Posted: Sep 03, 2015 8:02 pm
CdesignProponentsist wrote:Forty Two wrote:John McCain's answer to the crackpot was intended by McCain to say that no, indeed, Obama is not an Arab.
What makes me laugh about that is that if you listen to the lady's statement "He's an Arab" and then take McCain's statement literally, "no no...he's a decent, intelligent, family man ...." (or words to that effect), then by implication McCain is saying that Arabs are not decent, intelligent, family men.... lol
Yeah, I never thought that McCain's answer was implying anything about Arabs and was well intentioned. I did agree at the time, that the criticism of his response was unfair and misguided.
However, he probably should have said something in defense of Arab people as well, but that probably wouldn't have been politically wise given the republican voter base, which is what the video is really highlighting.
If you watch the longer video with the first question and response (where he gets booed) the first question isn't about being an Arab and he provides the same answer. His repeating that answer almost verbatim sounds like it was a general canned response to questions about Obama "being scary" and he probably didn't even consider the Arab component of it.