RNC and John McCain Condemn Anti-Obama TV Ad; Hillary Clinton Mum

The Clinton Silence is deafening and disgusting. Has the Clinton camp addressed the math yet? You know the fact that Clinton will have to win the remaining contests with 70% of the vote to just pull even with Obama?

Great ad! And true.

The Clinton silence tells it all. She wants the nomination so bad, even though she isn’t the best person for the job. Is she really at the point where she can’t even speak up or denounce the ad? Apparently.

I am not too fond of negative campaiging, but the dirty secret is it tends to work. In this case there was nothing inaccurate about the ad, it was just low class.

Conservative talk radio wants Hillary to win really bad. They trash Obama at every turn. They are obviously afraid of him and do not fear Hillary at all. McCain can win many hispanics, African Americans turned off to democratic party and the young turn away from Hillary. This is how they see a Hillary win and they are full of it. Obama will stomp their McCain the “corportate spokesman” and we will finally have hope.

I don’t recall Senator Obama denouncing such ads in Nevada when this was being done to her. Again, hypocrisy on the Obama side….do as I say, not as I do.

I see nothing wrong with the ad. It’s all true – nothing made up. Obama CHOSE to associate with this radical black liberation theology “preacher”. He reaps what he sows.

This is why McCain is such a frustrating nominee. Since when is the TRUTH about where someone attends CHURCH SERVICES off limits? Americans have a right to know as much as possible about the candidates, especially TRUTHFUL INFORMATION. Just another example of why, when I get asked by the Republican Party to give $$$, (which I used to do), I laugh and throw the pleadings in the trash. The Republican Party is no longer my party…neither party is. Just another shining example of how Mr. McCain cares more about Illegal Immigrants and his Democratic Challengers than he does about conservatives. That is his chioce. My choice will be to STAY HOME on Election Day!

I understand that some think everything is the Clinton’s fault but how is it that what the republicans are or aren’t doing is their fault? Also, has the Obama camp said anything yet?

The Republicans are doing this because they would rather run against Hillary Clinton than Obama. McCain said as much himself. So, who does the GOP still see as the stronger candidate? Obama, apparently.

HRC does not have a dog in this fight!

It is just not a good time for Rep machine to launch attack yet…
McCain didn’t want to interfere dems’ fight and wanted to wait until the dems’ fight is over…
Once the dems’ fight is over, the attack will start right away: race, in-experience, so on so on….

Obama wants to talk about the war, the worsening economy, $120/barrel oil, double-digit annual health care cost inflation, the environment…
The GOP wants to talk about 60′s radicals, flag lapel pins, and scary ol’ black preacha.
I dont blame the GOP one bit– what else are they going to talk about?

As A lifelong democrat, I’m more than a little upset my party is offering up the only two candidates that will give McCain the White House. I live in AZ, so my vote won’t count for much anyway…(popular vote wins is more than overdue). But i would vote for Hillary. Obama, just isn’t ready in my opinion. So third party candidate for me when obama gets the nomination. I don’t think the country will go for an affirmative action president. You can’t criticize the man for anything. LOL, now I suppose I’m a racist.. Think what you want.

Republicans are scared of Obama, theyknow they do not stand a chance, If dem are stupid they will fall for Hillary. When your opponent tells you who he or she would like to run against it is in fact the contrary. Several I heard republicans say we don’t know how to run against Obama , suddenly they changed their tune, to make a way for HRC. Mark my words HRC will not win the nomination. She is a traitor for enlisting the help of Mellon Scaife the one who funded Bill’s impeachment. Someone hurt your husband and you seek their help? It is sick. She is still a republican, that’s why Rush limbaugh, foxnews are helping her. She played the card from the get go, but I think we are not all bigots

Just to clarify: the Obamatons who’ve posted do understand that Hillary is not the one running this ad, don’t they? I only ask because they are so touchy about the Messiah’s image.
And I’m sorry: Obama should have put the Reverend Wrong out to pasture before he ever thought about running for the presidency. It’s not going to go away anytime soon, whatever they do with this ad.

Popular vote wins? No thanks! The last thing I want is NY and CA deciding who my President is. This is our system if you don’t like it move.

I cant believe that some people are still upset about the swiftboating of Kerry (i.e. the exposing of his slanderous lies about his fellow veterans).
Would you prefer that his immoral behavior were covered up just because he was you guy?

It proved again and agin Obama couldnot win over white vote, then he cannot win G.E…
Clearly, race will be one top issue in this election with 90% of AA voting for their half brother and majority of white voting for white…
The base of Dems inlcudes white, black, latino and other minorities…
The base of Reps will be majority of whites…
So if the whites or other minorities from Dems party won’t vote or vote against Obama, then Obama has little chance to win…..
So far, Obama proved again and again he has been in race just because of his skin….
It is undeniable fact: Obama lost white votes, women votes, Latino votes and other minority votes excluding AA according to past voting records….

This type of nonsense is to be expected. I care about the issues that matter to me and most americans. $4 gasoline, food costs, oil $120, getting out of the mess in Iraq. Eight years of GW has caused enormous damage here in the US and abroad. McCain in the end will be an extension of GW. I am a proud Obama supporter.

