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Obama Campaign: McCain Not a 'Warmonger'
Saturday, April 5, 2008
WA****NGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Saturday
repudiated a liberal talk show host's description of Sen. John McCain as a
warmonger, a comment made to an audience that Obama later addressed.
Ed Schultz, host of a nationally syndicated radio program that is based in
Fargo, N.D., was warming up the crowd Friday at a $100-a-person fundraiser
for the North Dakota Democratic party in Grand Forks when he tagged the
Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting as a "warmonger," Schultz
acknowledged in a telephone interview Saturday.
He said he has used the term many times on the air to refer to McCain
because of his sup****t for the war in Iraq.
"He voted for this war. He's a perpetrator of the war. He's an advocate of
the war," Schultz said. "In my personal definition, that's a warmonger."
Obama was not in the room when Schultz spoke. The candidate spoke after a
series of introductions by the state's three Democrats in Congress.
Obama thanked Schultz and called him "the voice of progressive radio."
But on Saturday, Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement:
"John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such. He's
a
sup****ter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been
authorized and never been waged."
The roles were reversed in February, when McCain quickly condemned the
anti-Obama remarks of conservative talk radio host Bill Cunningham when he
spoke at a McCain campaign rally. Cunningham referred repeatedly to Obama
using his full name _ Barack Hussein Obama _ and called him a "hack,
Chicago-style" politician.
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