' threads are getting kind of lame.
You're dredging up something he said SIXTEEN YEARS AGO! And while I agree it was certainly an awful thing for him to say, I'd also like to think there are things much more recent and which reflect a little bit more on his policy positions and how he would govern. I think GD:P is better off with no more than one cunt thread.
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:58 PM
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1. Your last sentence could be my next sig line. Except I hate that word.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:59 PM
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2. "I think GD:P is better off with no more than one cunt thread."
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 02:01 PM by Occam Bandage
"What is something I never thought I'd have to read, much less agree with?"

Correct!

Potent Primaries for $400, please, Alex.
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:00 PM
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3. My husband has never, ever called me or anyone else that word
That is the height of vulgarity. That word does not just roll off the toungue. It's like the n - word.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:06 PM
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6. In this country... but this country is not the world.
In most other English-speaking countries, people have stopped giving the word all that power.
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:17 PM
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10. I work with an English guy
Maybe best described as a yobbo, though I'm not sure he meets the full description, and it seems like almost every other sentence out of his mouth contains the phrase 'fucking cunt.' And he applies it to a wide range of people; much more often it seems to men rather than women.
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Mooney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:00 PM
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17. That one word is the classic example
of the United States and England being two countries separated by a common language.

The English use it all the time as a minor put-down with no significance with regard to gender. In the US, it's absolutely gender-specific, and a lot of people think it's one of the worst words you can possibly say. It's a word that's reserved for special occasions, like the last sentence in a the last argument you will ever have with a person.
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:16 PM
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21. I'll also add that he uses fuck by itself quite a bit too
And I've noticed this more so among a number of English. The word fuck seems to roll off their tongues quite frequently and with great ease.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:37 PM
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13. Yes, it really doesn't roll of the tongue all that well.
It's the kind of word that's meant to be spat out with force, like the worst rot-gut whiskey you've ever had. It's not a word that should be used willy-nilly until it becomes utterly meaningless and loses its power to shock. For that reason, it should be reserved for very isolated situations when absolutely no other word will do, and then used only judiciously. And those situations do exist.

McCain's probably wasn't one of those situations, unless the missus had purposely dropped a two-hundred-pound anvil on his foot and smashed all the bones. But I don't recall having seen his foot in a cast, and he seems to be walking around without any problem.
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:42 PM
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14. You made me laugh out loud - like a Miss Manner's response
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 02:44 PM by powergirl
to a delicate etiquette dilemma. You could write a book about appropriate word usage. I dare say, if an anvil was, in fact, dropped on the good senator's foot, I'd cut him some slack. But there are so many other words that he could have used when bitching out his wife.

:rofl: :toast:
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:00 PM
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4. To me its just as bad he did not defend her in 2000
when the bush campaign basically slandered her during the South Carolina primary.

I sort of lost all respect for him when he didn't have the spine to stand up for his wife and family.

It got worse when I saw this:
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:56 AM
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31. The memory of that photo makes his bizarre insult to his wife
Edited on Tue Apr-08-08 12:04 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
seem all the more ironical, doesn't it?
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:04 PM
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5. You kinda have a point, but .... IBTL.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:08 PM
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7. IBtl
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:10 PM
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8. His calling asian people "gooks" is more recent, isn't it?
I think it is.
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goddess40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:11 PM
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9. I didn't know he was once married to Barbara Bush nt
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angie_love Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:20 PM
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11. whats with all these defending mccain threads? thats the real insult.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:24 PM
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12. Name Calling Acceptable - Free Speech
Big fucking whores, cunts - yeehaw....
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:53 PM
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15. Yeah, but there's a HUGE difference between
say, Rush calling Chelsea a dog and someone publically calling their spouse a dog.

What Randi said was really rude, but what McCain said about his WIFE? Damn...
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 06:53 AM
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29. Sad. n/t
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:57 PM
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16. Not until "he called his wife a cunt" is being discussed on GMA
then it will be lame.
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travelingtypist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 03:53 AM
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23. This.
I want to hear this on GMA. I want to hear the ladies on The View give this
a twirl, and the Today Show too.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:05 PM
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18. What I Find Amusing Is That They're All Being Started By Obama Supporters - Who Knew?
They would care so much about women being denigrated with sexist terms and gender-based attacks?
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nomaco-10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:10 PM
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19. She is a CUNT......
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 03:13 PM by nomaco-10
MacAnanny ditched his first wife and climbed the ladder to political notoriety on the back of his vapid, vacant plastered, retro hair do'd wife from the 70's, with the help of her misguided, family to advance her status and theirs, not his!!!! They are all a bunch of FAUX, wannabe neocons. He fit in just fine.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:06 PM
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35. that is FOUL, and Cindy McCain has done a lot of good with her wealth
you can educate yourself. because she married a prick, doesn't make her a bad person, and only the lowest of the low merit that swlur.

