<p>I wasn’t familiar w/ this news agency, but their website says this:
Trend News Agency is a private international news agency, which was founded in Azerbaijan 1995. Online news issues by Trend News are available in 5 languages, including English, Russian, Azerbaijani, Persian and Arab…</p>
<p>as expected, there’s another perspective on this event: </p>
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The town of Sturgis, South Dakota will witness, on Monday, the rare fusion of drunken debauchery, public stripteasing, motorcycle rallying, a live performance by Kid Rock, and - last but not least - a veterans-themed speech by presidential candidate John McCain. Seriously.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the McCain campaign announced that the Senator will participate in the Sturgis Rally 2008 at Buffalo Chip in South Dakota, an annual tribute to American veterans. The event is up the Arizona Republican’s wheelhouse, attracting thousands of active duty and former servicemen, many who have a natural affinity towards the Senator.
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<p>Wonder how much media coverage there will be - if any - of McCain’s presence at this event.</p>
<p>There is the potential for a huge crowd - some estimates say 5-600,000 people roll into Sturgis for Bike Week.</p>
<p>And btw cronie, the crowd in Germany didn’t just “go to Obama” either - there were two concerts before his speech.</p>
<p>McCain will be appearing at a ceremony that honors military veterans.</p>
<p>** And Bike Week isn’t totally like the picture painted in teriwtt’s quote (from Huffington Post?). I know of several people - very nice people - who have attended & wouldn’t be engaging in unseemly activities, Not all Bikers are “Hell’s Angels”.</p>
<p>^^From your link. McCain making his Buffalo Chip joke is on YouTube, and all over the internet. For those not familiar, the Buffalo Chip contest is a topless event. Real classy, John. I’m sure she felt really proud when hearing the cat-calls from the men in the audience after you made that suggestion.
Very presidential. </p>
<p>I guess this is just good ol’ American humor, and I should lighten up. Yeah, right. We all want our own daughters to take part in that contest, right?</p>
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<p>Take a look at the YouTube clip, although prepare to feel nauseous.</p>
<p>Can you imagine what would happen if Obama suggested that his wife take part in a topless beauty pageant, just for laughs?</p>
<p>He was being funny. What is wrong with a topless event? The people participating are not being forced to participate? They are making the CHOICE to particpate.</p>
<p>I didn’t hear Cindy offer to be in the event. I heard her husband suggest it.</p>
<p>Why, you think our first lady should take part in topless beauty contests, and that presidents should make that suggestion? Really? </p>
<p>Watch the video. Then, watch one of the videos of the past events that are out there, and tell me that this is appropriate for a presidential candidate, even as a joke.</p>
<p>And tell me, can you imagine even George Bush suggesting that Laura do this? She’d slap him silly.</p>
<p>John tries to be funny but has no sense of what’s appropriate. Remember the Chelsea Clinton “joke”? This guy just can’t contain himself.</p>
<p>You’re right. His funny joke was not meant for me. The joke isn’t for women, it’s ON women.
It didn’t bother me too much when I read about it in the news story. But when I saw him online, tell the joke, with Cindy standing there taking the catcalls and him laughing at his own joke, it made me ill.
I guess I’m just a bit sensitive about sexist jokes from someone who is supposed to represent all of us, not just the male half.</p>
<p>I also will say that my own husband would no more make joke like this than fly. He’d find it disrespectful toward me and crude. Even if I “agreed” he wouldn’t want to look like the ass he would be if he said it. I would bet that most of the husbands on CC would never put their wives in the spotlight like that where their sexuality was “up for grabs” even in a joke.
Crude, insensitive, tasteless, crass -but then McCain is out of touch and meant no harm, so we should give him a pass. Right.</p>
<p>Did you follow the primaries? Where Obama said Hillary paws (I am paraphrasing here) comes out when she is down, or is it only sexist when it is said by a Republican?</p>
<p>The Hiltons? I thought they very happy when their daughter appeared in a sex movie? Because of that movie they are famous now, and they seem to be enjoying that fame. I take what they say with a grain of salt. </p>
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<p>Can we also check into Michelle Obam’s background? She looks like a far radical version of Angela Davis (without the professor part).</p>
<p>[I like Angela Davis a lot, I just don’t like some of her views]</p>
<p>mallon- We don’t know that Cindy even knew John was going to make the suggestion that his wife should participate in the “beauty contest.” That was just MCain being his funny old self, at her expense. No biggie.</p>
<p>If he said this about an employee, or someone who wasn’t his wife, it would be considered sexual harrassment. No biggie, it’s just his wife. We women need to lighten up.</p>
<p>…at least he believes she would win.
Bravo! Bravo!</p>
<p>Tasteless, perhaps…but still with the kick inside …and that suits me fine.</p>
<p>Fwiw, my wife is prettier and more interesting than either spectacular spouse and possessed of a disarmingly charming and liberal view of her husbands flops and foibles --she rises above me. </p>
<p>Seems Cindy McCain is similarly tolerant of John. I respect that.</p>