McCain Apologizes Profusely for ‘Hussein Obama’

McCain showing class, much like Obama calling McCain a true American Hero. It’s refreshing to see a story like this.

And now the military is afraid of Obama, at least according to the neo-con journalist John Solomon at the Washington (Moonie) Times. McCain should tell Solomon our military is not afraid of anyone, particularly not a single man. Wonder if Solomon checks for boogie men under his bed at night?

Why McCain is apologizing? Why are we so afraid of Obama’s real name? Why is Obama ashamed of his real name?

I got news for you. If you think Obama or anyone else is going to be able to change the tone you are sadly mistaken. Bush did try, but people like you and your utter hatred for Bush made it impossible. It will continue, I dont care how many people Obama wants to have tea with, the tone will remain the same. Obama has not reached across the aisle for anything, now all of a sudden he will bring change. What a bunch of kool aid drinkers.

It is not about the name. It is about the use. We are Americans first before anything. I am white and my vote will not go to anyone that use race or reliogion to divide us because we will stand as one against our adversories. Our brave sodiers are fighting for the peace that we have and they caught across racial and religion.
I commened McCain for his response. Black, whites, christain, jews, muslims are all dying for the freedom that we have.

The Republican hate machine strikes again. Why do these angry, paranoid hatemongers think we will ever let them run the country again? Even McCain knows that his party is doomed by it’s divisiveness and hatred. The GOP is a party of irrelevant, racist cranks who hate the government. Time to send them back to their bunkers where they belong.

“Hussein” is not the complete pejorative some people make it out to be and shouldn’t be exclusive to a reminder of Saddam Hussein. There are good people with that name. For instance, King Hussein of Jordan was a staunch ally of the United States.

More proof that today’s Republicans are horrible human beings. What a disgusting jerk this Bill Cunningham guy is – a total racist jerk.

McCAIN knows that Obama respects him and he ought to return the favor. The name Hussein is used to prejudice Obama and for now can not be used to gain favor. Obama could have attacked him on his sex scandal and chose to call him an American HERO.

Bill Cunningham’s a fixture in Cincinnati. He shouldn’t have placed McCain in that position. I’m glad that McCain apologized.

akinca – LOL… sorry, hon, but a potted plant would do a better job than that incompetent, unelected fraud Bush. He is the worst President in American history and the most disliked, too. The people have spoken and so has history.

Oh and by the way, I am not in the minority. Mabey on this liberal web site. I only come hear to see what you guys are thinking. I guarentee you there are alot of people in this country who do not like his middel name and are afraid of him. Sorry if you dont like it but those are the facts. Get over it. If Obama wants to clear himself than he should just come out and say it, not get upset everytime someone mentions it. He is acting like a cry baby

“You are known by the company you keep” was advise given to me growing up obviously McCain wasn’t taught such wisdom judging from his mother’s words.

If this man is nominated (obama) does that mean everyone will have to apoligize for saying his full name. Please!! Does that also mean that if he is being sworn in and his full name is said the person has to stop and apoligize.

Well said, ‘ekm’ and ‘james’. People, we are not a creation of our names. George W. Bush’s middle name is “Walker”… does that make him a Texas Ranger? (He may think so…)

McCain is right. Why oh why won’t Hillary either apologize for or disavow the turban photo cheap shot? Refusing to admit a mistake is reminiscent of our current White House occupant.

It’s Ok the American people are smarter than that. It does not mater any more what his name is, Obama is the real deal.

It is not about the name. It is about the use. We are Americans first before anything. I am white and my vote will not go to anyone that use race or reliogion to divide us because we will stand as one against our adversories. Our brave sodiers are fighting for the peace that we have and they caught across racial and religion.
I commened McCain for his response. Black, whites, christain, jews, muslims are all dying for the freedom that we have.

This was a classy thing to do. I think a McCain vs. Obama election would be more substantive, mature and respectful than a Hillary vs McCain election. Obama has given McCain much respect but acknowledges the differences between them.

Quick, what’s Hillary Clinton, and John McCain’s middle names? I doubt few people know off the top of their heads, make no mistake about it. When Obama’s name is used in full, it’s not meant to be a compliment. He should not be ashamed of it, but people should honestly recognize it for what it is. An attempt to show that he is a closet Muslim.

It’s a sad day when you have to apologize for calling someone by their name.

why people get ofended by his full name.
Why, Obama try to hide the truth

Patricia – there’s nothing wrong with his name. But why would this Cunningham clown use it so pointedly when Obama himself doesn’t use it. Obviously there is an agenda at work here. Cunningham is using Obama’s middle name as a codeword to link him to one of America’s enemies by association. Anyone who doesn’t see this is either stupid or disingenous. And decent Americans are not going to stand for this kind of divisive BS from far right smear merchants ever again. The days of Swiftboating are long over.

I have heard a tape of that “introduction” and there is no doubt that Cunningham was using Obama’s full name in a way that was meant to be both hurtful and prejudicial. If the full name had been used without the obvious negative connotations I don’t believe anyone would have objected, but that is NOT the way it was done. Even though McCain did not use Obama’s name in that way, it is fair to say was being said in his name. Under these circumstances it was appropriate for him to apologize.

One can very quickly, easily and correctly infer the overall intelligence and relative level of bigotry/intolerance in a person simply by whether or not that person fraudulently calls Obama a “muslim,” states fraudulently that Obama was sworn in using a Koran, or attempts to make others of his or her dim ilk fraudulently believe that Obama does not place his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. Each is a scurrilous lie, perpetrated by evil-doers with a devious agenda.
A flag pin DOES NOT make anyone a patriot, and in the immortal words of John Prine, “your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore.”

What you Clinton people fail to realize is that there ain’t nothing you canned cream of corn people can do about Barack Hussein Obama. He will be the next president of the United States. He is American and Christian. He reminds us that we are the change we desire.

But Obama has been exploiting the race card. Apparently, news agencies are now reporting that an Obama supporter was actually the person who spread the photos of him in Kenyan costume. It bothers me that he pointed to Clinton and saying she was fear mongering.

JuJu – you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. Odinga is an Anglican and the majority of Luo are actually Christians. You’re clearly not from Kenya and are a liar. Stop lying, liar. Don’t you know by now that there will always be people smarter than you Republicans to set the record straight when you try to spread your filth?

Karl,
that’d be WHERE the sun… As a Dem. I’m finding more and more of “us” are, unfortunately, lacking insight into how the world works (and how to speak and write correctly)- GWB was chosen by enough voters over our lame Dem. canidate, and though not so diplomatic, has been able to preside over 6+ yrs of no more attacks. Not to mention he has had the guts to do whats right despite the difficulties, too-high-price-to-pay of any war, to at least try to resolve the issues at the root cause of why psycho killers go after us. It will be great when we all benefit from his tough calls, and we can get back to building relationships around the world. But there was a time for military might, and I think he was the right guy @ the right time, none-the-less glad to see him retire. If we Dems would update our wrong platform and loose the horribly wrong “womens right to kill her unborn human being” and replace it with free, effective healthcare for all women and children that “…does no harm!” we Dems would easily get back in the White House- I’ll be voting for McCain unfortunately, because at least he knows the difference between right and wrong

I don’t get it. Why is an apology needed here? Isn’t that Obama’s name? Am I missing something here?

