Obama Campaign Angered by McCain's 'Sense of Humor' Comment

[tekisui]

With the rest of the political universe buzzing about a controversial new book on Sen. Barack Obama, one person is staying quiet: Sen. John McCain.

McCain and his advisers have said nothing about "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," an innuendo-filled, mistake-riddled biography written by Jerome R. Corsi that will debut at the top of the New York Times bestseller list this weekend.

Asked about the book Friday, McCain replied: "Gotta keep your sense of humor." A McCain aide later said he had misheard the question and thought it was about a television ad.

The Obama campaign was having none of it.

"While the smears piled up and the lies were exposed, John McCain spent six days in silence and on the seventh day said we should have a sense of humor," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said. "John McCain's response to this discredited book speaks volumes -- he is a George Bush candidate running a Karl Rove campaign with a Dick Cheney sense of humor."

Brian Rogers, a McCain spokesman, declined to comment on the book. Aides said the Republican campaign has no intention of coming to Obama's defense on every attack they have no control over -- even though, in the past, McCain has ruled out certain kinds of attacks as inappropriate. In 2004, McCain denounced another Corsi book attacking Sen. John F. Kerry's service on a Swift boat in Vietnam.

link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503444.html

[Skidmore]

1. So it was McCain's sense of humor that made it okay for them

to attack his young daughter? That's why he didn't defend her. Who knew? This man has no character whatsoever.

[ecstatic]

2. McShame & Co's "humor" is warped and disgusting

A little OT rant:

Never in a million years would I find a joke about killing an entire nation of people funny. I tried to be objective and tried to see the other side: Would I have found the "joke" funny if Obama or a democrat told it? No, Obama would never make such a comment and I doubt a democrat would. That's what makes our party better. McShame's jokes are disgusting and show a racist disregard for human life.

[tekisui]

3. Dick Cheney sense of humor, indeed.

[opihimoimoi]

4. "Thats the kind of Humor we can believe in...." LOL