Jeremiah Wright: Obama attack-ad fodder

This is one of the reasons I'm glad Obama refused to take public finance. That is the oldest republican trick in the book. Limit your money and let the republicans spend all sorts of money from the RNC and 527s. It's about time the democrats woke up to the republican tricks. Maybe we'll see a 527 group do a snake charming ad about Palin.

My fellow Americans, the polls tell us that with only a few hours left before Election Day, several of you are still undecided for whom to vote on Tuesday.

Eight years ago, several of you voted for George W. Bush, believing that his tax policies would be best for the country. You believed that with Dick Cheney at his side, then-Governor Bush would get the steady hand of experience to guide him through whatever international crisis might arise.

Then, four years ago, even more of you decided to double down your bet in hopes that with appointments like Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Brown, George Bush had the judgment he needed to get us through the war in Iraq and any emergency that might strike us at home.

Well, President Bush might have thought his appointees were doing a "heckuva job," but many Americans who have suffered in recent years due to their decisions respectfully disagree.

Now, everyone knows that Sen. John McCain is not George Bush, just as much as we know he is not Harry Truman. If we wanted Barack Obama to run against Harry Truman, well, quite frankly, it would have been impossible.

But we also know that Sen. McCain has aligned himself with President Bush 90 percent of the time, including on major decisions involving tax and foreign policy. And we know that Sen. McCain has hired some of the same characters who still agree with President Bush's failed policies. And while Sen. McCain calls himself a "maverick," when the rubber meets the road he is, at heart, a dyed-in-wool supporter of the policies of President Bush. In fact, we know that Sen. McCain is promising some of the same policies that President Bush has advocated for the past eight years.

Now, no one is promising that a vote for Barack Obama will open the celestial skies. But what is certain is that a vote for Sen. McCain is a vote for the same mindset that chose to lead us into a war with a third world country that we are still struggling to control five and a half years later. What is certain is that a vote for Sen. McCain is a vote for the same tax policies that have run up our national debt and moved many of our fellow citizens out of their homes as winter approaches.

Now some of you have expressed concerned about the less than reputable characters that have surrounded Barack Obama during his life. The latest nugget is a half-aunt who, unbeknownst to Barack, has skirted immigration laws to stay in the United States. It has been said many times that we are judged by the company we keep. If that is the case, then let he who has been surrounded his entire life with saints cast the first stone.

Barack Obama is responsible for himself, his family and his subordinates. None of the cast of characters some have tried to tie to him measure up to those qualifications.

We need a change of tone in Washington. We need to have people working together to move this country in another direction. We do not need another four years of giving tax breaks to the very wealthy and hoping that somehow, through their generosity, some of the profits will be used to benefit our people, the American people.

So with humility and respect, on behalf of good Americans everywhere, I ask you to vote for Barack Obama this Tuesday, and let's get this country back on the right track. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

Glad someone is helping spred the truth-

Obama only looks liberal when compared with Bush, Cheney, and McCain. Obama will govern from the center. .......................

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/01/obama-will-govern-from-the-center/

"an independent organization to help promote American values.''

They should come out and say what they really are...

I love these( not so) Swift-Boaters. They have all this garbage to throw at good, clean Americans and then they wait to the lasts hours, before they unleash their lies, distortions and rumors and gossip !! I imagine that is how they character-assassinated former Senator, Max Cleland, a tried and true, war hero, of Vietnam. Senator Cleland is the Vietnam Veteran, who lost his two legs and one arm, in action in Vietnam !! A real American Hero, if ever ther was one !! So, what did Saxby Chambliss and the Bush-McCain Republicans do, they methodically went about to destroy Senator Cleland's reputation. They literally. questioned his patriotism. They had him in phony pictures with Osama bin Laden !! How is that for the Rovebots and their willful acts of disrespecting men and women, who have made enormous sacrifices for us, America !! Now, Saxby Chambliss sits in our Senate, an undeserving representative of Georgia, and acts as though he had no idea about the slanderous, disrespect, his operatives had buried a good, American, war hero !!
Now, they have turn their mud-guns on Senator Obama and Senator Biden and think they can repeat that dastardly performance !! Not this time, boys and gals !! America is more than aware of your despicable behaviour and will make you pay for your mean-spirited, gutter politics. They will vote more for your opponents, Senators Obama and BIden and prove to you, that the dirty tricks that were so heavily relied on by Tricky-Dick Nixon, used by Reagan, and Bush Sr. and Jr., will not go unpunished !! Maybe next time, the real Republicans will not allow the champions of gutter-politics to take over, that once proud and good Party, the Republican Party !!!
Go Obama/Biden, 08 !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

I do not like ads that play the "race card" and this is one.

