Rep. King Stands by Prediction That Obama Presidency Would Be Welcomed by Terrorists
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa Republican congressman on Monday defended his prediction that terrorists would celebrate if Democrat Barack Obama were elected president, despite a rebuke from aides to John McCain, the GOP’s apparent presidential nominee.
“(Obama will) certainly be viewed as a savior for them,” Rep. Steve King told The Associated Press. “That’s why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him.”
King said his offices have been bombarded with calls — positive and negative — since he said Friday that Al Qaeda “would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror.”
King cited Obama’s pledge to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, his father’s Muslim roots in Kenya and his middle name, Hussein, which King said has a meaning to terrorists.
Asked about the remarks as he campaigned in Mississippi, Obama said, “I think that Mr. King has it backwards. The fact that the continuation of a presence in Iraq as Senator McCain has suggested is exactly what, I think, will fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and make it more difficult for us to create a long-term and sustainable peace in the world.
“But I have to say that Mr. King and individuals like him thrive on offensive or controversial statements as a way to get in the papers, so I don’t take it too seriously. I would hope Senator McCain would want to distance himself from that kind of inflammatory and offensive remarks,” Obama said.
Aides to McCain also disavowed King’s comments.
“John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics … and obviously that extends to Congressman King’s statement,” spokesman Brian Rogers told The Associated Press.
Last month, McCain also denounced his introduction in Cincinnati by talk-show host Bill Cunningham, who referred to Obama three times as “Barack Hussein Obama.”
Obama supporters have claimed such tactics are being used to imply that he is a Muslim.
The Illinois senator, born in Hawaii to a white Kansas woman and a Kenyan man, is a Christian and has said he has little connection to the Islamic religion, though he acknowledges spending part of his childhood in largely Muslim Indonesia.
Don’t hate Steve King. Why didn’t you run for president?
REP. KING IS CORRECT ABOUT THE TERRORIST WANTING OBAMA TO BE PRESIDENT!!!!!!IF YOU ARE IN A CONTEST OR WAR, THE OPPOSING SIDE WANTS TO DEFEAT YOU ANYWAY THEY CAN. IF WE PULL OUT OF IRAQ PREMATURELY, THE TERRORIST WILL WIN!!!!THAT IS NOT VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND OR IS IT!!!!!!!!
WHY DO YOU KEP GIVING THIS JERK MEDIA TIME. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH UNLESS YOU FOR HILLARY CLINTON.
So can I take it that Rep. King has studied Islamic terrorism, and is considered an authority on the matter? No? Oh. So he’s just a bigot? That makes sense. Well, I suppose “Hussein” does have a meaning to the terrorists. It means “good” or “handsome”. They won’t know what to think!
America, brace yourself. How I would hope this was not necessary to say, but it is all so clear from News reaction by the widest spectrum of ordinary citizens, and almost incredible nobody seems to pick it up.
Iran has always hated anything American since the Carter days. For the Senator to say President Bush is to be blamed? Did you not expect a reaction? Even if you did not, don’t you see it now? America has reached the crossing of the roads; it is all so clear if you just read Readers Comments. Obama is striding across the screens, unperturbed, imperial, in Messiah cloth, demanding McCain should “repudiate Wyoming” but his Camp where it started? …. Don’t try tell me he did not know it …. It was all so well planned.
What I clearly see is [Please allow me this, |Michael Fox] “Forward to the Past” on Fast Forward mode.
Let me close with extreme sadness. Unless you act right now, America will burn before this year is out. Save this comment, but for the sake of your land take precautions NOW [I SAY NOW] [NOT TOMORROW OR NEXT WEEK, MEAN NOW]. You must be blind not to see it. The biggest WAR is building up in homes, minds and people’s hearts. That’s how Terrorism works; I fervently hope it can still be stopped before it spills out into the streets and in the 2008 Convention Cities.
Please take note I am not saying Iranians will sing in the streets …. Not at all. What I am saying is America contains within itself the seed to self-destruct and that is all your enemies need in this kind of War …. Indeed they are promoting the process.
Iraq? Forget Iraq. Compared to what is building up in peoples’ minds Iraq will look like a walk in the park. You don’t believe it? …. Take note of the date I pen this: Sunday, March 09, 2008 and remember.
For how long are we going to have this Love Fest with Senator Obama? The man is no Messiah [not the desirable sort anyway; he is working on his own schedule known to him only.
Cry America.
These types of comments by King are what is driving the wedge between people of all backgrounds in this country. The people of Iowa and the Republican party should rebuke King for this. Obama is a proud Christian American and this hatred that is being displayed by King and others like him plays right into dividing this country. By the way, since King wants to get on names, his last name is one of another great American Dr. Martin Luther King. I guess that makes him really a Black American civil rights leader posing as a white Republican politician trying to infiltrate the conservative Republican party.
** HIS MIDDLE NAME ‘HUSSEIN’ IS ‘ Muslim arabic’ and is true his full name is BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
I AGREE WITH REP SENATOR KING. Obama will be fatal for America! and the Islamic world will rejoyce if Barack Hussein becomes President. Agree 100%. ALLLL TRUE.
Representative King is 100% correct, and McCain is a politically correct wimp (who also knows King is correct, but does not have the stomach to say so). Anyone who thinks that Obama’s promise to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq as soon as he gets elected, would not embolden al-Qaida, is either mentally unbalanced, or just plain stupid. Obama is talking about not only pulling out of Iraq, but sitting down to negotiate with know terrorists and thugs around the world. An while Obama is trying to talk sense to these clowns, they will be taking advantage of the US and its allies at every chance they get. And just like the United Nations, we will show a weak front, and continue talking or threaten sanctions, and all the while our enemies will be killing us. You can’t deal with people whose religion tells them you (infidels) should die, and believe that dying in order to kill you is perfectly acceptable to them.
You have a typo in the title. get it right foxnews.
why is it so difficult to get the truth? Where does the Obama family worship? Where does he donate his money? Aren’t these easliy answered questions?