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Praise Allah?

Are you a Muslim G-Man or are you just comfortable insinuating that Obama is one?

Again, you're low life.

is everyone in LA as oversensitive as you?

Praise Allah!

Cunningham fucked him good today.

Free from tranny!? That bastard!

Yahoo! News

McCain disavows comments about Obama
Tue Feb 26, 6:42 PM ET

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

• CINCINNATI - 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 Democratic presidential candidate 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 laughed.
  
  The time will come, Cunningham added, when the liberal-leaning 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 or, he says, in the building when Cunningham made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from the radio 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."
  
  McCain called both Democrats "honorable Americans" and said, "I want to dissociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them."
  
  Asked whether the use of Obama's middle name — the same as former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — is proper, McCain said: "No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate."
  
  McCain said he didn't know who decided to allow Cunningham to speak but said he was sure it was in coordination with his campaign. He said he didn't hear the comments and has never met Cunningham, but "I will certainly make sure that nothing like that happens again."
  
  Responding to McCain's apology, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "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."
  
  Last fall, McCain faced criticism for initially not repudiating a voter in South Carolina who called Clinton a "bitch." McCain chuckled in response to the voter's question, but didn't embrace the epithet. A few minutes later, he said he respected Clinton, a New York senator and colleague.
  
  Aside from using Obama's middle name, Cunningham also mocked the Illinois senator's foreign policy statements about his willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue nations. He said he envisions a future in which "the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya together around the table with Barack Obama."
  
  At one point, Cunningham compared Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Madeleine Albright, whom he said "looks like death warmed over." He also commented on the difference between former Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, whose wife is named Jane, and Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay member of Congress. "Jane's the main difference. But that's a different story," Cunningham said.
  
  As Cunningham finished, Portman, who is mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate, took the microphone to introduce McCain.
  
  "Willie, you're out of control again. So, what else is new? But we love him," Portman said. "But I've got to tell you, Bill Cunningham lending his voice to this campaign is extremely important. He did it in 2000, he did it in 2004. It was crucial to victory then and it's even more important this year with his bigger radio audience. So, Bill Cunningham, thank you for lending your voice."
  
  Speaking to reporters later alongside McCain, Portman said: "I was backstage so I didn't hear everything he said. Bill Cunningham is a radio talk show host who is often controversial so it does not surprise me that he was controversial." He added: "That's, I guess, how he makes his living."

Yahoo! News

Former rival Dodd endorses Obama
Tue Feb 26, 3:44 PM ET

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

• CLEVELAND - Sen. Christopher Dodd endorsed one-time presidential rival Barack Obama on Tuesday and said it is time for Democrats to join forces to defeat the Republicans in the fall campaign.
  
  "I don't want a campaign that is divisive here, and there's a danger in that," Dodd said, although he denied he was nudging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to end her candidacy.
  
  Dodd said Obama was "ready to be president and I am ready to support him in this campaign."
  
  The two men appeared together at a news conference. Dodd is the first of the Democratic campaign dropouts to endorse another candidate.
  
  He said Obama "has been poked and prodded, analyzed and criticized, called too green, too trusting and for all of that has already won" more than half the states and millions of votes.
  
  "It's now the hour to come together. ... This is the moment for Democrats and independents and others to come together, to get behind this candidacy," he said.
  
  Dodd said he spoke with Clinton on Monday evening to tell her of his decision.
  
  Dodd said he wasn't worried that the candidates would go too far in their pursuit of victory, but that their aides and supporters might.
  
  "We've witnessed a little bit of that" in recent days, he said.
  
  That was an apparent reference to a photograph that shows Obama wearing a white turban and a wraparound white robe that was presented to him by elders in Wajir, in northeastern Kenya.
  
  The gossip and news Web site The Drudge Report posted the photograph Monday and said it was being circulated by "Clinton staffers" and quoted an e-mail from an unidentified campaign aide. Drudge did not include proof of the e-mail in the report.
  
  The Clinton campaign has said it did not sanction circulation of the photo.
  