Will someone enlighten me as to why John McCain should “profusly apologize” to obama for using his middle name? What will be next – no one will be able to say he is black? No one will be able to evey speak of him? He is now a god that if you even speak his name, you will be struck down by a thousand lightning strikes?
What in God’s Good name is going on with this election? What in God’s Good name have we let happen to the United States of America?
The next step here will be to say Heil Obama as we view him.
This canadidate is the worse thing that has ever happened to the USA -
You people have no idea what we will be against.
AND YOU THINK THAT BUSH IS BAD? JUST WAIT.

MelanieTX – Just curious – do you call McCain by his middle name, too? Obviously it’s a matter of respect. If Obama doesn’t choose to use his middle name publicly, why would anyone go out of their way to use it if they didn’t have an agenda? Clearly it is intended as a form of disrespect. Dont be disingenous – the rest of us can see right through this kind of thing.

akinca: Who wished harm to President Bush? That’s a red herring. I’ve just wished that that incompetent, ignorant, inarticulate imbecile had not been able to do so much harm to our country. George bush has disgraced a great country and if you think it’s fun to say that, you’re not paying attention to the suffering that this buffoon has caused… suffering that will go on for a long time after he’s out of office. I’d be careful supporting George Bush then calling folks who disagree names like “losers,” rational people will conclude that you’ve lost your grip on reality, assuming of course that you have had a grip on reality.

Something to ponder: Could the majority of the negative postings (from both sides) actually be the work of campaign shills? I would suspect that they are. That would explain the purposely misspelled common words… intended to make readers think that the poster is less-educated. I suspect that the bulk of the anti-Obama postings you find here and on most websites are creations of the Karl Rove School of Dirty Politics. I would further believe that the pro-Clinton postings are the work of straight-ticket-voting Republicans who think that McCain would have a better chance against Clinton than Obama. Then again, didn’t King Ditto-Head and the rest of the right-wing media community get very rich during the Clinton Administration? Maybe Limbaugh/O’Reilly/Coulter/Hannity/C.Wallace… et al… secretly want Hillary to win…???

Brian – wow, you Republicans must be pretty desperate to have to pose as Dems just get anybody to listen to your pathetic pro-Bush talking points. Meanwhile, here in the real world, nobody cares what you dumb, desperate cons think about anything anymore. So sad that you no longer have the courage of your convictions to stand up for what you believe in withour resorting to pathetic charades. Good luck with that, loser. LOL

If Obama’s name was John Edward Smith, he wouldn’t be calling him by his full name, would he? If McCain’s middle name was John Hitler McCain, do you think the Democrats would use his full name every time they referred to him? This goes along with the FOX inspired BS about Obama being a Muslim. WHO CARES if he is – look what your born again, cHristian has done in the past seven years!

John Sidney McCain III … is his whole name.. but no one refers to him by that…get real people.. SILLY SEASON NEEDS TO LEAVE WITH WINTER

It’s great to finally see the Republican hate machine breaking down and choking on its own bile. Obama has reversed the polarity and now every time some dumb racist Republican attacks him with this nonsense, it just hurts the GOP instead. I LOVE it! Bottom line: Americans are sick of Republican nastiness and divisiveness.

Isn’t that his name? Barack Hussein Obama, Hillery Rodham Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Is it not normal to use full name?

Why opologize for what the Obama’s name is? He isn’t his father or mother who named him. Obama just have to stand up and says HUSSEIN is a great name for a christian and JOSHUA is a great name for musslim child from now on. bla bla bla bla….

The article is about the attacks on the News media, Barack Obama’s name being used intentionally to insinuate Muslim/African names are inexplicably attached to terrorism, and to attack millions of American voters who support Barack for their belief in him. Barack did not ask McCain to apologize and has not showed any shame for his middle name. He likes his funny sounding name. Republicans are good people and I hope more Americans can move past anti-islam feelings. There have been more domestic terrorist that are white males than the 19 “Saudi Arabian” so-called “islamic terroists”. They weren’t any more Islamic than Klan members are Christian. Barack has natural integrity , something that all Americans deserve in a President. McCain probably just didn’t want the news media to lash out on his campaign for the Clinton remarks.

akinca – You wish, lady. Fact is you dumb cons already shot your wad and the rest of us are onto your lame tricks. Notice how quickly this “Barrack Hussien Obama” crap got shot down? Notice that it was a nonstarter? That’s because nobody wants to hear your stupid, juvenile Republican crap anymore. The rest of us are over it – we put up with it during the Clinton years and with the Swiftboating of John McCain, etc, etc, etc. But the truth is you guys have no new tricks left and nobody cares anymore. Face it – you guys had your chance to prove yourselves and the valitidy of your ideas under Bush… and you BLEW IT SPECTACULARLY. Sorry, lady, but Bush and his minions have nobody to blame but themselves, and your lame, impotent threats just make the rest of us laugh and pity you.

McCain is a respectful person. Which is ironic because he as a Republican has carte blanche to throw a fit everytime a Democrat is mentioned. Contrast that with Sen. Clinton and her inability to not attack Obama and for that matter to attack more venomously and you have a real irony of this campaign.

Uhhh… and WHY is it wrong to call Barack Hussein Obama by his real name? Is he ashamed of it? Besides, why should Old Man McCain apologize? He isn’t the one who DARED to speak Obama’s real name! Is THIS the kind of BS to which we will be subjected for nine MONTHS?! Ugh!

McCain never should of apologized. It is his middle name!!! Is he going to legally change that now?
For a man who is proud of his roots, he should not hide from the fact that he was a Muslim and lived that life for 27 years. He changed to Christianity when he met Michelle (wife).

Frank pointed out: “And now the military is afraid of Obama, at least according to the neo-con journalist John Solomon at the Washington (Moonie) Times.”
Please note, people, that Obama received more campaign donations from military members than McCain, which seems an odd way for them to show their “fear.”

To all those questioning why this is an issue or asking “Why should anyone be ashamed of his name?” – You know exactly why – IT’S ALL IN THE CONTEXT.
Of course it’s Obama’s middle name, he’s not “ashamed” of it, but it is being used to conjure up the image that he’s a foreign terrorist sympathiser, to associate his name with an enemy, to try and strike fear in those who would be turned away just because of his name. That’s why and it’s a DELIBERATE usage to that end. Don’t play coy.

I am not a fan of Insane McCain,but i wonder why HE has to apologize?1)The man’s full name is-Barak Hussein Obama,why apologize for using it?2)McCain is not the one who made the comment.This whole PC cr@pola is wearing thin.

Get used to it America. Republicons can’t run on their message so they’ll be resorting to name calling and mudslinging throughout the entire general election season. A sad state of affairs if you ask me.

Bill Cunningham been saying this on hes radio program I heard alot worse by other radio programmers like savages show The clintons call Obama names

It is so funny how all you Dems cant stand the fact that you are now being called names. I think it is so funny. All you have done for 7 years is call names, make jokes about peoples intelligence, put down our troops, Now the shoe is on the other foot and you are all crying like the baby libs you are. This is going to be so fun.

To all you who say “what’s the problem? It’s his name, isn’t it?” Do you think for a minute that if Hillary’s name were Hillary Gay Clinton, she’d accept someone using her full name when she herself doesn’t use her middle name? The innuendo is clear, and Mr. McCain was correct to disassociate himself from Cunningham’s remarks.

I like Hussein. Its much more presidential sounding than Sidney.

McCain just wants to coronate with the Elite and that is Obama/Hillary along with the other corrupt politians. Coronate with the ones like him, not his party.

