Bholanath
Jedi
This is not particularly earth-shattering news or major revelation to SOTT readers, but just a personal story of A Week With John McCain.
I just got this in an e-mail this morning from a friend of 30 years. She received it from a personal friend, so I don't think it's made-up. The original sender says he/she wants to put it out in public domain, so......
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Subject: Know the next american President -- Holday with McCain
A kind, firm and confident hand in the White House -
The Bully in Fiji
My Holiday with McCain By ANASUYA DUBEY
It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential
nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island
in Fiji with John
McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted
Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close
quarters with John McCain for almost a week since Turtle Island has a
small number of
bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who
are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a
pile of William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out
of them. As an
English Literature major myself, my first thought was "if he likes
this so much, why hasn't he memorized any of this yet?" I soon
realized that McCain
actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience
for his "readings" which then became a regular part of each meal. Out
of politeness,
none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into
their blissful holiday, but people's buttons definitely got pushed as
the readings continued day
after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime
entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chinese
women had the best
figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn't meet up to
this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop
Cindy from having
dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the
25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she
should eat
less as she needed to lose weight.
McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that
David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other
side of the table
from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.
Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego, and his rude
behavior towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have
some redeeming qualities
as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh . I asked him
about this one day and his response was shocking -"Oh, that was
Cindy's idea - I didn't
have anything to do with it. She just went and adopted this thing
without even asking me. You can't imagine how people stare when I
wheel this ugly, black
thing around in a shopping cart in Arizona . No, it wasn't my idea at all."
I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he
engaged me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of
the active :country-regionUS bombing
of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he said "if I was incharge, I
would nuke :country-regionIraq to teach them a lesson". Given McCain's
personal experience with the
horrors of war I had expected a more balanced point of view. I
commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear attacks on Japan
during WWII - but no,
he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that if it was up to him
he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on Japan . I rapidly
extricated myself
from this conversation as I could tell that his experience being
tortured as a POW didn't seem to have mellowed out his perspective but
rather had made him
more aggressive, and vengeful towards the world.
My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was leaving
:placeTurtle Island . Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when
McCain arrived and told
Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she needed to lose
weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I felt fiercely
protective of Amy
and immediately turned to McCain and told him to leave her alone. He
became very angry and abusive towards me, and said "don't you know who
I am" and I
looked him in the face and said "yes, you are the biggest asshole I
have ever met" and headed back to my cabin. I am happy to say that
later that day when I
arrived at lunch I was given a standing ovation by all the guests for
having stood up to McCain's bullying.
Although I have shared my McCain story informally with friends, this
is the first time I am making this public. I almost did so in 2000,
when McCain first
announced his bid for the Republican nomination but it soon became
apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I did not
act then.
However, now that there is a very real possibility that McCain could
be elected as our next president, I feel it is my duty as an American
citizen to share
this story. I can't imagine a more scary outcome for America than that
this abusive, aggressive man should lead our nation. I have observed
him in intimate
surroundings as he really is, not how the media portrays him to be. If
his attitudes toward women, and his treatment of his own family are
even a small indicator
of his real personality, then I shudder to think what will happen to
:country-regionAmerica were he to be elected as our President.
Anasuya Dubey is a clinical psychologist in California .
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Were we on the receiving end of our government’s foreign policies, we would have a very different perception of them. But like wrapped meat in the grocery store, we do not see the pain and the blood—or the suffering. So for many people it is not real; it is not happening…but it is. - Charles Sullivan
I just got this in an e-mail this morning from a friend of 30 years. She received it from a personal friend, so I don't think it's made-up. The original sender says he/she wants to put it out in public domain, so......
______________________________________________________________________________.
Subject: Know the next american President -- Holday with McCain
A kind, firm and confident hand in the White House -
The Bully in Fiji
My Holiday with McCain By ANASUYA DUBEY
It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential
nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island
in Fiji with John
McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted
Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close
quarters with John McCain for almost a week since Turtle Island has a
small number of
bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who
are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a
pile of William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out
of them. As an
English Literature major myself, my first thought was "if he likes
this so much, why hasn't he memorized any of this yet?" I soon
realized that McCain
actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience
for his "readings" which then became a regular part of each meal. Out
of politeness,
none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into
their blissful holiday, but people's buttons definitely got pushed as
the readings continued day
after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime
entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chinese
women had the best
figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn't meet up to
this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop
Cindy from having
dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the
25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she
should eat
less as she needed to lose weight.
McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that
David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other
side of the table
from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.
Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego, and his rude
behavior towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have
some redeeming qualities
as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh . I asked him
about this one day and his response was shocking -"Oh, that was
Cindy's idea - I didn't
have anything to do with it. She just went and adopted this thing
without even asking me. You can't imagine how people stare when I
wheel this ugly, black
thing around in a shopping cart in Arizona . No, it wasn't my idea at all."
I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he
engaged me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of
the active :country-regionUS bombing
of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he said "if I was incharge, I
would nuke :country-regionIraq to teach them a lesson". Given McCain's
personal experience with the
horrors of war I had expected a more balanced point of view. I
commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear attacks on Japan
during WWII - but no,
he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that if it was up to him
he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on Japan . I rapidly
extricated myself
from this conversation as I could tell that his experience being
tortured as a POW didn't seem to have mellowed out his perspective but
rather had made him
more aggressive, and vengeful towards the world.
My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was leaving
:placeTurtle Island . Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when
McCain arrived and told
Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she needed to lose
weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I felt fiercely
protective of Amy
and immediately turned to McCain and told him to leave her alone. He
became very angry and abusive towards me, and said "don't you know who
I am" and I
looked him in the face and said "yes, you are the biggest asshole I
have ever met" and headed back to my cabin. I am happy to say that
later that day when I
arrived at lunch I was given a standing ovation by all the guests for
having stood up to McCain's bullying.
Although I have shared my McCain story informally with friends, this
is the first time I am making this public. I almost did so in 2000,
when McCain first
announced his bid for the Republican nomination but it soon became
apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I did not
act then.
However, now that there is a very real possibility that McCain could
be elected as our next president, I feel it is my duty as an American
citizen to share
this story. I can't imagine a more scary outcome for America than that
this abusive, aggressive man should lead our nation. I have observed
him in intimate
surroundings as he really is, not how the media portrays him to be. If
his attitudes toward women, and his treatment of his own family are
even a small indicator
of his real personality, then I shudder to think what will happen to
:country-regionAmerica were he to be elected as our President.
Anasuya Dubey is a clinical psychologist in California .
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Were we on the receiving end of our government’s foreign policies, we would have a very different perception of them. But like wrapped meat in the grocery store, we do not see the pain and the blood—or the suffering. So for many people it is not real; it is not happening…but it is. - Charles Sullivan
