Posted on 02/26/2008 11:37:45 AM PST by indcons
CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who while warming up a campaign crowd referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democrat a "hack, Chicago-style" politician.
Hussein is Obama's middle name, but talk show host Bill Cunningham used it three times as he addressed the crowd before the likely Republican nominee's appearance.
"Now we have a hack, Chicago-style Daley politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you're going to have in your pocket is change," Cunningham said as the audience roared.
The time will come, Cunningham added, when the media will "peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama" and tell the truth about his relationship with indicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and how Obama got "sweetheart deals" in Chicago.
McCain wasn't on stage nor in the building when Cunningham made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from them and the talk show host after finishing his speech. McCain spoke to a couple hundred people at Memorial Hall in downtown Cincinnati.
"I apologize for it," McCain told reporters, addressing the issue before they had a chance to ask the Arizona senator about Cunningham's comments.
"I did not know about these remarks but I take responsibility for them. I repudiate them," he said. "My entire campaign I have treated Senator Obama and Senator (Hillary Rodham) Clinton with respect. I will continue to do that throughout this campaign.
McCain called both Democrats "honorable Americans" and said "I want to dissociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them."
Asked whether the use of Obama's middle name — the same as former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — is proper, McCain said: "No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate."
McCain said he didn't know who decided to allow Cunningham to speak but said he was sure it was in coordination with his campaign. He said he didn't hear the comments and has never met Cunningham, but "I will certainly make sure that nothing like that happens again.
Exactly, but the blowhards on this thread can't see that.
And for the blowhards on this thread, get back to me when Bill Cunningham wins an election.
I'll probably be waiting a long time.
Maybe I should write your name in on the presidential ballot in November. Senor Dane.
Yeah--I'd forgotten about that. What's Chelsea's middle name?
Well, at last I meet up with someone who remembers McCain’s efforts at turning the Balkans over to the Islamics. “Advanced Hegemonics”—courtesy of the Kristol wing of the neo Kool-Aid drinkers.
It's so obvious to me that this is good cop/bad cop. McCain uses Cunningham to say the things he can't say, and then apologizes for the comments after they've been put out there.
Bill Clinton changed his name from William Blythe IV when he was nearly 20.
Chelsea Victoria Clinton
Yeah, because acting like gentlemen has gotten us so far. McCain treats conservatives like stepchildren, he deserves to lose.
Multiple Obasms!!
I do believe that it will burn out quickly, but not quickly enough for Hillary.
Hardy har har, you are a real laugh riot, maybe someday you blowhards will learn that talk radio hosts don't win elections.
Case in point, Rush Limbaugh.
The bigot doesn't get to set the responding rules.
On the other hand, just by your very nature that you did respond, I know of whom my comments "hit the mark." [Here: Let me offer you a word picture: A pack of dogs are out back in the cold barkin' "bigotry, bigotry, bigotry, bigotry" for months on end...The newspaper delivery guy comes along with the latest headlines, overshoots the front porch and smacks a few hounds in the back...you can tell who was hit by who "yelped."]
Thanx for the response.
Before all this is over, John is going to be picking himself up off the floor when his so-called “friends” stab him repeatedly in the back. I’m beginning to wonder what his IQ is.
He has always found it easier to kick his family and treat the neighbors nice. This is why we conservatives have so much of a tough time with him. I was actually starting to come around a little.
No, McCain once again "reaches across the aisle" to scratch the Dems butts.......Lots of folks here have had to put up with his maverickism for too many damn years and are trying hard to come around to convincing themselves to vote for the jerk. Myself included.
But when he once again disses his base, he is making it even harder to support him.......
HappyinAZ and newbie since January, that pretty much says it all........
Want me to tell you how many times I heard Richard MILHOUSE Nixon?
Er, you are aware of IRCA, right?
Not exactly the crowning achievement of anti-amnesty work.
Did you celebrate when that illegal amiga of yours killed those 5 school children recently, Dane? One for the Reconquista, eh?
Above the fray? Smart move? Excuse me but in case you are new to this website, McLame is being hard pressed to gain any support from the true conservatives around these parts and across the country.
McLame's latest "holier than thou" attitude is certainly diminishing my desire to vote for him simply because he is a so-called Republican.........
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