Interesting how Obama, by having the audacity of running for the US presidency, managed to mobilise the whole country against him. What you have is the Reps, his fellow Dems and of course the citizens are falling over themselves castigating him. My thought is can he really manage? perhaps he should throw the towel and all can then go home problem solved QED. Indeed Americans are an interesting lot, throwing the grain and holding the chaff incredible. Oh Allah give us Obama’s in Africa.

Obama should thank those new registerd voters in Penn and let him survive only 10% defeat….
However, those “new voters” will be returned to their orignal base in GE, guess where they came from….Reps….
So there is no chance Obama can win Penn in GE…

It is funny that everyone has said Hillary has been too hard on Obama. But you see that as soon as the press is as hard on Obama as it has been on Hillary that he comes out with nasty attacks against her.
With that said… Hillary has had many opportunities to hit Obama hard but she has never hit him as hard at the Republicans will. The big issue is that he can not take it. He has too much against him. These ads will just get worse and worse as time goes by.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that ad.
Messiah Obama DID actually sit in that racist church for 20 years and he also gave over 20,000 of his own money to that church that gave the racist Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.
WHAT, you can’t tell the truth about a candidate now???

More of this crap. If the RNC had anythign substanative, they would have run it by now. The Clintons had Wright over to the WH for breakfast, actually sought counsel from him, has HRC denounced him? HAs she denounced her husband, who lied under oath and committed adultery?

It looks like McCain could win this race — neither Democrat will be able to get past him. It’s possible that Hillary could get the nomination – Mr. O is losing favor with many people — he’s not who they thought he was, as they’re finding out. Regardless, McCain has more background and known history than either Dem — I think he’ll get it. That’s OK with me — he’s the best of the three.

“If the RNC had anythign substanative, they would have run it by now.”
Hahaha. NOT.

Mc Cain is making a mistake. He WONT be able to run a clean campaign. It will just be a matter of time before he gets into it with either Obama or Clinton.
He might as well ENDORSE the ad. But the reality is that it HELPS CLINTON in North Carolina . Mc Cain doenst want to face clinton now. Obama is the easier candidate to defeat now.

People tend to associate with like minded persons. There is plenty to learn, and much of it cautionary, based on who all three candidates have taken money or advice from. If we define civil discourse down to a point where we can’t give candidates the scrutiny they deserve, who wins?

HEY! … Obama will be explaining “a lot” more than this my friends.
This election is about to be the best show on television.
“Dude, pass the popcorn…”
LMAO!

“I know if the press did its job Edwards would have had a better chance because Obama’s skeletons would have been exposed.”
There are more than a few John Edwards partisans for whom neither of the center-right diversity twins is an acceptable substitute.
THESE voters — left Democrats, and others (remember that Ralph Nader endorsed John Edwards) — will NOT be boarding the Obama bandwagon.
The better Clinton does, the longer it goes, the greater the chance that hot-house hustler Obama — who’s spent his entire sheltered life being groomed for installation as a top dog — implodes, or is further exposed not only as “unelectable”/unable to govern, but as the profoundly UNdemocratic tool of a bad bunch of corporate white guys for whom questing after absolute power is a class amusement.
We can watch and pray, for the Democratic “leadership to conclude that the birthday-suit season is over, and that it’s time to nominate real Democrat John
Edwards — not a “post-partisan”, not encumbered by a presidential
spouse — to carry forward the Democratic nomination, roll back and repair abuses of the present administration, reclaim democracy, and work on social justice and sane foreign policy.
By nominating Edwards, the Dems also could short-circuit the defection of traditional Democrats to Nader, McKinney, and/or Gravel — all or most of whom might well be brought aboard the Edwards train.

Once again so many are distracted from the real issues. The lapel pins, the Rev. Wrights, the crying in public, or the dodging bullets in Bosnia…remember gay marriage? I don’t care if the president is cutting lines on a mirror in his oval office if I can get some affordable, useful health care and not have to pay $3.50 for gas. I don’t care if my gay neighbors are married. What are they going to do? Increase the divorce rate from 50% to 55%? Don’t care. Stop being distracted from the real issues at hand by all of this. It’s fabricated specifically to distract you. Would you mind gay people getting married if it meant that our sons and daughters were dying in Iraq while we flip the bill over here? Would you rather have someone in office who won’t wear a flag lapel pin or someone who’s can’t run a baseball team, goes into oil, becomes preisdent and the price of oil goes up to $120 a barrel? Wake up and stop being distracted, America. Turn off American Gladiator and American Idol and do some good, old-fashioned thinking.

rev. wright was also one of the clintons advisors, he did visit them in the white house.

amazing really… Obama sits in a “racist” church and he is condemned from all sides… whites sit in a “racist” church and they’re just doing what comes natural.
This country may not be ready for a black to live in the White House, but it has less to do with his/her ability to govern as it does with the bigorty and fear and hate that continues to reside if the souls of too many people.

The Clintons are looking on to 2012. They figure, “if we can luck into it this time 2008, fine, otherwise, blow up Obama’s campaign and start looking ahead. They have no morals. They’ll take whatever they can get. It’s the family business; The Clinton Carnival.

Oh yeah, let’s blame McCain for high gas prices…. :-(
It’s the fault of VOTERS, people…many of you included.
We’ve had 35 years to select and elect federal officials to do something about our growing dependence on oil, but how many of you made that a test of the candidates you voted for??? None of you here, that’s obvious.
All most of you care about is which candidate will “parent” you the best. My parents did a great job and I bear and embrace my “personal responsibility”. A pity more of you don’t.

