Slog - Comments on North Carolina Republicans: Obama is Black, Scary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s Ladies and gentlemen, let the official Republican campaign to define Barack Obama as an America-hating black radical begin! The ad was produced by the North Carolina Republican Party, which needs your donations (now!) to keep the ad up and running. Fearing the repercussions of being associated with the content of the ad, John McCain and the Republican National Committee are less than pleased with the decision of their North Carolina brethren: Dear Chairman Daves, From the beginning of this election, I have been committed to running a respectful campaign based upon an honest debate about the great issues confronting America... Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:34:20 -0800 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:36:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Non Both Dems will lose to McCaine because Obama is vulnerable to this bullshit.

Rendering this oh so exciting election cycle completely useless.

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004723 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:47:41 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Methinks McCain fears the John Hagee ad.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004726 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:49:36 -0800 Comment by jayme on npr they said the producers of the offensive ad refuse to pull it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/04/sen_mccain_tells_nc_gop_to_dum_1.html

]]> jayme http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004732 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:55:05 -0800 Comment by Ryan McSame learned all the best tricks from Rove. Play an offensive ad, scare the white people with dangerous-looking black men, and then denounce the ad quickly so you still look saintly. The national media will play along and praise you for being so quick to be a maverick and criticize your own party.

PS: John McCain is old.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004733 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:59:30 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I can see the script working out....

NC Repuglicans post "draft" offensive ad.

McCain is shocked!--shocked!! at its content, and implores them not to run it (thus ensuring that it gets free media coverage on cable networks, youtube, blogs and newsfeeds for weeks.

The party runs it anyway, but McCain is able to take the "moral high ground" and say he did his best to have it pulled.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004734 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004734 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:06 -0800 Comment by Andrew (the often ignored) I have said this before but this election was actually lost by the Democrats when Edwards lost. Let's face some facts shall we? The Democrats have only won elections in the past several election cycles with...hold your breath...white men from the south. Clinton, Gore (yeah he won but you know shit happens) Carter and Truman. Kennedy is a noteworthy exception but remember how close he came to not winning Cook County in 1960 which would have given the electoral vote to Nixon. And even before Truman FDR picked two southerners as his VP (Garner from Texas and Truman from Missouri).

The only way that the US ( a racist and sexist nation for those not paying attention ) will elect Obama or Hillary is if we are at the end of our ropes. I simply am not sure things will be bad enough by November to get Americans over their racism and/or sexism when they actually go to vote.

Remember: when you are polled you never want to look racist but once you are in the voting booth......

]]> Andrew (the often ignored) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004735 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004735 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf McCain's letter is part of the ad campaign. They probably wrote it first. "I have nothing to do with this despicable ad, which we are putting the final touches to right now".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004741 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:03:31 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew

Well if this interminable and unbearable primary has proven anything, it's that we're all sexist racists who vote with our genitals.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004749 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:11:17 -0800 Comment by apres_moi Update
UPDATE: The N.C. GOP has basically told McCain and the RNC to take a hike. The Raleigh News and Observer says that the state party will air the ad, despite the complaints from their Republican colleagues.

"We think this is a legitimate question to ask, and we don't think we're the only ones asking it," said Brent Woodcox, communications director for the state Republican Party. "We feel this is a North Carolina issue."

]]> apres_moi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004750 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004750 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:11:58 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable and thus begins the McCainanites wandering in the wilderness of tackiness

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004756 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:16:02 -0800 Comment by infrequent strangely, mccain is playing it better than clinton.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004763 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:19:42 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Clinton's in with her advisors right now trying to decide whether to copy it.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004770 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004770 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:27 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO 5 beat me to it. Here's how I imagine it:

McCain (after watching the draft): Wow, that's grrrreat! No sane white person will vote for that shine after seeing this! But how do we run it without some pussy liberal complaining about the race card?

Advisor: We already thought of that sir. We have a denouncement already worked up and ready to "leak" to the press...

McCain: Good work. Just make sure the NC RNC keeps running it, no matter how many times I ask them not to in the press...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004775 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:27:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Every day Sen McCain wakes up in a cold sweat when he realizes he'll be running against Sen Obama.

Then he forgets about and reverts to his usual pre-dementia thought patterns about invading Iceland where the Sunnis live.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004792 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004792 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:50:05 -0800 Comment by Slip Mahoney "Oh, Magoo (McCain), you've done it again!"

]]> Slip Mahoney http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004798 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004798 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:39 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @8,

Remind me to bring hand sanitizer when I go to vote this November.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004802 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004802 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:57:41 -0800 Comment by reverend dr dj riz but then i have this shadowy nightmare scenario that has mc cain choosing alan keyes as a running mate in response to this.

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004805 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004805 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:59:19 -0800 Comment by leek Weird. That ad didn't really seem that offensive to me. I mean, didn't we all know (and hasn't it already begun, in fact) that people would be up in arms about the God damn America thing?

Ordinarily I'm hypersensitive to this kind of thing but I'm just not getting it here.


]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004852 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004852 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:47:04 -0800 Comment by longball Can the Dem party in NC just run an add of McCains wingnut preacher guy? Or are we just going to take the high road to defeat, again?

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004858 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:52:31 -0800 Comment by daniel So the new party line is that Wright is off the table? That it is by some definitional reason not an issue?

I support Obama, I don't care about his pastor but I can't figure out the theory by which people aren't allowed to care about it or even discuss it.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004865 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:55:40 -0800 Comment by bobbo "Fearing the repercussions of being associated with the content of the ad . . ." Congrats, unpaid intern, you are showing an early mastery of the uncritical, stenographic-type reporting skills so valued in the MSM! "Fearing the repercussions"? Really? You iz mind-reader? Maybe, just could it possibly be, just a little Kabuki, as almost every one of your commenters has figured out? Think before you mindlessly type, unpaid intern!

]]> bobbo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004953 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:24:47 -0800 Comment by tsm @19 - We can. We just need to have a Democratic 527 group run it while Obama feigns horror and goes tsk-tsk at them. That's the winning way.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004956 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004956 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:26:04 -0800 Comment by longball Ha ha ha, for anyone still supporting HRC, this is the campaign you support...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/23/18831/1017/410/501998

Congratulations Big Sven, ECB, et all. You must be SO proud.

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004973 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1004973 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:38:14 -0800 Comment by raindrop I'm really baffled why people are calling this a racist ad. It's about the fact that Obama sat in the pews for years listening to Rev. Wrights 'bash-America first' propoganda. And it was Wright who said that AIDS was manufactured to wipe out blacks - so he played the race card.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1005132 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1005132 2008 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:23:43 -0800 Comment by Marty Okay, I know I'm in the EXTREME minority, but seriously, I'm willing to take McCain at face-value on this; that he thinks it's truly offense and wants it taken down. He and his committee did their best to distance themselves from them, but they obviously have no control over North Carolina thugs... why is everyone so quick to assume McCain is in favor of this? If anything, he's seen how far Clinton's fear-mongering has gotten her, and probably doesn't want to repeat it.

I know, the thought of a half-way decent Republican scares the bejesus out of you people.

]]> Marty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1005135 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/north_carolina_republicans_obama_black_s#c1005135 2008 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:36:01 -0800