WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on Saturday repudiated a liberal talk show host’s description of Sen. John McCain as a warmonger, a comment made to an audience that Obama later addressed.
Ed Schultz, host of a nationally syndicated radio program that is based in Fargo, N.D., was warming up the crowd Friday at a $100-a-person fundraiser for the North Dakota Democratic Party in Grand Forks at which Obama later spoke. He tagged the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting as a “warmonger,” Schultz acknowledged Saturday.
On Saturday, Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement, “John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such. He’s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged.” The Associated Press