But I also did not like it when prominent Democrats including Howard Dean, Representative Acee Hastings, Representative John Lewis and Representative Jack Murtha enjected race into this campaign.

Both sides should "stiffle" as Archie Bunker stated to Edith many times!

Wow, Obama is for the average American after all. Literally. The real-life Average American, the nation's most statistically average man or woman found after a long non-partisan search, has come out for Obama, according to the search's website: http://www.theaverageamerican.com

Wow, Obama is for the average American after all. Literally. The real-life Average American, the nation's most statistically average man or woman found after a long non-partisan search, has come out for Obama, according to the search's website: http://www.theaverageamerican.com

One nice thing about early voting (after a 4 hour wait on Mon.) is that I can ignore the last minute Republican slime ads. I also noticed that Jeremiah Wright wasn't on the ballot; he's not running for anything.

Rev. Wright - Y-A-W-N-N-N.

Rev. Wright is fair game. If the shoe were on the other foot, you'd best believe the Dems would be all over it.

I only have one thing to say- under Obama this country will become U.S.S.A.- United Socialist States of America- this didn't work in the Soviet Union, and it will destroy our country-

Not me, bub, and I'm about as average as they come. I'm old enough to know that a Dem NEVER is for tax cuts and never grants them.

People get the government they deserve.

Wow I wonder why a group that talk's about american values didn't do an ad, showing Sarah Palin being prayed over by her minister while talking about witchcraft? I guess witchcraft is an american value?

How the hell is this the race card. The American-hating preacher is African-American. I would vote for Obama if he would give me a notarized letter stating one of his first official acts would be the make East St. Louis, Illinois into a model city for all of America. I'd even be a campaign worker for his re-election if Jesse Jackson cosigned it. How about it?......................................................I didn't think so!

This is an effective ad. It speaks to Obama's questionable judgement.

These so-called "attack ads" depict only facts. The Wright video does exist, and it's laughable for Obama to say that he listened to Wright' sermon for 20 years without ever noticed anything.

McCain's hands were tied, vis-avis Wright, from the very beginning. If he dared to mention the "Reverend" the lumpen idiots and the press would be screaming "racism".
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Meanwhile, Obama has had a free hand at injecting racial division into the campaign, because the lumpen idiots and the press would never dare to accuse a black candidate of racism.

Excuse me! Call it what you want but this to me is not an attack ad, Its just like the old sports announcer Howard Cosell said "Telling it like it is". You are judged by the company you keep.
And by your environment, If you wallow in the dirt you best not be wearing you Sunday go to meeting suit.

Regardless of what the highly intelligent (not!) people in the media and the mesmerized Obamabots have tried to establish as the truth, it is simply illogical to suggest that a person could remain in close contact with a man he has described as a mentor and whose sermons he has attended SEVERAL HUNDRED times, and has exposed his impressionable children to since their earliest memories, is not someone with whom one has significant common ground on important issues. To have disavowed one's ties only after a media firestorm says nothing whatsoever about one's real views and beliefs.
Barack and Michelle Obama could easily be radical leftists. There are simply too many things he has said and too many extremely anti-American people with whom he has had close contact to not bring into serious question his political and moral views.
The media has done a clear and dangerous dissevice to this country by slanting their coverage toward this man not suited to the office he will likely be handed this week.
One the most ironic things about the media's actions in this thing is that Obama's people have shown very frightening signs of controlling the media when they overstep their bounds - and the media have let him get away with it.

Obama only looks liberal when compared with Bush, Cheney, and McCain. Obama will govern from the center.

The center of Islam...

