McLame really has no spine

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

McCain Disavows Comments About Obama

AP/Google News
2/26/2008
By LIZ SIDOTI – 21 hours ago

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.

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Good lord...

[BEG]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

[DixieBelle]

I hope he comes out with both barrels blazing once the nominees are declared. Ugh. It's going to be a long year.

[djones520]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

Come on.  What is the first thing anyone in this country thinks of when they hear Hussein?  The mass murderer we went to war to dispose.  If someone is going to keep referencing that, it's gonna keep invoking Saddams image.  As some of you where arguing yesterday about Obama wearing the tribal clothing, perception is everything.

McCain is trying to distance himself from the dirty fight right now.  Thats Hillary's game at the moment, and the more it's kept on her, the bigger the fight in the democractic party is, and the less work he has to do.  By keeping the clean image, it gives him a lot of credibility.  He's going to need all the positive PR he can get against the golden boy, and this is just building the chips in his favor when he and Obama have to throw down against each other in a couple months.

[BEG]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

You can talk about it all you want but seriously, do you want McCain to go there?  It would be a distraction instead of focusing on his voting record or the things he has said.  It is kind of petty.  There are a ton of things to slam Obama with and again I say, his middle name (which he didn't choose) isn't one of them.  

Oh and how is that slobbering over Obama?

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

I hope he comes out with both barrels blazing once the nominees are declared. Ugh. It's going to be a long year.

The way it looks, I wouldn't expect much from McLame. Bill Cunningham is a very popular conservative radio host in  Ohio, the campaign booked him to speak before McLame came out to bolster Ohio conservatives... but look who McLame turns on... he called Obama and Hillary "honorable Americans" and distanced himself from Cunningham and his comments like he's still going to be the media's darling. Sorry Mclame... the new media darling is Obama, and regardless of how nicey nice you are to the Dems, the media (and the Dims) are still going to eat you for lunch.

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

You can talk about it all you want but seriously, do you want McCain to go there?  It would be a distraction instead of focusing on his voting record or the things he has said.  It is kind of petty.  There are a ton of things to slam Obama with and again I say, his middle name (which he didn't choose) isn't one of them. 

Oh and how is that slobbering over Obama?

I pretty much posted my sentiment in the above post. McLame is not the media's favorite anymore (as much as he may want that to be so), but if McLame doesn't grow some balls, and go after Obama with both barrels. No it doesn't have to be mean, necessarily... but McCain is acting like such a big fat wet ***** right now.

Cunningham made a remark about Obama's middle name. Why would that be McCain's fault though? If it's anybody's fault, it's Obama's parents for giving him that name. Besides that, Cunningham was right about Obama being part of the Chicago-Daley Democrat machine, and his land deal with Resko is shady at best. Cunningham was just pointing out the truth, yet he's repudiated by the "Maverick" Arizona Senator.

I tell ya though, not too many more radio talk show hosts are going to come out and speak to the crowd at McCain rallies anymore.

[BEG]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

You can talk about it all you want but seriously, do you want McCain to go there?  It would be a distraction instead of focusing on his voting record or the things he has said.  It is kind of petty.  There are a ton of things to slam Obama with and again I say, his middle name (which he didn't choose) isn't one of them. 

Oh and how is that slobbering over Obama?

I pretty much posted my sentiment in the above post. McLame is not the media's favorite anymore (as much as he may want that to be so), but if McLame doesn't grow some balls, and go after Obama with both barrels. No it doesn't have to be mean, necessarily... but McCain is acting like such a big fat wet ***** right now.

Cunningham made a remark about Obama's middle name. Why would that be McCain's fault though? If it's anybody's fault, it's Obama's parents for giving him that name. Besides that, Cunningham was right about Obama being part of the Chicago-Daley Democrat machine, and his land deal with Resko is shady at best. Cunningham was just pointing out the truth, yet he's repudiated by the "Maverick" Arizona Senator.

I tell ya though, not too many more radio talk show hosts are going to come out and speak to the crowd at McCain rallies anymore.

The media will blame McCain because it was at his function that it was said.  Doesn't matter if it is warranted or not, they will blame him.  The Chicago Democrat machine and Rescko comments are good slams, the Hussein comment screwed it up.  That is what I'm talking about when I said it was a distraction.  Everyone is having a shit fit about the Hussein comment and totally ignoring the meat of Cunningham's comments.  That is all I'm saying.

[DixieBelle]

McCain may be a bastard, but he's our bastard now.

I agree, let's let Hillary sling mud at Obama and go down clawing. It will only undo her campaign even further and keep McCain a bit cleaner until the real fight begins.

[Duke Nukum]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

[BEG]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

I'm dumbfounded by these types of comments.  How in the hell is McCain going to win by using Obama's middle name as a pejorative?  Seriously, how would using his middle name as a negative help ? 

Like I said before, slam him for things he can control....like his voting record.  Not what his parents gave him for a middle name.

[BEG]

McCain may be a bastard, but he's our bastard now.
I agree, let's let Hillary sling mud at Obama and go down clawing. It will only undo her campaign even further and keep McCain a bit cleaner until the real fight begins.

