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April 23, 2008 12:05 PM

North Carolina Republicans Use Wright Controversy In New Ad

Posted by Brian Montopoli
North Carolina Republicans have unveiled an ad labeling Barack Obama "too extreme" for the state – and hammering two Democratic gubernatorial candidates for endorsing him.

The spot, which you can watch here, opens with an announcer saying, "For 20 years Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor." That controversial pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is then shown saying "No, no, no. Not God Bless America. God Damn America."

"Now, Bev Perdue and Richard Moore endorse Barack Obama," the announcer continues. "They should know better. He's just too extreme for North Carolina."

The Charlotte Observer writes that the ad "is believed to be the first time nationwide that Republicans have used Wright's comments in a TV advertisement since the comments first drew scrutiny last month."

Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain has sent a letter to North Carolina Republican Party Chair Linda Daves asking her not to run the ad.

In his letter, which was sent to reporters, McCain writes, "The television advertisement you are planning to air degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats."

"This ad does not live up to the very high standards we should hold ourselves to in this campaign," he adds, calling on Daves to "withdraw this offensive advertisement."
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by popstom1 April 25, 2008 12:59 AM EDT
i like it
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by crater7 April 24, 2008 7:12 PM EDT
BLACKSPIRIT3, HMMMM, SO YOU ASSUME ALL WHITE FOLKS SIT AROUND AND PLOT TO KILL BLACK FOLKS, CONDEMN THEIR RELIGION. THE CHURCHES I HAVE ATTENDED OVER MY MANY YEARS, NEVER PREACHED RACISM AGAINST ANY RACE OR GENDER. I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY PASTOR PREACH HATE, ANTI WHITE,BLACK,OR " G D AMERICA."

YOU SEEM TO BLAME THE CLINTON''S FOR SOME REASONS, HMMMMMM, "SHE HAS A SENATE VOTING RECORD THAT HAS EARNED STRAIGHT A''S FROM THE NAACP." THAT DOESN''T JIVE WITH YOUR STATEMENT THAT BLACKS WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HER, IF OBAMA WERE NOT IN THE RACE.

YOUR COMMENTS ARE RACIST. YOU PORTRAY WHITE PEOPLE AS RACIST. NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE HATE BLACKS.

BUT, ALL AMERICANS, WHITE, BLACK OR ANY ETHNIC GROUP DOES NOT WANT A PRESIDENT WHO WOULD SUPPORT A RACIST, ANTI AMERICAN, ANTI WHITE, ANTI JEWISH POLICES.

GOD "BLESS" AMERICA.NOT "G D" AMERICA.




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by duby58 April 24, 2008 6:06 PM EDT
see even more fox info on wright
http://www.shoutfile.com/v/qx7ynPMt/fox_news_owned
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by pesojoe April 24, 2008 5:36 PM EDT
The draft is a great way to employe poor people and get the rich even richer, just brilliant. How about hand guns where is Obama on this did he use guns and drugs at the same time? Has he changed his mind and found it easier to slick talk slow people into giving him what he wants? Muslim daddy, step daddy and an atheist mother, fine presidential material.
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by tigerjcs April 24, 2008 4:17 PM EDT
Obama has duped the voters with his 20 years association with the anti American spiritual leader. He is too liberal for the Americans to accept. There is nothing to try to understand, the hate American messages that Rev. Wright preaching. Obama obviously think it is acceptable. NO OBAMA.
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by remco82 April 24, 2008 3:57 PM EDT
If you people recall, in 1976 Ronnie Reagan was branded as far too right-wing to be the GOP nominee. Four years later, he took the prize, became President and took this country for a sharp, ultra rightist joyride fueled by loans from foreign sources. Now, everyone is yapping about Obama being "too left-wing". What a joke! FDR would be labeled a Marxist by today''s standards, even though FDR-style reforms are sorely needed now. Obama could bring those reforms. Our only hope is Barack Obama to break the stranglehold of big business (oil corporations, insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, etc.) on ordinary Americans. Don''t expect the corporations to do it. They squeeze every drop of profit out of the hapless consumers. Wake up, my fellow Americans! Vote for my man Barack!
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by cfin5 April 24, 2008 3:46 PM EDT
Liking to connect the dots in matters political, I found that Senator McCain has puppet strings attached. Those strings lead to none other than George Soros and his money. You see, there is a military tactic that has been used very successful since "The Sin of Balaam". Ever heard of "If you can''t beat them, join them"? What most folks have never heard is the rest of the saying, and this is,...."And then you will beat them". Senator McCain is a "FALL GUY". And I''m afraid he will succeed. My social policy mathematics backs this up.
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by libh8er April 24, 2008 3:39 PM EDT
He is too extreme....for mainstream America, not just NC. I really, really hope he is the nominee. McCain will mop up the floor with him.

