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McCain on John Lewis's Charge: 'It Stopped Me in My Tracks'
October 13, 2008 11:44 PM
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sat down with CNN's Dana Bash today for an interview.
Bash asked McCain the difference between Williams Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- why would he go after Obama's less solid connection with Ayers instead of the strong one with Wright?
"William Ayers was an unrepentant terrorist," McCain said "That's a unique individual in American history. A person who still wants to destroy America…That's an unusual breed of cat."
McCain also said Obama "wasn't telling the American people the truth" on Ayers and then turned to Obama on public financing.
Of some of the more offensive things yelled about Obama at his rallies, McCain said he's "heard the same thing at Sen. Obama's rallies said about me." But for anyone to intimate that the majority of people at his rallies are like that, McCain said, "I won't accept that insult."
McCain brought up the harsh charges made by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., about the tenor of McCain-Palin rallies, saying, "a respected member of Congress, John Lewis, who I admire…somehow linked me and Gov. Palin to racism, to segregationism, to some of the worst aspects ever to appear in American politics. And Sen. Obama refuses, or has not yet repudiated those comments…"
"It's unfair and it's outrageous," McCain said. "The accusation that Congressman Lewis made is so far out of bounds and so disturbing, of course it stopped me in my tracks...He even referred to the bombing of a church in Birmingham...”
-- jpt
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This is crazy. McCain thinks he doesn't need to repudiate incendiary comments shouted repeatedly by his supporters, but Obama needs to repudiate someone's reaction to those comments?
Obama could give the same defense McCain offered: "I hear the same thing from the opposition".
But then, just as McCain is, he would be lying.
Posted by: Gil Gamesh | Oct 14, 2008 10:16:17 AM
Didn't George Wallace once say... "I just lay the grass where the goats can get to it"
Posted by: roy | Oct 14, 2008 10:16:11 AM
"It's unfair and it's outrageous," McCain said
excuse me? ok, so explaining that you're not a muslim time and time again, explaining your christian faith, explaining your family, explaining your friends, explaining how you're really an "american" despite you being born here just like any other person, haivng to hear these harsh words "terrorist" "traitor" "off with his head"
is this whats fair? IS IT?
I can't wait until Obama is elected.
Posted by: voter in pa | Oct 14, 2008 9:53:03 AM
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