[Vision2020] McCain: The Bully in Fiji

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

Dr. Gier,
I am surprised that you would post something like this, without researching 
it. I truly thought that you were a man of higher integrity than this.
I spent some time last night checking out the truthfulness of this, and, at 
best, it is sketchy.
The purported author has not stepped forward to claim credit, only people 
who say "My mom's coworker's cousin knows Anasuya" or "I've known Anasuya" 
have tried to add credibility to it. That alone should raise red flags. 
There apparently is an Ansuya Dubey in the Bay Area, but she isn't speaking. 
(Don't bother with an Ana Dubey, she's a teacher in Hawaii and has nothing 
to do with it.)
Various sources on the web have stated that a major newspaper, or magazine 
has interviewed Anasuya and is about to break the story. One states that 
Jane Kramer of The New Yorker is the reporter, but Kramer is the European 
correspondent for the magazine, so that doesn't make sense.
Additionally, there are claims that others who were there are publically 
backing the statements made, but no names were given. Without names, there's 
no way to verify it.
The story has a viral feel to it, it's just plausible enough to be true, but 
it's sketchy enough to be unverifiable at this point. It seems to me if it 
were true, major news organizations would have been all over it by now.
What else I find surprising is that NO ONE else on the viz has posted 
anything to refute or prove the truth of this story. I suspect had a charge 
like this been made against Obama, there would have been dozens of responses 
of outrage.
Either way, if this is untrue, no one deserves a smear like this. If it IS 
true, then people need to know that it is.
So, here's my challenge:
Since there are so many of you in academia here, with contacts at 
institutions on the west coast. How about tracking this woman down? San 
Francisco isn't that far away, surely one of you knows "somebody who knows 
somebody".
So here is what is needed: Proof that Anasuya is who she says she is and was 
in Fiji at the time, travel documents,  a stamp in her passport would be 
golden, along with a way of proving she was at Turtle Island at the same 
time as McCain.
Her phone number,  statement from her saying that she wrote the story, that 
it is true and names of anyone else that was there to verify it.


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From: <nickgier at roadrunner.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:29 PM
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] McCain: The Bully in Fiji

> The Bully in Fiji
>
> My Holiday with McCain  By ANASUYA DUBEY
>
> It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential nomination 
> in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with 
> John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted 
> Bangladeshi child).
>
> It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close 
> quarters with John McCain for almost a week since Turtle Island has a 
> small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all 
> vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other 
> intimately.
>
> He arrived at our first group meal and started reading  quotes from a pile 
> of  William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out of them. 
> As an English Literature major myself, my first thought was "if he likes 
> this so much, why hasn't he memorized any of this yet?" I soon realized 
> that McCain actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer 
> audience for his "readings" which then became a regular part of each meal. 
> Out of politeness, none of the vacationers initially protested at this 
> intrusion into their blissful holiday, but people's buttons definitely got 
> pushed as the readings continued day after day.
>
> Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime 
> entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chinese women 
> had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn't 
> meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should 
> stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few 
> comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from 
> Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight.
>
> McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that David 
> the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other side of the 
> table
> from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.
>
> Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego, and his rude behavior 
> towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have some redeeming 
> qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh . I asked 
> him about this one day and his response was shocking -"Oh, that was 
> Cindy's idea - I didn't have anything to do with it. She just went and 
> adopted this thing without even asking me. You can't imagine how people 
> stare when I wheel this ugly, black thing around in a shopping cart in 
> Arizona . No, it wasn't my idea at all."
>
> I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he engaged 
> me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of the US 
> bombing of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he said "if I was 
> incharge, I would nuke Iraq to teach them a lesson". Given McCain's 
> personal experience with the horrors of war I had expected a more balanced 
> point of view.
>
> I commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear attacks on Japan 
> during WWII - but no, he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that 
> if it was up to him he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on Japan 
> . I rapidly extricated myself from this conversation as I could tell that 
> his experience being tortured as a POW didn't seem to have mellowed out 
> his perspective but rather had made him more aggressive, and vengeful 
> towards the world.
>
> My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was 
> leavingTurtle Island . Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when McCain 
> arrived and told Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she 
> needed to lose weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I 
> felt fiercely protective of Amy and immediately turned to McCain and told 
> him to leave her alone. He became very angry and abusive towards me, and 
> said "don't you know who I am" and I looked him in the face and said "yes, 
> you are the biggest asshole I have ever met" and headed back to my cabin. 
> I am happy to say that later that day when I arrived at lunch I was given 
> a standing ovation by all the guests for having stood up to McCain's 
> bullying.
>
> Although I have shared my McCain story informally with friends, this is 
> the  first time I am making this public. I almost did so in 2000, when 
> McCain first announced his bid for the Republican nomination but it soon 
> became apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I did 
> not act then.
>
> However, now that there is a very real possibility that McCain could be 
> elected as our next president, I feel it is my duty as an American citizen 
> to share this story. I can't imagine a more scary outcome for America than 
> that this abusive, aggressive man should lead our nation. I have observed 
> him in intimate surroundings as he really is, not how the media portrays 
> him to be. If his attitudes toward women, and his treatment of his own 
> family are even a small indicator of his real personality, then I shudder 
> to think what will happen to America were he to be elected as our 
> President.
>
> Anasuya Dubey is a clinical psychologist in California .
>
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Kai Eiselein
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