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by mattcat25 April 24, 2008 2:45 PM EDT
The Repub Party can%u2019t face the results of their odious and abhorred agenda against the majority of Americans. Instead, we all know that they will continue to wedge people against each other on non-issues.

$12 Billion Dollars barrowed spent each and every month in Iraq.
Energy, Food and Housing.
Health Care
Jobs
Corruption
Pollution
Devalued Dollar

Are just a few things they really won%u2019t be able to bring themselves to address.
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 2:44 PM EDT
I THINK FOLKS HAVE THE BLACK VOTE CONFUSED, HAD OBAMA NOT ENTERED THE RACE, EDWARDS WOULD BE GETTING MOST OF THE BLACK VOTE, OR BIDEN, HILLARY WAS NEVER GO0NNA GET THE BLACK VOTE.
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 2:38 PM EDT
REALPATRIOT SO 60% OF PENN ARE RACIST? SINCE THEY POLLED THEY DISLIKE OBAMA? WHY DO THE POLLING FOLKS NOT ASK - IF HILLARY WAS A BLACK WOMEN, WOULD WHITE WOMEN SUPPORT HER? WHY THEY REFUSE TO ASK WHITE WOMEN THAT QUESTION?
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 2:36 PM EDT
CRATER - WHAT WHITE FOLKS DO NOT UNDERSTAND - BLACK PEOPLE CHURCH IS FAMILY - THE REVERENC WILL DIE BE REMOVED OR RETIRE AND THE CHURCH STILL STANDS. OBAMA WAS A PART OF A CHURCH NOT A DISCIPLE OF REV WRIGHT, WHITE PEOPLE STILL DENY WE ACTUALLY GO TO CHURCH TO WORSHIP JESUS, I HAVE HEARD SOME WHITES SAY BLACK PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH TO PLOT AGIANST THIS COUNTRY, THAT SICKNES YOU ARE SPREADING IS HARMFUL BECAUSE ITS A LIE. WHEN I ATTEND A CHURCH IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHO PREACHES, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE WORKS OF THAT CHURCH BODY. OBAMA WAS A MEMBER OF A CHURCH, NOT A MEMBER OF A REVEREND.
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 2:34 PM EDT
CRATER THATS TRUE THE SO CALLED "ARBITRATORS OF POLITICS " THE MEDIA IS INTERTAINING THE FEARS AND ISSUES WHITE AMERICANS HAVE. THEY ARE ASKING WILL OBAMA RACE MATTERS - WHY? WHY DOES THE MEDIA EVEN INTERTAIN THAT QUESTION, BECAUSE THE MEDIA CAN TAKE A HUMAN BEING WITH GOOD INTENTIONS AND TURN HIM INTO A DEVIL, AND THE MEDIA CAN TAKE A DEVIL AND TURN HIM INTO A SAINT. THEN MEDIA REALLY IS PUSHING WHITE AMERICAN BUTTONS TO SEE WHICH OF THEM WILL KILL OBAMA LIKE THEY KILLED MARTIN, AND THE TWO KENNEDIES, THEY WILL NOT BE HAPPY UNTILL THEY CAN TAKE PICTURESD OF OBAMA TWO DAUGHTERS CRYING OVER HIS FUNERAL, WHILE THEY BLAME ALL THIWS RACE *** ON THE CLINTON MACHINE.
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 2:30 PM EDT
TRAP PLEASE

If Obama has ties to Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Ayers, and quotes in the church mission statement from W.E.B. Dubois, this is proof that his primary loyalty is questionable as to whether it is for Africa, or America, or some black agenda..

THIS IS GARBAGE IF WE TIERD YOU TO EVERY WHITE MANS AROUND YOU THOUGHTS AND WORDS YOU WOULD PROBLY BE CALLED ON A LOT OF *** YOU SAY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WHEN ITS JUST YOU AND YOU WHITE CONRADES. WHITE FOLKS NEED TO AT LEAST BE HONEST ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY ALL HAVE BIGOTS IN THEIR FAMILY AND WOULD NEVER DISOWN THEM, THEY HAVE BIGOTS IN THEIR COUNTRY CLUBS, THEY HAVE BIGOTS AT THEIR WORKPLACE AND IF YOU ARE A WHITE PERSON THAT DENIES THIS - THEN YOU ARE THE BIGOT.
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by crater7 April 24, 2008 1:49 PM EDT
BLACKSPIRIT,

THE REV, WRIGHT WAS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME AND WAS NOT KNOWN FOR HIS RACIST REMARKS, WHEN HE MET THE CLINTON''S. OBAMA WAS BARELY A BLIMP ON THE POLITICAL RADAR SCREEN. SOUNDS LIKE YOUR COMPARSION IS REACHING, TO SAY THE LEAST.