  Obama told reporters, "I don't think that photograph was circulated to enhance my candidacy, I think that's fair to say.
  
  "... Do I think that is reflective of Senator Clinton's approach to the campaign, probably not."

How so?

Lemee guess. More unfounded insinuations that Obama is a Muslim perchance in order to scare up more FEAR and prejudice?

Gotta love the right wings only trump cards.

...speaking of which... It seems the gOP is worried about being labeled bigots and did polling to gauge how slimy is TOO slimy. Even for them.

It never struck me as especially complicated. Once there was a clear Democratic presidential nominee, the Republican National Committee would label him or her weak on terror, liberal (on everything), and desperate to raise your taxes. Throw in some references to 9/11, a few pictures of menacing-looking Middle Easterners, and a dash of immigrant bashing, and voila!

But it appears the RNC is hesitating, not because they’re unsure how to attack, but rather, because they want to prefer to avoid being labeled bigots.



Look, RNC officials know the difference between a clean attack and a dirty one. They recognize when an attack is driven by race-based politics, and when one is substantive and above-board. The only reason they would need a focus group to help them out on this is if they planned to walk right up to the decency line, and wanted to know how far they could go without crossing it.

And that's part of the beauty of Obama. Not only is he inspiring the nation but the GOP are unsure how to slime him. They know perfectly well how to slime the Clinton's. Hell, they've been doing it for years! It seems for now all they have to play with is peoples fear and ignorance about Obama's religion and yeah, it's payed divedends for them with their ignorant misinformed base, weaned on a diet of FOX News and Limbaugh.

True.

You'd think that Obama's opponents would have realized by now that the he's-a-Muslim-terrorist-OMG! fearmongering thing hasn't worked very well. I've spoken to a good number of people about it, and while too many still think he's Muslim, too few equate that with being a terrorist.

That and, you know, eleven in a row.

your biased though.

Notch up a few more wins.

Hillary didn't do herself any favors last night at the debate.

Her bitching about 'always' being asked the first question didn't help at all. She tried to play it off as a joke, but it sounded like a bitch. It's really odd, too, since being asked the first question has helped her in setting the tone of the whole debate.

Let's face it. Hillary is a bitch, has always been a bitch and will always be a bitch. But now that she's running, for the first time in her life, against an appealing candidate of her own party, and losing, it's harder and harder for her to mask that essential bitchiness, especially now that the media isn't covering it up for her.

As are you.

However, the poll numbers are what they are. Nothing Obama's opponents are throwing at him is sticking, and that includes the emails, pictures, and all else that try to tie him to Islam.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Report: Lewis to Endorse Obama

1 hour ago

• WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader John Lewis has dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid in favor of Barack Obama, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
  
  Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton's campaign in the face of near-majority black support for Obama in recent voting. He also is a superdelegate who gets a vote at this summer's national convention in Denver.
  
  "It's been a long, hard difficult struggle to come to where I am," Lewis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview. "But when I am, as a superdelegate, I plan to cast my vote at the convention for Barack Obama."
  
  Lewis' constituents supported Obama roughly 3-to-1 in Georgia's Feb. 5 primary. His endorsement had been a coveted prize among the Democratic candidates thanks to his standing as one of the last major civil rights leaders of the 1960s.
  
  Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota endorsed Obama on Wednesday, citing his record on trade.
  
  "Senator Obama has never felt ... that NAFTA was good for America," Dorgan said in a campaign conference call with reporters.
  
  Dorgan said Obama has supported key trade issues. "He and I feel the same way. We both believe in trade and plenty of it. We just insist it that it be fair to our country — the rules be fair."
  
  NAFTA, the free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, is unpopular with blue-collar workers whose votes are critical in the Democratic primary Tuesday in Ohio.
  
  Obama has won 11 straight primaries and caucuses since Super Tuesday, increased his advantage in the all-important delegate count and has attracted the support of his congressional colleagues. On Tuesday, he secured the endorsement of one-time presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut.
  
  Clinton has been endorsed by 13 of her Senate colleagues, Obama 10.
  
