GOP strategist who wanted to use Jeremiah Wright against Obama didn't view effort as ‘racist'

The Republican strategist behind a proposed ad campaign focused on the relationship between President Barack Obama and his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is offering a mea culpa of sorts. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times' Mark Z. Barabak, Fred Davis, the Los Angeles-based ad maker who pitched the $10 million ad campaign aimed at raising questions about Obama's character, says his proposal was purposely over the top and intended only as...Full Story