GOD "BLESS" AMERICA. NOT "G D" AMERICA.
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by crater7 April 24, 2008 1:32 PM EDT
BLACKSPIRIT;

I AM NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SO WHAT I BELIEVE OR SAY, IS NOT RELEVANT. OBAMA, IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. OBAMA, BY SITTING IN THE PEWS FOR TWENTY YEARS, EVEN EXPOSING HIS OWN CHILDREN TO THE HATE AND RACIST, ANTI AMERICAN, ANTI WHITE , ANTI JEWISH REMARKS. HE LIED ABOUT HEARING THESE REMARKS, LATER ADMITTED HEARING THEM. ONLY UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE MEDIA CONDEMNED THESE REMARKS. BY NOT CONDEMNING THE RACIST REVERNED, MAKES HIM GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION, AND PARTICIPATION.

"IF ELECTED" PRESIDENT ONE COULD ASSUME HIS POLICIES ON RACE WOULD REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE RACIST REV. WRIGHT. THAT SHOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE TO ALL AMERICANS.

GOD "BLESS" AMERICA. NOT "G D" AMERICA.
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 1:21 PM EDT
REV WRIGHT PRAYED WITH BILL CLINTON WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BE IMPEACHED FOR USING THE OVAL OFFICE TO *** A YOUNG WOMEN, HIS DNA IS PROBLEY STILL ON THE OVAL OFFICE DESK. YET THE CLINTONS HAVE A NERVE TO THROW HIM UNDER THE BUS, ALL THAT HE DID FOR THEM, HE PRAYED WITH THEM, HE WAS PERSONALLY INVITED BY BILL TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST. WE EVEN HAVE A PIC OF BILL AND REV WRIGHT SHAKING HANDS TOGETHER, NOW REV WRIGHT WAS AMERICAN ENOUGH TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN THE CLINTONS NEED BLACK LEADERS TO HELP THEM FIGHT FOR THEIR OFFICE, REV WRIGHT WAS AMERICANS EN OUGH TO STAND WITH THE CLINTONS DURING ONE OF THEIR WORST CRISIS, NOW THE CLINTONS DISSING REV WRIGHT AND BLACK FOLKS, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
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by realpatriot1 April 24, 2008 1:18 PM EDT
slayrre7,

That doesn''t prove bias, it proves that the media was reading the exit poll responses.

60% of Hillary voters polled in Pennsylvania after voting said race played a factor and they wouldn''t vote for Obama if he''s the nominee.

If they merely said they wouldn''t support Obama you could say it wasn''t based on race, but these voters themselves said that it was.
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by concorde5 April 24, 2008 1:18 PM EDT
Hillary will say or do anything to win. She was in favor of the war when she thought it would get her votes.

Now she is against the war because she thinks it will get her votes.

The country is ready for something different. Hillary is more of the same old sh*t.

It''s time for a new kind of politics, it''s time for a new kind of leadership, it''s time for a change.

It''s time for Obama!
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by blackspirit3 April 24, 2008 1:16 PM EDT
REV WRIGHT PRAYED WITH BILL CLINTON WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BE IMPEACHED FOR USING THE OVAL OFFICE TO *** A YOUNG WOMEN, HIS DNA IS PROBLY STILL ON THE DESK, YET THE CLINTONS HAVE A NERVE TO THROW HIM UNDER THE BUS, ALL THAT NHE DID FOR THEM, HE PRAYED ITH THEM WAS PRESONALLY INVITED BY BILL TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST, WE EVEN HAVE A PIC OF BILL AND TREV WRIGHT SHAKING HANDS TOGETHER, NOW HE WAS AMERICAN ENOUGH TO COME TO THE PRAYER BREATHFAST WHEN THE CLINTONS NEED BLAKC LEADERS TO HELP THEM FIGHT FOR THEIR OFFICE, NOW THE CLINTONS DISSING REV WRIGHT AND BLACK FOLKS, SHAME SHAME SHAME.
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