{"id":16280,"date":"2008-07-18T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16245.html"},"modified":"2008-07-18T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T18:15:39","slug":"mccain-surrogate-muslims-are-going-to-kill-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mccain-surrogate-muslims-are-going-to-kill-us\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain surrogate: Muslims are ‘going to kill us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When news outlets and Republicans were apoplectic about Wesley Clark questioning John McCain’s presidential qualifications, the McCain campaign sent out Bud Day<\/a>, who was a prisoner of war with McCain in Vietnam and one of the Swiftboat liars from 2004, to talk to the media.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, the McCain campaign probably should have asked Day to stop<\/i> talking to the media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of John McCain’s fellow POW’s in Vietnam defended the war in Iraq, saying, “The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us.”<\/p>\n

In a phone call with reporters arranged by the McCain campaign, Colonel Bud Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ben Smith added<\/a> that Day “seems to have cast McCain’s foreign policy in stark, religious terms.” That seems like a bit of an understatement.<\/p>\n

Considering this campaign surrogate’s remarks on the merits. According to Bud Day, John McCain should continue with Bush’s war policy in Iraq because we have to fight Muslims. And why do we have to fight Muslims? Because if we can either fight Muslims, “kneel” to Muslims, or “they’re going to kill us.”<\/p>\n

It’s tempting to just dismiss all of this as the sad rantings of a strange man, but it’s not that simple.
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\nThe McCain campaign brought Day on as a surrogate. Lately, he’s been a leading<\/i> surrogate, regularly featured on campaign conference calls with the media. <\/p>\n

He’s not just some random supporter, or county chairperson that the campaign barely knows. Bud Day has been a top voice of the McCain campaign — and now he believes Americans can vote for McCain, so McCain can wage a war against one of the planet’s largest faith traditions.<\/p>\n

If this situation sounds kind of familiar, something similar happened to Rudy Giuliani’s campaign back in December. John Deady, the co-chairman of Veterans for Rudy committee, said voters should back Giuliani because he would “press” Muslims “until we defeat or chase them back to their caves<\/a> \u2014 or in other words get rid of them.” He added that Muslims are “madmen<\/a>.” Asked if this was a reference to all Muslims, he said, “I am talking about Muslims in general.”<\/p>\n

Soon after, the Giuliani campaign forced Deady to resign.<\/p>\n

Will McCain disavow Bud Day and remove him from the campaign’s list of surrogates? As of now, the McCain campaign hasn’t said anything<\/a> about this. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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