Obamas wife when ask if they could stand up to Clinton said they were from Chiago and knew how to do politics, Maybe this is where cunningham got his idea from. Maybe someone should ask him that? I have seen the old Daly politics at work from Obamas camp from the beginning.Neutralizing Pres, Clinton for example by crying race when there wasnt any.

A Huge Applause for Senator McCain !!  Although I am not planning to vote for him ... it is clear that he has a sense of honor and respect which I find very appealing.  He is certainly more in tune with America than this less-than-admirable radio host.  Therefore, I find that he is a man worth listening to in this season of bickering and fault-finding.  Thank you, Senator McCain for showing yourself to be of a higher intellect and worthy of great respect yourself.  

You all need to do your home work,.Obamaaa picture of him in that robe was on his own personal web site so he must have send out himself for dirty play,God when are the people going to wqise up,I am in shock of the people who are supporting him this country is in trouble and if he runs I will be voting for Mccain,at least I will feel safe when I go to bed at night,not having Obamaaa the nut as the chief in command.whats the world coming to.If the Media and papers had been fair Obamaaa would not be frontrunner or at least I would understand ,but the way you have trerated Hillary is distraceful.HOPEFULLY YOU WILL PRINT THIS FOR THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES ,I JUST HOPE NOT TO LATE.THANK YOU

Joe, please ... you know it wasn't the Obama campaign who cried race ... it was the media analysts who decided Clinton's remark was racist.  And knowing how to do politics doesn't mean they are willing to join the guttersnipes ... in fact, it seems to me that they have worked very hard to stay above that kind of thing.  

Joe ... you must know by now that the Chicago press has been over and over this stuff and found no wrong doing ... so why are you claiming you know more than they do??  

A lanky lawyer from Illinois with just two years of experience at the federal level as a one-term member of the House of Representatives ( 1846-1848) decided to run for president in 1860.

=== Using Obama’s middle name is a tactic employed by many conservative pundits to connect the Democrat with Sadam Hussein ===

Many conservative pundits? I didn't realize many of Hillary's supporters were conservative.

Michelle Obama is so proud to be American.  She is just not proud to be a black American. I think that is what she meant to say.

This brand of garbage spewed by Mr Cunningham is why so many young people grow up despizing politics and politicians.

First class apology by McCain -- taking responsibility for it.  I don't agree w/ a lot of what he has to say, but he's a 1st class human being.  It's too bad that Hillary hasn't had the class to take responsibility or even apologize any of the MANY times her surrogates or supporters have slandered Obama, including yesterday when they all but admitted sending that photo to the Drudge Report.  

This sort of thing just spotlights the tremendous LACK OF CLASS that Hillary and her minions have.  But why should we expect anything different from her?  She hasn't even taken responsibility for her role in authorizing the Iraq War.

Typical.  Have someone go out and do the dirty work then try to wash your hands of it.  Nice try, Sen. McCain.

And FYI...It would be "Daley politician" not "Daly". One is the Chicago Mayoral family, the other is the ex coach of the Detroit Pistons.

Bill Cunningham is an idiot. Anyone who lives in Southern Ohio knows is the poster child for the "deet de dee" crowd.

Everyone has to wonder, if McCain wins if there will be a moment in the future, when he walks into the  room and is introduced as Mr President and his response is " The president is here?" or " Is Bill or George here". Should he be examined and cleared for Alhemizers?

Wow. It never cease to surprise me in the nature of politics these days. Send someone out there to say the most offensive and ridiculous comments about your opponent, then grandly walk out and disavow the comment and say that you think otherwise. Clinton camp did this a lot at the beginning. Obama was the most apologised to candidate in this race. The effect is that some people will run with the offensive comment and it will linger in their mind. Phew.. I gotta give it to new age politics. It is very sad, very sad. A smilar comment like that would be something like this...Mr McCain who let himself get captured and tortured did not have the strong will power to escape from his captors. That is such a weakness that does not qualify you to become a president. Now, see that is quite offensive to say to a great hero but some people out there may start to ponder how true it may actually be.  Get off the brainless tactics and help humanity improve itself.
Once again goodluck.