I don't get it. Why ISN'T his judgement/affiliations an issue with people? It slays me that people simply disregard this. Long ago...I was going to vote for Obama. My family is staunch conservatives. Yet, me? I am gay...a moderate...and yet, I see such a lack of balance in this thing. The media nearly all for Obama. There is such a lack of balance...more so by far than in any other election. I don't agree with all McCain is about. I would have more faith if Biden were running as President and Obama as VP...but that is not the case. I agree with Biden that he will be tested heavily within 6 months and I see him as a failure as Commander in Chief. Why in the world would the army respect him? He is interested in being a friend to so many radicals and no one calls him on this. John McCain said at one of his rallies to a supporter that the guy shouldn't fear Obama as president. I totally disagree. I think the United States is in for the ride of its life IF this guy is elected. Both sides give all this crap about the Middle Class...
What honestly does Obama care about the Middle class? His concern is strictly about handouts to those who have always had their hands out. I find that revolting. I own a small business and if he wins, will find myself SCREWED ROYAL. We have grown slowly but steadily for 11 years and he will take the incentive out of it. Why would I work my butt off to give freebies to people who expect it versus working for it? No, I think McCain was WRONG! I think the United States is going socialist with Bush handing out money to the banks, Wall Street, California, GM, etc. Who will help my little company when my company is struggling? No one...We are not big enough/poor enough/etc. to warrant help. We will just be allowed to close. So, again, Bush has us going Socialist but he will pail in comparison to what Obama has in store and frankly, I AM SCARED TO DEATH OF HIM!!!!!!!!

This is a fair ad. Why did Obama stay at that church, which is clearly racist? My guess (and hope) is that it was Michelle's preference, not Barack's.

There are two extremes in American politics, and both are anti-competitive and hurt the middle class. One is the Bush extreme that favors business and the very wealthy over the working middle class. The other extreme is the LBJ extreme, which favors poor unemployed over the working middle class. Both of these extremes are anti-merit. They give an advantage to a less qualified rich or poor children (or Black children regardless of class) over more qualified middle class children.

Obama will undo much of the pro-wealthy extremism that Bush has established, but I hope he doesn't go to the opposite extreme. I hope he doesn't replace Bush's extremism with a pro-unemployed or pro-Black extremism. When Obama says he wants to give the poor a "Leg up" or a "Head start", does he mean that he will give poor Black children an advantage over working-class White children? When an unemployed, unmarried, uneducated woman has 6 children, all expenses paid by the tax payers, is it fair to give her children an a "Leg up" over the 6 children of two working, tax paying couples? It is extremely unfair, in my opinion, and is a real possibility with an Obama Presidency and Democratic Congress.

This McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time needs to be shot and put out of its misery.

Much of the time the President and Senate are voting on such mundane things as honoring a marching band or simular.

Check out his voting record on important issues. He is a maverick.

Obama voted with the Dems 98% of the time when he actually voted other than "present".

If Obama wins we will all be broke and miserable. But at least it won't be my own fault!!!!!

So I guess this means that Obama isn't Muslim??? That's good to know.

If we can make the argument that Obama has been influenced by the persons he has been around over the years, why do we automatically discount the less controversial persons who may have also helped in formulating his views? What makes him so susceptible to the influence of Rev Wright or Bill Ayers? Are we assuming that by working with Chuck Hagel, Obama is now a conservative? What about Warren Buffet, can we make the leap that he is a capitalist? They have spent time together.
I attempt to learn from various viewpoints, that does not mean that just because I am exposed to a certain view, that it is now my view. I disagree on most political subjects with the views of many family members. Guess what, I spent a lot of time with them too. There views belong to themselves, mine belong to me. The whole guilt (guilty of having the same ideas) by association is just ridiculous in this context.

Keep on, with the lies and distortions, rumors and gossip, because each lie, you, Bush-Mcain Republicans tell or insinuate or imply, another voter, votes for Senator Obama and Senator Joe Biden !! So, at this rate, just on this topic-page alone, it looks like an Obama landslide !! Keep it up, you, one-dimensional Republicans and spew your slime, you are helping Senator Obama win !! We, Democrats, can't thank you enough, for running such a silly campaign, with props, gimmicks and lies, galore !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Barry Obama stayed around Rev Jeremiah Wright a bigoted anti-white Pastor for 20 years and now he wants to censor Wrights sermons that scare David Axelrod and David Plouffe to death.
Go National Republican Trust 2 networks stopped airing these ads because of pressure from Obama. The trust has upwards of $10 million to run these very fair ads.If you don't like the sound of Jeremiah Wright tough it will bring McCain to Washington. Obama is a bad man period who hung around with scoundrels now he wants to take over the greatest nation on earth.
Obama is too risky to be President play the tapes over till Tuesday night and all the votes are cast!
Go McCain/Palin and Obama take your ruinous tax cuts and shove them! Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Go McCain/Palin and Obama take your ruinous tax cuts and shove them! Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Posted by: Jerry White | November 2, 2008 4:47 PM

Jerry......Your desperation and frustration is showing. You need to come live here in the south. Then you can see the opposite of an angry black man. Better yet...just use the "N" word. You'll feel much better.

