CINCINNATI, Ohio — A supporter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ridiculed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in an introductory speech at a rally here Tuesday morning, repeatedly using Obama’s middle name, Hussein, and deriding him as a terrorist sympathizer.
McCain did not mention talk show host Bill Cunningham’s comments in his speech to the enthusiastic crowd of about 400. But to reporters afterward, McCain apologized profusely for “any disparaging remarks” made about Obama or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
“Whatever suggestion was made that was in any way disparaging to the integrity, character, honesty of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton was wrong and I condemn it,” McCain said. “I will take responsibility and I apologize for it.”
McCain said he had not arrived by the time Cunningham was talking but will “make sure nothing like that ever happens again … I absolutely repudiate such comments.”
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