You think that stabbing your most loyal supporters in the back, on the most important issue facing this country [ethnic separatism and our coming demographic doom] is "very smart political strategy"?
It might be "very smart" for the political career of John McCain in the very short term [when measured in terms of weeks - although it's not going to be "very smart" in the short term between now and Tuesday, November 4, 2008], but, in the long term, it's absolutely disastrous for the GOP and the nation as a whole.
Of course, McCain will be dead of melanoma circa 2012 or 2015, so what does he care about the rest of us who are left with the demographic and socio-political disaster that he and the people of his generation left us saddled with?
Stop being such a drama queen. Nobody is stabbing anyone in the back. All McCain did was distance himself from the ad. His statement in no way hurts anyone in NC, and the ad still runs and hurts Obama. Even better, McCain's statement gives the ad national exposure.
Chill out and stop being so naive.