No excuse for this, McCain

Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to apologize yesterday for his use of a racial slur to condemn the North Vietnamese prison guards who tortured and held him captive during the war.

"I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL

I am married to an Asian American. And this is the character of one of our national leaders. Can we, for once, have a representative of our country that isn't a complete idiot? As a friend said, maybe we should all wear rice patty hats to his next rally.