That would be a great bumper sticker.   

[Tess Anderson]

Juan ------ the MSM really DOESN'T like you.

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

MediaMatters is all bent out of shape about Cunningham's comment as well. Many people don't know that Obama WILLINGLY changed his name to that, it's not a case of someone born with an inappropriate name. Fair game.

[BEG]

Juan ------ the MSM really DOESN'T like you.

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

MediaMatters is all bent out of shape about Cunningham's comment as well. Many people don't know that Obama WILLINGLY changed his name to that, it's not a case of someone born with an inappropriate name. Fair game.

I have never heard he WILLINGLY changed his name to that.  Can you post a link?

[Chris_]

Billy Cunningham replaced Matt Drudge after Drudge stopped doing his radio show.  I don't really care for him... he's not very engaging or interesting to listen to.

[Duke Nukum]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

I'm dumbfounded by these types of comments.  How in the hell is McCain going to win by using Obama's middle name as a pejorative?  Seriously, how would using his middle name as a negative help ? 

Like I said before, slam him for things he can control....like his voting record.  Not what his parents gave him for a middle name.

How does using his middle name hurt? How does defining Obama as a liberal hurt?

Obama is a liberal.  Obama's middle name is Hussein.  What's wrong with saying either?

We say "Hillary Rodham Clinton" so why can't we say Barrockstar Hussein Obama?  I didn't hear anything negative in what that Cunningham fellow said in saying Hussein.

I think being called a Chicago Daley hack is the negative part.

[VelvetElvis]

I agree with BEG, there's plenty of legitimate issues to slam the Messiah with.  Focusing on the "Hussein" bit just plays into the Dems meme about "bigoted, racist Rethugs".

I listened to the furor over this all day long on the local and national talk shows in utter bewilderment.  Get a grip, folks! This isn't some high school class president race, this is for the leadership of the freaking free world!  I expect our guy to act like an adult, and not some numbnuts frat boy.  Leave that to the donkeys, and let the people see who's really serious about it!

Obama's record, or lack thereof, is a fat pinata waiting for a baseball bat.  Let's pin him down on specifics, and he'll fold up like a lawn chair.

McCain was hardly who I wanted to see as our nominee, but I'll take him over either the Glacier or the Messiah in a heartbeat.

[Duke Nukum]

I agree with BEG, there's plenty of legitimate issues to slam the Messiah with.  Focusing on the "Hussein" bit just plays into the Dems meme about "bigoted, racist Rethugs".

I listened to the furor over this all day long on the local and national talk shows in utter bewilderment.  Get a grip, folks! This isn't some high school class president race, this is for the leadership of the freaking free world!  I expect our guy to act like an adult, and not some numbnuts frat boy.  Leave that to the donkeys, and let the people see who's really serious about it!

Obama's record, or lack thereof, is a fat pinata waiting for a baseball bat.  Let's pin him down on specifics, and he'll fold up like a lawn chair.

McCain was hardly who I wanted to see as our nominee, but I'll take him over either the Glacier or the Messiah in a heartbeat.

What if we just call him The Candidate with No Middle Name?  And we can refer to McLame as "The Media's Candidate."  We'll always know what McLame's policy will be because it will be in the NY Times a day before McLame proposes it.

[BEG]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

I'm dumbfounded by these types of comments.  How in the hell is McCain going to win by using Obama's middle name as a pejorative?  Seriously, how would using his middle name as a negative help ? 

Like I said before, slam him for things he can control....like his voting record.  Not what his parents gave him for a middle name.

How does using his middle name hurt? How does defining Obama as a liberal hurt?

Obama is a liberal.  Obama's middle name is Hussein.  What's wrong with saying either?

We say "Hillary Rodham Clinton" so why can't we say Barrockstar Hussein Obama?  I didn't hear anything negative in what that Cunningham fellow said in saying Hussein.

I think being called a Chicago Daley hack is the negative part.

How does using his middle name hurt?!?  Read Velvet Elvis's comments.  It makes us look very small and juvenile. 

Defining Obama as a liberal, Chicago Daley hack, his crazy anti-Semitic preacher/friend or talking about his voting record (or lack there of) is fair game.  Again I will reiterate what I have been saying all along, using his middle name as a negative isn't a smooth move.  When people use it they aren't simply saying his middle name, there is meaning behind it.  If you are trying to say that using Hillary's middle name Rodham has the same connotation as Hussein you are not being intellectually honest.  It is trying to score "gotcha" points and it should be above a presidential hopeful in my opinion.

[Duke Nukum]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

I'm dumbfounded by these types of comments.  How in the hell is McCain going to win by using Obama's middle name as a pejorative?  Seriously, how would using his middle name as a negative help ? 

Like I said before, slam him for things he can control....like his voting record.  Not what his parents gave him for a middle name.

How does using his middle name hurt? How does defining Obama as a liberal hurt?

Obama is a liberal.  Obama's middle name is Hussein.  What's wrong with saying either?

We say "Hillary Rodham Clinton" so why can't we say Barrockstar Hussein Obama?  I didn't hear anything negative in what that Cunningham fellow said in saying Hussein.

