The Automatik

Last week one of my online friends pointed out some disturbing comments on a blog that may or may not have been made by Jack McCain, son of Republican senator John McCain. I did several Google searches but couldn’t find anything online.

So I sent the link to one of the political blogs which I read every day in the hopes that they could investigate it, but they never replied.

Today, I did some more of my own research into this. I sent the information to another political blog, but have yet to hear back from them or see the item posted on their website.

I’m rather unsettled by the idea that Jack McCain may have made these posts and no one in the mainstream media or the political blogosphere has mentioned it, and frankly, I’m tired of waiting to find out the bottom line on this issue.

Perhaps someone out there can confirm whether or not the “Jack McCain” who made these horrific, racist comments is in fact, John McCain’s son.

Here’s the story. Please note that there are offensive and graphic racial slurs below, which I am quoting directly from the postings.

One of my online friends found this blog by a guy named Jimmy O’Connor after doing a Google search on John McCain’s family.

The May 14 2004 entry has a quote from someone named “Jack McCain” at the beginning of the entry which says, “allah akbar my f***in c**k.” )

Additionally, a comment on that post by “Anonymous” but also signed “Jack McCain” says, among other things, “kill all towel heads, camel jockeys, sand n***ers, and dune coons.”

My friend also pointed out the link to the January 19 2005 post called “My last post” with several photos of Jimmy O’Connor and his friends.

The one that mentions Jack McCain (and he appears to be in several of these photos) says, “Jack McCain- F***ing Drinking in Sedona, smoking cigars, strip bars, chasing a**, and making fun of your small asians cars. good luck at Annapolis.”

A Google search of “John McCain + Sedona” yielded a link which states that John and Cindy McCain have a cabin in Sedona, Arizona:.

Another interview/article I found on Jack McCain indicates that he started at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in July 2005, which would support O’Connor’s statement of “Good luck at Annapolis.”

I’ve been comparing the photos of Jack on O’Connor’s blog, the Navy Scout site, and another site and they appear to be the same person, though again, I cannot be 100% sure because they were taken several years apart.

If these racist comments did indeed come from John McCain’s son, I think someone needs to ask Senator McCain about them.

IF these comments were made by the senator’s son, it can be argued that they don’t prove the senator himself is a racist because John McCain did not say these things. However, other candidates (like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee) have had troubling questions raised about their own sons during the last few months.

Yes, these comments were from four years ago, but that does not excuse them. In my experience, someone who makes such grotesquely racist comments rarely “grows out of it.”

What really bothers me is the fact that this sort of vile behavior is not congenital; it is learned.

I don’t want to think that the senator or his son have these beliefs. I would like someone to settle this issue once and for all.