Cika wannan jumla: McPeak ya kasance co-shugaban
Gasar zaben shugaban kasa ta Barack Obama a shekarar 2008. Ya haifar da rikice-rikice bayan bayanan da ya yi a wani kamfen na kamfen a Medford, Oregon inda ya nuna cewa tsohon Shugaba Bill Clinton ya bayyana ya yi tambaya game da kishin kasa na Obama: "A matsayin wanda ya yi alfahari da shekaru 37 yana sanye da rigar kasarmu, Ina bakin cikin ganin shugaban ya yi amfani da wadannan dabarun. Ya kamata ya fi kowa sani saboda shi ma an yi masa irin wannan dabarar". McPeak kuma ya kwatanta maganganun tsohon Shugaban zuwa McCarthyism: "Na girma, ina zuwa kwaleji lokacin da Joe McCarthy ke zargin kyawawan Amurkawa da cin amana, don haka na sami isasshen shi".