People keeps underestimate Barack Obama. The guy is smart and brilliant. The country needs him. McCain better be prepared, the race will be really tough.
I don't like McCain chances.

Fired up and ready to go.

Good for John McCain! He could have just ignored the comments made before he spoke but he took a stand against them. He is not my candidate but I do respect his taking a stand on this.

Bill Cunningham is a well-known radio talk show host who is famous for his "Clinton hatred" and generally hatred for all Democrats.  There is no way that the McCain Campaign can disavow him... he has been in Cincinnati for many years and regularly bloviates about all things Clinton and Democratic. He is a disgrace.

The problem is the leftist media like MSNBC can't argue with their own agenda.  They also have never heard Cunningham speak before.  He uses everyone's middle name.  He says John Wayne McCain all of the time.  Lighten up lefties!

At some point somebody is  going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama,” Cunningham said. “That day will come, then you’ll know the truth about his business dealings with Rezko, when he got sweetheart deals in Chicago and the illegal loans that he received.”

I would like to know about Obama's  All Black church who supports and loves Farrakhan.

I'm glad that McCain spoke up and spoke swiftly. It says a lot about his character. I just hope he'll keep his word and keep the fringe elements of the GOP in check during the general election. If so, there's actually a good chance that this year's race could be more substantive and less incendiary than those of recent memory.

Who would allow a moron like Cunningham to speak? The very saem people who hate, hate, hate anyone that doesn't agree with their maniacal, facist vision of the world. FASCISTS evolve from the failed desperation of the angry, racist,  poorly-educated, ultra-right .... always have, always will. Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain, and Mussolini's Italy are tyupical examples. Cunningham is not even funny or scary ...

This proclamation by McCain is a sigh of relief. As I lean to the left and toward Obama, this disassociation from the bitter politics by both candidates will help transform politics, at least for a while.

The ideas that come from both candidates about civil discourse are a refreshing idea that our forefathers would have praised.  They were so scared of these political parties because these parties would become bitter and divisive.  They have, and now maybe these two candidates will focus on the issues and restore the original intention of government and that is to fix issues that the lower levels of government cannot.

I saw the video, that will hurt, especially if  Obama spends millions just to turn that in to 3 or 4 commercials. Shamefully in the McCain Vs McCain match up both will achieve knock-outs resulting in a magnificant loss.  

The repubs and their proxies (fox) has got to focus their negativity on what is close to Obama, because they won't find anything on him.  His wife is enough fuel to keep any fire fight going.  Her attitude reminds me of Guiliani (in drag), just a huge chip on the shoulder.

America likes Obama but I doubt if they will like the wife much.  McCain's wife on the other hand is a true lady, too bad she won't become first Lady.

Hey, some of this stuff is true, you know.  His full name is Barack Hussein Obama, he does live in Chicago, Antoin Rezko is (or was until recently) his good friend and neighbor, and he is a Democrat.  Draw your own conclusions.

Politics is for grown ups not babys,OBAMAS NAME IS OBAMAS NAME it is what it is ,who cares if you think he is a muslim  or not a patriot look what you got now you cant even tell the difference,my mommy is dead so she couldnt spell check for me.Dont anyone bring up anything about obama let MICA in the MORNING show the muslim dress picture dont do the crime if you cant do the time ,if you though your son might run for president in 1955 dont use the middle name hitler and dont name your kid ADOLPH its how america is get used to it you didnt mind all the good things this set up brought you, why be upset about the bad

Who cried race? Please give facts/dates/ and quotes. Its laughable how, if one is black, everyone looks for them to "pull the race card". So, I guess I'm pulling it now right? Even if I'm white? I have repeatedly heard the Senator not inject race. If others-like the media- inject race, who's fault is that? Get your facts straight.

It's nice to see someone willing to take responsibility for something.  

McCain's a dumb old fool. Once again he's catering to the social conservatives who are even bigger fools than he. He had some faith healer, talking in tongues televangelist on stage with him as he disavowed that shock jock's comments. If Hillary isn't his opponent he's going to get an ass beating like he hasn't recvd. since Hanoi.

