Obama-Wright ad goes up in Missouri
A new TV attack ad from a GOP political group wades into territory the campaign of Sen. John McCain has mostly avoided thus far; it’s up at the 11th hour on Missouri TV.
The ad from the National Republican Trust PAC replays footage of Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright who became the subject of controversy this past spring when some inflammatory excerpts of his sermons lit up the blogosphere and news media, in particularly cable.
Wright’s controversial views on the racial divide in this country — and his now famous “God Damn America” quote — caused Obama trouble enough that the senator severed his ties to his minister of some 20 years.
Obama responded to Wright’s sermons with an acclaimed speech on the subject of race and cultural tension in America. The issue mostly died away as failed to gain permanent hold with Democratic primary voters.
It’s not clear yet how long it’s been up in Missouri, but I’ve seen it on cable at this hour. The group is only about a month old and has claimed a $2.5 million ad buy in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida. Now, it’s airing here, too.
I have yet to hear an Obama response, but at least some political analysts seem to think the ad is too little, too late. Evan Tracey, of the Campaign Media Analysis Group, told the Washington Post that he doubts the Wright ad will resonate.
“This stuff is too little to land a real punch, and probably would be even if they had put $10 million behind it,” Tracey said. “The problem for them was that the Wright card was played by the Clinton campaign. People have already digested that issue. If they wanted to use the Wright angle successfully, it probably needed to be a slow steady diet of ads from September to Election Day.”
The Wright ad is embedded below. Will it make a difference now? Does it matter?
I would find it surprising that Americans would care much about Obama going to church over 500 times to listen to a racist. Heck, most American’s already thought that “God Bless America” was replaced with “God D*mn America”
To you Obama supporters who support Israel, is there anything about Reverend Wright’s church(where Obama spent 20 years mind you, yes 20 years, yes you heard that again 20 years) which would lead you in any way to believe such a church was pro Israeli?
And what is Obama doing at a dinner honoring Rashid Khalidi(former PLO spokesman) anyway?
Doesn’t the LA Times suppression of the damaging Obama/Khalidi video make you suspicious?
DrillNow: Rashid Khalidi would like to thank John McCain for giving him and his organizations $500,000, which no doubt went to good use by the PLO. Please be sure to share that information with supporters of Israel.
If it’s such an effective ad, why wait until the polls open to run it?
Rev. Wright has one sermon were he says “God Damn America” and apparently it last for 20 years…Only white rural Republicans would find themselves incapable of understanding why the black community might feel some damnation for America’s history.
I’ll bet DrizzleNow couldn’t find Israel on a globe and probably hates foreigners as a general rule. Did you know that people of Israel are predominently Jewish? How’s that grab ya? Thank you, HRC, for making Jeremiah Wright a distant memory at this point. Death throes. ‘Nuff said.
Penelope / Garrison
You don’t really think Wright will be going away, do you?
Obama owns the Rev’d Wright issue and it will be following him f’ever & ever.
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BobZ: If Obama owns the Rev. Wright issue, then McCain owns the Hagee issue, Palin owns the Muthee issue, ad infinitum. The guilt by association game failed. Republicans for years have associated themselves with extremist right-wing Dominionist and Reconstrucionist Christian cultists who have used the same language, if not worse, and have additionally called for the death of Catholics and others who do not conform to their view of the gospel. If Rev. Wright ruffled some feathers, that is nothing compared to the associations of some of these Republican operatives.
It’s amazing, isn’t it? A message of change on the issues is resonating with voters, and no amount of personal attacks and demonization seem to make a dent in that.
Let’s see this ad states that Senator Obama attended this church for 20 years.
So let’s say that Rev. Wright gave sermons 3 Sundays out of every month, that would average about 40 per year for a total of 800 sermons given over a period of 20 years.
Thus far the only one they have found where he is saying this is 1 sermon, or expressed as a fraction 1/800th of his total sermon output.
Here is the thing, if Rev. Wright had said this every Sunday, he would not have had a United Church of Christ congregation as long as he did. Oh, wait a minute, those running this ad really don’t care about facts, they just want to keep on creating fear.
Oh, one more thing, especially for Karl Rove’s lackeys, from Wikipedia about Jeremiah Wright:
” In 1961 Wright left college and joined the United States Marine Corps and became part of the 2nd Marine Division attaining the rank of private first class.
In 1963, after two years of service, Wright joined the United States Navy and entered the Corpsman School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.[12][7] Wright was then trained as a cardiopulmonary technician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Wright was assigned as part of the medical team charged with care of President Lyndon B. Johnson (see photo of Wright caring for Johnson after his 1966 surgery). Before leaving the position in 1967, the White House Physician, Vice Admiral Burkley, personally wrote Wright a letter of thanks on behalf of the United States President.[13][14][15]”
How many of you can say that you served your country as well? Karl? Dick? Grover? Sean?