How could a man like this be president in 2008?

Special Note: This list is a work in progress that will be continuously added to.

I don’t know how familiar you are with the situations I’ve included in this post but if you’re not- I’d advise you to become familiarized with them. Only because, if you feel the way I do, someone who exhibits the following qualities is not someone who should be considered for the position of President of the United States in the 21^st Century. It’s troubling-unless, of course, you approve of racism, sexism, and the willingness to constantly make bad jokes to be inherent in the leader of your country. The character of a man who would get himself into the following situations is not a good one. Do you want a man of bad character as your President?

10 Reasons (so far) why it’s scary that McCain is being seriously considered for America’s Presidency in the 21^st Century:

1. He jokes about Bombing Iran.
Is it funny, really, to joke around about bombing another country?

2. When McCain is given the chance to explain, he defends his horrific joke by telling those who didn’t approve of it to "get a life".

3. He insulted an entire continent of people by using the word “Gook”.
McCain said in 2000: "I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live".
The exact etymology of the world “Gook” is unknown, but in general it is a racial slur referring to Asians. Now, we can all sympathize with him for having been a Vietnam POW but couldn't he just say he hates his captors and will for as long as he lives rather than using a racial slur to insult a whole race, or rather, continent, of people?

4. McCain doesn’t acknowledge when his close followers or supporters say racist things.
"This racial insensitivity suggests that there is something disturbing is going on here... if there was no specific conscious intent to do harm that means this grows out of a pattern of habit- that it's just a natural reflex- and that one interchangeable, African American, multi-racial person is as good as the other- or they're indistinguishable - and I think at that level it's pretty problematic."

5. McCain exhibits a sexist (and disgusting) sense of humor by joking around about women enjoying being raped.

6. McCain exhibits a sexist (and mean) sense of humor by making fun of Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno:
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000930.htm andhttp://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

7. McCain doesn’t seem to have the values he says he does:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

8. McCain the “Maverick” sells out on points that should be important to him in order to gain footing with the Republican Party. I.E. Voting for torture even though he was.

9. McCain’s political campaign ads say a lot about him. Whether or not it be him accusing Obama of wanting to give kindergartners sex education or comparing him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. “It's so easy to see the ad for what it is and read "black man, promiscuous young white women, wink wink."- Sherman Yellen
Through these ads we can see McCain's desperate attempts to slander Obama’s image with the American people.

10. People who have seen this article argue it’s not the most credible news source, including me, but after reading the above aren’t the things in this article hard not to believe?