McCain is following the Ralph Reed, Carl Rove playbook developed in 1994 for republicans to capture a few more percentage points of the black vote. A prime rule is never to run a republican against a black office holder except with another black candidate and never really criticize black officeholders.
I could tell that when McCain jumped all over the talk radio host who attacked Obama last month. McCain is making a huge mistake by attacking the NC Republican ad.
The media has made plain not only that it will help hide Obama’s past, connections, and program, but it will continue to promote his candidacy.
Wright and his church are central to Obama and his “organizing” program, which is the Alinsky plan–partner socialistic agendas with activist, liberal churches. Jeremiah Wright’s church is part of that program.
Since the media will not expose Obama, only the Republican party and McCain’s campaign can lead the expose. If they don’t do it, McCain doesn’t stand a chance against Obama in November. And if McCain doesn’t wake up until say August, it will be too late.
It may aleady be too late, Obama and his media supporters have had a year to sell the image he has created to the public, and it will be very hard to undo.
Plus, McCain, by his NC actions, is likely to cool off some potential support. Assisting Obama by silence does not win votes for McCain.

This is wonderful! McSame gets to pretend he is against it, the Republic Party gets to veil its racist bile as political truth, and the vast rightwing-owned media gets to pretend that any of it is news. Sad, and the only losers are the American people.

I have to respect him for his comment concerning such an ad. Americans deserve to focus on issues and not trash.
He just won my vote!

Obama’s going to save the known world?
I thought he was running for President, not God!?
Leave saving the world to God. Right now Obama has his hands full saving himself from further glimmers of weakness and trying to salvage his party from the jaws of defeat.
I never thought it would happen, but the Democrats are slowly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and they are forced to rely on an inexperienced junior senator to save them from their own flawed primary system.
If the Dems lose this year they have no one to blame but themselves.

The ad is a disgrace to the GOP. It should be thrown in the ashcan. While I’m a GOP by persuasion, I reject these tactics with contempt! Please let the GOP not follow the quite dreadful, odious example of one H Clinton! She is a crude nutter, totally bereft of scruples, and a disgrace to the USA, never mind her party. Obama has NO baggage, period! All these crude attempts to demonize him are based on ‘guilt by association’, not on any single word or deed of his! Compared to the awful Clinton, he is as pure as the driven snow! I admire the man for the natural leader he is. He definitely has more than a touch of class, and shows principles and integrity. He may just prove to be another JFK in many ways. I will, however, support McCain against him in the election, because I think America needs his experience and wide acceptance across party lines at this time. John S McCain III is also an American hero, and heaven knows, right now we need heroes! McCain is also a moderate who can unite Americans during his term. Finally, his dad was a USN admiral, as was his grandad. So his pedigree and understanding of military matters is flawless, unlike Clinton who is a complete ignoramus in this respect. The US is facing some tough threats and McCain is the man to deal with them. However, I predict that Obama will, in fact, one day become POTUS! And I have no quarrel with that. He’s made of the right stuff.

I find myself more disappointed in our country everytime I read the political opinions of my fellow Americans. Being oversees, I usually get the sound bits and whatever the bias networks what us to hear. I’m glad to be educated and strong enough to make up my own mind because the media and most of you posting comments miss the real importance, the issues. I thank my God that Jesus wasn’t influenced by the opinions of others but influence them. The candidate that can do that gets my vote.

FIRST OF ALL, MCCAIN IS A LIAR!!!!
HE CLAIMS THAT HE HAS RUN AN HONEST CAMPAIGN FROM THE BEGGINNING. THAT IS A LIE. MCCAIN SPENT 3 MONTHS TELLING OUTRIGHT LIES ABOUT MITT ROMNEY, HIS LIES WERE SO BLATANT THAT EVEN CNN’S ANDERSON COOPER CALLED MCCAIN ON IT DURING THE LAST DEBATE.
WHAT REALLY DISGUSTS ME ABOUT MCCAIN IS THAT HE HAS NO PROBLEM LYING ABOUT REPUBLICANS WHILE CONDEMNING TRUTHFUL AND ACCURATE ADS ABOUT OBAMA. MCCAIN IS A DISGRACE TO THIS ENTIRE NATION, I DON’T CARE WHAT HE SUFFERED THROUGH 35 YEARS AGO, IT IS IRRELEVENT TO MODERN DAY.

OMG…Get over it! Wright was a pastor….nothing more! If you are basing your vote on Obama having a pastor that said some radical stuff, you are really sad. Good for McCain to halt that ad. Hillary is not worthy.

Dallas Jackson:
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (sic) were hardly that. They were proven to be liars, but their well-financed campaign went into a lot of households. Unfortunately, Senator Kerry did not react swiftly (pardon the pun) or strongly enough, and the lies were allowed to continue because neither Bush nor McCain would denounce and reject them.
This time around, Senator Obama reacts fairly quickly to the garbage that has been thrown his way, and when these privately financed attacks begin from these far-right idiots who would like to rewrite history, he and his supporters will be strong in opposition!
So just stop with any kind of justification for those idiots.
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

“(McCain is) fooling everybody who believes he’ll be the Republicans’ final nominee.”
He will be. And here’s the kicker: Barack’s pastor/associates will be old news come this fall. McCain’s associates/scandals (and there’s plenty to chose from) will be fresh in the minds of voting Americans. Who do ya think’ll win that battle?
Hillary actually did Barack a favor by going gutter! Barack will win the presidency! Thanks Hill!

