Posted on 02/26/2008 11:21:28 AM PST by KingSnorky
After his campaign rally in Cincinnati today, Republican presidential candidate John McCain apologized for remarks by conservative WLW talk show host Bill Cunningham that McCain said he thought were offensive to Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
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Larry Sinclair failed his polygraph, unfortunately.
McCain is defining himself to the American people.
I like what I see.
I hope so. But he hasn’t earned my vote yet.
Just like the Republican party will do this election cycle with RINO McCain. And now there will be even more RINOs in the future. There's no punishment, "Hell , we'll even put you on our ticket"!
Cunningham’s show was not on the local station this past Sunday night, where he replaced Drudge. I wonder what the reason for that was.
Anyway, if McCain thinks he is going to win this election by being civil, he is living in another world. If these stories are true about Obama supporters threatening Dems who are backing Hillary, then it is going to just keep getting uglier. He won’t denigrate his opponents but they will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Was there anything Cunningham said about Obama that is not true??
I have to call bull$hit on this one. During my Navy career I was a Brig Warden at one point. Stop for a second and imagine what would have happened if one of my prisoners declined to be released after three days of bread and water! Prisoners do NOT have the option of saying "No" to a release order. They could have easily put him on an airplane to a country which was not a party to the conflict.
What amazes me is that there are so many of the general public who don't think this kind of statement through....talk about naive. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. After all, the liberals don't think there's anything wrong with homosexuality, but stop and think about the mechanics of what they're talking about.
McLaim is getting the Curly(Howard) salute from many republicans the eye poke comes at the main election..
That's kind of like saying Geraldo Rivera deserves credit for clearing up the mystery of Al Capone's safe.
Sorry I can’t be a McCain fan. Haven’t been one since the late 1990s, frankly.
Yes, he did, but there is the “rest of the story” that will continue to be coming out in the days and weeks ahead. Stay tuned. Or not.
Or FR and the blogosphere bringing out Rathergate. Time will tell. But one thing is certain, the Obamunists believe their man above reproach. It will be a hard fall for Barry when his shady past is exposed for the masses.
If you’re going to go out of your way to embarrass a supporter, you better have a darn good reason for it. I don’t see it here. Cunningham’s “gaffe” is innocuous, and McCain is doing the other side’s dirty work for them by declaring the use of Obama’s real middle name offensive. Let Obama look silly and petulant objecting to it.
Maybe McCain thought Cunningham was referring to Osama Bin Laden, and wanted to make sure Al-Queda wasn’t insulted. Or maybe he’s just a RAT-loving dick.
“Obama just came back from meeting Ahmadinejad; he’s got a meeting the next week with Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Then he’s going to saddle up next to Hezbollah; they’re going to have a little cookie-and-cream party. All’s going to be right with the world.
“When the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing ‘Kumbayah’ together around the table of Barack Obama, it’s all going to be great,” Cunningham said. “Things are going to be wonderful.”
I agree with BigBobber. The more it looks like B. Hussein Obama will be the Dhim nominee I think I need to hold my nose and vote for McCain.
But then he does something like this.
I dont listen to Willie during the day (I tune to Rush on 550 instead) but I have quite often over the past 15 years here in Cincinnati, but he truly is a “Great American”
I have to call bull$hit on this one. During my Navy career I was a Brig Warden at one point. Stop for a second and imagine what would have happened if one of my prisoners declined to be released after three days of bread and water! Prisoners do NOT have the option of saying "No" to a release order. They could have easily put him on an airplane to a country which was not a party to the conflict.
And when you were the Brig Warden, what international propaganda value were you trying to get out of that First Division screw-up?
McCain's refusal, or attempts at refusal to be released would have turned the propaganda coup the North Vietnamese were desiring into a major propaganda embarrassment for them.
The bottom line is that this particular fact has been corroborated by the historical record, namely, Averell Harriman diplomatic cable of September 13, 1968:
"McCain's refusal to be released was even remarked upon by North Vietnamese senior negotiator Le Duc Tho to U.S. envoy Averell Harriman during the ongoing Paris Peace Talks.[61] "
61. ^ Timberg, An American Odyssey, p. 209. Harriman's September 13, 1968 cable said: "At tea break Le Duc Tho mentioned that DRV had intended to release Admiral McCain's son as one of the three pilots freed recently, but he had refused."
I’ve listened to Cunningham for a few minutes on several occasions. Each time I shake my head and change the station. He is as an obnoxious figure on the right as Jesse Jackson is to the left. He turns reasonable people off, he isn’t a help to the cause.
Bill Cunningham will be on tonight’s Hannity & Colmes - 9pm EST. Bill is also pretty ticked that the Rezko trial is being silenced by the lamestream press.
Maybe it would be best if no one showed up at McCain’s campaign rallies. That way no one could do anything that might embarrass him.
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