Obama’s Silence On The Warmonger Remark

Many may recall this recent McCain incident in which he immediately repudiated statements made by a talkshow host prior to introducing McCain to a Cincinnati audience, with no prompting from the Obama campaign or any reporters:

After holding a successful, enthusiastic campaign rally at Cincinnati’s Memorial Hall Tuesday, the last thing John McCain wanted to do was to walk out in front of the media and apologize for what the warm-up act said.

But that is what an obviously irritated McCain did during the noon hour Tuesday, when he came out and denounced remarks made by WLW talk show host Bill Cunningham, who delivered a 10-minute speech in which he insulted Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the media in general.

“I take responsibility and I repudiate what he said,” Sen. McCain told reporters after the rally at Memorial Hall in Over-the-Rhine. “A person came out here before I arrived and made some disparaging remarks about senators Obama and Clinton and I regret that.”

Yesterday another talkshow host introduced Obama and insulted McCain:

Radio talk show star Ed Schultz warmed up the crowd, attacking Sen. John McCain as “a warmonger,” before Obama arrived in the room.

Obama thanked Schultz, saying he was the “voice of progressive radio,” and someone “who knows a little bit about sports.”

Schultz played football at Moorhead State University and was a sports broadcaster in Fargo for years.

Did we hear any repudiation from the man who is supposed to change politics? Nope….all we heard is silence until today, and only after being asked to repudiate the remarks.

After numerous inquiries from Obama’s traveling press, the Obama campaign eventually responded with a comment. “John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such. He’s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged,” traveling press secretary Jen Psaki said in a written statement.

The campaign also pointed out that Obama did not hear the comment and stressed that Schultz is not an Obama surrogate.

Didn’t hear it? So what. Neither did McCain, but he was told of Bill Cunningham’s remarks by aides which I’m thinking is exactly what happened after Schultz’ remarks. No way to prove that but either way, McCain’s camp called for an apology not long after the remarks were made and it took a full day to get anything from the Obama camp.

To top it all off Obama spread the lie….again….that McCain wants to continue the war for a 100 years:

The McCain campaign picked up on the story and quickly asked Senator Obama to condemn Schultz, but while Obama mentioned McCain at his rally in Missoula, Montana, this morning, he remained mum on Schultz. “[McCain] is basically running for a third Bush term. He wants to continue this war in Iraq maybe for another 100 years.

Straight bulls&%t.

Just more tired hysterical rhetoric from a same ole’ lefty politician. Nothing new has come from this “messiah” and nothing will.