  Dorgan was an ally of former President Clinton and a vocal critic of President Bush. As chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, he has led hearings on government accountability issues related to the Iraq war and hurricanes on the Gulf Coast.
  
  Dorgan has built a reputation for championing populist farm programs, criticizing Republican free-trade policies and assailing big business. He made headlines in 2005 when he called for a windfall profits tax on major oil companies.
  
  Last year, he authored a measured to block funding of a Department of Transportation pilot program required under NAFTA that would have opened the U.S. to cross-border long-haul Mexican tractor trailers. The program was opposed by the Teamsters Union, among others.

Apparently her handlers thought she had to come out there and be "tough". And yeah, all she did was come off as an overbearing whiny bitch. How the fuck do you whine about the moderator giving you the advantage??!! It just boggles the mind. It just came off as sounding like "waaa, everyones against me even Brian Williams!!!"

I'm tempted to make a quip about something vast.....

no i'm not. i'm politically neutral.

I'm not a right winger.

I don't see why he is defensive about a pic that he posed for.

I'm sure if I were to guess what you're thinking, I'd be right on the money, but I'm reluctant to post it.

Although maybe if I posted in wingding font, like in code...

Yeah, we members of the VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACYTM are really excited to welcome Brian Williams and the rest of the NBC news department into the fold. I just wish they got the memo that we don't like Obama either. That's why we made up a fake middle name and photoshopped him into a picture with a turban on his head.

Don't you feel better now that you've said it out loud?

You & many other Obama supporters really sound just like Rush republicans in your nastiness.

Somebody care to explain to me G-man's fascination with the she-males?

So he actually thinks Clinton would be the better candidate personally but since his constituents like Obama more he's switching his support?


Does Obama actually have much of a record on trade? I'm also pretty sure that all the candidates believe in & are for trade with fair rules to our country.

Funny.

Because amost all the media outlets are laying praise on Obama and saying that he defused a potentially embarrassing situation cooly and expertly.

I watched that segment and it came across to me that Hillary was splitting hairs between "denounce" and "reject" and Obama was like,"well,if it'll make you feel better,then I'll say "reject"." Hillary came across,to me,grasping at straws to make him look bad.I don't think it worked though.

Even if that is the case, it doesn't contradict what the article said, namely that he "caught heat" for it. It simply means that he allegedly defused it.

Yes. Sort of like how G-man is also grasping at straws, above.

It’s unexpected, but even Karl Rove is discouraging Republican attack dogs from throwing around Barack Obama’s middle name.

No less an authority figure than Karl Rove has warned Republican operatives from demagoguing Barack Obama’s middle name.

At a closed door meeting of GOP state executive directors in late January, Rove said the safest way to refer to Obama would be to use his honorific, “Sen. Obama.”



Rove’s remarks come just one day after John McCain said he believes use of “Hussein” is inappropriate.

G-Man however is unswayed as he takes his marching orders from a higher power. AM hate radio. And there no one is ever concerned if they come off as sounding bigoted.

It’s unlikely the rest the party’s far-right base is going to listen to either of them either. Indeed, the Republican Party of Tennessee already seems anxious to reinforce the notion that Republicans are bigoted and don’t care whether it hurts the party or not.

OH NO!!! The aP is publishing a story setting the record straight. G-Man and his far right slime merchants are going to have to work doubly hard now to reinforce the notion and deceive people that Obama is Muslim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





I like the URL to this story too. "Obama Muslim myth". As i've said repeatedly though, the far right though likes to deal in myth as per Leo Strauss and neoconseratism. Whether it's against someone or for their own particular worldview.

So, basically, the moral of this story is that the GOP is treating Obama better than Clinton and certain other members of his own party are.

Our party is truly the party of inclusion. Thank you for pointing his out, whomod.

Depends if you're listening to Karl Rove and John McCain or if you and Rove and McCain are just paying lip service and things will continue as they are and have been.

Seeing you're still using "Hussein" in your title, you're full of shit.

Hillary has fired people for going that route so I don't see how you can say she was ever for those tactics. Rove isn't for better treatment though, I think he knows that type of thing isn't going to help McCain win.