My prediction: O will hit McCoon with Keating 5 at the debate. They already tried

[thereismore]

it in the media - no outrage, so I guess the subject is OK. Here's hoping.

[bunnies]

1. McCoon?!

Whats up with that? :shrug: Surely you have a different meaning than the one that automatically comes to mind.

[orestes]

Maybe he meant McCoot

As in Old Coot ;)

[thereismore]

5. Raccoon - a garbage-loving skunk-like animal, good for stews. nt

[colonel odis]

6. um, just thinking out loud here ... but, uh, the word "coon".... seems i've

heard it in another context before. a disparaging one. help me out. wait, it's right on the tip of my tongue. seems like a group of people were called "coons" or something like that. crap. i can't remember exactly what it was. oh well.

[bunnies]

7. I think there are better, less loaded words to use.

From the urban dictionary:
"The black eye masks and noctural habits of the animal paralleled the characteristics of typical robbers and thiefs. The stereotype was then applied to black people."

It makes me cringe.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. That has got to be the dumbest pun yet.

And there has been a lot of competition.

[olkaz]

9. I'd use one of the other hundreds of better options, jesus christ

Come on.

[gateley]

2. I don't think they tried to hit him with K-5 (except for Rachel and the other

good guys), but merely mentioned it in passing.

I hope O brings it up and explains it to the people in ways they (and I) can easily understand. With all I've heard about it, all the references, I'd still like to have it spelled out for me and others.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

3. If he does, Grampy will explode on the spot

no matter how much valium he has taken.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. He will wait until McCain brings up Wright.

Or Ayers. Or Farrakhan. Or Willie Horton. Or O.J. Simpson.

Or whoever the hell it is McCain brings up.

[Bucky]

10. Hmm, don't really like the "McCoon" sobriquet. We don't want our posts colored with misunderstanding

We should be more niggardly with our nicknames against our opponents, you know, just in case someone gets spooked by the unintended double entendres.

[applegrove]

11. It is only foreign policy tonight. Keating 5 was economic or banking.