Rev. Wright ads to continue

NY Times:

Despite objections from Senator John McCain, the North Carolina Republican Party is planning to roll out a television advertisement on Monday attacking two Democrats who are running for governor by linking them to Senator Barack Obama and playing a clip of his former pastor excoriating the United States.

The release of the commercial, which Republican officials in North Carolina said would make its debut during the 6 p.m. newscasts, injects a potentially divisive racial element into the campaign for the state’s Democratic presidential primary, which is on May 6.

In the advertisement, a narrator intones, “For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor.” Then a video clip of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who was Mr. Obama’s pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, is cued up.

Preaching in 2003, Mr. Wright uses an expletive when referring to the United States and discussing its treatment of African-Americans, arguing that instead of singing “God Bless America,” they should sing something else. Mr. Obama has said he was not at the service.

The narrator then declares Mr. Obama “too extreme for North Carolina” and attacks the two Democrats running for governor, Beverly Eaves Perdue, the lieutenant governor, and Richard H. Moore, the state treasurer, for endorsing Mr. Obama.

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This is going to be an issue in this campaign whether the RNC or McCain want it to be. In some ways their opposition inoculates them from Democrat charges while they continue to get the benefit of the ad. The reason Wright is going to be an issue is because Obama has not articulated what he expressly disagrees with other than general statements that he does not agree with anything that offends people.

Wright's statement on the HIV virus is viral to Obama's campaign. It is grossly ignorant at best, and a blood liable at worst. Yet it just hangs out there and his congregation has embraced this nonsense. If Obama does not have the courage to tell the truth about this, and stand up to a racist demagogue, what kind of leader would he be?

It is an issue and it is not going away.

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