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McCain Doesn't Like N.C. Ad But Can't "Enforce My Will"
April 24, 2008 2:09 PM
ABC NEWS’ Bret Hovell and Russell Goldman report: Sen. John McCain said Thursday that if elected president -- and becomes the de facto head of the GOP -- he would not demand a change in the leadership of the North Carolina Republican Party despite condemning its plan to air an ad attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D- Ill, and his controversial minister.
At a press conference in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward the Arizona senator and presumptive Republican nominee said, “I cannot enforce my will [but] I can make it clear to them that I will have no part of it.”
As reported by ABC NEWS’ Jake Tapper Wednesday, McCain condemned the state party’s plan to roll out an ad which equates Democratic gubernatorial candidates Richard Moore and Beverly Purdue with controversial comments made by Obama’s longtime minister Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Moore and Purdue are vyng with each other to be the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina and both have endorsed Obama.
The GOP ad features a clip of Wright making a 2001 speech in which he says “God bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America.”
"For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor," the narrator says, then mentioning Moore and Purdue.
"They should know better," the narrator says. "He's just too extreme for North Carolina."
In New Orleans, where McCain is visiting in part to court African American voters, McCain reiterated his displeasure with the ad.
“There’s no place in the Republican Party for the kind of ad that was put up by the North Carolina Republican Party. We communicated with them in the strongest possible terms,” he said.
One day after McCain first called for the party to withdraw the ad, a spokesperson for the state North Carolina GOP said the television spot would run next week.
“The ad will still run,” Brent Woodcox, spokesman for the N.C. Republican Party, told ABC News. “It’s going to be rolled out beginning next week.”
April 24, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan | Permalink | User Comments (57)
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The will of the people always prevails. Apparently, people in North Carolina care about the truth. The ad should air. Eventually, the ad will air, no matter what.
The people in North Carolina should know the real Obama. Yesterday, Obama's campaign manager, David Axelrod said Obama doesn't need working class white voters. Obama said today that the problem is older voters. Last week, Obama said small town voters cling to guns and religion and hold antipathy for people who aren't like them. Obama's pastor, Wright has delivered sermons for more than twenty years during which his hatred of whites, Jews, and America is crystal clear. Obama's wife says she isn't proud of America, and that American's are mean and lazy. Obama's friend Bill "the bomber" Ayers said he wished he'd done more than just plant a few bombs to hurt America. Obama's other friend, Tony Rezko is an indicted crook who Obama has been closely associated with prior to and after becoming a senator.
Obama and his friends and family hold distain for working class whites, older Americans, church-goers, gun owners, people from small towns, Jews, and virtually every other American. Is there anyone Obama does like? Is there anyone else he can blame for his disintegrating appeal?
Hillary will work for ALL of us, not just the fortunate few.
Posted by: Emily | Apr 24, 2008 2:17:38 PM
The AD should still run. We have the right to know the real Obama.
Actually, the AD should have been played much earlier, in the beginning of the campaign. We'll elect US president, not only party nominee. So, we should know each candidate as fully as we can.
If there is some problem with Obama, we need to know as early as possible. We don't want to regret later that we elected a wrong president.
The sooner, the better.
Posted by: golfgirlusa | Apr 24, 2008 2:34:00 PM
Hillary is for hillary. She has made that crystal clear. Hillary is the real republican candidate. She is pro-big business and lobbyists. She is pro-war in Iraq and pre-emptive strikes in Iran and will commit US troops to any Mid-East conflict. She has no plan for Afghanistan. her every documented action has been Pro-NAFTA, she lies and denies regularly and she likes to use terrorist imagry to make you afraid of her oppenents. As far as she is concerned she is right and no one will tell her otherwise. You can't get more republican than that. The RNC in NC knows this so why should they listen to their candidate?
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 2:34:01 PM
I dont undestand. What is wrong with the truth? Obama sat for 20 years listening to this crap. I dont buy he never knew of Wright's views of America. And that is way this ad is going forth because no one believes he never heard these extreem views of America. It is nothing but fair game to expose the truth.
Posted by: Leanza Cornett | Apr 24, 2008 2:34:12 PM
If you want to know the REAL Obama why don't you ask him. why don't you look at his entire record? Of course it is not the REAL Obama you want to know, you want a justification for the hate you feel every time you look at him.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 2:36:17 PM
McCain, "please stop the ad." wink, wink.
Posted by: The Unshrub | Apr 24, 2008 2:36:35 PM
I also love this leadership from McCain. I don't like what you are doing in the name of the party, but go right ahead, there will be no consequences or repercussions.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 2:37:19 PM
I think this whole BS is so BS, every person with half a brain in their head will see that it is BS. Lol. This helps Obama with every person with even half a brain in their heads, which is more than 70 person of voters.
