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Nov 1, 2008 7:00 am US/Pacific

House GOP Leader Uses Expletive To Refer To Obama

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) ― House Republican leader John Boehner has used a vulgar expression to refer to Democrat Barack Obama and his voting record in the Illinois legislature.

While campaigning for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday, Boehner told a small crowd at a bar in Oxford that failing to vote "yes" or "no" on an issue meant a lawmaker was a "chickens---,"

The Ohio congressman said the last thing the country needs is to have a "chicken" in the White House. The comments, first reported in the Miami University of Ohio's student newspaper, alluded to Obama's record of voting "present" 129 times as a state lawmaker.

Boehner spokesman Jessica Twohey confirmed the comments on Saturday.

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