Obama would have said it more diplomatically. "Senator McCain isn't a terrorist just becasue he's Irish. He may have been a hard drinking womanizer at one time, but not becasue he is Irish. Anyway, you have nothing to fear from a Mccain presidency. Now that he's in his 8th decade of life, he's very sedate and not nearly as bellicose and ignorant as Bush. Palin, of course is another story."