Wright Happens
| Mon Oct. 27, 2008 1:13 PM PDT
The other shoe finally drops. A group called the National Republican Trust PAC is making a $2.5 million ad buy with the first Jeremiah Wright ad of the campaign. You have to wonder how this campaign would have been different if McCain hadn't chosen the Wright issue to make a stand (his only such stand, it seems) for dignity, respect, and positive campaigning. I can't be the only one who sees a far more difficult path for Obama if ads like the one below are playing regularly from August to November.
By the way, why was McCain willing to go whole hog on Ayers, but unwilling to even touch Wright? It makes no sense to me. As for this ad, it is damaging to Obama but almost certainly too little, too late.
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I don't know...that seems pretty weak to me. Everyone has heard those segments by now. For an ad to have an impact this late in the game, I think it would have to have something new. Also, the production values are pretty poor--the quoted segments feel like they're cherry picked.
Sure, it might have an impact on voters who are threatened by black men yelling, but most of those guys are going for McCain anyway.
It took the Republican Party and its PAC group a long time to get here. Let me just remind both of them that the damage done will be to Senator McCain. They are using the one weapon the Senator promised he would not use. Senator McCain has reasons why he does not want to use Rev Wright because he has his own skeletons in all of his closets. If he can't control the PACs of his party I am suppose to believe that he can control the rogue states out there. He wants me to believe that he can demand enough respect domestically and internationally. PLEASE! I don't mind him fighting to the bitter end but, do it right. His legacy will be forever tarnished.
Submitted by Jacqueline (not verified) on Mon Oct. 27, 2008 7:29 PM PDT.
As a reader of Mother Jones, a woman, a UCC minister, a liberal, and a student of theology I am alarmed how persons from all aspects of the political spectrum are willing to assail Rev. Wright. He has never been an easy figure--even within the UCC--but the man is a man of integrity and conviction. His statements are consistent with both Liberation Theology's convictions, i.e. the God of Justice is on the side of those who are oppressed, and the African-American spiritual traditions that call into question American nationalism. As I stated, I am avid reader of Mother Jones, and my belief is that many--regardless of religious or spiritual affiliation, conviction or disgust--those who read this publication believe we ought to advocate for a world that is more just and with more multilateral cooperation. In other words, the readers of Mother Jones have far more in common with Rev. Wright than these comments would suggest.
Submitted by capt (not verified) on Tue Oct. 28, 2008 10:22 AM PDT.
Cheesus I stop by and get this kind of crap second hand on MoJo?
JS - you are not a reporter - you are a repeater - and not a very good one at that.
I have a REAL question...
It is more tuned to the Black people who are on MJ.
What will happen, in your opinion, if the polls are WRONG and McCain ends up winning on Nov 4th..?
I have asked several of my Black employees and they seem to be of the mind that "Burn baby Burn", will be the end result..?
Is that what you people are going to do...?
Bill
Jacqueline dear, it appears that you are a fellow traveler of the racist Pastor Wright. I have more respect for David Duke PhD then I do for your group of racists. Say no to racism, vote Green.
Both Obama and McCain want more nuclear power plants, more coal production, and more offshore oil drilling. Both support the gigantic taxpayer funded Wall Street bailout, without expressed amendments. Both support the notorious Patriot Act, the revised FISA act which opened the door to spy on Americans without judicial approval, and Obama agrees with McCain in vigorously opposing the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.What about avoidance? Did you see them speak about a comprehensive enforcement program to prosecute corporate crooks in the midst of the greatest corporate crime wave in our history? Did you see them allude to doing anything about consumer protection (credit card gouging, price of medicines, the awful exploitation and deprivation of the people in the inner city) and the ripoffs of buyers in ever more obscure and inescapable ways?
Isn't it remarkable how they never mention the poor, and only use the middle class when they refer to "regular people?" There are one hundred million poor people and children in this nation and no one in Washington, D.C. associates Senator Obama, much less John McCain, with any worthy program to treat the abundant poverty-related injustices.
What about labor issues? Worker health and safety, pensions looted and drained, growing permanent unemployment and underemployment, and outsourcing more and more jobs to fascists and communist dictatorships are not even on the peripheries of the topics covered.
