Posted on 02/26/2008 2:22:52 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CINCINNATI -- In a possible foreshadowing of a potentially bruising general election campaign, a speaker who introduced presidential candidate John McCain at a rally here today accused Barack Obama of sympathizing with "world leaders who want to kill us" and invoked Obama's middle name -- three times calling him "Barack Hussein Obama."
Local conservative radio talk show host Bill Cunningham described Obama as "a hack Chicago Daley-style politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you -- all you're going to have in your pocket is change," he said.
McCain quickly distanced himself from the remarks, which he did not hear, saying that using Obama's middle name in repetition like that was inappropriate. "I absolutely repudiate such comments and again, I will take responsibility," he said, calling the use of Obama's middle name inappropriate. "It will never happen again. It will never happen again."
Cunningham, warming up a crowd of about 400 people in the ornate green and gold Hamilton County Memorial Hall before McCain's arrival, accused the "stooges from the New York Times" and "sycophants in the media" of conspiring to elect Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
By distancing himself, McCain takes the high road, and his attacks on Obama will be all the more powerful, based experience, issue and policy. Personal remarks would make him look small and petty like Obama’s opponent heretofore. Those disenchanted with that Obama opponent will look more favorably upon McCain after she drops out.
Beautifully and perfectly put, EDINVA. But truth and reason have seemingly come to have little relevance to many on these threads...
I will only add that McCain became Commanding Officer of an A-7 Navy training squadron after he was freed from five years of hell in the "Hotel Hilton" - and Commanding Officers take responsibility for and EVERYTHING that happens under their command.
Some are incapable of understanding this. Many others - the ones who count - understand it quite well, and will respect John McCain even more for his assuming responsibility today. Can anyone imagine Bill Clinton doing this?
Well put and I agree. He’s not one of us.
Speaking of insanity.....
I watched the last 1/2 or less of the debate between hillary/obama, not sure when the debate started. One of the media guys brought up that farrakhan and Obama’s pastor are buddy buddies. Obama formally “rejected” farrakhan’s official endorsement.
I’d like to know more about the relationship between obama’s pastor and farrakhan.......
What a crazy thing to say.
It will happen over and over again every day as long as Obama (Barack Hussein Obama that is) is in the limelight.
What McCain did was stab a loyal supporter in the back, much the way he has consistently stabbed conservatives in the back. And what concerns me is that McCain doesn't sound like somebody who is ready to do the necessary dirty work of diving down to the bottom of the sewer and fighting the scumbag Democrats where they live.
There are threads on that,....it is not pretty...
Google search:
Is Farrakhan Influencing Obama Through Jeremiah Wright ...
Cohen’s criticism regarding Obama’s ties to the Church and the Pastor that gave an award to Farrakhan were reaching a large audience that included potential ...
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olitical Night Train believes the following articles are very revealing about Barack Obama’s relationship with Louis Farrakhan, a relationship that needs closer scrunity. Also of question is influence the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. and other leaders of Trinity United Church will have on Obama’s policies and how he would conduct his administration. Obama Decries Farrakhan StatementsBy Shailagh Murray
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign moved quickly today to quell another race-related flap, this one involving Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. Columnist Richard Cohen stirred the pot this morning in an op-ed column in The Washington Post, writing:Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said “truly epitomized greatness.” That man is Louis Farrakhan.Cohen chronicled Farrakhan’s long record of inflammatory statements, from denigrating the Holocaust, to accusing Jewish people of victimizing African Americans. He did stipulate, “It’s important to state right off that nothing in Obama’s record suggests he harbors anti-Semitic views or agrees with Wright when it comes to Farrakhan.” But, he suggested, “Farrakhan, in a strictly political sense, may be a tough issue for him.” The column spread like wildfire around the blogosphere — especially on the right — and, this afternoon, the Obama campaign responded with an unequivocal statement on it from the candidate himself.“I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan,” Obama said in the statement. “I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree.”
