Mental Health Issues Raised
By a Baptist minister who apparently has some. Wackjob Obama/Biden supporter asks McCain about a spat with his wife. Des Moines Register:
A Clive man drew gasps from fellow audience members at today’s presidential candidate forum by using a four-letter word in a question to Sen. John McCain.
A member of the audience, identified as Marty Parrish of Clive, asked McCain during the event at the Polk County Convention Complex about a rumor that McCain had once used a profane word referencing female genitalia to describe his wife.
A book, “The Real McCain” by Cliff Schecter, accuses McCain of using the word in an exchange with his wife, Cindy, in 1992.
Here’s a transcript of today’s remarks:
PARRISH: This question goes to mental health and mental health care. Previously, I’ve been married to a woman that was verbally abusive to me. Is it true that you called your wife a (expletive)?
MCCAIN: Now, now. You don’t want to … Um, you know that’s the great thing about town hall meetings, sir, but we really don’t, there’s people here who don’t respect that kind of language. So I’ll move on to the next questioner in the back.
The audience gasped at the question and applauded at McCain’s handling of it. Parrish was escorted from the event and questioned by Secret Service, but not charged. Parrish had checked in to the event as a member of the press.
Parrish, a 45-year-old Baptist minister and technology business owner, said he attended the event specifically to confront McCain about the rumor.
“This is about character,” Parrish said, when reached by telephone afterward. “And in a moment of intemperance, he called his wife the most despicable name a person can call a woman.
Looking objectively at his gripe, in America “cunt” is about the worst thing you can call a woman, and to call your wife that at all, let alone within earshot of others, is pretty horrible. If in fact he did. The Brits, meanwhile, toss the C-word around at least as casually as we use the words “bitch” or “bastard.”
Looking at this foray into marital discord subjectively, well, my wife and I have done a relatively good job of sticking to our vow never to swear at each other. We consider it poisonous, but it isn’t an easy deal to keep in all the stupid and serious arguments you run into over years of marriage. I understand some couples don’t have that kind of deal. That’s their business. If this Obama/Biden supporter wants to convince America that McCain is too unbalanced to have his finger on the button, he’s going to need to come up with something better than a spat with the better half.*
On the other hand, if that is going to be the standard, I think we’ll need full disclosure on every disrespect each of the respective candidates have shown their spouses. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to Hillary’s. Obama’s will probably be somewhat milder: “No no no. I say GOD DAMN the woman I married … ”
No big McCain fan Michelle, she’s calling it dumb, cruel and useless.
Gateway: Stay classy, Dems!
Allah at Hotair wants to know why Huffpo left out the bit about Parrish calling himself a HuffPo contributor. Good question, made better by the fact that HuffPo doesn’t deny it even though a site search only turns up the post about this C-thing. Does that mean it was his debut Huffington run went awkwardly wrong?
* Pity them, they’re fighting an uphill battle. Anyway, I’m thinking I like my presidential candidates a little cranky.
Topics: McCain, husbands and wives, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:03 am on Friday, May 2, 2008
5 Responses to “Mental Health Issues Raised”
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May 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
It’s a “God Damn America” good thing, that the classy… “Obama supporter” didn’t ask YOU that question…and toss me in there, as well…that question.
Coma Time…would have resulted.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
I would think that “communist” would/should be the worst think you could call a woman in America, but I suppose it is not specific to sex.
http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/05/01/the-red-plague
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
The worst thing you can say to a woman is: “You are just like your mother”.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
“This is about character,” Parrish said, when reached by telephone afterward. “And in a moment of intemperance, he called his wife the most despicable name a person can call a woman.
And this fine Baptist minister had no problem repeating the word in front of a townhall meeting. Character indeed.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
See. See. The unsubstantiated rumor of calling your wife a nasty name 16 years ago is the same as consorting with and befriending unrepentant anarchist bombers and “ministers” who trash talk the country that made them millionaires.
The Soviet Union may have had gulags the worked millions to death but the US made their blackfellas eat at different lunch counters. .
The takeaway: all moral distinctions are illusory.