It is not like Rev. Wright only said one bad thing and then apologized. This guy has said anti-American and racist things several times. The church that Obama chose is not about unity it is about lifting blacks up, “only blacks”. Obama called his racist grandmother a “Typical White person”. Obama said people in small town America cling to… antipathy for people who are not like them. Obama’s wife said this was the first time in her adult life that she was proud of this country.
Tell me this stuff does not all link back to the same place.

Gregg,
Not related to anyone associated with either campaign. As a retired 25 year Vet, I understand leadership. Clinton is not one, and lacks integrity.Obama doesn’t fully support my values but I respect him for striving to address the issues only. McCain, I understand and respect his straight forwardness. I’ll vote for the one that has the security of our Nation first and that encompasses our values.

One thing to remind people here is: please don’t be fooled by POLLS…
Kerry was polled to beat Bush in 2004…
Al Gore was polled to beat Bush in 2000…..

Lets just face facts, the Clintons are Republican moles! I’m teasing – but really if you read what you democrats write above you can’t help thinking that you’ve gone over the edge. Pull yourselves together!

Oh……The Princess Obama is upset at the commercial. The poor thing was too upset after Clinton’s commercial regarding the bitter comments, that Her Royal Highness wouldn’t speak to Her her subjects for eleven days. Hopefully The Princess Obama will be too upset over this one that she will be quiet for another 11 days.

“Obama, Hillary, or John [McCain] would never really have the respect of half the country and vice-versa.”
But nobody — except wussy saboteur John Kerry, who saddled Democrats with Obama — doesn’t like John Edwards.
Nominating Edwards is the best course.

Got stupidity? Clinton is counting on you. Can’t figure out why you hate Obama? Clinton is counting on you.

“Oh……The Princess Obama is upset at the commercial.”
IS she? She’d better adjust her serenity meds, then: not only can Tarheels be tough, but I believe the state of Indiana is also semi-famous for survivals of unenlightenment — not only in “rural” pockets, but in some of her cities.

Those who believe that voters deserve true insight about the people who run for the nation’s highest office should hope that North Carolina and other state Republican parties ignore McCain. Fortunately, if state party officials bow to the pressure, there will be a 527 organization to fill the void. Thank God McCain’s assault on the First Amendment did not destroy freedom of speech entirely.

“Can’t figure out why you hate Obama?”
Maybe because he is an air-head that can’t say anything unless he has a tele-prompter. When he just “talk” with out a script…he shoots himself in the foot each and every time. He is simply a puppet the media has created, like “American Idol” waved in front of us to adore. And his Anti-American Wife, Pastor, Friends, Professors, his drug habit, lack of any experience, his young age of 46, his Marxist theology all don’t make feel to comfortable!either

Lets get this right. The mud is too dirty for the Republicans to throw but Clinton ain’t condeming it? I guess it just isn’t too dirty for Hillary.

belle
i am going to start running an ad about vince foster and mr hsu…
will you say that hillary shouldn’t complain and make statements like’
“Oh poor little Hillary is upset that they are running an ad”
get a little more self awareness.
isn’t is funny that Mccain and the RNC can get a value system but hillary supporters is all based on
“Your candidate above all values and morals.”
One candidate now is stooping but if you look back at the Clintons history…they were never afraid of stooping…that’s why our government is so great now. If the Clintons hadn’t lowered the bar so much with values GW wouldn’t have been able to base his whole case on brining them back to the whitehouse…and America buying it.

There’s nothing to denounce. Facts are facts. He sat there listening in “church” to this anti-US venom so reap what you sow. If this video and his connection to the “reverend” were revealed before Iowa he would be but a memory.

Never wrestle with a pig in the mud. You’ll get dirty and the pig likes it.
And remember, pigs don’t know pigs stink.

Obama has been winning only because the media has been acting as both cheerleaders and attack dogs on his behalf. The reaction to this ad is the latest example. Obama is nothing more than a two-bit statist whose chief goal is to grow the government and increase the class of people dependant on their fellow citizens. Moreover, he is the only candidate whose past shows evidence of racism.
McCain is indifferent to the type of change that is really needed by our country–a return to limited government, individual rights and economic freedom that has been responsible for 250 years of improvement in the human condition. He is, however, not a radical collectivist like Obama. We should have a better choice, but McCain is clearly the lesser of two evils.
Someone posted a message with repeating “fear” a dozen times. Fear is not an irrational response in the face of grave danger. We should fear the possibility of an Obama presidency. More socialism, greater centralization and more entitlements programs that we cannot afford is the best that we can hope for during an Obama presidency.

These are old, vicious Jesse Helms type tactics being used by Linda Daves and the N. C. Republican Party. Their gutter politics demonstrates the depth of hypocrisy in those who would produce and promode such ads, while claiming to embrace “Christian” values.
Also, if Obama is to faulted, with regard to Wright, it is because he has yet to demand that this man’s full background of military service and religious training and dedication to aiding those in-need, should be revealed by the media, instead of their one-dimensional, sleazy, ratings-driven caricatures of Reverend Wright.
The North Carolina Republican Party is acting in a wholly disgraceful manner that you can be sure, Ronald Reagan would find deplorable. Ms. Davies and her Republican Party have become a whorehouse party, which will pander for votes in whatever degrading and contemptuous manner that they might find advantageous.

