McCain In Microcosm

Read this quote and identify what's wrong within it:

Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who while warming up a campaign crowd referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democrat a "hack, Chicago-style" politician.

Hussein is Obama's middle name, but talk show host Bill Cunningham used it three times as he addressed the crowd before the likely Republican nominee's appearance.

"Now we have a hack, Chicago-style Daley politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you're going to have in your pocket is change," Cunningham said as the audience roared.

The time will come, Cunningham added, when the media will "peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama" and tell the truth about his relationship with indicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and how Obama got "sweetheart deals" in Chicago.

McCain wasn't on stage nor in the building when Cunningham made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from them and the talk show host after finishing his speech. McCain spoke to a couple hundred people at Memorial Hall in downtown Cincinnati.

"I apologize for it," McCain told reporters, addressing the issue before they had a chance to ask the Arizona senator about Cunningham's comments.

"I did not know about these remarks but I take responsibility for them. I repudiate them," he said. "My entire campaign I have treated Senator Obama and Senator (Hillary Rodham) Clinton with respect. I will continue to do that throughout this campaign.

McCain called both Democrats "honorable Americans" and said "I want to dissociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them."

Okay, there are TWO things wrong with it.  The first is Mr. Cunningham actually suggesting that the same Enemy Media that is laying palm fronds in front of B.O. wherever he goes will turn on him in a rising tide of scandalmongering.  Sorry, Mr. C, but Barack-a-lack-a-ding-dong is a Democrat, and the newest flavor of Democrat at that.  He could show up at campaign appearances in a Jerry Falwell costume and not draw a discouraging press word.  Just look at "journalists"' hypocritical denunciations of Cunningham's remarks which differ not at all from what Senator Hillary Clinton has offered up over the past few months via various avenues.

The second, and primary, problem is, of course, Senator McCain's reflexive apology and instinctive and effusive praise for Senator Obama (and Hillary as well - talk about your RINO blue plate special).  Bill Cunningham was warming up a partisan Republican audience at a partisan Republican campaign event; the Democrats do the exact same thing, and I think it's safe to say they say a whole lot worse things about us (remember Bush Derangement Syndrome???), and don't use proxies to do it, either.  There are never any media denunciations of THAT, or demands for a Hillary or an Obama to apologize for it.  That's simply politics, as it's always been.

Yet out comes Darth Queeg on his knees, begging for his opponents' (and the media's) forgiveness, like some elderly and really weird hybrid of a battered wife and a trained seal.

And this man expects conservatives to get behind him without so much as a single smidgen of "red meat"?  He expects to energize and fire up a GOP base he's been rooking for years by running a "bipartisan" presidential campaign?  He's going to get to the White House by "taking the politics out of politics"?

You want to have a chance of fooling us, Lord Queeg?  Next time, just say "Bill Cunningham is a great American".  Or even say nothing at all.

At least that would be better for my blood pressure.