Now, no one is promising that a vote for Barack Obama will open the celestial skies. Posted by: Jorge from Bloomington

Oops. Actually The Anointed One BHO DID say that“... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”

I sat by the window and waited, but the only thing that hit me was a higher property tax bill delivered by the mailman at the same time property values are rapidly falling (Dem run state of MI).

We ain't seen nothin' yet. B-B-B Barack; we ain't seen nothin' yet.

Maybe in 2000 or 2004 this type of ad would play, but not in 2008, and not with this candidate. Any independent who respects McCain's service to our country and his independent stance years ago would like to remember him as the honorable man who stood confidently after his loss to the disgusting smear tactics of GWBush in 2000. That he hired the same PR firm to smear Obama was a true 'soul selling' moment. To use Wright at the 11th hour and not have the honor to have brought him up in a debate....sad and desperate. In this economy, the electorate wants to be inspired. What's inspiring about pointing out your opponent's loose associates?

Sarah Palin’s husband was a card-carrying member of the AIP, a group that detests the U.S. government. Talk about questionable associations….

I actually enjoy seeing the foam on the mouths of the rabid. I love the smell of desperation....it reminds me of victory.

In the stump speech, when Obama talks about how he is not perfect and is reminded of that daily by Michelle, he is not the most powerful person even in his own household, he is, er, not kidding.

I think Michelle made the decision to join Trinity as opposed to Rev. Brazier's church (where they now attend).

I truly believe it was her choice and she probably was much more in attendance than Barack.

Thankfully all that is about to be put behind us one way or the other.

In Washington, they can always join a big integrated UCC or Disciples church.

That might be a plan.

I just saw this ad air on late in the fourth quarter of NBC Sunday Night Football. It compares to the Patriots' Hail Mary pass in the final seconds that failed to save the game for them.
It would be interesting to show this to a random sample of voters across the political spectrum, then to ask whether it changed their minds and in which direction - McCain or Obama.
My guess is that although this is a Hail Mary pass to rouse conservative fear of Obama, it will prove at least as offensive to fair-minded middle-of-the-roaders and liberals. In other words, it will do McCain more damage than good.
That's the trouble with extremists who inject repulsive messages into the fight. Their perspectives are distorted because they're out of touch with the public. The result is politically counterproductive because they don't change the minds of either their sympathizers or opponents. They merely make opponents out of the neutrals that they might have enlisted to their cause.

As one who attends a UCC church, would ask other parishioners to contact this PAC and ask them to bring down this ad in the next 2 days, or we will expose McCain for what he truly is , i.e. an Episcopalian disguised as a Baptist!!!!

Given Senator Obama's repudiation of Rev. Wright's ill advised remarks, this last minute kicking of the beast is way over the top.

Convicted prostitute toe soaker, Dick Morris was bragging about this ad on Fox last week.

Doubt if will change votes.

Could backfire on McCain.

This add could backfire on McCain,
It shows lack of leadership. He told the GOP he didn't want go this route.

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This commercial is evidence that race in America is not fully understand.

John McCain has known for a long time that this campaign is his last, and that he's going to lose. This is obvious because he has made (generally) honorable personal decisions NOT to stoop to this level. Essentially, he wants to run a campaign that can be remembered as honorable and decent. He knows that if it's remembered as dirty and below-the-belt, then it will taint his record. Unfortunately for him, there are so many RNC-funded Trust-PACs and Swift-Boat groups out there that, frankly, neither he nor anyone else has the ability to control. It's sad that these people have such indecency to ruin a man's legacy in order to further their own divisive goals. Obama will make a good President, and America will be better for it. You can't propaganda that away.

I voted for Obama, I contributed to his campaign and volunteered for him, but I, too, am worried. I believe strongly that the country is best off with two centrist parties, and right now we have one center-left party and, after the coming Republican shake out, one collection of right-ring nut jobs. Let us hope that the Republicans re-group as a secular center-right party, and shed the mud-slingers, fear mongers, and bible thumpers.