Obama is winning because the American people aren’t all brainwashed after the 15 years of spinning.

The team who bragged about flying back to Arkansas to preside over the execution of a black man with half his brain missing in 1992, who tried to marginalize Obama as “the black candidate” with no wider appeal once he started BEATING them, then the whining “they played the race card” followed by “no I did not say that”- what, is it a surprise that these people will remain silent when the Wright issue is demagogued?
They have no character, and they have no principle, except their own devotion to seeking power.

Yes Belle as someone who says she fights for these same issues and they are more important than herself…
yes she should probably understand that the American people don’t need the distraction from “solutions”
but it’s only solutions to how she can win isn’t it.
C’mon …you can say it…it’s just solutions for her to win.
but you have been duped…and as someone who was duped for years by the clintons…I can tell you it’s hard rto wake up but once you do …you realize “what a dummy they made you out to be”
she’s a hawk about everything (that smile hides someone totally different as is apparent by her comments on Iran and her retisance to apologize for giving over power to the presidency…becasue she wants it…that’s why she only apologized for giving it to Bush…not the presidency)… and if you win by being a hawk… you get a government run by a hawk.
safer no …in bigger debt yes.

I am beginning to wonder who the real whacko extremists are these days, the republican right (who refuse to even consider running the respectful campaign their nominee asks for) or these shrill Clinton hacks who seem to find everything they can to drag out of the sewer to smear Obama. In their zeal in supporting a near-mathematically impossible task, they are perfectly happy to cripple their own party. Amazing.

Belle did you say taxes…
oh you mean like the taxes that finally revealed the clintons whole cattle futures thing… you know after they were forced to reveal them.
or do you mean that they put out atax release this year and get heaps of praise for their charity giving…yeah that mostly went to the clinton family foundation that has yet to spend 3 % of that money on charity all the while that budget includes all bill’s trips to every country and state to raise money not only for the foundation but the library… oh and maybe get support for his wife’s presidential run ya think…
or maybe we will actually see this past years…you know the ones the press actually asked for…with regard to the 5 million she loaned her campaign…
this is what I mean for every “scandal” you brign up about Obama…clinton has seven…seventeen.

“There’s nothing wrong with Black Liberation Theology.”
And there’s nothing wrong with going bowling dressed like a Jehovah’s Witness handing out “The Watchtower”, either — but it makes some people nervous. Go figure.

Character counts.
Obama will almost certainly get the nomination — unless Clinton manages to manipulate the system in some way that seems unlikely.
But in that hopefully unlikely event, it’s becoming increasingly clear to me who the *decent* candidate will be in such a contest.
If McCain keeps taking the high ground, he might just bring a little fresh air into the GOP.
Now if he would lose his neocon handlers…

I applaud John McCain for condemning this kind of ad. He is taking the high road. He said on Chris Matthews last week that he will not run his campaign on these types of ads and he hopes his opponent won’t either.
On the other hand Hillary’s silence is troubling. If she won’t come to the aid of a fellow dem, even when a republican did, how can we expect her to come through for us. I don’t trust her and I believe she will tell us anything to get us to vote for her whether it’s truthful or not. I don’t feel she has my best interest at heart.

Jayhawk, JFK’s own daughter says Obama reminds her of her father. Who are you to call her disrespectful. What an insult.

karma,
To be fair, Caroline said it was the inspiration that others felt in reference to Obama, that they felt in terms of her father, and that he was running a honorable campaign, etc.
It wasn’t that he as a man reminded her of her father.
Those are two separate things.

Cali, I was at the event at American University in Wash DC. I know what he said.

remember, in the general election the delegates are acquired in a winner-take-all method. if you work the primary that way and add the delegates from the states hillry won by vote, and bho won by popular vote, the numbers resemble:
hillary- 1800+ delegates
bho- 1100+ delegates
…go figure!!!!!!!!

And I hope she stays mum. Obama better get use to being attacked. The MSM can’t protect him from everything.

“Before he is finished, he will have destroyed the unity of the Democratic Party; he will have set race relations back 50 years; and he will have destroyed the Democratic Party’s chance to win the general election and with it, America’s chance to recover from the terrible reign of George Bush.”
So maybe “the media” HAS been playing for the right, with the goal of a permanent crusader administration. Except for Chris Matthews, who might possibly have gone gaga with misplaced “liberal” adoration for the vagueness of it all …
The country won’t just “recover” from the imperial setup Bush and Cheney have constructed: it’s going to take some slashing and burning and reconstruction.
John Edwards is the Democratic nominee who actually can accomplish this. While he was still campaigning, Edwards — and only Edwards — pledged to undo the wholesale domestic surveillance to which Americans are presently subjected by our peeping-Tom politicians.

