Politics

Sign At McCain Rally Links Obama, bin Laden

By John Bentley

October 13, 2008 / 3:34 PM EDT / CBS News

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From CBS News' John Bentley:

(WILMINGTON, N.C.) – A sign showing Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, and a North Carolina Congressman convicted of fraud was outside the gym where John McCain held a rally today.

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The sign was taken down as the media that travels with McCain pulled up to the event, but was later turned face up. After the sign started attracting more attention by the journalists and other onlookers, two men – who said they were not affiliated with either the McCain or Obama campaign – took the sign away.

There was no one holding any anti-Obama signs inside the event.

The third man on the sign is Thomas E. Wright, a former member North Carolina State Representative who was convicted of three counts of fraud and expelled from the House. He has no connection to Obama.