Akinca and all those who say ‘what is wrong with his name? its his name why is it an issue, like with the photo ‘is he ashamed to be seen in African clothes’ that is not the point ! the problem is the motive behind it, like when racists and Islam haters post their comments and include his middle name as they spew whatever lies they have heard. Despite Obama saying he is a Christian 1million times ! Its not even about being Moslem or not its the fact that people just hate to see someone with such a name or non white close to becoming US president. My advise is GET USED TO IT, THE PRESIDENCY WAS NOT RESERVED FOR ONLY ONE RACE, CULTURE OR TYPE OF PEOPLE !!!

Sen. McCain has integrity, experience, and class (unlike Hillary). Although McCain did not make the disparaging remarks, he clearly demonstrats his position between right and wrong, and good and bad — McCain is obviously taking the high road (unlike Hillary).
On the other hand, Hillary will stoop to slinging more mud, name calling, double standards, etc. Furthermore, Hillary is cut from the same cloth as her LYING, IMPEACHED from POTUS husband, Bill (“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”) Clinton.
Anyone but Hillary ’8

Its just the beginning of the showdown..Obama played the race card well in the primaries and with the media to support him every step of the way I guess he thought the free ride will continue…If he thinks this is bad wait till he wins the nomination….He and his supportes attacked Hillary everyday,saying the meanest and vile things but now he is suddenly very sensitive to his middle name being used..Remember he started the race issue and is now fair game for the Republicans.Cheer up guys you ain`t seen nothin yet..Don`t ever think the ride will be easy..I for one will be following this issue closely because once the slime starts no amount of whining will stop it..booohoooohoo Obama I hope michelle will be proud of you..hahahahahaahha

Why do I hold John McCain responsible for this, even though the words did not come out of his mouth? Have any of you ever been involved in a presentation where a presidential candidate spoke? I have. The candidates campaign staff checks EVERYTHING. The idea the Bill Cuningham could introduce a US Senator running for president while the candidate’s staff did not know his background and the tone that could be expected from his presentation is unimaginable. This is not accidental bigotry; this is fear-mongering straight out of Karl Rove’s playbook, as are the incessantly repeated blog posts conveying essentially the same information in the same ugly tone. As I said, John McCain needs to whip up the bigots to win in November. McCain may have the character and decency to resist the tacticians in his campaign who will use this approach; I would respect him for that but if he is successful at deflating bigotry he will loose in November. Racial & religious bigots are the Republican base after all. If that were not the case, they would not have forced people like me (small-honest-government proponents, fiscal-responsibility-minded believers in individual rights and environmental conservation — you know the sort of people Barry Goldwater called “Conservatives”) out of the Republican Party. No party that embraces Bill Cunningham or Pat Robertson is interested in human decency…jt

John McCain – John Sidney McCain
Hillary Clinton – Hillary Rodham Clinton
George Bush – George Walker Bush
Bill Clinton – William Jefferson Clinton
George Bush 1 – george Herbert Wlaker Bush
Ronald Reagan – Ronald Wilson Reagan
John kennedy – john Fitzgerald kennedy
Now tell me!?? why is it that barack not using his middle name such an issue when NONE of these previous presidents used there middle name. Also why does Baracks middle name have to be mentioned by commentators when others arent!??

The name Hussein does not need an explanation of why it gives the feel it does. Is this new news to America? Why the blown out publicity and racist attacks because of it? Unreal people just don’t have common sense. Get off the left brain trained influences and use your entire brain. Geesh….Judist Priest!

To think I wasted ten minutes of my life reading what all you morons wrote. Don’t any of you people have an original thought?

Kris, Thank You So Much for that message. You are totally correct. I don’t not understand why white conservative people are associating being a Muslim with terrorism either. Tell us white conservative people about Timothy James McVeigh. He was not Muslim, he was born in the USA and still performed a terrorist act against this country. He was a white man that did not represent Muslims he represented Catholics. Explain to us how Obama and his name bombed Oklahoma City? I guess you cannot because terrorists can be any race.

If Obama’s middle name were Fitzgerald, Luther or Walker, do you honestly think Cunningham would be so formal? It’s an obvious attempt to rally the ignorant vote – those too stupid to actually focus on the issues. Instead, they base their “worldly opinions” on unsubstantiated heresay, fear-mongering and racial/religious stereotyping.

“He was a white man that did not represent Muslims he represented Catholics.”
No, he was a self-described agnostic.

It will be nice to see Obama and McCain in the general election. The American public will get to see an election that does not include lying and twisting the truth and trying anything to get elected as the Clintons are so prone to do.

I DO NOT UNDER STAND..THAT IS HIS REAL NAME. IF YOU LISTEN TO MOST OF THE MEDIA OUTLETS THEY HAVE CALLED HILLARY BY HER FULL NAME. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA IF EVERYONE IS AFRIAD TO QUESTION HIM OR TALK ABOUT HIM. REMEMBER EVERYONE WAS AFRIAD TO QUESTION AND TALK ABOUT BUSH AND LOOK AT THE US NOW.

I’m not as concerned about his middle name as I am that a British-Iraqi Billionaire bankrolled his house purchase. If that doesn’t make the hair on the back of your neck stand up nothing will. Of course, if you are a member of a cult you probably see nothing wrong with it.

Why? Because it rallies the low end of the party. They love to be stroked.

Please don’t tell me we have another 9 months of this petty bickering. I guess I would be characterized as a traditional Republican before GW and his cohorts on the far/religious right ruined the party of less spending, lower taxes, states rights etc. (tax cuts without reining in spending are a dangerous thing as McCain argued at the time). Just as 8 years ago McCain is my man. He doesn’t give lip service to reaching across the isle like GW did. He does it. One more thing.. The former Senator John Danforth of my state of Missouri, a minister and a man whos integrity commands respect, posed the question over a year ago “When did the Republican party get hijacked by the religious right?”
He has endorsed McCain. Rush and the far right hate McCain. Enough said.

Ok, for all those that think it wasn’t implying anything and no big deal..
how many times is McCain referred to as John Sydney McCain?
how many times is Hillary referred to as Hillary Diane Clinton?
answer: none, because their are no racial implications. McCain was right to appologize.

People can call Hillary Clinton – Hillary – and practically refer to her as a b—-, but someone can’t call Obama by his entire name? Something is wrong.

SAM SAM SAM
You’ve got to be kidding. It’s Politics and even if Hillary is out of the game, it will be the same old style politics. I hope that it doesn’t get too sanitized and homogenized, it’ll be barf city. The republicans will grill Obama until he’s really black.

The title of his article is flawed.The apology is not about the name but about the insults thrown at Obama. Im not an Obama supporter but I must say McCain is right to disavow these remarks. They were void of any policy issues and full of insults and rubbish. If thats how you, McCain supporters hope to campaign this fall, know you have been defeated even before campaigning.Americans are sick of mudslidging , go ask Hillary!

loved your comment rperry! It’s so sad that people still don’t get it. All the negative comments that have been said and that will continue to be said saddens me. When will America wake up and actually do something to change for the better. When will past actions and agendas be the basis of your decision rather then the color of someone’s skin, their religion, or how much “experience” you think they have. None of them have been president before.
Get with the program and actually research what you say rather then make ignorant comments. The same people complaining are the same ones doing nothing to make a difference!
And since Obama is such a bad candidate please also don’t be the first in line to reap any of the benefits WHEN he’s elected to office!

