Senator John McCain of Arizona accidentally referred to Hillary Clinton as “President” today in an interview. He immediately realized his mistake and quickly took it back.
But was it really a mistake or was the senior senator from Arizona practicing for inevitable in 2016.
McCain was responding on CBS’ Face the Nation to a compliment from Clinton calling him her ‘favorite Republican.’
He uncomfortably laughed it off before mistakenly elevating her to the job she’s expected to campaign for in 2016.
‘I hope this part of the program is blacked out in Arizona – please cut,’ he joked as he made a slashing gesture over his neck. ‘I respect Secretary, Senator Clinton. I respect her views. We have had disagreements on a number of issues.’
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He then acknowledged Clinton’s frontrunner status in a rather unorthodox way.
‘I think it’s my job to work with every president,’ McCain said, before quickly adding while comically contorting his face with mock fear, ‘If she is – regrettably – if she attains the presidency.’
Personally, I think it was all done to promote her new book. A regular interview gets no publicity. But storming off set gets everyone, including me, talking about you.
In this interview with Joan Rivers on CNN, the comedian was a little too serious and she tried to defend herself against… nothing.
It baffles my mind to see the extent at which these people go to prove that racism still exists, in spite of the laughable recent Supreme Court decision that said racism was dead.
In Norfolk Nebraska, the patriotism was strong as residents celebrated the 4th of July festivities. Onlookers lined the parade route as different floats went by. Then there were loud laughter and applause as a specific float made its way along route.
Perched on a flatbed truck was an outhouse with a dark figurine of president Obama dressed in overalls and propped up by a metal walker. And nailed to the sides of the wooden latrine were two signs, in all cap letters that read, “OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.”
“We don’t feel it’s right to tell someone what they can and can’t express,” said parade committee member Rick Konopasek. “This was political satire. If we start saying no to certain floats we might as well not have a parade at all.”
Konopasek cited the fact that the float received loud applause from the onlookers as the reason why it wasn’t racist or offensive, saying “its obvious the majority of the community liked it. So should we deny the 95 percent of those that liked it their rights, just for the 5% of people who are upset?”
Rick also said that the community is predominantly conservative. And he admitted that it would have gone against free speech and the 4th of July independence celebration, to deny the float’s entry into the parade. With that said, sexually explicit floats will not get the same freedom of expression rights Rick awarded the Obama hating float. According to the parade organizers, sexually based floats were denied participation in the parade.
It is abhorrent and absolutely disgraceful that in 2014 racial prejudice and intolerance still exist and is so outwardly expressed.
There is no consideration given to the marred history of this country. A history based in slavery, lynchings, and some of the most vile acts committed against any group of people. And it is even worse that this intolerance is the ideology adopted by the Republican party.
The family of a woman who was caught on camera being pummeled by a California Highway Patrol trooper on the side of a highway have spoken out for the first time since the incident, demanding justice for the victim.
‘He punched and pound and pound on her, the only thing she could do was block her face,’ Mayisha Adams, the unnamed victim’s daughter, said Saturday.
The woman had been walking barefoot on eastbound Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday before the officer tackled her to the ground.
Struggle: A motorist filmed while the officer climbed on top of the woman and proceeded to punch her
Restrained: A California Highway Patrol officer straddles the woman while punching her in the head
A passing driver videotaped the incident showing the CHP trooper pinning down the woman and repeatedly punching her in the face.
The victim’s family have hired Los Angeles attorney Caree Harper to represent them in the case against the California Highway Patrol.
Harper said her clients want the authorities held accountable for ‘beating a great-grandmother in broad daylight.’
The lawyer declined to disclose the woman’s name or answer questions about what she was doing along the edge of one of the city’s busiest freeways.
‘We want the focus to be what he was doing to her, not what she was doing’ prior to the confrontation, said Harper, who said she is representing the family. ‘She was getting beat like an animal. No one should ever be beat like that.’
The California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation – but authorities claimed the trooper in question simply stopped her for her own protection.
CHP Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn said at a news conference that the woman was endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was forced to restrain her.
O’Quinn added that the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.
The officer involved has not been identified and has been put on paid administrative leave while the investigation is carried out.
Press conference: CHP Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn, pictured said the woman had been walking on the highway endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her
Republicans – the party of “morals and family values,” and apparently hypocrites.
The Bill Cassidy Senate campaign announced Thursday that the candidate’s unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant as she prepares for her senior year at a Baton Rouge high school.
Cassidy, a Republican congressman from Baton Rouge, said in a statement provided NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune that his daughter faces “a more challenging future” and that she has his and his wife Laura’s unconditional support. The baby is expected later this summer.
Much like Sarah Palin, who announced that her own unmarried 17-year-old daughter was expecting just before she addressed the Republican National Convention as John McCain’s surprise 2008 vice presidential selection, the Cassidy campaign chose to pre-emptively disclose the information about their daughter’s pregnancy.
The Cassidy campaign provided this statement:
“Earlier this year, Laura and I learned we will become grandparents this summer. Our children have been the greatest blessing of our lives and we welcome our grandchild as a joyous addition to our family. Our daughter now faces a more challenging future than her peers. She has our unconditional love and support.”
Columbus Short can’t catch a break it seems, mainly because Columbus Short doesn’t know how to act. And I’m not talking about his acting on television, I’m talking about acting in real life.
Short managed to get himself arrested over the weekend because he went to a bar Friday in Dallas, Texas, to celebrate 4th of July. But instead of paying for his drinks like everyone else, Short tried to leave the bar without paying his bill.
He was of course met by security and he played the race card, accusing them of confronting him because he was black.
Undercover cops tried ending the fight between security and Short, just to have the drunk former Scandal actor turn on them. Witnesses to the confrontation told TMZ that short was “like a dog with a bone who wouldn’t let go.”
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