I think being called a Chicago Daley hack is the negative part.

How does using his middle name hurt?!?  Read Velvet Elvis's comments.  It makes us look very small and juvenile. 

Defining Obama as a liberal, Chicago Daley hack, his crazy anti-Semitic preacher/friend or talking about his voting record (or lack there of) is fair game.  Again I will reiterate what I have been saying all along, using his middle name as a negative isn't a smooth move.  When people use it they aren't simply saying his middle name, there is meaning behind it.  If you are trying to say that using Hillary's middle name Rodham has the same connotation as Hussein you are not being intellectually honest.  It is trying to score "gotcha" points and it should be above a presidential hopeful in my opinion.

And as I said before, from what I heard of Cunningham's rant, he didn't use The Candidate with No Middle Name's middle name as a pejorative.  It was The Media's Candidate and his buddies in the media who did that after the fact.

If we let the media define us as racists for saying The Candidate with No Middle Name's middle name then they will just let us define us as racist for questioning his record.

I don't intend to let the media dictate the words I can use.  I don't allow the media to define me.

From what I understand the cowards in the RNC doesn't even want to point out the Candidate with No Middle Name is a liberal. 

That'll be a winning strategery.

I'm assuming it's because The Media's Candidate has a liberal record too.  But still, I don't recall anyone ever winning an election by cowering.

[Lauri]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

agreed. Let our side take the high road for a while and let Hilary and Obama make idiots out of themselves.

at some point, the country will want a grown up to be in charge again after those two flame out.

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain steps down in the GE to let his good friend Obama run unopposed.  The media would love him for it and if there is one thing McCain loves, it is being loved by the media.

Possibly this is sarcasm. After hearing Cunningham's rather innocuous warm up and McCain's overreaction to it.  I'm not sure anymore.  It doesn't seem like McCain actually wants to win to me.  It doesn't seem the the RNC wants to win either.  Or a win means "not taking a hit in the media" to the respective entities.

I'm dumbfounded by these types of comments.  How in the hell is McCain going to win by using Obama's middle name as a pejorative?  Seriously, how would using his middle name as a negative help ? 

Like I said before, slam him for things he can control....like his voting record.  Not what his parents gave him for a middle name.

How does using his middle name hurt? How does defining Obama as a liberal hurt?

Obama is a liberal.  Obama's middle name is Hussein.  What's wrong with saying either?

We say "Hillary Rodham Clinton" so why can't we say Barrockstar Hussein Obama?  I didn't hear anything negative in what that Cunningham fellow said in saying Hussein.

I think being called a Chicago Daley hack is the negative part.

How does using his middle name hurt?!?  Read Velvet Elvis's comments.  It makes us look very small and juvenile. 

Defining Obama as a liberal, Chicago Daley hack, his crazy anti-Semitic preacher/friend or talking about his voting record (or lack there of) is fair game.  Again I will reiterate what I have been saying all along, using his middle name as a negative isn't a smooth move.  When people use it they aren't simply saying his middle name, there is meaning behind it.  If you are trying to say that using Hillary's middle name Rodham has the same connotation as Hussein you are not being intellectually honest.  It is trying to score "gotcha" points and it should be above a presidential hopeful in my opinion.

Now that I think about it, it's not Obama's middle name we should be concerned about, it's his first name... Barack, which sounds a little Mortal Kombatish for me.




Baraka Hussien Obama. 

[Lauri]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

who said you have to slobber over the guy? just attack his ideas, that's enough.

[Lauri]

He has to live in the real world where this would be an issue time and time again if he said nothing.  If he let it slide, every time he had to speak to the media it would get brought up again and again because you know they wouldn't let it slide. 

While Hussein is Obama's middle name, anyone who is intellectually honest would admit that this talk show host used it as a negative, not simply as his middle name.  I think there are many things to slam Obama with, his middle name isn't one of them.

So we can't talk about his middle name at all? I guess we all have to just sit there and slobber over Obama like the rest of the lemmings leading this county to its destruction.

You can talk about it all you want but seriously, do you want McCain to go there?  It would be a distraction instead of focusing on his voting record or the things he has said.  It is kind of petty.  There are a ton of things to slam Obama with and again I say, his middle name (which he didn't choose) isn't one of them. 

Oh and how is that slobbering over Obama?

I pretty much posted my sentiment in the above post. McLame is not the media's favorite anymore (as much as he may want that to be so), but if McLame doesn't grow some balls, and go after Obama with both barrels. No it doesn't have to be mean, necessarily... but McCain is acting like such a big fat wet ***** right now.

Cunningham made a remark about Obama's middle name. Why would that be McCain's fault though? If it's anybody's fault, it's Obama's parents for giving him that name. Besides that, Cunningham was right about Obama being part of the Chicago-Daley Democrat machine, and his land deal with Resko is shady at best. Cunningham was just pointing out the truth, yet he's repudiated by the "Maverick" Arizona Senator.

I tell ya though, not too many more radio talk show hosts are going to come out and speak to the crowd at McCain rallies anymore.

I dont know who this Cunningham guy is, but he sounded like that Michael Savage guy who screams and yells a lot. no thanks..