I am a Democrat and a supporter of Barack Obama.  I am also a Muslim and progressive.  I wish to thank Senator McCain for showing some real humanity and kicking back against the ugly Islamophobia that has infected some portions of this campaign.  I may disagree with you on policies but I embrace your sense of decency and tolerance.  I am glad that you are the Republican nominee.

McCain preach respect and next thing you know:.."bomb, bomb, Iran".Or some other painful joke.
WHEN will the republicans come up with a candidate that is -at least- not vulgar???

As a cincinnati republican, willie cunningham has always been an embarrassment. His action do nothing but drive the independents to the left. I like McCains
willingness to tell the idiots to (respectfully) shut up.

As a long time friend of the Clintons and a member of President Clinton's foreign policy team, I naturally assumed I'd be firmly in Senator Clinton's camp in 2008. Instead, by last fall I'd become an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama. Why?

There are two good reasons: The first comes from who Barack Obama is.

It will take at least a generation to repair the damage to U.S. international interests inflicted by George Bush and the far-right ideologues whose pet theories became his lodestars. After the debacle in Iraq, hawked through exaggerated intelligence and minimized dangers, we'll have to struggle uphill just to regain American credibility, so other nations and institutions will at least trust what we say. Then we'll need to rebuild alliances fractured by Bush's arrogant go-it-alone mentality, and forge new friendships and coalitions effectively to address challenges as diverse as climate change and radical Islam, which even the world's strongest nation can't resolve by itself. In short, we'll have to re-connect with the world, through means other than arms and bluster.

The election of Barack Obama will, in and of itself, jump-start those endeavors. His heritage and extraordinary life story will capture the imagination of people all over the world, and be seen as a confirmation, more powerful than any words, that America has returned to our best ideals. In one stroke, it will propel us out of the hole Bush has dug for us and onto the high ground, where we can engage from strength and respect.

The second reason for supporting Obama is change -- a word lately so widely cribbed and overused as to be nearly drained of meaning. But in Obama's case it carries profound content -- indeed, on some of the very issues on which he's been assailed, he's shown a way of looking at foreign and national security policy that breaks through tired old talking points and opens up new avenues for progress. Some examples:

When Senator Obama said in a debate he'd be prepared to talk directly with the heads of rogue states such as Iran, North Korea and Cuba, it was widely described as a mis-step. Senator Clinton, instinctively lining up with settled precepts, called him naïve, a charge recently echoed by the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain. Obama is the only one prepared to look at things in a new way.

When Obama suggested he wouldn't brandish nuclear weapons against Osama bin Laden, Senator Clinton chastised him again, declaring that we shouldn't signal the circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used. That's the old formula, all right, but to adhere to it blindly in this case is both unrealistic and foolish, conveying the message that we place no value on the tens of thousands of other lives that would be extinguished if we decided to "nuke" one despicable person.

There was more tut-tutting when Senator Obama said if we knew where bin Laden was hiding and Pakistan's leader wouldn't allow us to go after him, the U.S. would act on its own. Then the bipartisan co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, said the same thing, and soon the other Democratic candidates were following suit -- although Senator McCain still thinks otherwise.

On the spread of nuclear weapons, Senator Obama has grasped the core truth that to enforce the global agreement against proliferation, the U.S. must live up to our side of the bargain and move toward a world entirely free of such weapons. That, too, challenges much orthodoxy, and it's a pledge Senator Clinton has not yet made. But it's where a wise President must lead if we are to avert an even more dangerous world.

On each of these issues the other candidates and foreign policy experts have become increasingly receptive to Senator Obama's views. But as with his 2002 opposition to the Iraq war, it has been Barack Obama demonstrating the judgment, foresight and courage to lead the way.

In sum, because of both who he is and what he believes, Senator Obama offers the hope of a rapid recovery from the Bush years, and a liberation from the foreign policy conformity that too often holds us back. He is our best hope for not just the terminology of "change," but the reality -- and embodies an opportunity America cannot afford to pass by.

OH Boo Hoo
Just one more reason for Obama followers to cry!!!
And they say Hillary is the only girl running for President...lol

Mr.Cunningham did not get his lead from the Obama's.  His demeaning, race baiting, terror mongoring came from his demented mind. John McCain addressed the issue correctly after the fact. He should of known who was stoking the crowd and stopped it from being an issue.  Let's see Obama brings out thousands on a message of healing and hope.  The republicans bottom feed for the worst angels of our nature.  

