When you are running for President, you don’t act like a flame thrower. It’s not presidential. McCain did the right thing here. I’ve seen Cunningham on Hannity and Colmes’ show, and he indeed IS a flame thrower. He likes to say the most provocative things he can get away with. When he was saying Barak’s name when talking to the folks at the rally before McCain got there, he was emphasizing the Hussein part of Barak’s name. If you saw him like I did, you’d know how he was doing it, which was in a very derogatory way. The inference being that Barak is of Muslim origin, knowing that would be a negative, not a positive. I think that verges on dirty pool. I don’t like Obama, but I, like McCain, would not like a flame thrower saying nasty stuff that is bound to be picked up by the MSM to make McCain himself look bad, which is exactly what happened here.
Ronald Reagan would never have tolerated the likes of a Bill Cunningham warming up his crowd either. Reagan was a gentleman. I’m on McCain’s side here, and I think it is very bad politics to get down and dirty from the gitgo in a campaign. Obama would not allow a lead-in like a Cunningham of the Dem variety to warm up his crowd, and neither will McCain on our side. Good for both of them. Leave the flame throwing on this website where you can do it with impunity and not damage McCain’s chances for the general election by having him have to wallow in the mud right off the bat.
Real smart of McCain to make enemies of conservatives in the most pivotal state in the country.