N.C. Republicans Preview Wright-Obama Ad

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ^ | April 23, 2008 | Michael Luo

[Berlin_Freeper]

The North Carolina Republican Party is planning to roll out a television advertisement on Monday attacking a pair of Democrats running for governor in the state for endorsing Senator Barack Obama by playing a clip of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, excoriating the United States.

The release of the commercial, which Republican officials said would debut during 6 p.m. newscasts in the state on Monday, injects a potentially divisive racial element into the state’s upcoming Democratic presidential primary on May 6. (Our colleague Elisabeth Bumiller, reporting from the campaign trail, tells us that Senator John McCain denounced the ad this morning. He also just issued a letter urging the head of the state G.O.P. not to broadcast the ad. See Mr. McCain’s comments and text of the letter below.)

The advertisement features a narrator intoning, “For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor.”

Then the advertisement cues up the clip that has become infamous at this point of Mr. Wright, who was Mr. Obama’s pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, preaching in 2003 and using an expletive when referring to the United States.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I really wish McCain would mind his own business.

The ad on YouTube

[Westbrook]

> The advertisement features a narrator intoning, “For 20
> years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his
> pastor.”
>
> Then the advertisement cues up the clip that has become
> infamous at this point of Mr. Wright, who was Mr. Obama’s
> pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago,
> preaching in 2003 and using an expletive when referring
> to the United States.

I musta missed something?

Where’s the racism in this commercial?

The only racism presented is that of the “reverend” Wright.

[Westbrook]

> The advertisement features a narrator intoning, “For 20
> years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his
> pastor.”
>
> Then the advertisement cues up the clip that has become
> infamous at this point of Mr. Wright, who was Mr. Obama’s
> pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago,
> preaching in 2003 and using an expletive when referring
> to the United States.

I musta missed something?

Where’s the racism in this commercial?

The only racism presented is that of the “reverend” Wright.

[Responsibility2nd]

There’s a similar thread on whether McCain should have rejected this ad.

I’m of the opinion that he did the right thing. He is staying above the fray. He does not have to get his hands dirty as the NC GOP is going to take the heat.

Mind you, I support the ad. I think it’s great. Even though I haven’t seen it. But I’m just sayin.....

McCain comes out a winner by denouncing this ad.

[Responsibility2nd]

Pissant's thread.

Don't run anti-Obama ad, McCain tells N.C. GOP

[Adder]

A winner to whom?

Trying to keep the msm off him?

This is the second time he has rushed to decry the speech of someone he perceives to be to the right of him [that I know of].

While I can appreciate his desire to run in the middle and siphon as many votes from the center left as he can, he COULD have simply stfu.

So he hangs the NCGOP out to dry. I don’t find that particularly endearing.

[bcsco]

He does not have to get his hands dirty as the NC GOP is going to take the heat.

From that standpoint I'd agree. But it appears he intends to run a squeaky clean general election campaign staying above the fray. If so, he's his own worst enemy. That's GOP Congressional politics in a nutshell; something we here at FR have deplored for years.

The DIMs won't play along as we all know. McCain will come to look like another Bob Dole if he continues along this route.

[Argus]

You have to wonder if McCain wants to be President. If he does, he’s going to have to throw everything there is at Obama (or his surrogates do). If he’d rather be “clean” than President, he’ll get his wish.

[The Electrician]

But he also keeps the story alive by providing another angle for the coverage. IMHO, keeping the story alive is ‘a good thing’. It presents a continuing stream of ‘bad publicity’ for Obama, because the Wright association continues to be “out there” rather than “old news” (I don’t necessarily subscribe to the view that ‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity’). Also it gives plausible deniability (or, actual deniability) to McCain, so he gets to be a beneficiary of the story, whether or not he deserves to be.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

What are they going to do. Run it? Go along with Mc Cain? I hope they run it.

[bcsco]

You have to wonder if McCain wants to be President.

Oh, I believe he wants it. It's just that he, like Dole, has been so insulated in Congressional Republican gamesmanship over the past decades he's not prepared (IMO) for the type of campaign the Democrats will bring to the table. Time will tell.

[Grampa Dave]

"Some liberal commentators have downplayed the effect of Barack Obama's recent fundraising speech in San Francisco. But that's wishful thinking. Along with the revelations about Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright, his remarks in San Francisco will haunt him not only in the upcoming primaries in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, but also in the general election against John McCain, assuming he gets the Democratic nomination."

"To win in November, a Democratic presidential candidate has to carry most of the industrial heartland states that stretch from Pennsylvania to Missouri. That becomes even more imperative if a Democrat can't carry Florida -- and because of his relative weakness in South Florida, Obama is unlikely to do so against McCain. Ruy Teixeira and I have calculated that in the heartland states, a Democratic presidential candidate has to win 45 to 48 percent of the white working-class vote. In some states, like West Virginia and Kentucky, the percentage is well over a majority."

You can't win a general election with a coalition of America hating Bitter African- Americans and America hating Bitter white liberal elitist billionaires/millionaires, who buy brie, Chardonnay, and expensive rat politicians like the elitist Hussein Obama/Samma.

"Bitter Gate: the gift that keeps on giving!!!

" Crackerquiddick ~ Bitter Gate " and “Wright is wrong Gate” are huge problems for the elitist would be Sneerer in Chief, Hussein Obamasnob!!

For an inside look at the real Hussein Obama and his elite hate America backers at San Francisco where Hussein Obama made his elitist remarks,

Go here to see the thread with all The Pictures posted and Here to see another thread about this meeting of elite left wing America haters.

There are some very interesting pictures and comments re the actual meeting on those threads.

"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"

Hear Wright GD America!

Behold the would be Sneerer in Chief!

Hillary Wins Pennsylvania

Jackie and Dunlap have some advice for the Democrats.

Click the pic to watch the video!

"So now all you Democrats out there, you need to gather up all the homosexuals, and your atheists and your elitists and your baby-killers and your tree-huggers and your flag-burners and your socialists and your communists and your undercover Islamofacists and the Screen Actors Guild and the last living members of the Weather Underground, throw up a bunch of pictures of Obama and Hillary, grab one and go with it!"

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[Zombie Lincoln]

McCain really doesn’t want this giftwrapped election, does he?

This artificial modesty is hurting the Republican party. We should keep hitting Obama from every angle by keeping the Wright story in the news cycle. Someone tell McCain that he should stop sabotaging our chances of taking the white house.

Last time McCain played nice Karl Rove buldozed his campaign and made it possible for Bush to win the nomination. Hasn’t he learned a lesson from all of this?

[Responsibility2nd]

I expect - once Obama defeats Hillary - that McCain will get as mean and nasty (McNasty) as he is known for.

But right now, he is in cruise control. Content to let Nobama and Hillary rip themselves to pieces.

But when Obama is clearly his opponent.... then McCain will scorch the earth.

[NoobRep]

McCain apparently doesn’t want to insult his base of RINOs and moderates.

[avacado]

"I really wish McCain would mind his own business."

McCain's strategy on this one is solid. He's setting up Obama or Hillary to not even think about running negative ads on him. He's playing poker and this is a good move. JMHO of course.

[Biblebelter]

None of these three treacherous Senators have much respect for the party to which they are seeking the nomination. It is every man, woman, or crossdresser for himself and respect for party and major voting sectors of the party be damned.

[MBB1984]

McCain really deserves to lose. His apologies and denouncements are disgusting. The advertisement only tells the truth.