DUers rooting for and falling for Wrightgate, John McCain and NEWSMAX thank you. . .

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Fri Mar-14-08 01:42 PM
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DUers rooting for and falling for Wrightgate, John McCain and NEWSMAX thank you. . .

Edited on Fri Mar-14-08 01:47 PM by wndycty

. . .you took the bait. YOU TOOK THE FUCKING BAIT! The timing of this issue which broke A LONG TIME AGO, can be tracked back tot he fact that the McCain campaign was working the story. DUers you fell for hit.

From today's time.com:

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But by raising the bar, the McCain campaign subjects itself to greater scrutiny. So it is notable, as Jon Martin and Teddy Davis have already pointed out, that the campaign included an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal in its packet of morning news clips emailed to reporters.

The article, by Ron Kessler, the editor of the right-wing NewsMax, is a withering (second-degree) attack on Obama for his relationship to the minister Jeremiah Wright. As has been reported before, Wright has criticized America as �the #1 killer in the world,� said the U.S. supported Zionism �shamelessly� and offered praise for Louis Farrakhan. Obama has already distanced himself from these comments and denounced Farrakhan. But Kessler implies nonetheless that Obama is fundamentally tainted person with a �radical record� who is concealing his nefarious beliefs, thanks to a lack of press scrutiny.

Kessler writes:

Mr. Obama obviously would not choose to belong to Mr. Wright's church and seek his advice unless he agreed with at least some of his views. In light of Mr. Wright's perspective, Michelle Obama's comment that she feels proud of America for the first time in her adult life makes perfect sense. Much as most of us would appreciate the symbolism of a black man ascending to the presidency, what we have in Barack Obama is a politician whose closeness to Mr. Wright underscores his radical record.

So the question is this: Does the McCain campaign think Kessler�s article fits into the high standards which it has established? Or did someone on McCain�s staff make an unsupervised mistake at dawn by including this article in an official release?

Time will most certainly tell.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/03/mccain_campaign_treads_delicat.html

McCain camp draws attention to Obama pastorhttp://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0308/McCain_camp_draws_attention_to_Obama_pastor.html

4. McCain Camp Circulates WSJ Clip on Obama's Controversial Pastor:

In its morning email to reporters, the McCain campaign is circulating a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Ronald Kessler in which he writes that Obama's association with controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright raises "legitimate questions" about Obama's fundamental beliefs about his country.

The New York Post's Geoff Earle writes up Obama's controversial pastor under a "9/11 Slur by Obama Rev." header.

Over at NationalReview.com, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that the more Americans hear about Obama's pastor, "the more they're going to have the audacity to look beyond Obama's inspirational milquetoast speeches, probing what makes him tick, what influences him, who advises him, what he believes."

Keying off the Ferraro dust-up, Jennifer Rubin writes for Human Events that it would have been "unimaginable" for McCain to raise the question of whether Obama would have gotten where he is if he were a white male and that the media would have "vilified him had he tried."

"Now he need not do it," she writes. "The issue is out there and will either serve to torpedo Obama's prospects for the nomination or perhaps slowly simmer, possibly creating a backlash against Obama among key swing voters in the general election."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1