Political Punch

As of 5 p.m., the Clinton campaign has not commented on the ad.

Hillary is a southern girl, a BARRY GOLDWATER girl... NC Republican party is running the negative ad to help Hillary not McCain.

According to the extreme Right, HRC is in bed with the North Carolina Republican party.

Why is this a "Republican mess"? John McCain isn't ...oh wait..I guess he is.
And there is why many republicans do not CARE what he says. The dream ticket is actually Clinton/McCain. They already work so well with each other.

Seems like a number of people are voicing the argument that if Obama asks NC Republicans to take this ad down, that it would be hypocritical to say anything negative of McCain later.

I think there is a critical distinction here and that is that these are ads about an association of Obama's not about Obama himself, and one whom Obama has already disassociated himself from.

Obama should still have the right to be critical of McCain's voting record & platform, he should not be allowed to attack him for the statements of others.

Additionally, I'd say that the TV stations who air this ad should largely be held responsible for their role in furthering this kind of mudslinging. I commend WRAL-TV in Raeleigh and WSOC-TV in Charlotte for pulling the ad, and encourage other stations to do the same.

Everybody who seems to think Hillary should have spoken up against this ad - I find it incredible that you need to drag her into a republican mess. She has nothing to do with this but you have to make it look like it's her place to say something. Give me a break. If she did say something - you would find fault with that too. Jeesh.

The North Carolina Republican Party is too extreme for North Carolina. Watch the polls.

People! I do not care who you vote for. The racial tones that are in our country are horrible. We can not get past it because most of America is racist and is so comfortable with it that they do not even question the things that they speak or write! Go back and read the post on this blog it is disturbing. I am a democrat because I am not in the upper 10% of America financially. I am voting for change and I would not care if it was purple, I am struggling and John Mccain can not do anything to help me nor would he want to since I am considered as middle class.

Just shows McCain has character and Hillary does not.

In response to Abdullah –

If republicans think Obama is the “weaker” candidate why does Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Scarborough, Buchannan, etc. keep pushing Clinton as the one that will win the Democratic Nomination?

Obama was raised by a single mom and had to go to school using student loans. McCain married a beer distributing heiress worth more then $100 million, owns four different homes, was part of tge Keating five, Washington insider for 25+ years. Who is elitist?

“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong” – James Bryce

If you like what we have had over the past 8 years. McCain is your guy. If you would rather be bogged down in a war with no clear mission. McCain is your guy. If you want the richest 1% and corporations to continue to receive the majority of the tax cuts. McCain is your guy.

Of course the PA primary turned on race. Does anybody believe that 92% of Black people voted Obama because they like his policies better than Clinton's? Get real. Obama, who wants to be the post-racial candidate, has turned into the ultra-racial candidate. If Black voters were splitting between Obama and Hillary then this might not be such an issue. However, because they are voting almost exclusively for Obama, Obama is very heavily identified with this group. Obviously, this makes White voters nervous.

Obama supporters and the media(matthews and cnn) want to paint this as racism, the vote in PA was due to some degree by racism. The very thought that there are voters who don't like Obama due to his politics and associations(past and present) is completely alien to them. They have traded there personal and journalistic ethics for blanted biased toward there favorite canidate, yet they don't have the guts to say they support him openly. I grew up watching Benard Shaw, Ted Koppel, David Brinkley, and so on....I miss them.

Better now than later, this is just the coming attractions. And I don't think Clinton has to say anything?

MOST MEDIAS HAVE BEEN PRAISED FOR OBAMA, NOW THE REAL PEOPLE TALKING THE TRUTH ABOOUT HIS MASKS.

SHAME ON YOU MEDIAS WHO PROMOTE OBAMA!

KUDO !!!!! TO THE NORTH CAROLINA RNC

BKMC-

The republicans have long since abandoned any so-called strategies to try to assist the "weaker" Democratic candidate.

What we're all hearing is that their antipathy to Obama has to do with his anti-american, divisive and elitist views. They can't wait until the General Election because people would understandably ask, "where were you when this information was fresh and before the public?".

There's also a large number of Republicans - some in my own family - who feel that they don't want Obama and his associations and beliefs getting the kind of national and international exposure that comes during the general election cycle.

It's that patriotism that many republicans genuinely feel for our country. They feel Obama is just too dangerous and extremist.

Gayle I will vote for Obama because of the way he's run his campaign. To me that's an indicator of how this country would be run.

You failed to sufficiently cover the fact that this ad is in support of local republican candidates running against democrats that supported Obama.

Why should Clinton condemn the ad - if the Republican chair didn't listen to John McCain (their Republican candidate) and pull the ad, why in the world would they listen to Hillary Clinton?

In the end people will vote AGAINST Obama because we dont want a left wing radical and unpatriotic couple in our White House. His flame is going out fast.

Hear that gurgling noise ? That is life, as the average person in the USA has known it, going down the tubes ! And what are they doing about it ? Zero ! Well, you deserve what you ask for !

Nancy and Mariann Pepitone, nobody can reunify and reinvigorate the republican base like Hillary as the nominee. That is why Rush, Hannity, Fox&Friends, OReilly and Foxnews are pushing for her to be the nominee. She is the easiest target for them to beat. Hill has a lot of skelettons in the closets, that is a fact. She is not a strong leader and has no managerial skills looking at how she organized her campaign which should still be in the red now. Somebody who cannot run a campaign how would you give to her the destiny of the greatest nation on earth? Hill, the Bosnian General, has to leave the context and help Obama to beat McCain as a drum. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

Mariann, I had to laugh at your statement to Vanessa. I somehow doubt the people that don't like Hillary are jealous of her. I think it's a little more than that lol