While John McCain is showing an initial desire to run a clean campaign, McCain may have to begin focusing on the true aspects of a radical, liberal Obama agenda.
Taxation is a good example. Obama espouses the implementation of a vast array of social programs in an attempt to mislead voters and garner support. Almost in the same breath Obama has promised to raise taxes, and not just on the wealthy.
For Obama’s plan to fix Social Security he would–raise taxes.
For Obama’s plan to fix Medicare he would–raise taxes.
For Obama’s plan to provide low cost prescription drugs he would–raise taxes.
For Obama’s plan to provide additional tuition support or “free” college tuition he would–raise taxes.
For Obama’s plan to provide national health care he would–raise taxes.
Basically, the Obama plan to fix anything wrong with government or society is to have the government expand its control and raise taxes.
American voters do not want more government control and intrusion into their everyday lives.
American voters do not want more and more of their already shrinking paychecks to go to Obama’s version of Big Brother.
And, if Obama should somehow manage to wriggle into the Democratic nomination, voters (not caucuses) will choose the alternative to higher taxes just as they did with McGovern, Dukakis, and Kerry.

Belle,
I agree about Edwards and was at least hoping that Hillary would have him for her VP.
He is an excellent debater and will hold up well under pressure.
It is a shame he quit both elections before CA could cast one vote for him.

here’s a reason for the Republicans attacking Obama
1) To prolong the Dem battle
2) For Hillary to grab the Dem nom
Everyone knows the Republican want Hillary.
Smear, and distract. Are you people so easily distracted? Focus. The war in Iraq, oil prices, morgage crises, etc… These are what you should concentrate on. Obama over a year ago co-wrote legislation to try to increase the transparancy of lenders and what they were doing. He was way ahead of the curve on that, as he was on Iraq. Further, he isn’t eloquent, he’s direct. Further he believes in transparency of government. All he asks is that everyone is listen to. He listens even to those he disagree with to understand their anger, white males to black ministers. For this he is going to get skewered? Sad. If Hillary wins, we get same policies but her approach is either my way or the highway, al la her first health care attempt, that led to Republican take over of Congress. When the Repubs get into the inevitable fight with her we are doomed. This is management style that doesn’t work because it isn’t inclusive. McCain, he’s admitted he doesn’t understand economics. To the current oil crises he answer is to lower the fuel tax. This will lead to an increase in quantity demanded, which will reduce price a little, but will kick up the deficit which will reduce liquidity, driving up interest rates and slowing economic growh, just what America needs.

you may think hillary is down on her knees thanking the republicans, but we KNOW bho was on his knees praying with wright.

So you agree that Hillary shows no honor unlike McCain who condemns these ads

“Belle, I agree about Edwards and was at least hoping that Hillary would have him for her VP.
He is an excellent debater and will hold up well under pressure.
It is a shame he quit both elections before CA could cast one vote for him.”
Edwards got a lot of votes in CA anyway. Not only had he been ridiculed in the media and ignored in the debates, Hillobama outspent him 10-to-1.
The Dems are going to have to somehow pull off a big re-do of SOME kind, or lose the election AND the sufferance of the governed.
Half the people hate Obama, and half hate Hillary.
Nobody hates Edwards, and he may yet be the nominee. Pray for this. :^|

Hillary’s silence speaks a great deal about her lack of character. I certainly would welcome a woman as president, but Hillary is certainly not that woman.

Oh I see, It’s Clinton’s fault the RNC is running an ad against Obama. Vanessa, “everyone” doesn’t. speak for yourself. Obama is a Mccain presidency on a platter (or course Obama true to form would try to change electoral college voters or get McC ain disqualified despite Obama’s landslide loss).

Like you think Obama would refrain from a negative ad against Hillary? Come on. It’s about time this game comes to an end with Obama. He may have fooled you or you simply weren’t getting the messages out there but people are getting it. The worst part is that it’s true and this is the guy people were voting for early on, granted the old “consider the source” applies when looking where the votes came from.

or why doesn’t Obama just scratch his face again? which he did twice to Hillary. and I guess most agree Obama is such a wuss that Clinton has to fight his battles for him.

erin,
then vote for McCain in November.

geevill, I won’t vote for a republican. I am a loyal dem. But I do admire McCain for the stance he took. I just wish Hillary would have done the same

“We must do whatever we can to stop Obama and his radical supporters from hijacking the Democratic Party (much like Bush and the far-right have dominated the Republican Party for the last 8 years).”
Anybody who supports Obama in hope of his doing anything “radical” to disturb the prosperity pyramid and perma-war the Republicans have put in place is, based on Obama’s previous political performances, whistling in the dark.
He really IS a fraud. Stopping him just as soon as possible is a very good idea. He couldn’t buy the PA primary — even with John Kerry’s rich wife rallying with Mrs. Obama. Maybe he can’t buy North Carolina and Indiana EITHER. Now, that’d be nice …
(Just now on msnbc, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann are screaming at each other about how much the Republicans want Clinton to be the nominee. These people should be ashamed of themselves. Or be fired. Or at least puzzled.)

pp: I agree. 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. Well, if Wright is such a nice and non-controversial figure, why is everyone 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?:

The ad has nothing to do with issues…economy, the war, foreclosers on homes, healthcare. I want to hear about what affects me. I don’t want to hear about Obama’s pastor or Bill and Monica or whitewater. I want to hear how they will HELP me and my family

“I am a dem and am sick of the negative campaigning. I want to hear what they will do for me and for this country.”
Hmm … like that genial “compassionate conservative” crap by which the neocons, with cute-but-insecure George Junior serving as the attractive figurehead for a crew of full-tilt fascists? The adjustable Mr. Obama, the passive “post-partisan” run by Kerry, Daschle, et al., could facilitate more of the same.

lisa,
the ad does not speak to the issues, but does address judgement, character, “uniter/inclusiveness.”
AND, hillary is the candidate…bill and monica were not her doing, and whitewater, 40 million dollars later, was determined to be a non-issue.
the ad was done by the RNC making it perhaps necessary for mccain to address. it has no relation to hillary.

