McCain does the right thing
At a rally earlier today a talk show host who was introducing the guy introducing John McCain referred to Barack Obama as Barack Hussein Obama again and again. Now, some people will say that’s just Obama’s full name but there can’t really be any doubt that people who insist on using his middle name are pandering to prejudice and trying to push the lie that Obama is some kind of Islamist agent planning to take America down from the inside.
When informed of what had happened, McCain instantly—and forcefully—repudiated the comments and promised to “make sure that nothing like that ever happens again.”
McCain did the right thing both morally and politically. If the Republicans are seen to be pandering to prejudice in their campaign against Obama it would be toxic to their chances. Obama has also shown himself to be an expert at pushing back against this kind of attack; note how the whole Drudge photo ended up causing far more problems for the Clinton campaign than the Obama one.
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February 28th, 2008 3:07pmI'd like to know what these right wing 'patriots' think about American heroes like General OMAR Bradley or General George Joulwan, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander of Europe or Gen. John Abizaid, former CENTCOM commander?