McCain on the 'warmonger' remark

Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 4:15 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Mark Murray
McCain at his media avail today: "It's a free country, and we have freedom of speech in America, and Mr. [Ed] Shultz is entitled to his views. I would hope that in keeping with his commitment that Sen. Obama would rapidly condemn, Sen. Obama would condemn such language since it was part of his campaign. But that kind of thing, I don't think is necessary at all in this campaign. I made it very clear how I feel about war and my experiences with it."

As mentioned earlier, the Obama campaign didn't condemn Schultz's remark, but issued this statement: "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."

And contrary what McCain said, Shultz's remark wasn't technically part of Obama's campaign; it came at a fundraiser for the North Dakota Democratic Party, which Obama attended.

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Here we go again: Senator Obama's surrogates say what the senator himself will not say --- passive-
aggressiveness at its Obama best. This has been
the game throughout Obama's campaign and the MSM
has not called him on it. Senator McCain will,
or the GOP surrogates of McCain will. The free
ride is just about over.

Judy Kilgore Gadsden, AL (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 9:52 PM)

i really do thibk he's a war warmonger..the damn guy is a war warmonger

charles (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 9:58 PM)

Perhaps it would be helpful if somebody defined exactly what a warmonger is. I believe that Bush and Cheney promoted the invasion of Iraq even though they knew the arguments that were being made for going to war were primarily false. In my view, Bush and Cheney are therefore warmongers. Whether the same can be said of Clinton or McCain is questionable. If they believed that Iraq was a genuine threat, they are not warmongers; they, along with the 75 percent of the American public who also believed the lies, are fools.

John Doe, Seattle, Wash. (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:02 PM)

I thought John McCain actually WAS a warmonger? Isn't he tying to be a Bushie?

Scott, Seattle WA (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:09 PM)

McCain is suffering mental collapse if he thinks to lay this one on Obama. Any and every one is entitled to say and think in this country. Just like Bush McCain is a War Monger.

Ladean (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:12 PM)

today we are entering the most omportant electionin our history, and we have a national hero;this hero who dropped napalm from thosands of feet in the sky
on living human beings, including women and children, killing thousands, yup, that is our hero. the leader of the country also killed thousands, and we hanged him.. the man that we installed in power{note: we also installed those that hanged him..
our hero wants to be the leader of the 'free world'
kool?
i love america.. and I want it back.
one man... one voice can bring it back;
but together we can ... yes we can..
and just a little more:::
some towns in vermont have voted to impeach... gotta love those yankees!!

roy phillips (Sent Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:12 PM)

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