You know what Jake? Did you contact the Obama campaign too or are they mum about it as well?
Why should Hillary say something? Barack’s a big boy — if he has a problem with it, then he should say something.
How is it that EVERYTHING that happens in this election cycle somehow loops back to Clinton?

I never said the ad had to do with Hillary but she should have comdemed it. And you talk about judgement. What about Hillary’s failed healthcare plan.

“I want to hear about the issues. My husband is out of a job and we are hurting. I want to know what each canidate will do for me. What is wrong with that.”
Nothing’s wrong with that — except that brainy populist John Edwards is the only Democratic candidate with the backbone to address the REAL predicament of the un-rich, which is getting more dangerous every day.
Clinton and Obama are nearly identical on the “issues”, and both too timid by far — that’s why they don’t say much ABOUT issues. This is a rhetorical beauty contest between two candidates, each of whom is hated by half the country.
Pray for the Democrats to nominate John Edwards.

Oh Belle I love Edwards. I can’t understand why no one else did. He was my first choice

What doesn’t make any sense. Hillary’s healthcare plan failed and she wants us to believe it will work now. Her plan just does not work, nor does Obama’s for that matter.

psst p, it is the same plan. It won’t work. Why are you trying to whisper.

LOL April, go back to Rush.

lisa,
plans are not he same. to name a few differences:
1-there are no alliances(co=ops) like there were in 1993. in this plan you can keep your own insurance you have now.
2- no new bureaucracy would be set up, as proposed last time, to set up benefits
3- this time does not require small business owners to cover their workers
4- this time, by giving uninsured people tax breaks and incentives, it would make health care affordable to all………

pms- you would have heard of their spiritual advisors if their advisors had used anti-black, anti-africa, etc. comments from the pulpit.
adam,
bho cannot win the general election. first, calculate delegates as done in the general election, winner-take-all, and hillary would have amassed 1800+ delegates to bho 1100+…that is an indication of his run against mccain.
i will vote hillary or mccain, as i do not want a racist, un american, unpatriotic, person in the white house.

In the end people will vote AGAINST Obama because we dont want a left wing radical and unpatriotic couple in our White House. His flame is going out fast.

Maybe she’s still waiting for Obama to condemn the Spanish ads run by 527′s in Nevada against Clinton. Give me a break.

“This morning I asked three different communications officers of the Clinton campaign for comment on the TV ad.” jpt
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Why didn’t you ask Barack Obama and/or his campaign for comment on the TV ad?
Jeremiah Wright will certainly continue to be an issue in the general election if Barack Obama should win the nomination.

of course they blame hillary for someone else’s ad. they blame hillary for global warming, warm beer, cold eggs, whatever. funny how they don’t blame obama when others attack hillary.
mccain is no idiot – condemn the ads, look like a good guy. the ads run anyway. same thing obama does all the time – pretend to be a good guy, have surrogates trash hillary. obamaites love it when hillary’s the target, but somehow not so much when their guy’s on the receiving end.
get used to it, politics is tough.
oops, forgot, obama’s too weak for this, won’t even debate any more now that his weakness was exposed, we should give him a break. sorry, not happening.

Have we returned to a McCarthyesque world? Guilt by association is selling again? Now it’s guilt by association twice removed? What a shell game…and we’ll all be conned if we buy into it.
About Wright, do some of you even know anything beyond the out-of-context snippets on TV? Do you know the complete text of the sermons, and therefore the fuller meaning? Try this article from the Christian Science Monitor called, “Did Obama’s Pastor Preach Hate?”
By no means do I condone the wrong-headed, harsh, and hurtful statements in question, but what arrogance and, if you’re Christian, how un-Christian to judge a man’s lifework based on a minute of footage! And how illogical and unfair to judge a man by another man’s statements!
By this guilt-by-association measure, McCain is very guilty: He sought out and said he was “very honored” to receive John Hagee’s endorsement. Hagee, if you’re not aware, refers to the Catholic Church as “the whore of Babylon, “The Great Whore,” an “apostate church,” a “false cult system,” and “the “anti-Christ.” He preaches a far-out Scriptural prophecy that espouses a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to bring about Armageddon. Google it.
Then there’s Rod Parsley and his extreme views. McCain, who stood beside the evangelical minister at a 2/26/08 Cincinnati rally, said, “I am very honored today to have one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide…thank you for your leadership and your guidance.”
Among Parsley’s extreme fundamentalist views: there should be no separation between church and state in this country; “Allah was a demon spirit” and there is no difference between violent Islamic extremists and other followers of Islam; and “…America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed.”
It seems to me the Republican smear machine has lost the “Obama equals Wright” argument. After all, McCain only “speaks out against” Hagee’s bizarre anti-Catholic rants but still “admires and respects Dr. Hagee’s leadership of his Church” and he’s still glad that he sought out, received, and accepted Hagee’s endorsement. McCain sought out and accepted Parsley’s endorsement.
I shouldn’t forget: Remember the Keating Five?
CONTINUED ABOVE.

wake up call
it has moved from being an “issue” as you say to a distraction…
Obama is trying to cut through 15 years of branding as the only game in town by the Clintons… McCain knows this is a distraction…
McCain knows more than any other issue these politics are hurting the country
too bad that clinton and her supporters don’t realize that…
but I guess that is the problem with this country clintons bushes cheneys etc… all add up to the game for a bunch of rich people to play when they are not at the country club…
get off the low-level human debate…
we are a better country than that…
atleast two of these candidates are acting like Presidents. Hillary should join them but unfortunately to join this conversation she is lacking quite a bit of character.
The worst fall out of those from the “me” generation.