For all of you who are crying “it’s his name so what is the big deal?”. I have some beachfront property in Oklahoma I would like to sell you, get real. My 6th grade daughter figured out what Cunningham’s remarks were intended to do, so don’t try and claim you don’t know.

I don’t think that Obama is ashamed in any way of his name or who his parents are and where they came from. The problem is that when this man said his full name it was ment to imply that Obama is a muslim and to envoke fear. No one is refering to McCain as John Sidney McCain III, so why would you refer to Barack Obama as Barack Hussein Obama unless you could promote some lie and fear. It is the same thing that is done when conservatives “accidentally” mispronounce his last name as Osama rather than Obama.

I watched the video and don’t see anything wrong with it. What part of it was not true? His middle name? The Rezko deal? The way the media has treated him? The fact that someone has to pay for these welfare programs? Now if you don’t like it because he was screaming in a Howard Dean fashion and none of the networks initials actually stand for “Clinton” I can see your point.

the person called ‘Someone’ regarding the question of his name, read my comment posted earlier.

Whoever it was that was making the claim that Obama can have the White House so that Republicans can clean up after him, you’re exactly why I’m voting for a Democrat, any Democrat, in 2008. After Republicans controlled both Congress and the Presidency and racked up record deficits, doubled our national debt, took us to war under false pretenses, unconstitutionally wiretapped our phones, and effectively divided our country over the last 6 years, you’ve got to get a reality check. Knowing that your neo-Reagan Revolution has sputtered has you thinking that a little reverse psychology will win you the White House. Lame. You’re already anticipating a loss, but I can’t blame you, considering that it is best for your party to go and hide in jealousy over the next four years after your failed attempt to lead this nation. The old axiom is true, Democrats want to govern, and Republicans don’t want them to.

The moral of the story is that McCain is trying to keep the focus of his campaign about what HE can do for this country. I love when the immature Obama supporter’s miss the point and sling the mud at McCain. I guess that’s the change their talking about.

To Toby re: Kenya becoming an Islamic state: not to be rude, but Barack Obama is trying to become the president of the U.S.-not Kenya. All you are doing is speculating and even if what you say is true, it is your job as a Kenyan and other Kenyans to have a say in the politics in YOUR country. We’ll busy trying to get our own affairs in order. To my fellow Obama supporters, Christian, Andrea, Akinca, Wycliffe, Stacy-thank you! We all need to come together and stop sweating the small stuff! As I read all of the posts that precede my own, I feel much more positive about the state of our conutry than I usually do whenever politics are being discussed. While I am not a republican nor will I ever be, I respect John McCain’s willingness to apologize for the slanted way in which Barack Obama’s middle name was used: as well as the way he distanced himself from the other rude, snide language that was used to insult both of his competitors. For all of you who claim to not know why McCain apologized, the logic is simple: you are always to blame if someone at an event in your honor, or hosted by you says or does something horrific. We all know that if McCain did not have the good sense and the decency to apologize, he would’ve been blamed for Cunningham’s remarks. No-he didn’t have to apologize but I’m glad he did and I respect him for doing so. Barack Obama has never hidden from his name: funny how ignorant so many of you get when things aren’t going your way. I hate my middle name because it sounds dumb: not because I share the name with a terrorist or a serial killer. I don’t use it-EVER, so I am not pleased when someone calls me by that name in an attempt to be funny or snide. Many of you feel the same way and you know it so please–take the blinders off.

fakebama….That is an excellent question. As we all know Barack has become the Media Darling that can do no wrong and you can’t say anything negative about him, so I wonder too if the media will start to call him out or bash McCain?

What conservative hacks obviously do not realize is that there is a mindset in this election against this type of attack. The public does seem to be in a fierce mood to punish the attacker and bolster the attackee. Perhaps the Repub hate/fear machine will eat itself – you’ll see.

The appology was not about Obama’s name. It was because the radio host called the Democratic presidential candidate a “hack, Chicago-style” politician.

slate, then it’s likely McCain knew what he was paying for.

Just finished reading most all the blogs, and never realized before that there were so many pinheads that don’t realize a negative adjenda re Obama?
Cunningham had an adjenda to put down and connect Obama with middle east problems. McCain recognized it for what he was doing and rightly apologizized for it. To use the fullk name once would be acceptable, but to use it 2 or 3 times was obvious what Cunningham was doing. Too bad you can’t see what Cunningham was doing!

Lets cut out this nonsense. McCain was wrong and ignorant to apologise. Here’s why:
1. That is the man’s given name. Period.
2. It is a very common middle name in the world even among Christians in the middle east. It is NOT indicative of pro or anti Americanism. You could ask our late friend King Hussein of Jordan.
3. There are thousands of young AMERICAN children named Hussein. Should they all be ashamed of their names?
4. If Obama is offended by people using his middle name, he ought to change it.
5. As an agent of change, he should be the first one using his middle name to bring about the change he espouses in the mindset of the ignorant and the naive

I am not sure that McCain is apologizing for the use of Obamas full name, but the other remarks that Cunningham made about Obama. Considering what the Libs have called President Bush over the years, this was not even news worthy. I might suggest that Obama change his middle name, or drop it. Has the MSM gone so far over to the left that now its bad to state a candidates full name. My guess, if Obama is the Candidate, alot of the Hillary supporters will flock to McCain, mainly the Independents. If there ever was a reason to amend the Constitution, the NYT gave us one, on the Freedom of the Press. The MSM is there to inform us not to brainwash us to their way of thinking.

Lord Jesus, help them all…

Has Obama ever actually said that he was ashamed of his middle name? Simply put, Cunningham emphasized Obama’s middle name to connect him with the “enemy” in Iraq. Notice how he didn’t chuck in McCain’s middle name in the introduction… If you can not recognize Cunningham’s intent then you do not understand why racism and religious hatred is considered UN-COOL in America. McCain did the right thing. If you think you’re smarter than him and would make a better candidate, then go for it. Otherwise, pick up a book and find out what the world is really like.

Does anybody else have a clue what the middle name is of any of the other Democratic and Republican candidates that ran in the primariies this year?
Everybody knows it’s irrelevent, but the ones that keep bringing up Obama’s middle name seem to have an almost pathological hatred of this man. And are trying their best to infect others with this hatred as well.
Kudos to McCain for seeing and acknowledging what this is all about.

This election is getting so sad. Our country is a country that is full of bigots and idiots. This is sad when you have to use racists tactics to win elections in this country. That man idiotically assumed that repeatedly saying ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ would make people scared and make then think twice before voting for Obama just because of his name. What an jackass. Anybody that doesnt vote for Obama just because of his name is an idiot, who doesn’t deserve to vote in the first place.
OBAMA 08

I thought Barak’s name was Barak Hussien Obama. What about all the press and the rest of the media that’s been calling him that. Why is it so wide spread that his middle name is Hussien? What did I miss?

McCain might well find himself having to try and walk a very sharp knife edge. On one hand he needs the right to hold for him, on the other hand he needs to be careful about who he cosies upto. This is magnified if Obama is the nominee as many on the right are going to find as many ways as possible to disparage the first black nominee, especially one with Obama’s background and name. (You just know that eventually Limbaugh et al will only ever refer to his full name and there really are only so many times you can apologise and be contrite.)

