Obama slammed by speakers at McCain rally ( McCain repudiates the Speakers...???)

Los Angeles Times ^ | February 26, 2008 12:46 PM PST | Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times Staff Write

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

McCain says he will 'absolutely repudiate' comments by an introductory speaker who says Obama sympathizes with 'world leaders who want to kill us.'

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.

[TomGuy]

Here is the real SHAME - a crowd of 400 people.

Hussein has 4000 people who wait outside his events because the Stadium inside is full.

Actually, it is even worse:

Hussein has thousands of people who wait hours outside in extreme sub-freezing temperatures to get into his events.

As I have posted in other thread, Obama draws young people. McCain does not. Obama wins primaries by numbers that are greater than the total number of voters in the 2004 primaries. McCain hasn't. McCain is still losing the conservative vote in nearly every state. McCain has yet to get even close to 50% of the conservative vote in most states. Huckabee is almost beating him in TX, even now, even though McCain is the presumptive.

But, hey, McCain has a R after his name, so he must be okay. Well, so was Dole in 96, and the GOP lost that election by an embarrassing margin.

[paul51]

It’s a little early to concede the election.

[patriciamary]

McCain, that’s why we will lose in 08.

[patriciamary]

McCain, that’s why we will lose in 08.

[Captain Kirk]

Just keep repeating that to yourself. I’m willing to make a bet. Want to take me up on it?

[death2tyrants]

Bush lied, Bush is a loser, blah, blah. I can spot a disgruntled Ron Paul person a mile away.

[paul51]

Just keep repeating that to yourself. I’m willing to make a bet. Want to take me up on it?

What do you have and since you are so sure, what are your odds?

[LadyNavyVet]

Stoop to what tactics? McCain didn’t say it, and he wasn’t even there at the time. All he needed to say was, “I wasn’t here, I didn’t say it, I didn’t hear it. Go talk to the guy who said it. And btw, isn’t his name Hussein?”

Instead, McCain apologized for something he didn’t even say. And the apology, rather than Cunningham’s statements, is the news. The average sheeple who kinda sorta half pay attention to the news are only going to hear that McCain apologized. They will assume from that that McCain did something wrong.

McCain needs to sharpen up his act and campaign smarter, or Obama will bury him in November.

[patriciamary]

Yes ,our country has become spineless,hey the boys in my neighborhood practice cheer-leading!

[TomGuy]

You too must have voted for Ross Perot. Thank you for the lovely Clinton years.

1992 was George Herbert Walker Bush's to lose. And he did. He didn't even mount an election campaign until just a couple of weeks before that November election.

In an interview shortly have his defeat, he was asked why failed to mount an effective re-election campaign. His response: He thought he'd win anyway, because he was the incumbent.

Get over the Perot factor. GHWB lost all on his own.

[Polybius]

Someone needs to whisper in McInsane’s ear that he needs the conservative vote.

Somebody needs to whisper in the ear of some conservatives that being a conservative does not mean that your degree of political sophistication is stuck at the level of:

"I am voting for Obama because he had nice pecs in that photo at the beach"

or

"I am votimg for Hillary because she is a woman"

or

"I am not voting for Hillary because she has fat thighs"

or

"I am not voting for Obama because his father gave him the middle of somebody who would be a dictator in the future"

[bert]

I think you are correct McCain must take and hold the high ground.

Surrogates, and there are plenty of them, can make the attacks and do the dirty deeds at other venues where the Senator is not present.

He should keep his attacks purely professional.

[quantim]

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.

[paul51]

All he needed to say was, “I wasn’t here, I didn’t say it, I didn’t hear it. Go talk to the guy who said it.

Yes. That would have been a smarter way to distance himself.

[Gritty]

[patriciamary]

Why bother voting,we lose no-matter who who wins 08.

[ExTexasRedhead]

As a Conservative, my response is that I am not voting for Hillary or Obama because they will be a socialist disaster for the United States of America; a disaster for our security; a disaster for our freedom; a disaster for our future; a disaster for our economy; a disaster for my children and grandchildren’s futures; and a disaster for the US military. McInsane isn’t much better.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

We lose a lot of credibility when we act like calling him Hussein over and over is not cheap and dirty.

We almost never refer to people’s middle names when we talk about them. The ONLY reason to do it with Obama is to take a cheap shot at his muslim name.

Come on people. Let’s attack his ideas, not the name

[patriciamary]

After these Comments by McCain,I will NEVER vote for him!

[StAnDeliver]

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.

Geesh, who is this idiot? The Grey Lady has been in the bag for the Grey Lady from the get-go. This so-called "conservative" is starved for oxygen.