Flashback: That famous 2008 moment when McCain shuts down a woman calling Obama “an Arab” and insists, “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man.” It’s endlessly praised as peak civility and proof that discourse has collapsed since… …but wait. The implication that “Arab” = automatic disqualifier is the actual... problem here, right?show more

Libtards love Republicans who lose. 😭😭😭

Spoiler: neither Obama nor McCain were decent men.

What a cuck

In that idiotic woman’s mind Arab means terrorist and McCain knows that

No. He saw her going down a rabbit hole and cut her off. “Arab” in this instance was her (unusual but obvious) way of referencing the wild rumors about Obama.

It's totally reasonable to cut someone off who's spreading lies about another person and respond with "no, he's a decent family man." The woman was saying she can't trust him because he's an Arab, which is what McCain was saying no to.

Arabs can't be decent family men? Preposterous take.

Then he lost massively.

This is why he lost

Weak pathetic loser praised the enemy and lost to him….good job

@BlakeDesselle The problem is they used “Arab” as a perjorative term. McCain rightly corrected her as to who President Obama as. It was a time where there was still some civility in politics which was positive.

Obviously that woman was setup by McCains people so he could do the decency thing, but I think interpreting what he meant to be that Arabs aren’t decent people is stupid

No. The problem is John was retarded.

McCain lost because he didn't care all that much about winning. This is an example of that. Obama never corrected his allies who called McCain a mean old white man or his allies who said white people are the source of all problems in the world.

Then he got crushed

I miss Republicans with morals.

Ol McCain stuck with the high road and got caught referring to a subversive as a family man. If only we knew then that Obama would be domestically deploying the intel agencies to attack his enemies. Trump was right, again, the gloves came off and only too few conservatives had the spine to stand up to it.

"arab"

All three are awful

No ma'am, he's not lying about his identity. He's a decent family man

So he’s racist? He told her Arabs aren’t decent family men … wowowwwwww

Whether the question was planted or not, McCain's answer here highlights that there is a line between rational discourse and stupidity. Remember: It's easy to recognize the hypocrisy/ignorance/stupidity in other people's opinions, not so easy to recognize it in your own opinion.

Obama is a Jew.

One wonders how McCain determined that someone was or was not “a decent family man.” He cheated on both wives.

I think it can be interpreted as her using "Arab" as a shorthand for Muslim extremist.

She was right though

She nailed it

McCain was a fn traitor

I remember the left calling McCain a Nazi, that is how you get a Trump…

Until they become a majority. Then they subdue the moderate Muslim family man and the traditional national values.

no, the arabs have contributed nothing of value in 800 years and nothing ever that couldn’t have been invented in the west

Ok John 🙄

She was right you stupid bastards. And McCain was a traitorous neocon POS.

She was right

@asmartbrunette1 Yeah, that last part always bothered me.