McCain showing class? Pa lease he just got caught on camera. You know as well as I do that’s exactly what this village idiot really thinks. A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush plain and simple. 4 more yrs of another village idiot.

why should John McCain apologize for what SOMEONE ELSE did???

For all those idiots who state McCain shouldn’t have apologized, and what’s the big deal, and is Senator Obama ashamed of his name etc etc etc … are you REALLY that dense, or feigning ignorance to hide your own despicable views? You really aren’t capable of comprehending that we don’t include other candidates middle names when we discuss them, and that it’s very obvious why it’s being done WHEN it’s being done in Senator Obama’s case? You really are in serious need of some education.

Did they constantly refer to George W. Bush as “Junior” during election?

Louis Farrakan people!!! Not MLK but Louis Farrakan. Louis Farrakan & Obama. Heaven help us if Louis Farrakan has decided Obama is the messiah.

uhh I see McCain as a village idiot with an IQ of 3.3 below a flat rock and then some. A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush plain and simple.

Thanks Bill for having the guts to call the man by his legal full name. You liberal weenies did not say a word when Nancy Pelosi walked beside the President of NAMBLA in the gay parade in SF. How disgusting is that?

“Obama” = Jimmy Carter, one termer

Wait, I’m confused. I thought that was his real name???

No Farrakan just went to jail. He’s spent time in prison not long ago.

Umm RWC McCain spoke at Bob Jones University. You know that white supremist Bob Jones? Enough said. To use class and the Republican Party in the same sentence is an oxymoron. These are these same people that will do anything to win and use a scumbag like Carl Rove to do these nasty tactics. How pathetic.

mccain, you are what you are… a intolerant conservative. apologies mean nothing and we can tell who you are by the company you keep and by the comments of your own mother. you and clinton are alike. still playing the school yard insult trading and devisive game… this country needs exactly Sen. Obama in office. we Americans want to be one nation, one people where everyone is apart of the pursuit of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness… enough of the same ole same ole

I hate to tell you but for DEMOCRACY to flourish you have to have a two party system or we become a dictatorship!! I don’t need one nation, one people. I want to still have my rights.

A quote from Cunningham in the article reads:
“Americans now we have a hack Chicago style daily politician who is picturing himself as change.”
The lazy reporters who wrote this story apparently didn’t realize that “Chicago daily politician” doesn’t make a lick of sense; whereas, “DALY,” as in former machine mayor Richard Daly is evidently what our smear-crank was trying to say.
ABC, if you’re going to quote these nuts, then it least get them down accurately. Finally, where’s the comma after “Americans?”

I hope the republicans keep this ignorant crap up. It’s only going to make Hussein Obama’s stock continue to rise. You gotta love it. Have you seen the latest polls? The more he’s attacked, the more support he gets. God Bless America!
Distancing himself from this type of idiocy was the smartest thing McCain has done in this election. He needs to stop. It makes me nervous.

I don’t know what the big fuss is. There are a lot of people with the name Hussein, I think everyone is making a big issue about nothing. I looked it up on the internet and the name Hussein means handsome just like the name Kenneth does, what is the big deal. If Obama has an issue with his name, he could change it, there should not be this fear of a name. It’s just a name, do you think people in Iraq critize people if there name is George? Why are people afraid of a simple name, grow up.

Hmmm…..so if I say William Jefferson Clinton OR George Herbert Walker Bush I should have someone come behind me and apologize? I think this is ridiculous and calling someone racist for saying someones given name is hypocritical. I love my country more than anything and sincerely wish we would all stop being so POLITICALLY CORRECT.

It is customary to refer to infamous persons using their middle name. Barack Hussein Obama is, by his views and his record and the possibility that he may become the President, potentially the greatest evil the world has ever seen. THAT is the point. He is a man of secrets and a past that preclude him from being Commander in Chief. And… the fact that the liberal biased press has a love affair going with him is an indictment of them. Barack Hussein Obama is embodiment of the problem, not the solution.

You really are drinking the Kool Aid if you are making the argument that Louis Farrakan is about living in harmony as one people. In his remarks, he mentioned black, brown, yellow, and red audiences. Do you notice that one group is missing?

McCain has nonthing to apologize for. If Obama doesn’t like his muslim name, change it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Repulican Hate Machine? Those days have passed with Rove’s exit. The Obama Machine is now holding that torch. I thought my party (dems) was better than that, but I was wrong. Remember Obama fans, you will need the Hillay supporters to win this November. We won’t forget. We may have to cross the aisle for experience instead of charisma.

Why is Barack Hussein ashamed of his name? I don’t get it!

What is it coming to that Americans can not have a little respect for one another, and some civil discourse? What good comes from such polarization? It doesn’t put any bread on the table; it doesn’t shore up a distressed economy; it doesn’t bring our troops home safely and with honor. So many of these insensitive, rude and inflammatory comments feul divisiveness in our political discourse–little wonder that pressing issues get pushed aside in favor of making a hateful remark about a “perceived” opponent. I don’t see any real display of patriotism in this type of discussion.
I applaud Sen. McCain for being respectful of Sen. Obama. They are both U.S. Senators, and they are bringing their best to the American people. They have differing views, and that is what needs to be heard, and debated–respectfully–among us. That is what it will take for us to select the best leader for our country, and that is the genuine patriotic thing to do. Patriotism is not something to wear on one’s sleeve, or even pinned to one’s lapel, but it is something to be lived out in the hearts and minds of all Americans, and expressed through our words and deeds. We have a chance to make a difference (for the better) starting right here by showing some restraint in our emotions and some respect for those who are offering to be our leaders.

there you go again…MARINE4EVER…trying to cover the old mans tracks…how about this one and try and learn what lower case means…like your situation…bush 41 and william casey flew to paris to rig the hostage deal with iran till carter lost to ronnie…the deal included selling weapons and plane parts to IRAN via Israeli assistance…somebody mickey finned the cargo hold and BOOM…the GANDER Newfoundland plane crash with our military persons aboard…our military cordoned off the area while they cleaned up the mess…BET YOU WERE THERE HUH??????

Some commentators will do anything for ratings. I wonder if Mr. Cunningham had the intestinal fortitude to apologize to Sen. McCain for embarrassing him. Probably not. It wouldn’t look good for his ratings. Maybe prospective advertisers will help him understand that sometimes it’s best to keep you mouth shut.

We should display audacity of truth. There is nothing wrong in using Obama’s true and full name. Obama’s past must also be fully investigated – no more / no less than that of any other candidates. The election can’t only be about the future policies. The candidates’ past is also equally important.

When I guess someone should really say the his father is from Africa. But because the dirt pushers are too smart to have know that. So just because you hear the name does not mean he is a terrorist. Look at America

What is the problem? That is his name! Same as wearing African garb. What’s the problem if pictures come out of it? It is his ethnic background and while visiting abroad it is customary to wear their garb. Obama gets treated like a sleeping baby that everyone is afraid to wake up. He’s from Chicago. He’s been neck high in dirty policitics. Give it to him.

For all those idiots who state McCain shouldn’t have apologized, and what’s the big deal, and is Senator Obama ashamed of his name etc etc etc … are you REALLY that dense, or feigning ignorance to hide your own despicable views? You really aren’t capable of comprehending that we don’t include other candidates middle names when we discuss them, and that it’s very obvious why it’s being done WHEN it’s being done in Senator Obama’s case? You really are in serious need of some education.

It’s no worse than referring to Senator Clinton as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Anyone who comes remotely close to criticizing him will be labeled as a racist.”
Yep. Of course, that is par for the course.

