A conservative radio talk-show host said that "he's had it up to here" with Sen. John McCain after the GOP presidential candidate repudiated the commentator's remarks about Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at a campaign event.
"John McCain threw me under a bus -- under the 'Straight Talk Express,' " Bill Cunningham told CNN on Tuesday, referring to McCain's campaign bus.
Earlier Tuesday, Cunningham spoke at a McCain campaign event in Cincinnati and called Obama a "hack, Chicago-style Daley politician."
"All is going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing 'Kumbaya' around the table of Barack Obama," the commentator told the crowd.
Cunningham, known for his flame-throwing style, repeatedly used Obama's middle name -- Hussein -- during his remarks, made as a warm-up for the audience waiting to hear McCain speak.
Is it so wrong to want to run a semi-clean campaign? Was it wrong for McCain to tell someone who's on his side that he's wrong? I've chided fellow Republicans over spending, abortion, and lesser government values when they were in the wrong.
The only difference is that this happened in a very public arena and Cunningham didn't like the slapping he got. It sounds to me like Cunningham was trying to insinuate things about Obama that weren't true, such as he's a secret Muslim out to destroy America.
So McCain let it be known that wasn't his style, so where's the big deal?
Travis
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