McCain and GOP differ on Wright
The Washington Times reports that John McCain and the GOP are battling over how much the Jeremiah Wright pertains to the race for the presidency;
Mr. McCain has grown increasingly infuriated by the North Carolina Republican Party’s decision to run a television ad next week in advance of the state’s May 6 primary calling Mr. Obama “too extreme” because of his connection to Mr. Wright. The ad includes a clip of one of Mr. Wright’s sermons in which he calls on God to condemn America.
Yesterday, after his campaign spent two days trying to persuade the state party’s chairman to cancel the ad, Mr. McCain’s anger boiled over.
“The Republican Party of the state of North Carolina is dead wrong,” he said on CBS’ “The Early Show.” “I’ll do everything in my power to make sure not only they stop it, but that kind of leadership is rejected.”
Although I agree that Wright’s extremist rants are a legitimate reason to vote against Obama, and I agree that Americans should know about this man that has influenced Obama’s poltics and views over the last 20 years, I also think that McCain is right. While we should all be discussing this horrid man and his potentially dangerous views, I don’t think it’s something a Presidential campaign should have as it’s focus.
Let Clinton and Obama roll around in the mud while the Republicans stay above that intramural fray. The media should be asking questions – that’s their job. But lately all the media do is print campaign fliers from the Democrats – especially Obama – as if that’s all we need to know.
McCain shouldn’t have to lower himself to level of the Democrats and the media should do their job – instead of manufacturing stories about McCain’s affairs and whether his birth in Panama should disqualify him as president.