How would Tucker Carlson like having his entire name — Tucker Fairy Carlson — spoken in every instance?

Why is this even a story in the news? OMG we used somebody’s middle name and somebody apologized for it. Let’s get to the real stuff please!

sooooooooooooo.
osama obama is embarassed of his middle name?? why doesnt he change it?? this is much ado about nothing.. its his middle name, there’s nothing wrong with referring to it.

Why is this even a story in the news? OMG we used somebody’s middle name and somebody apologized for it. Let’s get to the real stuff please!

Our pediatricians last name is Hussein. Did I change doctors when we heard about Suddam Hussein? No. Why? Because we are mature enough to know that the doctor is a competent man who happens to have the same last name as a terrible man – that’s all. And if our Doctor is a Muslim, who cares. He’s still the best pediatrician we have found.

John McCain is trully a gentlemen, I feel confortable that the country will be better served by either McCain or Obama.

Good for you, then let him be your Pediatrician, but not our President. One other thing, I have come to realize that the racist word is thrown around alot when you dont have a valid argument. If you are going to run for public office you better be prepared to take the heat. Obama must be one big baby, he cant stand for anyone to even use his middle name. I am so sick of hearing about him. Why dont all you Obama kool aid drinkers go to the West coast and the rest of the normal population will stay on the East coast. Oh and by the way we will take our military, our tax dollars and will keep out the illegals. Lets see how all you morons longing for the 60s again will manage then. Good riddance.

This is ridiculous! BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is is name! Why should he apologize? Does McCain think that using kid gloves with this Media Sweetheart is going to work? Ask this to Clinton…

I hope in this debate tonight she lets loose on him. Whatever the outcome at least she gave it a fighting chance. The way the media has portrayed Obama as a saint disgusts me beyond words.

Fred and Akinca are lonely, miserable people who live in a bubble and hide behind their keyboards making odd and unnecessary statements. We all have a right to choose a candidate and voice our opinions. Going off the subject and talking about sonn-to-be-former President Bush or elderly and close-to-the-grave Louis Farrakhan has no bearing on the McCain-Obama issue.

“Look at the way blacks run there own country’s in Africa and ask yourself if you really want that kind of thing here? Barrack Hussein Obamalamadingdong will spend the federal budget on Cadillacs and diamond pimp rings”
Regionfive pls what makes you think you are more American than Obama.
people say use of name is not important, but im afraid its daft people like this regionfive that hear Hussein and start pissing on themselves, and mark my words there are millions like him in America. what a shame

We don’t apologize for saying Hillary Rodham Clinton? If that is Obama’s name then it is. This is so schoolyard! What is Obama afraid of or hiding?

Yes, people, it is his real, full name, we all know that. That is NOT the issue. The issue is this guy referred to Obama with his full name to remind everyone what a Muslim/terrorist Obama really is. He knew that most Americans, with their narrow mind, would hear the name Hussein and think of Sadam. When have you ever heard anyone talking about McCain as John Sidney McCain, or Romney as Willard Mitt Romney, or Giuliani as Rudolph William Louis Giuliani? No one even knows their middle name! No one sober talks like that, specially not three times in a row, unless there’s an ulterior motive, or you have brain damage. McCain is not stupid, so if he apologized it is because he understood this guy’s ill intentions. It’s quite clear.

I think people are starting to realize one thing about Obama. IT’S A DUCK!

The media is not helping matters I just heard a replay of mcain on the news, he says he apologizes to both candidates (Hilary & Obama) he does not encourage disparaging language agaisnt other candidates, he was apologizing for the insults to the candidates
. and here ABC’s header is “Mcain Apologizes for Hussein Obama”……… what is their objective to get us all worked up and make headlines and unfortunately there ar many that wont get the real gist of what happened and continue to spread negative comments

billy cunningham is a great american.

STOP for a minute guys. They are attempting to bait you. Just look at the notes so just stop. Don’t waste your valuable time responding as ignorance is best ignored. Don’t fall for the hype or get caught up in it. The best way to handle this is to vote for the elected democrat. I too appreciate Senator McCain. He showed a lot of class by apologizing to both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.

It’s not Hillary’s or McCain’s fault that Obama rhymes with Osama and that his middle name is the name of the dethroned dictator Saddam Hussein.
OOOOPS I forgot, I’m dissing St. Obama.
Something is wrong in this country when you can’t say someones middle name without it being perceived as a slight and herein lies the problem. If he wins there will be Obama police and u can’t say Hussein, you can’t carry a picture of him wearing a turban u can’t say u think the president is a muslim, you can’t say nothing about The Great Obama. It would surely be sickening.
“HOPE” INDEED, THAT HILLARY CAN PULL A RABBIT OUT OF HER HAT, NOW THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY, not this don’t diss Obama crap. PLEASE!

LOL Mr. Bill. Just kidding about the inferior brains. Delusional… yes I do believe that some of you conservatives are.

Bill C – “A large, totally unnecessary tax cut for the rich, massive waste in Iraq spending, and the entire U.S. economy in the toilet does not exactly scream ‘Success!’” — First, the tax cuts are aimed at the genaeral population.. stop drinking the kool-aide and actulally do some research on who (and from what category) benefitted from the cuts. They are necessary – pumping more money into the economy ( even if it is from your own back pocket is lake pushing a stalled car down a hill… when it builds a little speed, sometimes, you can start it back up… Iraq is a huge expense – wars always are, but I don’t seem to see that any headway has been made on the millions of dollars in pork barrel spending since the democrats have controlled congress.. In fact, the last time that the annual budget was balanced — REPUBLICANS ran the house and senate…
I’m not saying that republicans are any good at saving money, but the dems ar no better..

this joey tranchina guy sounds like a good american, doesn’t he? and powerful, too! he claims to export american jobs to india, and claims to have the single-handed power to do so… how noble! maybe he should run for prez!?! what a guy…..

McCain is already wimping out. Is Hussein Obama’s middle name or isn’t it? Is it too late to vote for Hillary in Illinois???

as a matter of fact, “they” have been referring to mrs. clinton as “hillary rodham clinton” for as long as she has been in the public eye, and she has routinely referred to herself & billed herself in the very same manner throughout that entire time. so, omar, i think you should probably get your facts straight before you go off labeling others as “idiots” when, in fact, your very point seems pretty idiotic…as well as incorrect. in my experience, the ones who wish to refute or dismiss a particular point of view simply as “racist” are those who have no legitimate construct from which to respond…

Mike – Yes he would, obviously, put his hand on the Bible if elected. Why would you possibly think otherwise?

Mike —- Does it matter? Obama claims to be a practicing Christian so I assume he will place his hand on the Bible. If he were Muslim I assume he would use the Koran. I guess I would have to hold an eagle feather. I don’t care what religion a candidate practices as long as he doesn’t try to force it on me. I don’t care what color his skin is or what gender he or she is. I don’t care about sexual orientation, favorite ball team or food allergies. I do care about political ideas and I don’t like Obama’s or Hillary’s; I’m not too fond of McCain’s. The only logical vote this year would be “none of the above”

If Obama had changed his name for political reasons it would’ve made him a phony. It’s not like someone wouldn’t have found out and made it look like a cover up “Oh, he’s trying to hide the fact he’s a Muslim!!” The remarks made my Cunningham were ridiculous and ignorant. McCain apologized because they were unintelligent and irrelevant and he’s a smart man. Republicans better get behind him or get ready for Obama. VOTE MCCAIN!!!!

