2008 Presidential Election Scandal: McCain Attacks Barack Obama For Rev. Wright Issue
2008 Presidential Election Scandal: McCain Attacks Barack Obama For Rev. Wright Issue
Here’s a new angle from McCain, at an avail today, at which he said, more or less, that he didn’t plan to attack Obama on Wright, but that Obama — by calling the question “legitimate” — had legitimized it.
It’s a move either clever, or too cute, depending on how you see it — but it’ll serve to keep the story in the news, and to signal surrogates that it’s more than fair game.
He’s also showed a detailed knowledge of the story.
I’ve stated my position very clearly that I don’t like the ad. I was interested that this morning Senator Obama said that it was a legitimate political issue. If he believes that, then it will probably be a political issue. I saw yesterday some additional comments that have been revealed by Pastor Wright, one of them comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior. I mean being involved in that — it’s beyond belief. And then of course saying that Al Qaeda and the American Flag were the same flags.
So I can understand — I can understand why the American people are upset about this. I can understand that Americans viewing these kinds of comments are angry and upset, just like they viewed Senator Obama’s statements about why people turn to their faith and their values. He believes that it’s out of economic concerns, when we all know that it’s out of fundamental belief, fundamental faith in this country and its values and its principles. Again, Senator Obama is out of touch. I can’t control and will not in the future control. I will voice my opinion and I will continue to think and to say that I think that ad should not be run. But I won’t continue to try to be the referee here
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Watching Wright now and I’m appalled. He had me at the beginning; I was really feeling a lot of respect for him, but then it all changed.
“Comparing African-American children to European-American children is like comparing apples to…rocks”???
I can only imagine the outcry should that statement have been reversed and someone had compared African-American children to rocks.
African-Americans are right-brained and “European-Americans” left-brained? Sorry, the statistics simply don’t support that.
Further, though he claimed to describe difference rather than superiority/inferiority there was a great deal of mockery of white people. And this Irish-American wasn’t amused by his ‘joke’ that maybe Irish-Americans do have a disease.
He knew his speech was being aired live on national television and yet his racism came through loud and clear. Very, very sad.
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