Sen. Obama isn't Muslim, he is Protestant Christian. His father and step father were Muslim. His brother Roy is also Muslim. He studied the Quran in elementary school for two years. Radical Islamists would surely view President Obama as a very big step toward Sharia law in the US. If he keeps troops in Iraq and Afganistan He will likely be considered an apostate.

oh here we go... more barely disguised racism..... first of all he's not muslim and second of all even if he was what the hell does that have to do with anything? george bush is a christian and look how badly he's f'd things up.

Barack is a Semitic word meaning "to bless" as a verb or "blessing" as a noun. In its Hebrew form, barak, it is found all through the Bible. It first occurs in Genesis 1:22: "And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."

John Adams really only had Semitic names. His first name is from the Hebrew Yochanan, or gift of God, which became Johan and then John. (In German and in medieval English, "y" is represented by "j" but was originally pronounced "y".) Adams is from the biblical Adam, which also just means "human being." In Arabic, one way of saying "human being" is "Bani Adam," the children of men.
Thomas Jefferson's first name is from the Aramaic Tuma, meaning "twin." Aramaic is a Semitic language spoken by Jesus, which is related to Hebrew and Arabic. In Arabic twin is tau'am, so you can see the similarity.

James Madison, James Monroe and James Polk all had a Semitic first name, derived from the Hebrew Ya'aqov or Jacob, which is Ya`qub in Arabic. It became Iacobus in Latin, then was corrupted to Iacomus, and from there became James in English.

Zachary Taylor's first name is from the Hebrew Zachariah, which means "the Lord has remembered."

Abraham Lincoln, of course is, named for the patriarch Abraham, from the Semitic word for father, Ab, and the word for "multitude," raham,. Abu, "father of," is a common

"McCain is suppose to be above this kind of sophomoric behavior. The fact he allows with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, is proof, he isn't fit for presidential office."
Posted by cruisepuppy7452a

I agree.

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

McCain's and his supporters must understand this:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

All I can say about this cunning ham is:

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him."

Wonder what kind of ill bringing-up this cunning ham has experienced to have absorbed so much fear and hatred.

McCain must not choose fake honor over wisdom and humanity.

Mccain is suppose to be above this kind of sophomoric behavior. The fact he allows with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, is proof, he isn't fit for presidential office. Obamma isn't Muslim, not even close. His father was, but repeatedly, he has stated, that he isn't. Don't Mccain's people do thier homework before they allow lies to be printed or made verbally? That is as bad as people saying Hillary is a flaming lesbian. Oh really? Has she come out of a closet we don't know about?Like many women her age, she has life long friends, which in no way makes her a lesbian anymore than it makes Barack a Muslim. before people make harmful remarks, they need to do thier homework first. Othewise its called liable and slander, crimes punishable by law.

Yikes... he is one of those Right Wing Tools that Stephanie Miller talks about. Doesn't Ann Coulter do the same thing?

If Obama does capture the nomination, it is only the first of a very long string of hatefulness until November.

Brace yourselves, people, the angry old white men don't like that they are losing control.

A favorite tactic of unscrupulous politicians is to allow people like Cunningham to do their dirty work, spread lies and innuendo to rile up "the base." The candidate then uses one of three plausibable deniability tacts:

1) Offer relatively mild reproof, "This person does not necessarily represent my views."

2) Shrug it off: "I have no control over what some guy on the radio chooses to say."

3) Ignores it, as if to say "It's a tempest in a teapot, and I have more important things to deal with."

This stuff is unbelievably destructive to both political discourse and, worse, our entire social fabric. In the worst-case scenario, it could eventually lead to anarchy in the streets and civil war, as people become increasingly afraid and enraged.

These local Rush Limbaugh wannabees like Cunningham can be a particularly nasty bunch. You don't hear about them that much because they don't have a national audience. Any city over 100,000 people seems to have one or two of these guys on the local right wing talk stations.

How can the Republican party possibly function with so many memory-impaired people leading it?

I have never heard so many "I don't recalls" since Alberto Gonzalez apparently couldn't remember anything about anything that would have made him culpable in the dismissing of lawyers who disagreed with the Bush Administration.
They've found their one loophole to taking responsibility and they are using it until one wonders if the entire Bush Administration is composed of people suffering from Early Onset Altzeimers'
Just how stupid do they think the American people are????

His reference to a "slightly modified palacial estate," tells me all I need to know about this clown. They are scared shitless of Obama and Hillary. It was nice to see McCain seperate himself from this hermaphrodic weasel. He's still going to lose though, come November. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

What a disgrace and an utter clown this Cunningham character is. How on earth do people like him get to spread their nonsense on the public airways in the first place? Don't get me wrong, I am fully behind free speech...but doesn't the FCC have basic rules about spreading hatred and lies over the public airways?...that it needs to serve the public interest?

The sad fact is that our media is congested (or should I say infested) with political extremists who call themselves Republican conservatives. It's particularly noticeable on the radio airwaves but they are also represented throughout our news and political media as well.

It should be mentioned that this phenomenon or process surfaced shortly after the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act that was signed into law by Bill Clinton and has accelerated at a great pace since. Clinton never should have signed this act into law. In my opinion, it was a HUGE mistake. Essentially, it gave those people with lots of money the ability to purchase radio, tv, and print media within the same market area, thereby eliminating diversity and competition, enabling them to control the message. Several have used this new media opportunity for partisan political purposes, controlling information and news and editorializing across broad areas of the public spectrum.

I truly hope that a new Democratically controlled Congress with revisit this law and make the necessary corrections or amendments to ensure that appropriate checks and balances are restored. If not, those with power and money will continue to dominate our airwaves and print media with their particular and often partisan views of how things should be.

Absent change, the net result will be more of the same of what we are currently commenting on in this thread -- extremist media personalities like Cunningham.

This is a good tactic for John McCain and I think we'll see more of it as the year progresses: His people hire a racist miscreant to slander his opponent, Barack Obama, with all sorts of personal attacks, like using his middle name, over and over, as an epithet, designed to exploit whatever fear or loathing certain voters have about a Muslim name.

Then, after the hired hand spews his hatred and vitriol, McCain can play the "good guy", denounce the vicious comments, and hope to gain brownie points with the compliant mainstream media that consistently eats out of his hand.

This way, he makes sure that the attacks against Obama happen but he gets to act as though his hands are completely clean.

Will voters notice? Will we stand by and let this continue to happen?

Republicans are weird.

He is just pandering to his audience. Hate radio, by definition, is radio for people who don't want to feel guilty, ashamed or morally bankrupt about the fact that they have bigoted, racist and or sexist sentiments they "need" to express. They are simply tired of denying and hiding their irrational fears and hatreds and derive a perverted psychological self-righteousness and comfort in knowing that there are others who are just as misguided, dysfunctional and spiritually empty as they are. For these people, it is easier to give in to their worst fears and basest hatreds than to recognize that they represent the most destructively malevolent elements of what mankind is capable of. These are the people who created and or enabled slavery, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, Rwanda, Darfur and the pointless deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. They are the voice and embodiment of evil incarnate. And they have no shame.

In todays LA Times, a new Times/Bloomberg poll has:

McCain....44%
Obama.....42%

If it were Hillary:

McCain....46%
Clinton...40%

What the hell is going on in this country??