McCain Campaign Declines To Disavow Top Surrogate's Remarks About "The Muslims"

This should be fun watching; just how low will they go?


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McCain Campaign Declines To Disavow Top Surrogate's Remarks About "The Muslims"
By Greg Sargent - July 18, 2008, 3:11PM


The McCain campaign is declining to disavow a top surrogate's assertion that "the Muslims" have said that "either we kneel or they're going to kill us."

As noted below, the comment was made by Bud Day, a frequent leading surrogate for McCain, on a conference call with Florida reporters. I asked the campaign whether they agreed with the assertion.

Here's what McCain spokesperson Michael Goldfarb sent me:

"The threat we face is from radical Islamic extremism."

This isn't quite how Day described the threat -- the McCain camp attributes it not to "the Muslims," but rather to radical Islamic ideology -- but the McCain campaign won't explicitly say it disagrees with Day or disavow his remarks. If anything, it shades a bit in the direction of backing Day up.

This is partly because of who Day is -- McCain is reluctant to throw him under the bus. Day isn't just any old surrogate. Day, a Medal of Honor recipient and Swift Boat Vet, is a former fellow POW of McCain who frequently speaks for the candidate on campaign conference calls.

Just to recap: This high-profile McCain surrogate said that "the Muslims" are going to kill us, and the McCain campaign doesn't appear to disagree.

Just to recap INDEED:

"This high-profile McCain surrogate said that "the replace Muslim with Christian or any other ethnic group" are going to kill us, and the McCain campaign doesn't appear to disagree."

Obama = Muslim to the morons endorsing McCain. He would not want to upset them.