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Yesterday John McCain apologized profusely when a Cincinnati talk show host, “Bouncing” Billy Cunningham (who’s show you can pick up on WLW 700 AM on a good clear winter’s night) kept referring to Barak Obama’s middle name “Hussein” during a warm-up speech before a McCain rally in Cincinnati. Here’s what happened:
“McCain, who was not onstage as Cunningham spoke, said he was told about the “disparaging remarks.”
“I absolutely repudiate such comments, and again I will take responsibility — it will never happen again. It will never happen again,” he said.
In a statement, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said that McCain’s remarks were appreciated: “It is a sign that if there is a McCain-Obama general election, it can be intensely competitive, but the candidates will attempt to keep it respectful and focused on issues.”
Cunningham said McCain “ought to attack Democrats and quit attacking conservatives like me.”
“I, for one, regret that John McCain is the nominee of the conservative party,” he said.
Cunningham told CNN that organizers in Cincinnati asked him to speak.
“They told me to fire up the crowd … get them fired up and give them some red meat,” he said.
Local campaign workers confirmed Cunningham’s account.
This just proves my point to Daniel Larison and others that John McCain is not going to run a 1988-style, Lee Atwater/Karl Rove kind of attack camapaign against Barak Obama’s ethnicity and if anyone tries to do so in his stead McCain will, as Cunningham said, throw them right under the Straight Talk Express. In fact, McCain called Obama an honorable American and if he feels that way then McCain is hardly going to run a campaign that will make Obama look un-American. So much for that.
Nope, McCain’s campaign is going about fighting the Hundred Years War and why you’re not pulling your fare share do to so. He even admits if he can’t focus the campaign on the war issue he’s all but finished. Well, Republicans should get ready to campaign in support for a war that 70% of Americans want to see solution to. If not outright withdrawal then at least some end in sight or some end game to at least conceptualize the end in sight. McCain doesn’t even promise this. Just more war. A war he’ll pay for with deficit spending since he won’t raise taxes nor will he able to find enough waste, fraud and abuse in the budget to pay for it either.
I’m sure there are those who will vote against Obama because his middle name is “Hussein” or because he doesn’t look like them or what have you. But considering all the voters who will not vote for Hilary Clinton under any circumstances whatsoever (which would give McCain a good chunk of the electorate already) I’d say that’s a wash. To most people, Obama is like the black guy at work or who’s their good neighbor. You can’t view Obama through the prism of race-baiters like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton because he was fortunate enough to be a little kid when the Civil Rights/Black Power movements were going on. He wasn’t old enough to wear dashikis or grow four-foot afros. Thus he has no baggage with white voters, even the far-left ones, the way Jackson and Sharpton had luggage racks worth of baggage. I would also remind everyone Obama is not 100 percent black. If one of the most popular golfers and sports figures in the U.S., Tiger Woods, can draw millions of fans as a mixed race person, then I don’t see why mixed race Barak Obama can’t draw millions of votes or be elected president as far-fetched as that would have been even a year ago.
Right now I’d rather be under the bus than a sitting duck to Barak Obama.
jackscrow on 27 Feb 2008 at 7:15 pm #
Here are a few notes I took while listening to Cinci radio this morning on the drive into work.
Was McCain introduced as John “Sidney” McCain?
I can just see Willie jumping up and down shouting “Hooray for John Sidney McCain”.
Who thinks a middle name makes the man? It sure don’t — I gotta cool one.
This is ridiculous. There are plenty of important issues connected to Obamamania that scare me — his “Spiritual Leader”, his Church, his socialist plans and connections; but his middle name does not.
And as usual, the only thing that impresses me about Cunningham is his ability to still spout racist and xenophobic crap with foot firmly inserted in mouth.
If the “base” of my party was Willie Cunningham, I would either leave it or find a way to eject the mouth of Cinci.
No wonder we don’t do well outside “our” white-bread demographic.
How did Willie the Mouth get on that stage, anyway? We got no black ‘pubs anybody respects anymore? Yeah, that’s the guy I want talkin’ to America for me.
I heard The Mouth of Cinci on Jim Scott this morning and the exact quote was “well, they (the Media) call Bush, Cheney, etc… everything but a WHITE MAN…”.
