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served with him in the House, and I always thought he was a wuss. What he does seem to have, however, is “a dumb streak.” Here he is staring at the only video camera at that rally, which is being used by his opponent’s “tracker,” Mr. Sidarth. Sidarth is hoping that the Senator will say something inconsistent, or something really stupid. So George looks right into the camera and calls Sidarth a “macaca”.
Now the only two people at that rally who knew what that meant were the Senator and Sidarth. Then he insults Northern Virginia as somehow un-American. Making sure that gets videotaped, too. (As you know, I’m not making this up.) There is a word for this kind of behavior. It is “hubris”, and it is always followed by a fall. And George is taking one. It is what is called a “natural law.”
It took him over a week to apologize. First there was the “Mohawk” defense. That didn’t quite fly, didn’t really get off the ground. But he stuck with that one for awhile. His new defense, launched on Meet The Press, is that he just “made it up.” Think about that for a minute. There are millions of names on this planet, even more words, and perhaps even more new sounds to just “make up.” And the one that springs forth is “macaca”, a . French slur for people of color. And George speaks fluent French. And Sidarth is a Virginian of color. That makes Bill Clinton’s did
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