Burn in Hell, John McCain

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.

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.

Here are Mr. Cunningham's remarks:



Notice that Bill didn't say one word about B. Hussein Obama that wasn't the absolute truth. But John F**king McCain couldn't wait to run to a microphone and apologise, calling both Hussein and Mrs. Bill Clinton "honorable".

Bill Cunningham is a solid conservative who has been serving the conservative movement for decades. To be so disrespected by the Republican nominee for doing nothing more than saying the God's honest truth is mind boggling!

I want all of you brain-dead McCain kool-aid drinkers to take a good close look at this and tell me if you can still stick your fingers in your ears and hum loud enough to drown out McCain's leftism!

This little man is a left-wing mole burrowing into the Republican party with the intention of destroying it. Go ahead and vote for him if you want to guarantee that there will never again be a conservative president of the USA. Because that is what you'll do. McCain will so rip the heart out of the Republican party that it will never elect another president, at least not a conservative one.