There was a little skip of silence and and I swear I almost heard Jim Scott choke. I wonder if he didn’t throw up a little in his mouth.
I’m thinkin’ 700 doesn’t put THAT in a podcast or transcript. I’m a-bettin’ they LOSE that one.
What an idiot. If the ‘pubs lose, a part of it may be that the general public thinks that all conservatives are like that puke.
roho on 27 Feb 2008 at 8:19 pm #
“Political Correctness” on parade!………..Hussein is the man’s middle name, and I have no idea who Cunningham is. But I do agree with him that “I also regret that John McCain is the candidate for the Republican party”!
“Local campaign workers confirmed Cunningham’s account.”……This is what happens when stupid conservatives refuse to believe that the GOP(Gutted Our Principles) are no longer a conservative movement, but a bunch of thumb sucking liberals trying to out do one another in a world of PC!
Hussein, Hussein, Hussein………..It is his middle name!….Not Harvey!
Andrew T. on 27 Feb 2008 at 9:29 pm #
roho,
It’s not normal to call someone by their middle name. McCain called Barack Obama by his middle name, Hussein, to reinforce the tired canard that he is pro-terrorism. That’s what makes it dangerous and any bright ten-year-old can realize this without trouble.
roho on 27 Feb 2008 at 11:47 pm #
Andrew T………………..You scolded me for poor spelling my first week on this site!………Then you claimed that my punctuation and unlimmited amount of periods offended you! What is your f&^%@*G problem?
1. Are you one of those fat a$$ kids that never got the ball in dodge ball?
2. Did you get your a$$ whipped on a regular basis for having a smart mouth on the playground?
3. Did you find yourself hanging in front of your computor, because it understood you when humans didn’t?
4. Have you had difficulty understanding that MOST of America don’t care that your a Roman Catholic and thinks that the Vatican is the final answer?
5. Have you not realized that “ELITIST” exist within the CONSERVATIVE community, and you are a textbook example!
6. Have you been disapointed that the WORLD has not recognized you as the next Ernest Hemingway?….(Are you a disenfranchisede educater?)
Sence I came to this site, you have been the self-appointed guru of understanding, and correcting everybody!……..But, I ain’t everybody! I’m an Alabama Boy that would whip your A$$ in public if you had the gonads to show!…………Instead, your little fat fingers dsiscovered the kieyboard miracle of being able to insult people without getting your f#@&^%G nose broke!
In the future, you might want to keep in mind that the “Left Click” on that mouse allows you to scroll past my posts, much like a clicker on TV let’s you change channels. Listening to me is optional. Your infection of Political Correctness may not be shared by all?…….If you are offended by my sugestions, I will be more than happpy to meet you half way in the parking lot of some WALMART, and whip your A$$!
Call for arrangements at roho8@charter.net!…………Respectfully Yours, but had enough!
Andrew T. on 28 Feb 2008 at 1:21 am #
roho,
To answer your questions:
1. Yes, except for the fat part (I’m lean and in shape)
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. I’m not Catholic
5. Yep, and loving it
6. Ernest Hemingway?
I’m not trying to single you out, roho. Wow, I suppose I caught you at a bad time?
As an elitist, I do my best to be virtuous with all the opportunities I have, try to use my mental abilities to their fullest potential, and think every other member of society should be beholden to the very same to the extent that it is within their means.
As long as I am within good courtesy, I don’t hesitate to attempt to transfer my own values to others, and that includes me occasionally pointing out that your writing talents often violate some of the basic properties of the English language. I’ve only pointed this out two or three times in several months of reading your comments, mind you. Now you’re mock-threatening me because I offered a critique of the way you’re interpreting McCain’s deliberate insinuative use of Obama’s middle name, in my attempt to bring sound reason to the discussion? For my doing the very best I can to live the best I might? Great job you’re doing at furthering the stereotype that Alabamans are violent, uneducated hicks.
Elizabeth Wright on 28 Feb 2008 at 3:59 pm #
Can you believe this coming so early on from the Big Tough Guy McCain? If there is anyone from whom you would not expect this type of groveling, it’s McCain. But we now see what to expect from this phony. Just think of those disgusting smear jobs that were done on Kerry and the paraplegic Max Cleland. If the worst that had been done to those two men was simply the use of weird or unusual middle names, they would have counted it a blessing.
