McCain Declines To Condemn Virginia Republican's Comparison Of Obama And Osama

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McCain Declines To Condemn Virginia Republican's Comparison Of Obama And Osama
By Greg Sargent - October 13, 2008, 9:50AM

This seems like it might make a bit of news today. At the end of an interview with a small TV station in Virginia yesterday afternoon, John McCain declined to condemn a Virginia Republican's comparison of Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden, saying he needed "more context" first.

McCain was asked about comments by Virginia GOP chairman Jeff Frederick, who told McCain campaign volunteers that Obama and Osama "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon." Here's McCain's response:

QUESTION: The chair of the Republican Party in Virginia has said, quote, in Time magazine, "both Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have friends that have bombed the Pentagon. That is scary." Is that appropriate for a state party chair to be saying?

MCCAIN: "I have to look at the context of his remarks. I have always repudiated any comments that have been made that were inappropriate about Senator Obama. The fact is that William Ayers was a terrorist and bomber and unrepentant. I don't care about that. But Senator Obama ought be the candid and truthful about his relationship with Mr. Ayers in whose living room Senator Obama launched his campaign and Senator Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood."

(Via Raising Kaine.) As you can see, McCain's questioner read him the whole quote. What more context would he need?

McCain's campaign over the weekend issued a statement kinda sorta distancing itself from the Virginia Republican's comments: "While Barack Obama is associated with domestic terrorist William Ayers, the McCain campaign disagrees with the comparison that Jeff Frederick made." Now McCain himself has proven unable to even do that.

Respectful...

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[ej510]

1. Why would you expect Mr. Burns to apologize? He stands by evil.