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McCain Apologizes for "Hussein Obama"

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rocketsjudoka, Feb 26, 2008.

  1. rocketsjudoka

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    We're arguing about how to pronounce Obama's last name. This is ridiculous. Whatever tribe or ethnicity he comes from he pronounces it Oh-Bah-Mah. If that's the way he pronounces it then that's the way its supposed to be pronounced. I doubt any of you would appreciate someone pronouncing your name differently than the way you pronounce it.
     
  2. Refman

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    Transient Ischemic Attack?

    j/k...I know you mean Thanks In Advance...but I just couldn't help myself. :D
     
  3. MR. MEOWGI

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    Oh-Bah-Bah-Bah-Mah-Bing-Lah-Bah-Mah-Bing-Bang!


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  4. jo mama

    jo mama Member

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    tradertexx knows what he is doing. his attempts at race baiting and then feigning ignorance are transparent to all.
     
  5. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    To say nothing of boring.

    On topic: I love that Mr. Idiot introducing guy is having a big ole public cow, saying he's been "thrown under the Straight Talk Express!" LMAO -- nice work, GOP.
     
  6. BigBenito

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    Even Rove thinks tex is a bigot.
     
  7. mc mark

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    too late
     
  8. SamCassell

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    And it's a language spoken in the United States. A small percentage of the population speak it in both countries. Few Muslims in Kenya, and very few speaking Arabic. The majority of the country is Christian, and the official languages are Swahili and English. Either way, there's no reason why you would try to pronounce or spell "Obama" as an Arabic name, when there's no indication that it has anything to do with that language. You only make yourself look foolish.

    And yes, I know I'm feeding a troll and a bigot by responding.
     
  9. bucket

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    Nicely done.

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  10. Dairy Ashford

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    I think the KKK story was satire, even though Farrakhan and the Klan agreeing on something would not be that surreal, 50 or 60 years ago. For whatever reason, I think the stormfronters might have hitched their wagon to Ron Paul.
     
  11. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    This is nearly satire on its own. The Nutjobs Strike Back!

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    CINCINNATI, Ohio (CNN) -- A conservative radio talk-show host said that "he's had it up to here" with Sen. John McCain after the GOP presidential candidate repudiated the commentator's remarks about Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at a campaign event.

    "John McCain threw me under a bus -- under the 'Straight Talk Express,' " Bill Cunningham told CNN on Tuesday, referring to McCain's campaign bus.

    Earlier Tuesday, Cunningham spoke at a McCain campaign event in Cincinnati and called Obama a "hack, Chicago-style Daley politician."

    "All is going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing 'Kumbaya' around the table of Barack Obama," the commentator told the crowd.

    Cunningham, known for his flame-throwing style, repeatedly used Obama's middle name -- Hussein -- during his remarks, made as a warm-up for the audience waiting to hear McCain speak.

    In his first public comment since Tuesday's event, Cunningham defended his use of Hussein, which he called "a proud Muslim name."

    "I have nothing but respect for my Muslim brothers and sisters," he said. "The ones who oppose that particular name, they're the ones with the problem, not me. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

    The radio-show host also compared Clinton unfavorably to first lady Laura Bush during the rally.

    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.


    McCain on Wednesday said his concern wasn't necessarily with what Cunningham said, but where he said it.

    "I don't intend in any way to tell talk-show hosts or anyone else in America what they should say or not say. This is a country that people believe in free speech," McCain said. "The reason why I had to repudiate that was because it was a campaign event associated with my campaign."

    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.

    Cunningham also disputed McCain's contention that the two had never met, saying he has met the senator twice.

    "But I'm not going to meet him again. I've had it up to here with John McCain. I'm joining Ann Coulter in supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton," he said.

    McCain staffers said the senator does not recall meeting Cunningham, but it is possible that they may have done so briefly at an event.

    "But does Sen. McCain know him? No," an aide said.

    McCain has drawn criticism from other conservative voices, including radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt and Lars Larson.

    The senator from Arizona has been at odds with some of the GOP's conservative base for his stance on immigration, support of campaign finance reform and his votes against President Bush's tax cuts. McCain has said he would make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
     
  12. jo mama

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    first of all jorge, obama has denounced farrakhan and said he didnt want his support.

    second, the kkk article was satire. you are either such a dolt that it went over your head or you are being intentionally dishonest when you bring it up. either way, you have NO CRED. :p
     
  13. Major

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    The Tennessee GOP did something similar, and the RNC responded with this:

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/180499.php


    The Republican National Committee this afternoon scolded the Tennessee Republican Party over their use of "Barack Hussein Obama" in an official press release and warned the state party that they will be denounced by the national committee if they use the Democrat's middle name again, said a GOP official close to the RNC.

