Oct 15, 2008
McCain, Advisers Split On Wright Attacks
Politico: Despite Calls From Aides And Conservatives, Republican Is Unwilling To Attack Obama On Controversial Pastor
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Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Sunday, April 27, 2008. (AP)
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Play CBS Video Video Wright's Words Wrong, Divisive "Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong, but divisive."
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Timeline Obama And Rev. Wright Key dates in the relationship between Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama's ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best - and perhaps last - chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill. ) and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said.
With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however.
“Wright is off the table,” said one top campaign official. “It’s all McCain. He won’t go there. His advisers would have gone there.”
The aides argue that the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wright’s pastoral care-and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former minister’s more extreme statements-provide an opening to challenge Obama’s judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way.
“He was a central figure in Obama’s life, shaping Obama’s thinking, and he made the extreme radical comments that are borderline anti-American,” the campaign official said.
But McCain will not allow it, according to campaign sources.
“There’s a slippery slope in politics on the racial divide, and Senator McCain made it very clear early on that he did not want to get into that area,” a top Republican official said. “I don’t want to be known as a racist, and McCain doesn’t want to be known as a racist candidate.”
Among those who think Wright is fair game is McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who told conservative commentator William Kristol for a New York Times column last month: “To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that - with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave - to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”
In his famous speech on race, delivered in Philadelphia in March, Obama condemned Wright’s use of “incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.”
Wright, who married the Obamas and baptized their daughters, has shown no remorse for his videotaped tirades - most famously, “God damn America,” which he said several times in a row. At the National Press Club in April, he said: “I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected, November the 5th I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.’”
In early June, on the brink of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama tried to put the controversy behind him by announcing that he and his wife, Michelle, were leaving Wright’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, “with some sadness.” Obama said it had become clear statements made at the church “will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held, views, statements and principles.”
The McCain campaign’s decision to cordon off the use of Wright from ads and debates has provoked simmering consternation among many leading Republicans and conservatives, who believe the pastor’s fulminations might be the single most effective weapon McCain has left against Obama.
“McCain felt it would be sensed as racially insensitive,” the official said. “But more important is that McCain thinks that the bringing of racial religious preaching in black churches into the campaign would potentially have grave consequences for civil society in the United States.”
Asked about the issue during the firestorm over it last March, McCain told Sean Hannity on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes”: “I think that when people support you, it doesn’t mean that you support everything they say. Obviously, those words and those statements are statements that none of us would associate ourselves with. And I don’t believe that Senator Obama would support any of those … I do know Senator Obama. He does not share those views.”
Conservatives who want McCain to focus on Wright contend that the omission is another sign of a campaign that is unwilling to play tough enough with the Obama juggernaut.
As the top Republican official said: “There is a future beyond this election.”
By Mike Allen
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See all 681 CommentsWhat we KNOW is that you don''t have a clue as to what you''re talking about and are apparently too lazy to do your homework rather than believe every smear campaign that the Far Right Republican party puts out there.
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The following link is good for a laugh...Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government", "and I won''''t be buried under their *** flag."
The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that''s the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. ("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members. "And God bless you.")
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"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government", "and I won''t be buried under their *** flag."
This election is not about Rev Wright...it is about Obama. Obama called this guy his mentor. He said he could never disown Rev Wright. Then only a few weeks later Obama disowned Rev Wright when he realized it might jeporadize his political career. That showed to me that Obama will step on and crush anyone (even his so called mentor) to crawl up the ladder of success. I cannot trust a man who stabs his friends in the back to gain success. Hillary had it right when she said "Shame on you!" to Obama.
This election is not about Rev Wright...it is about Obama. Obama called this guy his mentor. He said he could never disown Rev Wright. Then only a few weeks later Obama disowned Rev Wright when he realized it might jeporadize his political career. That showed to me that Obama will step on and crush anyone (even his so called mentor) to crawl up the ladder of success. I cannot trust a man who stabs his friends in the back to gain success. Hillary had it right when she said "Shame on you!" to Obama.
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Posted by drcool4u
sorry sir
i''m at work and cannot listen to it as we have no sound working on this computer.
will check it in the A.M. tho
and i don''t mind one bit having pertinent facts being presented, but most of them are scurulous charges not based in facts or twisted to fit an agenda. (strain at a gnat and swallow an elephant)
those deserve NO respect!
Posted by libluv2spit
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how can you with a candidate who picks a running mate who supports a man who states with vehemence that he HATES the United States? and wouldn''t even want to be buried in it, he hates it so much?
all this *** just obscures the real issues, but what else do they have? they have to attack character because they know what they support are a continuation of the damages bush has done. the same old supply-side trickle down inflation driven failure.
forget ayres....forget palin''s secessionist or mccain''s keating connection. this election is about more important matters than those.
Posted by ribbie-14
Bye Ribbie, have a good evening.
I''m sorry, you ARE an idiot. Happy Nov. 4th.
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You have a point there. I will refrain from troll feeding. Thank for the moral support.
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Communist is his self proclaimed political orientation.
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Uh oh, the fully marginalized 9/11 conspiracy theorist communist is here to spew black bile.
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hungry1968 is a troll who just says stuff like this to get a rise out of you guys. He was on yesterday and posted some pretty vile stuff. WE don''t want anything to do with him. I can see you''ve raised the level of your dicourse. Do you really have to call people communists? It''s kind of tired.
Posted by hungry1968_4
You don''t think, you hate, you hurt, you despise, you scorn, you snarl, you sneer but I would NEVER accuse you of thinking.
however this may explain something of the ayres obama connection...truth facts and not political spin/tactics.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/ayers_alone_did_not_launch_oba.html
Obama''s formal kick-off to announce his run for state senate was at the Hyde Park Ramada Inn on Sept. 19, 1995
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"I was certainly (hosting) one of the first," said Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, rabbi emeritus at Chicago''s KAM Isaiah Israel--located across the street from the Obama home.
"There were several every week," he recalled on Tuesday night when we spoke. "I remember what I said to him: ''Someday you are going to be vice president of the United States.'' He laughed and said, ''Why not president?''''''
*The Ackermans, Sam and Martha, longtime Hyde Park activists in independent Democratic politics, also held an early event for Obama in their condo on E. Hyde Park Boulevard.
Sam Ackerman told me... "as I recall, the event at Bill Ayers'' house (prior to ours) was a fund-raiser for Alice''s congressional campaign at which she also introduced Barack as the successor she would like to see elected."
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image that---the terrorist!
working for ayres? you mean for school reform and improvements in education? real terrorism work there. indoctrinating american youth to get educated to stay in school and such.
obama has utterly repudiated ayres for that. has palin done the same for the secessionist alaskan?
no...not even that much!
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