If McCain is smart he’ll keep doing exactly what he’s doing and not start pandering to the right wing-nuts of the GOP. This race will be won in the middle and McCain has to remember what happened to Dole in 96. The Right can’t get you elected; even Bush came off centrist in 2000 which is how he won. The far right isn’t a big portion of the population, they just mouth off more.

Technically, it is not appropriate to have people swear on the Bible, the Koran, or any other religious symbol when we are talking about public office. But Obama likes using the Bible, so I guess we might as well let him.

Actually Rezko has spread his money around quite a bit! I went digging. Rezko has raised funds for many politicians, both Democrats and Republicans. These include prominent Democrats such as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Comptroller Dan Hynes, former Cook County Board President John Stroger, and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger. Rezko has also raised money for former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, a Republican, and he co-chaired a megamillion-dollar fund-raiser for President George W. Bush in 2003

Jackie: Hillary’s middle name is DIANE, Rodham is her MAIDEN name. As for McCain, it’s not “class” that has him apologizing to Obama, it’s the fear that he’ll either lose the “black vote,” or that Afr-Ams are going to jump all over him in the press if he doesn’t. If anything, now would also be the time for McCain to be watchful of any more “bitch” references that may arise on the campaign trail; and use the opportunity to apologize for not defending her honor in the past. By laughing it off, it just shows that he really has no respect for women.

The headline is misleading. McCaine was apologizing for the comments – not the use of Obama’s full name.

It’s funny how Republicans think Obama’s middle name is important. You guys love to label people as “b*tch”, “mormon”, or “muslim” don’t you? It seems like the only people you would vote for are white protestant males. I guess some people just like hating.

Is Obama’s talk of Change, Hope & unity only words?. Is Obama talking about of uniting the white & black ‘chritian’ america. If he is serious about change and untity he needn’t be worried about his middle name. since he loves to talk Let him tell the American people he is cool about his middle name or CHANGE that too.

Karen Oh, you sound as though you have been right in there? If it is unequal than please explain why nothing is done to get balance? I agree, my opinion the top running officials have committed crimes! I hope they will have to “stand” for these actions. I am called rash, bold, literally crazy because our country is “out of balance”, and the controversy with the second amendment isn’t about owning guns, lets get the people to government back in balance. Sorry but McCain, Hillary, and Obama, will not make it happen and they are for Elite, not the people.

I can’t believe that right wingers in the Cinncinati area and beyond are actually proud of Bill Cunningham’s bigotry and smear tactics. One idiot called him a ‘national treasure’. He, like Rush Limbaugh and so many other conservatives are little short of criminals who are allowed to utter hate speech with few or no repercussions. Don Imus was fired for something much less offensive than what Cunningham said about Obama. This kind of nativist, ignorant bigotry is a sad commentary on our country when it finds an enthusiastic audience of ignoramuses who applaud the slander and the racism.
God I loathe conservatives. They are the very worst, most slimy people there are and their hateful, reactionary nativism is a disgrace and a black eye to our whole country. I extend the middle digit to them ALL.

Now we have to apologize to Obama for using his middle name???
My god, has anyone crowded him king James yet?
This is sickening very cultist, very UnAmerican. Very Imperialistic.
He should be proud to have a middle name, if he was ashamed of it , he should have changed it!

McCain was wise and temperate enough to realize the racist way the host was using Obama’s middle name, and correctly distanced himself from it. It is not that Obama is ashamed of his middle name. He doesn’t use it precisely because of the bigotry of people like Bill Cunningham.and those just like Cunningham. Barak Obama didn’t pick his name(s) when he was in the womb. His father did. Obama’s father was Kenyan and Muslim, Obama is American, and Christian. He worships in a Christian church and his mother was an anglo-American who raised him. Just because Obama chooses not to go by his middle name (which wouldn’t be an issue if right wingers weren’t so uncivilized)…he doesn’t emphasize his middle name precisely because nativist ignoramuses like the Obama bashers make it an issue in their ignorance and associate his name to be used as a tool of slander to insinuate that Barak Obama somehow is un-American or some kind of terrorist associated with problems in the Middle East. An African middle name doesn’t make Obama a traitor. But to hear the peanut-brained right wing tell it. a person’s middle name, if not approved by ignorant white trash red-necks, makes him somehow unpatriotic or suspect in their tiny minds. Why don’t you cons all call ALL the candidates by their three names (first, middle and last)? Precisely because you can’t get the mileage out of their middle names for your bigotry that you can get out of Barak’s name. So by sly association you slime and slander a man who can’t even help what he was named and may choose not to use it so that racist and xenophobic idiots won’t whomp up a lynch mob on him

To all the liberals on here: you’re giving the wrong name to the people with whom you’re arguing. As a Republican who’s intellectually honest, I’m forced to reluctantly agree with many of your accusations, but the people who have screwed this country up over the past seven years ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES.
They may call themselves “conservative,” but they are far from it, which is why the term “neo-conservative” is more appropriate. They represent the new, corrupted definition of “conservative.” They accuse liberals of craving big government, but they’re every bit as bad–maybe even worse, since they want the federal government (especially the presidency) to be much more powerful. Rush and Hannity are not “conservatives,” and neither are the people who think of Rush and Hannity as “conservative.”
There was a time in this country when liberals and conservatives could debate CIVILLY and actually agree on many points. That time is obviously long gone. Now we’re at each other’s throats just to be at each other’s throats. Partisanship and accumulation of power have become more important than doing the people’s business.
We desperately need people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert Taft, statesmen who NEVER put party above principle. If we don’t get some folks like that soon, it’s only going to get worse for all of us.
And by the way, get off this “Obama didn’t put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem so he’s a commie” thing. Go to a baseball game sometime and see how many people do exactly what Obama did. Most people place their hands over their hearts FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE–not the National Anthem.

If your name is Barack Hussein Obama, and someone calls you your name, what is the problem?
If he doesn’t like his name, he can change it. Maybe he should do just like those phonies on TV do, and change his name to John Jones, or Smith or something.
Why is this even an issue. Lets deal with some real issues like what is Barrack Hussein Obama’s views on foreign policy, the economy, the war on terrorism, etc.
People dwell on the stupidest things, instead of the real issues.

Lets hope that Obama does not become a shielded candidate who is “beyond criticism.” I give credit to him so far, for not playing the race card, like activists like Sharpton play all the time.
If everyone is so appalled and offended over calling the man his very name, what else are you going to get offended at? It’ridicuous! Just drop it, and treat him as every other candidate, and make him answer questions about legitimate topics and judge him on his answers to those questions, instead of BS like this topic.

GB,
Well, lets call McCain “Sydney.” Who cares? That is a nonissue. Anyone who votes according to someone’s middle name is a moron. Looks like this is a total overreaction to nothing. My vote comes down to the candidate’s platform, not his middle name. Substance matters, not middle names.

Well, it is an overreaction, unless you think there is a segment of the population who votes according to the candidates middle name.
I disagree that segment of the population exists. I give the public who votes more credit than you do.
Do you know anyone who will change their votes because Obama’s middle name is Hussein? I sure don’t know any people whose voting is affected by this revelation.

Why is McCain apologizing? Hussein is his name! He should be proud of his kenyan / muslim heritage. It isn’t McCain’s fault that his father named him Hussein. HILLARY 2008!