Lisa who wrote
“I want to know what each candidate will do for me”
You should vote for Obama then. He is the Socialist candidate.

Why should Hillary Clinton step into this????
Obama chose Wright, and for some people, that is an issue. Obama must demonstrate that he can refute the issue effectively. More importantly, he must show that he can stand on his own. If he wants to win, he cant rely on Hillary as a foil and he certainly cant rely on her to defend him.
Anyone who thinks that we would not see this kind of stuff (and much worse) in the general election is living in the Obamasphere. Let’s get real.

First McCain was wrong for criticizing the ad for 3 reasons
1- It was not an ad for his presidency
2- It was truthful
3- Is not Obama playing ads criticizing McCain’s age?
Is Obama going to tell Soros not to use the 50 million + dollars they have on the side to attack McCain?
Is Obama going to tell Moveon, Daily kooks, media matters, NYT, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC and other liberal organizations to not say negative about McCain.
There is a difference between Liberal ads and Republicans the ones from Republican are based on true facts, the ones from libs are outright lies!
As already seen from the NYT and CBS!!

Vanessa: That’s good that the republicans want Hillary because Hillary can beat McCain at his game. With Obama as nominee McCain would get a landslide. If you think the battleground states would vote for Obama you better think again. Hillary’s voters would switch to McCain. Get a grip. You better listen to the news more often. Those states that voted for Hillary didn’t want Obama to begin that’s why they didn’t vote for him. I know there are many Hillary haters on the internet but that’s evident, the Clinton’s accomplished their goals in life and made their millions that way. Jealousy doesn’t get you anywhere it just eats into you. And that’s what is happening to the Hillary haters on the internet. These people probably set their goals and couldn’t accomplish them and they dislike those that did.

Nancy: You are so right about Obama. Obama never like white people as a young boy and he doesn’t now. He needs their votes to win and in the states of MN,SC & WI they gave him the win. When will the white people ever wake up to the fact that he is using them for his own advantage to make history like MLK. Obama never went to the southside of Chicago to meet the families who lost their children to gun violence. He doesn’t care about them he cares only about himself. He lives in Hyde Park next the Ayers who went underground because of his bombing. His pastor has hated the white people since time. Pastor’s are suppose to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ not politics. Obama knew this when he attended that church. I view Obama as anti-american and a racist. The voters in IN and NC better wake up to this fact.

Nancy and Mariann Pepitone, nobody can reunify and reinvigorate the republican base like Hillary as the nominee. That is why Rush, Hannity, Fox&Friends, OReilly and Foxnews are pushing for her to be the nominee. She is the easiest target for them to beat. Hill has a lot of skelettons in the closets, that is a fact. She is not a strong leader and has no managerial skills looking at how she organized her campaign which should still be in the red now. Somebody who cannot run a campaign how would you give to her the destiny of the greatest nation on earth? Hill, the Bosnian General, has to leave the context and help Obama to beat McCain as a drum. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

In the end people will vote AGAINST Obama because we dont want a left wing radical and unpatriotic couple in our White House. His flame is going out fast.

Gayle I will vote for Obama because of the way he’s run his campaign. To me that’s an indicator of how this country would be run.

KUDO !!!!! TO THE NORTH CAROLINA RNC

Better now than later, this is just the coming attractions. And I don’t think Clinton has to say anything?

Of course the PA primary turned on race. Does anybody believe that 92% of Black people voted Obama because they like his policies better than Clinton’s? Get real. Obama, who wants to be the post-racial candidate, has turned into the ultra-racial candidate. If Black voters were splitting between Obama and Hillary then this might not be such an issue. However, because they are voting almost exclusively for Obama, Obama is very heavily identified with this group. Obviously, this makes White voters nervous.

Just shows McCain has character and Hillary does not.

The North Carolina Republican Party is too extreme for North Carolina. Watch the polls.

Seems like a number of people are voicing the argument that if Obama asks NC Republicans to take this ad down, that it would be hypocritical to say anything negative of McCain later.
I think there is a critical distinction here and that is that these are ads about an association of Obama’s not about Obama himself, and one whom Obama has already disassociated himself from.
Obama should still have the right to be critical of McCain’s voting record & platform, he should not be allowed to attack him for the statements of others.
Additionally, I’d say that the TV stations who air this ad should largely be held responsible for their role in furthering this kind of mudslinging. I commend WRAL-TV in Raeleigh and WSOC-TV in Charlotte for pulling the ad, and encourage other stations to do the same.

As of 5 p.m., the Clinton campaign has not commented on the ad.
Hillary is a southern girl, a BARRY GOLDWATER girl… NC Republican party is running the negative ad to help Hillary not McCain.
According to the extreme Right, HRC is in bed with the North Carolina Republican party.