McCain throws another one under the bus.
"Maybe now the democrats will like me."
Posted on 10/09/2008 12:57:29 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign disavowed an introduction here yesterday that included Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein.
William Platt, chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Party, twice referred to "Barack Hussein Obama," which other supporters of McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have used to link the Democratic candidate with Muslims. Obama is not a Muslim.
McCain has disavowed the tactic, most recently when it was employed earlier this week.
"We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric which distracts from the real questions of judgment, character and experience that voters will base their decisions on this November," campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay said in a prepared statement.
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Or Barack "That One" Obama. :)
As I pointed out on another thread, this is why the Great One is brilliant in referring to Obama as Milhouse.
I remember the DumocRATS saying "George HERBERT WALKER Bush" with relish in 1992. Evidently it is okay to use one's birth and ethnicity against one, if that birth and ethnicity is upper class WASP. If however it is uncertain but with a tinge of Jihad, it ought not to be mentioned.
Maybe by “advertising” how they’re not gonna use Obama’s middle name anymore... just brings more attention to his middle name. ;-) (My Two Cents; probably well played.)
. If McCain told you once, he must have told you 35 times.
“Sen. Barack Muad’dib Obama (D-Arrakis)”
Gives new meaning to the name “Worm Rider”. :)
It would be fun if all the talk radio people used a beeper for his middle name, as if they were bleeping out an obscenity. Barack BEEEP Obama.
McCain throws another one under the bus.
"Maybe now the democrats will like me."
It’s the guy’s name. It’s not like it’s a nickname. Why is that a problem??
That won't happen. He'd sooner hand it over to Hillary than to Romney.
When it opens you wide up to charges of racist fear-mongering by the other side.
I'll bet he'll be REALLY tough on illegals too! Oh wait ... Nevermind.
I agree with Mr. McCain. He has bigger fish to fry - nobama’s association with radicals and communists, voter fraud, illegal campaign contributions. McCain should not get sidetracked on a name.
We at FR and a 527 can handle the muslim connection. It’s good military strategy to send out only a squad to expose and take out a small threat. You don’t need the entire army to do it. Would be a waste of manpower and resources.
[”We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric ]
McCain, McCain, where is your mind? So it’s wrong now to use a persons full name? Do you even want to win?
If we win it will be Sarah’s doing.
I also wonder, has Obama ever actually complained about his full name being used? Should McCain's middle name (Sidney??I think) be off limits as well?
I think that with all of us facing the burden of learning to live with socialism for the foreseeable future, the nation has more to consider than the sensibilities of the smarmy little SOB who wants to lead us there.
That was Mark Steyn, blogging at NRO after the debate on Tuesday.
happens everytime. in 04 the biggest bozos in the united states who later came and stuck it to Bush (matthew dowd?) was in charge of the campaign.
i called them numerous times. sometimes i couldn’t hide my total frustration.
we won that one on the sweat and blood of grassroots love of the troops.
Karl Rove Architect be damned. He wasn’t and isn’t all that he is cracked up to be. We loved the troops/and W loves the troops. That was the common groud.
this go round - another bunch of idiots in love with the “independents” is running things. we’ll just have to run our own parallel campaign AGAIN!!!!
thank god for the internet and FOR SARAH. Sarah has saved this thing for the maverick.
Oh, c’mon. This is a favorite “don’t throw me in the briar patch” gotcha.
By saying they will bow to Obambi’s own discomfort with and interpretation of the social meaning of his own middle name, the McCain campaign politely puts the knife in.
They highlight how ridiculous the point is. Just by being “nice,” they evoke the same reaction you had: hey, what’s wrong with saying someone’s name?
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Did you know that the polls consistently say that more conservatives are voting for Obambi than there are liberals voting for McCain?
Do you know that that delta could give Obambi the election?
Do you know where those “conservatives” are coming from? They are the ones who are “too conservative” to vote for McCain and who constantly take up cheap shots such as yours against the man.
They are the ones who childishly think they are “sending a message to the RNC,” “making THEM pay,” proving how “principled” they are, hastening the “deserved demise of the U.S.A.” and on and on.
They are worse than those who haplessly got bungled up in voting for Ross Perot and thus gave us eight years of the ‘Toons. Of course, none of that is their “fault” or “responsibility.”
If the GOP nominee isn’t to their liking—he’s, say, “too old, tired, timid”-—they have no moral compunction at all about directly or indirectly voting for the other guy, regardless of the impact on the country.
Swampmarine, I don’t know who you are voting for, nor do I want to know. But if you are or were a Marine, I think you know that “friendly fire” is never helpful, especially not once the operation’s COA has been chosen and we are days out from “living or dying.”
Ha, I used it twice in a sentence to a lib last weekend...I swear it was like putting alcohol on a cut...That person was so offended...I said WHAT? It’s just the name his parents saw fit for him.
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