Mike: Believe me, there are PLENTY of ignorant people who think Obama is some kind of super-secret Muslim waiting to subject us all to Sharia law the minute he takes office. The rhetoric regarding his middle name is designed specifically to target those people. If you hang around boards like this long enough, someone always comes on to breathlessly inform us how Obama is the “OMG ULTAMIT SLEEPER SELL!!!!1!11!!!”
Whether or not these idiots usually vote, I don’t know. But the goal is to make such people vote against Obama and for the Republican nominee simply because Obama’s name *sounds* Islamic. The fact that you don’t know people who won’t vote against Obama because of his name just demonstrates that you hang out with intelligent people, right?
I definitely agree with you regarding Osama Hussein Zarquawi. He’s got my vote should he decide to run.

Who the hell is Bill Cunningham? I work for a living, so I don’t spend much time laying on the couch listening to radio shows.

The fact Obama has the middle name of a terrorist is not the issue. What is of concern is that he is denying the fact that al Qaeda had associations with Saddam and Iraq prior to the invasion and that his proposal to retreat from Iraq would put the USA at great risk. This alone should make everyone question his qualifications to be President.
See Below:
Saddam did have connection to Al Queda prior to the Iraq Invasion per Tenet “We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al Qa’ida going back a decade,” Tenet wrote. “Credible information indicates that Iraq and al Qa’ida have discussed safe haven and reciprocal non-aggression. Since Operation Enduring Freedom [in Afghanistan], we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al Qa’ida members, including some that have been in Baghdad. We have credible reporting that al Qa’ida leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to al Qa’ida members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs.” In sum, the letter said, “Iraq’s increasing support to extremist Palestinians, coupled with
growing indications of a relationship with al Qa’ida, suggest that Baghdad’s links to terrorists will increase, even absent US military actions.”
What very much concerns me is that in Obama’s speeches he denies the fact that Al Qaida was in Iraq prior to the invasion of Iraq and goes further and blames the US for them being there now. Obama is either misinformed or buying into the leftists lies about Al Qaida’s past associations with Saddam’s Iraq. What is even more troubling is that he dismisses the very real threat Al Qaida could pose for the USA should we withdraw from Iraq and let them win the war in Iraq. Talk about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. An unfettered Al Qaida in Iraq would greatly threaten our security here not to mention the fact we would be reneging on our commitment to the people of Iraq who have placed their lives in jeopardy by supporting us. If we withdraw from Iraq as Obama proposes the killing fields of Cambodia may look like a picnic in comparison and the USA would have let down another people who counted on us. And the left talks about improving the image of the USA. What a bunch of BS

There is a negative association with Hussein. Plain and simple.
This line of logic follows like this:
Barack Hussein Obama–> Saddam Hussein–> Iraq–> Islam–> TERRORIST!
My middle name is Lee– OMG:
Lee–> Robert E. Lee–> Confederacy–> slavery–> RACIST!
Or better yet–
George Walker Bush–> Walker, Texas Ranger–> Chuck Norris–> KARATE CHAMP!!
So by this stupid line of reasoning, I’m a racist, Obama is a terrorist, and Bush is a karate champ. Geez…

If I were Senator Obama I would take being mocked by Bill Cunningham to be a badge of honor, since the “Great American” is a card-carrying- member of the lunatic fringe.
This is a word-for-word transcription of Bill Cunningham on Harry Potter:
“Oh now, the seventh Harry Potter book is coming out this is again the work of the devil the work of evil… and righteous Americans all over the Tri-State need to arise and do what’s right so to get this story out to you as parents to make sure your kids do not see Harry Potter who will incentivize your children to get involved in animal sacrifices & possibly group sex.” … “Good parents do not let their children read the books or see the movies.”
“If God himself would have to develop an adversary an opponent to bring evil into the world he would have chosen J.K. Rowling. If Lucifer himself would have to develop something that would ruin American youth he could have not picked a better acolite than Harry Potter… to lead American youth toward group sex, drug use and animal sacrifice.”
<<< Bill Cunningham • 7.11.07

How many times can people ignore the obvious fact that it is not the mention of the Senator’s middle name; it is the clearly evil intent to use the repeated mention of that name to instill fear in irrational listeners who would associate a Muslim name with terrorist intent. It can be easily seen on this blog, where many writers have made that leap-of-faith into absurdity. “Hussein” is his middle name; no one ever attempted to deny that. That does not change the fact that Bill Cunningham’s evil intent made the act evil and McCain was right to distance himself from the Cunningham’s cowardice. The proper follow up would be for Senator McCain to fire the incompetent who booked this genius to speak at a campaign event.

It makes me sad that the name Hussein which used to be respected and honored when King Hussein of Jordan was alive, became a problem after Saddam Hussein became our enemy. Hell, at one point Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussein…so its amazing how quickly things can change.

I am so shocked to know that the people of the USA still link Islam with terorrism. I know that some of Muslims have killed Americans. But, Americans have also killed innocent people, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and every part of the world. I still don’t understand: who is the terrorist? American or Islam?

Isn’t convenient for the McCain campaign to use this radical ### to introduce him and then apologize for what he said. The man served the purpose he was put on the stage to serve. To perpetuate the idea that Obama is a Muslim. It’s kind of like what the Bush administration did to McCain in SC in 2000. Someone says McCain has a illegitimate black child to let the voters bigotry work in favor of Bush. Then the Bush camp apologizes and pretends they knew nothing about it until it hit the airwaves……… yeah right!!! And McCain is the straight talker eh?

The question isn’t about his full name, it is about the “Hussein” name used by McCain as a trick to link him to the terrorism, as he said it wasn’t intencional.
So he apologised

To Whatchange – Prove it. This administration has only proven it is full of it. We should not have gone to war based on the intelligence we had. It was based soley on conjured up ideas and forced fear to gather support. The minute an ambassador stepped in and said wait a minute, this information is false, the Bush administration gave up the name of his wife, an undercover CIA operative. Why? So, the administration could continue on its planned war in Iraq. As an American you should be outraged that you were lied to like that. But, you would rather believe the lies. Bush has already said the intelligence was false. Yet you choose not to believe him. You are set and you believe what you were told. The truth is, Iraq should still be under Saddam control. As much as he was a tyrant, that country had a more sound infrastructure with him in place an we had no right to go there based on lies. You should believe that Bush should be impeached for betraying the honor and loyalty of an undercover CIA operative, putting many patriots lives at risk. But, what does the administration do, pardon the scapegoat and all are happy. This is how the GOP machine works. They don’t care about Americans. They care about their agendas. Bush’s approval rating is the lowest of any president and he still chooses to follow his agenda over the people’s opinions. We need a president who is honest and forthcoming. I am currently supporting Hillary, but Obama is slowly gaining my support, because I feel he is genuine and will work for the American people.
I can’t believe that people still, after knowing what we know 5 years later, still believe the deaths of our American soldiers and Iraqi citizens was just. It is amazing.
There were terrorists in the US too, so does that mean we should bomb ourselves? Let’s just go bomb everyone, because they might harm us later. Positivity, although not effective in the Middle East currently, is where we need to start. Obama, I am confident, will bring about change.
C’mon people, wake up. smell the coffe, or better yet, notice the deceit and demand change.

YOU PEOPLE WILL NEVER CHANGE.TALKING ABOUT SOME OF YOU WHITE PEOPLE.