Comments on North Carolina Republicans: Obama is Black, Scary

Both Dems will lose to McCaine because Obama is vulnerable to this bullshit.

Rendering this oh so exciting election cycle completely useless.

Methinks McCain fears the John Hagee ad.

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

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.

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.

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......

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".

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

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."

and thus begins the McCainanites wandering in the wilderness of tackiness

strangely, mccain is playing it better than clinton.

Clinton's in with her advisors right now trying to decide whether to copy it.

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...

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.

"Oh, Magoo (McCain), you've done it again!"

@8,

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

but then i have this shadowy nightmare scenario that has mc cain choosing alan keyes as a running mate in response to this.

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.

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?

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.

"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!

@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.

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.

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.

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.