[Dems2008] Bubba The Boob on the campaign trail

Obama adviser compares Bill Clinton to McCarthy

Posted: 09:50 AM ET

McPeak's comment is drawing controversy.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A retired Air Force general who works for Barack Obama says a statement by Bill Clinton is a disguised insult that sounds like McCarthyism.

Merrill McPeak is a co-chairman of Obama's presidential campaign and he compares the comment by the former president to communist-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy of the 1950s.

Campaigning for his wife in North Carolina, Clinton said it would be a great thing if we had an election year where, "you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country." Instead, he said, there's "all this other stuff."

McPeak says he lived through the years when McCarthy "was accusing good Americans of being traitors" and says he's "had enough of it."

Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Phil Singer rejects the comparison as "absurd." He says McPeak has misinterpreted the former president's statement.

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