{"id":5065,"date":"2008-04-06T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/barack-obamas-campaign-distanc.html"},"modified":"2008-04-06T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T07:23:24","slug":"barack-obamas-campaign-distanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/barack-obamas-campaign-distanc.html","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama\u2019s campaign distanced itself from \u201cwarmonger\u201d comment of supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Obama and McCain want to run a clean campaign with no ad hominem attacks but <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/04\/05\/mccain-calls-on-obama-to-condemn-warmonger-remark\/\">their supporters aren&#8217;t interested in doing that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barack Obama\u2019s campaign distanced itself Saturday from a liberal talk show host who called John McCain a \u201cwarmonger\u201d while introducing the Illinois senator at a North Dakota campaign stop the night before, after the McCain campaign called on Obama to denounce the comment.<br \/>\nLocal talk show host Ed Schultz used the term to describe the Arizona senator while warming up the crowd in Grand Forks, N.D., before Obama\u2019s arrival at the state\u2019s Democratic convention.<br \/>\n\u201cJohn McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such,\u201d Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Saturday. She added, \u201cHe\u2019s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged.\u201d<br \/>\nThe campaign stressed that Obama was not present when the \u201cwarmonger\u201d comment was made and that Schultz is not a campaign surrogate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though I would throw a bone to the Obama supporters and give his campaign a kudos for distancing themselves from such an unfair characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Obama and McCain want to run a clean campaign with no ad hominem attacks but their supporters aren&#8217;t interested in doing that: Barack Obama\u2019s campaign distanced itself Saturday from a liberal talk show host who called John McCain a \u201cwarmonger\u201d while introducing the Illinois senator at a North Dakota campaign stop the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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