Doesn’t the McCain camp realize the power they have put into Obama’s hands by displaying their timorous behavior towards him? Now, anything the Obama camp declares “disrespectful” to their candidate’s race will be so — just because they say so. Blacks can keep McCain jumping through hoops the way they do with so many whites. I had expected McCain to turn this race game on its head, but I should have known better.
I never heard of this Cunningham, but in a day and age when white men fall on their swords at even the hint of black displeasure, at least he stood his ground, as he correctly reminded us that Hussein is, after all, the guy’s name. Or has Cunningham already folded? If Obama is, indeed, ashamed of his middle name, let him declare it.
What fools the Republicans were to allow themselves to be ruled by that evangelical crowd, who destroyed the candidacy of Mitt Romney. He would not be any less timorous when facing down a black, but at least gives an overall appearance of being in charge, in contrast to McCain whose very physical movements are halting and pitiful to watch. There’s something to be said for youth. The Obama camp are going to make mincemeat of this old man.
By the way, I can remember hearing the phrase “William Jefferson Clinton” ringing in my ears throughout Clinton’s two terms. I don’t know the middle names of any other Presidents, but I sure will remember his forever. What were the intentions of the people who constantly used his full name?
Elizabeth Wright on 28 Feb 2008 at 4:19 pm #
“Great job you’re doing at furthering the stereotype that Alabamans are violent, uneducated hicks.”
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And this is the core of today’s white man. He finds other whites to beat up on, in his anxiety to prove to the world that he himself is virtuous and good. He also enjoys exaggerating the aggressive intentions of other whites. “Look at those violent, uneducated white hicks, unlike me, the intelligent, reasonable, non-violent and noble specimen of white manhood.” Actually, such a twit would not make mention of his whiteness at all, since that might be seen as bad taste and possibly considered racist.
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“I don’t hesitate to attempt to transfer my own values to others…”
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Well, intelligent people normally transfer those values by simply offering their opinions and clarifying their observations, not by singling out individuals and arrogantly preaching a party line. Along with correcting their grammar! How does one get that outrageously pompous? (Gee, is that grammatically correct?)
Bill R on 28 Feb 2008 at 5:00 pm #
So Cunningham is racist for using Obama’s middle name repeatedly, trying to underscore his likely “soft” stand on terrorism despite what he says?
Big deal.
Why is it the same fella doesn’t realize that Obama is a HUGE racist? Dig out the facts for yourself.
His church is black nationalist, swearing allegiance to Africa not America. Hence why he refuses to wear the flag pin, The pastor’s good buddy is Farrakhan who hates whites and advocates violence towards jews and whites, a past black panther, who has met with Qaddafi in company of the pastor himself. They weren’t there adopting Islam. They were seeking funding for TERRORIST activity against whites. This is Obama’s church, pastor, and now Farrakhan endorses Obama? Obama, of course, “denounces” the anti-semitic comments of Farrakhan. Did anybody else but me notice the obvious ommission? That Obama did NOT denounce the anti-white race baiting and hateful comments towards WHITES that Farrakhan continually makes?
His wife obviously hates whites, despite her attendance it ivy league schools through programs established BY whites. She is only NOW proud of her country (for the first time) because we are stupidly applauding a black closet white hater for president….her husband.
He talks a good game. He is very persuasive and reasonable sounding. That’s his charm. We were charmed once before by a white guy. Name of Bill Clinton. We were charmed by a “conservative” named George Bush the Little. They proved not to be what they pretended to be. We cannot afford to have this man in the white house and have him putting judges on the bench, and establishing programs with the force of law given his ties to REAL racists and anti-American activities.
roho on 29 Feb 2008 at 2:47 am #
Political Correctness will kill us all if we can’t understand it’s agenda.
PC is a LIE dressed in guilt, inorder to not be questioned.
It has crippled so many peoples thinking that they now have a handicapped reasoning skill…….TRUTH is truth and a LIE is a lie, but the truth will set you free without guilt! (And a PC lie that one is forced to EXCEPT will make a reasonable person become a rascist or antisimite because they are scorned on the basis of PC instead of their actions.)
Leviathan can’t function without conflict, and needs it in many forms to control the masses.(Murray Rothbard)