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Sununu apologizes for Obama remarks

Romney surrogate John Sununu apologized Tuesday afternoon for suggesting that President Obama is un-American.

"Frankly, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have used those words, and I apologize for using those words" Sununu told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. But, he continued, "I don't apologize for the idea that this president has demonstrated that he does not understand how jobs are created in America."

On a campaign conference call with reporters this morning, the former governor of New Hampshire said, "I wish this president would learn how to be an American," a sound-bite that sent off alarm bells among reporters and drew criticism from the Obama campaign.

Sununu tried to walkback the remark later in the phone call, claiming he was referring to the President's economic philosophy, a point he reiterated in his interview with CNN.

But Sununu did not back down on his general line of attack against President Obama, which is that the President has no business experience, is guilty of crony capitalism, and is denigrating the values of capitalism.

"He thinks that jobs are created by giving grants to your cronies, to your bundlers and your cronies," Sununu said.

"The president has to stop denigrating American values," he later said. "He makes success a terrible thing. He's sending a wrong message to the young people of America: that if you get rich you're somehow evil."