As an American I respect Senator McCain distancing himself from the comments made by Cunningham.  H. Clinton could learn a thing or two from McCain in taking responsibility for disparaging remarks made by surrogates like Charles Rangel, Bob Johnson and others.  McCain appears to be a man of honor.

People like Bill Cunningham should not have a say on public radio station.  It is a disgrace that radio personalities like him exist.

Does this make McCain a racist? I know that this is a question Matthew's would be asking if a Hillary supporter had made such comments.

Joe,

The gist of Cunningham's remarks was not the "Chicago/Daly" bit, but the "Barack Hussein Obama" part.  That is what McCain was (rightly) repudiating.

ummm. there's no justifying the comment. I don't think of mccain as any less patriotic because he was an architect of the biggest foreign policy fiasco in our generation. I just think his judgment was flawed. And altough he's willing to make a 100 years commitment to the people of Iraq, he stubbornly refuses to propose a meaningful and serious commitment to a domestic agenda.

But the guy is no less patriotic, or honorable for that matter. So, i'll give him the benefit of doubt, especially given his sincere tone in rectifying the comment. But i don't totally absolve him. we'll just have to watch.

Because there's a well known-strategy that your surrogates say something disparaging and damaging. you come out within a few hours after the damage's been done and you distance yourself from it.

he's done it against romney in florida, hucks done it; the clintons' done it. so im perfectly willing to be optimistic about his intentions, but i'll keep my eyes wide open. so better watch your tactics mc.

Cunningham is the brother of Rush Lambaugh. They are both dope dealers who use dope to fire themselves up for their songs of intolerance and hatred. Conservative talk radio hosts are the devil's children in that they create controvseries, and their only mission is to divide America with their secessionist-like rants.

Unfortunate.  I liken this to the BET founder's negative Barack Obama comments at a Hillary Clinton rally.  The only difference is (and it's a big one) Clinton was sitting in the audience at the time and never disassociated herself from those comments.  The BET founder finally apologized a few days later.  At least John McCain had the good judgment to do so himself and immediately.

OBAMA '08

Joe,

The campaign did NOT cry race. The Clinton campaign made statements that attempted to marginalize Obama by comparing him to figures (Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton) that not even black folk are in love with, and then diminishing the work of Dr. King. Do that and get backlash from the black electorate, and people of good rapport. If they wanted to make a comparison, why didn't they use a white one? Because they wanted to make the point in spades. (No pun intended)

I believe Michelle Obama was referring to weather Barack was strong enough to withstand a campaign against the right wing attack machine and she referred to winning in Chicago despite the Daley political machine.

As far as neutralizing Pres Clinton, I don't believe Barack had much to do with that other than to point out how the fairy tale about the fairy tale.

You know...as progressive as we call ourselves as a nation, it is a shame that we fall back on race attacks and fear mongering to drum up votes. So, if Obama is using Daly tactics, then the republicans are using Jim Crow tactics.

Here we have two candidates from opposing sides offering to treat each other with respect. Lets hope their supporters can do the same. Though, I have my doubts that there are many Republicans who are capable of treating anyone with dignity or respect, as Cunningham clearly demonstrates.

Go McCain, we need a strong pres to stand againt Muslim extremist

To Joe:

You are stupid and racist.  

You obviously know nothing about Chicago.  The mayor's name is spelled Daley, not Daly.

Daley is a white, Irish Catholic man not an African American.

Stupid, please do your homework.

The war is over. It is the occupation that will be permanent.

Good for McCain. That's called leadership.  

Here in Cincinnati..."Willie", as he calls himself, can't believe that McCain would repudiate his comments...too funny! He is ready to start the typical "dirty" politics that he was praised for in the last two elections by the likes of Hannity, etc. To hear him cry about McCain distancing himself from his is priceless. If you ask me, I think McCain might have a chance if he continues his new approach to Republican politics...but isn't it going to be great to see Barack take both Senators down with clean, forthright politics!!!!!!!

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