    "The RNC has notified the Tennessee GOP that they do not support or agree with their approach," said this source, requesting anonymity to discuss the private conversation between a staffer in the national committee's political department and a top aide at the state party. "If they don't refrain from doing so again, they will be publicly repudiated by the Republican National Committee."

    This source said the national committee did not ask the Tennessee party to retract their statement, but effectively put them on notice for the future.


    Apparently, the Tennessee GOP communications guy is a moron. He linked to a sarcastic post about Obama and Kaddafi on his blog, thinking it was serious. Also from that link - you can get to the original blog posts through the link above:


    Sure enough, the press release is still up, stripped of the Hussein reference (we captured a portion of the earlier version, with Hussein intact). The author of the press release was state communications director Bill Hobbs. Ironically, Hobbs apparently missed the sarcasm in Josh's satirical post below about these attempts to smear Obama, and late today he was approvingly citing it in a post on his own blog.
     
  14. bucket

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    Wow, that makes two epic smack-downs of bigtexxx in one page!

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  15. Nice Rollin

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    who cares if his middle name is Hussein? does that make him a bad person??? Bill Richardson is probably the msot qualified person to be president........do yall think he's a bad person if his name is Bill? do you think he gets blowjobs from monica lewinski because his name is bill? i dont get it
     
  16. Zac D

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    No need to fret, BT and I have been over this. He's just having a hard time kicking the habit, which is understandable, but he'll get there.
     
  17. Invisible Fan

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    He likely won't. It's better to concentrate on one thread per schtick to bookmark the pwnage.
     
  18. mc mark

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    Always trust your first impression.

    from TPM--

    Road Map

    Hopefully, everyone can now see the McCain strategy for running against Barack Obama. Yes, we have some general points on taxes, culture wars and McCain as war hero who can protect us in ways that flash-in-the-pan pretty boy Barack Obama can't.

    But that's not the core. The core is to drill a handful of key adjectives into the public mind about Barack Obama: Muslim, anti-American,BLACK, terrorist, Arab. Maybe a little hustler and shifty thrown in, but we'll have to see. The details and specific arguments are sort of beside the point. They're like the libretto in a Wagner opera, nice for some narrative structure. But it's the score that's the real essence of it, the point of the whole exercise.

    Now, a good deal has been made out of John McCain's repudiation of talk radio yakmeister Bill Cunningham, who led off for McCain at one of his rallies with the full run of Obama sludge. But don't be distracted or fooled. This is more like an example of what the digital commerce folks refer to as 'channel conflict'. You've got your multiple distribution channels. You've got the way McCain's selling the product. Broadcast. Broad and thematic about McCain. But you've got a number of other product channels to sell through, most of them a lot grittier, but no less essential for ultimate success.

    Both can work simultaneously. In fact, in the kind of campaign McCain's running, they're both essential for success (see the 2000 Republican presidential primary in South Carolina). The key is just that the channels don't cross. Because that's when the trouble starts and they can begin to undermine or even short-circuit each other. And that's what threatened to happened here.

    Don't insult your intelligence or mine by pretending that John McCain's plan for this race doesn't rely on hundreds of Cunninghams -- large and small -- across the country, and the RNC and all the GOP third party groups, to be peddling this stuff nonstop for the next eight months because it's the only way John McCain have a real shot at contesting this race.

    If McCain really wants to repudiate this stuff, he can start with the Tennessee Republican party which dished all the slurs and smears about Obama being a Nation of Islam-loving anti-Semite, just today. And once he's done talking to the people who will be running his Tennessee campaign, we'll have a number of others he can talk to, like the head of his Ohio campaign, former Sen. Mike DeWine, who gave that Cunningham guy his marching orders.

    Let's just not fool ourselves, not lie to ourselves about what's happening here and who's in charge.


    --Josh Marshall
    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
     
  19. basso

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    what an absolutely idiotic screed.
     
  20. mc mark

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    signed

    Freedom's Watch
    the TN GOP
    Bill Cunningham
    Progress for America
    Rush Limbaugh
    Ann Coutler
    etc...

    [edit] I forgot the big one...FAUX news
     
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