In 1988, Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT), a non-profit organization that organized trips for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to provide MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas such as Micronesia, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh and El Salvador.<4><11><20><21><22> She led 55 of these missions over the next seven years,<10> with each being of at least two weeks' duration.<22> AVMT also supplied treatment to poor sick children around the world.<23>

While at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1991 — as part of AVMT's assistance team following the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone<20> — she met two infant girls she decided needed to be brought to the United States for medical treatment.<5> She decided to adopt one of the girls (her husband readily agreeing), later named Bridget<4> (who became the McCains' fourth child together), and helped coordinate the adoption of the other little girl, named Mickey, for Wes Gullett, a family friend.<4> In 1993, Cindy McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry.

<snip>

In 2000, she became chair of the now $300-million-a-year Hensley & Co.<29> following her father's death.<26> There her role took the form of frequent consultations with the company CEO on major initiatives such as new products, new plants, or employee welfare, rather than of an active physical presence.<30><31> She became actively involved with Operation Smile in 2001,<32> taking parts in trips with it to Morocco, Vietnam, and India.<32> She was honored by the organization in 2005,<32> and sits on its board of directors.<11> She joined the board of directors of CARE in 2005.<11> She is on the board of the HALO Trust,<11> and has visited operations to remove landmines in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, and Angola.<10> She views her role on in these organizations as watching them in the field and to ensure they are frugal and their money is being spent effectively
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:11 PM
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20. LEAVE JOHN MCCAIN ALONE11!!!1!1!!
this is stupid. Once the infighting over Obama vs Clinton is officially over we will settle down to yelling at each other over the propriety of various attacks against the republican candidate, intermixed with expressions of deep concern over the latest idiotic attack from the echo chamber of the bullshit media system against our candidate.

Here is what we should use against McCain: absolutely everything there is.
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thoughtcrime1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 04:03 PM
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22. Although you are right, sadly something like this "c-word gate"
is more important to more people than the issues seem to be. Not to most DU'ers, but many of the average voters. McCain will be coddled by the media, we better hope Obama has never said something like this in public, though.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:29 PM
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38. I think the whole "Obama vs Hillary" thing points out the fact that issues are important
but judgement and temperament are also important.

Someone could have the progressive policies of Kucinich or Wellstone or Boxer... but someone who says something like that to their spouse in public does NOT have the temperament to pick up the phone at 3 AM.

If W called Pickles something like that, or Bill called Hillary something like that, would you not be OUTRAGED?
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 05:41 AM
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24. If McCain were the Democratic candidate, this is all you'd hear about.
Edited on Tue Apr-08-08 05:42 AM by Perry Logan
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 05:48 AM
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25. This is the first thread I've seen on this topic.
I routinely put on ignore anyone who uses such language in their subject line. I consider using such language in the thread topic line (or one's subject line) to be unnecessary.

McCain is crazy and dangerous. Do we really the C word to make that point? It's offensive to many women, just as the N word is inherently offensive to many blacks. Why use it at all?

John McCain is a philandering old fool who can't even keep his campaign lines straight. If we need to allude to the C word, why do it with the word in your title?
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Cruzan Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 06:25 AM
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27. There were at least three cunt threads on the first page of GD:P
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5416164
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5417349
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5415556

and I didn't bother nor want to look for more.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 06:50 AM
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28. You don't have to keep repeating the word
Gives the impression you enjoy using it.
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 05:55 AM
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26. Cunt? All this c*** business I thought he called her a CUTIE, that would be awful
Edited on Tue Apr-08-08 05:56 AM by TheDonkey
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:03 AM
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30. The point is, McCain has a really bad temper and if anyone can
get it on tape, it will not be a good thing. No one wants a lunatic sitting next to the nuke button.
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kwenu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:58 AM
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32. Sympathy for McCain? Are you a Hillary supporter? Or do you talk to your own wife like that?
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:01 PM
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33. your OP illustrates why Dems tend to lose elections
because our opponents use EVERY opportunity, every angle, no matter how low to destroy and conquer, while Dems expect decency to win the day. NOT.

The more this is used, seen and gets around, the BETTER.

Trust me, the McCain forces will revive the Wright controversy and conflate it to be the most significant event in the history of man.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:02 PM
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34. Try exercising some restraint in a thread TITLE. DU doesn't need to be in the verbal gutter.
Edited on Tue Apr-08-08 12:03 PM by WinkyDink
Sorry if THAT offends YOU.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:07 PM
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36. thank you.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:11 PM
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37. Well. If ya really think that, why start another one??
duMP list must be slow today.
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knixphan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:31 PM
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39. sixteen years ago...
but he was still 99 years old. He's accountable.

But really, he was 47 when he voted down the MLK thing.

47, and he didn't get it.
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