Posted by: Kevin | Apr 24, 2008 2:38:56 PM
Sorry, 70% of voters. But we all know that 98% of people that post in this site are retarded.
Posted by: Kevin | Apr 24, 2008 2:41:18 PM
Obama is so whimpy and weak and the press wants to protect him. They are so delusional to believe he can still win. Obama is a profoundly wounded candidate out of step with the american mainstream. Granted he would be great as a philospher, a university professor but as the president of the United States he is too extreem. I dont buy the koolaid. Never had, never will.
Posted by: Hazel Diane Rasheeda Moore | Apr 24, 2008 2:43:33 PM
The funny thing is: the ad has already been aired thru ABC, hasn't it?
Posted by: True Truth | Apr 24, 2008 2:47:02 PM
Really? Rev Wright spouted all that stuff weekly for 20 years and all they have is 90 seconds or so of tape? You'd think there would be new clips by now.
Of course, McCain is delighted to associate with a Pastor that calls the Catholic church the great whore. I wonder how the Pope takes that one.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 2:49:36 PM
The GOP would be very wise to reconsider their position to bring up Reverend Wright, there is now a very strong connection between the Reverend and the Clinton's which was brought to light by Michael Moore's blog page.
Posted by: Ken | Apr 24, 2008 2:51:18 PM
McCain, at least you are TRYING to run an honorable campaign. I give you credit for that.
Posted by: Kathleen | Apr 24, 2008 2:58:07 PM
Wright was a Marine who dropped out of school and volunteered when Cheney and Clinton were riding their deferments and Bush was playing pattycake with the National Guard. he served and served well in the Marines and then as a Navy Corpsman. He gets to have his say. Have we become such a weak country that our citizens cannot speak out when they find they cannot agree with what our government does?
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 3:01:07 PM
Rev. Wrights sermon is Obama's fault how? Ayers living in Obama's neighborhood is his fault how? he didn't hire him for the board they were on together. BTW he was not convicted of any bombing activites. he killed no one, as opposed to the Black Panthers that HRC defended. And the bombers her husband pardoned.
Did Obama write the bit about Hamas in the bulletin?
he admitted cocaine use in his youth, crack did not exist then. Our sitting President has had extensive cocaine use and drunkeness. HRC won't confrim, nor will deny her own drug use in college.
No link exists between Rezko and Obama regardign any illegal activity. As opposed to the fugive Hsu that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to kick start HRC's campaign. Fl and Penn are nothing alike demographically.
Again, this is an attempt to justify the hate you felt for him the first time you saw his image.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 3:20:07 PM
OBAMA FANS SHOULD APPRECIATE AN AD FEATURING REV. WRIGHT: Obama fans are crying about an ad that depicts Obama's racist and anti-American "mentor and spiritual adviser," Rev. Wright. If Obama didn't want to be associated with such a crude and hateful man, he shouldn't have attended his church for 20 years, considered him his mentor and spiritual adviser, and appointed him to one of his election committees. I remember when Obama was asked about Wright before anyone knew about him, he said that there is "nothing controversial at all" about him or his church. Since the news came out about Wright, Obama supporters have been tripping over themselves to defend Wright and his ideas. Well, if Wright is such a nice and non-controversial figure, why are Obama supporters upset that he is starring in a commercial. Obama fans can't have it both ways. They've been defending Wright constantly in order to defend their messiah. As such, they should be happy to see this "wonderful man" who has "done so much for the community" on television. It should only help Obama, right?:
Posted by: Fred | Apr 24, 2008 3:22:00 PM
REv Wright didnt go to Hammas he went to see Arafat. during reagan era to try and free airman Bobby Goodman, Jesse Jackson and Farakhan also went. Pick of a book. Trying to free america prisoner of war how un-america. By the way the former president Clinton got more of the black vote than Obama did. Does that mean we hate black people.
Posted by: Ronny Pierce | Apr 24, 2008 3:22:15 PM
Again- how many american's really know the person who is in office. This is beating a dead horse - how about the draft dodging current president, or the sult chasing Pres Clinton?
Posted by: jozy | Apr 24, 2008 3:25:03 PM
The church tapes most sunday sermons, what you should be asking is, if this was supposed to be a near daily or weekely message why isn't there more tape? Let's find the worst things you have ever said in your life and play them over and over again, and see what everyone's opinon is of you. Then we'll put that on someone who knows you.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 24, 2008 3:37:21 PM
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