Does McCain realize that Obama is probably his opponent? This ain’t the Senate anymore.
Reading your post, after I read this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952637/posts
is so alarming I don’t know what to say..cept for what I wrote on another thread. Which comes first, RACE or being a child of God. His church is all about race.
McCain's organizer told the guy to fill his time with "red meat," then McCain tries to play the innocent white-knight and throws the guy to the wolves. McCain is sick!
That's his name!
This reminds me of the stink that Huckabee got into because he asked a question about Mormon doctrine. The Mormons all went berserk and whined about "Anti-Mormonism", but not one of them denied the teaching.
Barak Hussein Obama.
If I were Obamaa, I'd make sure that I was introduced as follows:
Presenting the NEXT President of the United States...
"BARAK... HUUUUSSSSEEEEIIIINNNN"... (No Relation)... OBAAAAMMMMAAAAA!!!!!!."
If he has to run from his name, then he should change it.
I'm proud of my name
"P" Dash Marlowe.
From now on he is John Sidney McCain !
Now that is interesting....where did you get that....if we have it text....
It was either just on H&C or O’Reilly... or CNN... I was surfing. I think it was H&C. lol
See also over here (I’m not the only one that heard it):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976873/posts?page=31#31
One blogger is saying it was CNN with John Roberts.
I honestly don’t remember — I was only half paying attention,
but his disgust was so obvious, it caught my ear.
“Can anyone imagine Bill Clinton doing this?”
There is a thread up now with an article comparing this to Clinton’s “Sister Souljah” moment. I don’t think they’re in the same league. For one thing, today’s McCain comments weren’t scripted.
McCain isn’t the ‘perfect conservative’ and there’s plenty for conservatives to be wary of in some of his past actions and comments. However, like it or not, he’s the most conservative person who has any realistic chance of being elected POTUS in November ‘08. The alternative should be anethema to everyone who posts here legitimately.
If for no other reason, FReepers should ‘hold their noses’ or whatever they have to do to vote for McCain because he is the only candidate who will support and protect our troops, whom FReepers claim to honor. Abandoning them to the command of Hillary! or Obama is not something I am willing to do.
Thanks,,...this is getting damn ugly!
I heard a three of them saying that they were considering McCain because he was a better man to be a wartime president. Luntz claimed it to be a group of democrats and not a group of independents or uncommitted.
Words from Bill Cunningham, Cincy Talk Show host:
“They told me to fire up the crowd. You’re talking to conservatives,” Cunningham said of the McCain campaign.
“Get them fired up and give them some red meat. And I did. In fact, when I left, John, the crowd was cheering,” Cunningham told host John Roberts.
“All was well. No problem whatsoever until about an hour later . . .when John McCain threw me under the bus, under the Straight Talk Express. I got thrown under the bus.”
McCain apologized for Cunningham’s remarks after the rally.
“I take responsibility and I repudiate what he said,” Sen. McCain told reporters after the rally at Memorial Hall in Over-the-Rhine. “A person came out here before I arrived and made some disparaging remarks about senators Obama and Clinton and I regret that.”
McCain denied ever meeting Cunningham before, saying “I will certainly make sure nothing like that happens again.”
But Cunningham told CNN he met McCain twice before, including with former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine at Kenwood Country Club. “John McCain is developing — maybe because of his advance in years — a bad memory,’’ Cunningham said.
The purpose of using Obama’s full name - Barack Hussein Obama - “is to identify that person. I meant no offense by it,” Cunningham said. Those who oppose his use of Obama’s middle name are those who should be criticized, Cunningham added.
The radio talk show host went on to say McCain is not a conservative. “Why is he attacking me and not Obama or Hillary? He ought to attack Democrats and quit attacking conservatives like me.”
Cunningham said he has no plans to meet McCain again. “I’ve had it up to here with John McCain. He’s off the list. I’m joining Ann Coulter in supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
I LOVE BILL CUNNINGHAM!
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