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John McCain, staying classy

Really classy.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain took one look at a nursing school’s training mannequin and asked if the dummy’s name was Hillary.

Campaigning Thursday at the University of South Carolina Upstate nursing school, McCain couldn’t resist a swipe at Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“I was very glad to meet the dummy, named ‘Hillary,'” McCain said to laughter after a tour of the school. “Is that the name?”

It wasn’t. The dummy, or human simulator, doesn’t have a name.

I realize that there’s that whole “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican” rule, but what with it being primary season, and what with your campaign sucking like a big sucky thing, shouldn’t you be taking swipes at the Republican frontrunner, albeit in a less obviously hateful way?


9 thoughts on John McCain, staying classy

  1. shouldn’t you be taking swipes at the Republican frontrunner

    Nope. The sole metric of the republican party is how much insane hatred they can gin up against Clinton.

  2. …a less obviously hateful way?

    It’s not clear to me from the story what’s so hateful about asking if the dummy is named Hillary. I mean, it’s not very classy, but still–hardly very nasty as far as political insults go. Isn’t he just saying she’s kind of inexpressive and dull?

  3. I’d say that he’s saying she’s simply a body with breasts. Mindless and inanimate, like a mannequin.

    You could maybe unpack it further to the idea that all that matters about a woman is her body, or that a woman is not a human being with thoughts, ideas, dreams and a soul, she’s a pair of boobs. Shades of how RealDoll owners can have a block of body-shaped silicone and it completely replaces an entire woman for them.

    I doubt McCain parsed all that in his head as he said it. The idea of woman = body = subhuman is very deeply embedded in society.

  4. This is the same guy who told jokes about her daughter an ugly teenager. At least now he’s picking on someone relatively his own size.

    Gross, gross, gross.

  5. wait, i thought it was Limbaugh who did the Chelsea jokes? eh, whatever.

    and really, i don’t think Geritol Pillsbury Doughboy has much to say about anyone else’s looks. much less anything else, that spineless pillock.

  6. and yeah, uhm, whatever else one might say about Hillary, “dumb” would be, well, dumb. dumb she’s not.

    why is he even still around, anyway, McCain? i thought he was semiofficially voted off the island already?

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