McCain Campaign Walks A Fine Line On Obama Attacks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_el_pr/obama_jewish_voters

So Obama gets his free pass from the press, as early as March?

Interesting.

I guess we never should have expected him to truly disassociate himself from Carter, Zbiggy, Dean, Berzerkley, the New Schoolers, and Rev Wright, given his stating Present on so many floor votes.

Wouldn't want to ruffle any feathers.

Bill Clinton must be so proud.

Does the McCain campaign think Kessler’s article fits into the high standards which it has established?

I think it's clear that McCain will accept any and all help he can get. He's already made it plain that he will gladly make peace the with extreme end of the Party because they are the ones who's hostilty toward him presents the biggest challenge.

Having said that, I will note that the WSJ article wasn't as bad as I anticipated before I clicked through. Yes, it contained bold lies about the candidate's associations to the minister viewpoint but it did less mischaracterization of the minister's views themselves than I expected.

The sad thing about it all is the one thing the Rev. Wright's sermons and Kesller's article have in common is that they both take advantage of fear and mistrust in order to advance the writer's agenda at the expense of the audience.

"...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..."

Distancing.

The new DNC national defense plan for 2008.

Well, after sequencing anyway.

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MS: Three weeks ago, John McCain took a strong public stand against those of his allies who would attack Barack Obama for his middle name.

Given McCain's rather long list of changes in positions, it's not suprising to see that McCain's position on running a clean campaign is 'evolving' by citing what amounts to a right-wing press release in the - suprise! - Wall Street Journal op-ed pages...And you thought the WSJ opinion pages were bad enough before Rupert Murdoch purchased the paper...

Welcome to my world everybody.

As I have writtten about before, I live in a conservative area of Georgia amongst what I would describe as 'otherwise intelligent people'. These people own companies or work within companies at a high level, raise and love their children, are good and thoughtful neighbors, and they believe the most atrocious, specious, spurious lies that I could possibly imagine.

At first it was that he was a Muslim. No, I said, he is not. He belongs to a Christian Church.

Then it was that he went to a radical and scary sounding madrassa. No, I said, 'madrassa' just means 'school' - it was not radical and he only went there because he could not afford the international schools. And he transferred to a Christian school after a couple of years.

Now, it is that he is a scary Black Separatist! *Sigh*, I say, it is not as bad as it sounds and there are plenty of other community-minded congregations out there.

But, see, here is the thing:

Michael Scherer - I am doing all of this work on my own. There is very little direct refutation of the lies and misinformation that the right-wing injects into the political discourse. The reason for this is because nobody is aware of it until it pops up in the odious WSJ op/ed page. FoxNews, AM radio, direct mail, email campaigns and evangelical pulpits seem to be able to get away with manufacturing ignorance without any notice until the national media reads some poll and then scratches its collective head and wonders why America believes such things. And then they feel the need to treat that belief as reasonable because of some sense of fairness or disinclination towards decreasing their ratings.

So, it is up to you, Michael, to correct this situation. Do it directly and, since we are trying to communicate with conservatives, use small words.

Another angle on this entire episode is that it highlights the wisdom of removing discussion of one's faith from the public arena. Dems feel that they need to be more open to doing that but it only leaves them vulnerable to the outrageous and completely subjective claims by people who base their faith on their ability to negatively judge others. We see this now with Obama and we saw it in 2004 with Kerry and his Catholicism. It is outrageous and it is wrong and it is only coming from one side.

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.

Here we go...they're dog-whistling the conservative Jewish community.

Hillary Clinton had better not try to exploit this beyond her debate remarks...

I had meant to include this in my post but forgot:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/3/123511/6578

This diary provides an excellent example of what I am seeing around me everyday.

"...Here we go...they're dog-whistling the conservative Jewish community..."

Minus Booby Wexler, Florida's ANSWER to Mrs. Yasser Arafat.

It IS a wonder they let that dim dolt anywhere near an AIPAC meeting, or Holocaust memorial, given his SURRENDER IRAQ AT ALL COSTS crapola.

Oh well.

JIMMY CARTER HAPPENS.

Wright has criticized America as “the #1 killer in the world,” said the U.S. supported Zionism “shamelessly” and offered praise for Louis Farrakhan

You know, I don't want to be difficult, but isn't the US the #1 killer in the world?

And doesn't the US proudly support Israel, the zionist right wing of the country, at that?

Michael,

What McCain really needs to do, if he is serious about this, is stand up and denounce the email campaigns that are going on under the radar.

But I don't think he's serious. The campaign WILL be about Obama's race. That's all they got.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_el_pr/obama_jewish_voters

This should be archival material for any fence sitting voter, about Obama's HUGE problems with his very near past -- if not his present "mixed" staff of "diverse" (i.e., PLO sycophants weened on self-loathing PBS pablum) lifer lefty occupants.

Question for Zechonium: If YOUR rabbi/pastor/father got all up into it in the church weekly about the Joy of Farrakhan, how many milliseconds would it take you, to get you & yours the hell out of that bigot's back yard? Faster than a speeding Spitzer, perhaps?

Obama sat on his hands, for YEARS, while the AIPACphobic left loon Wright went on & on, blaming all but himself for whatever evil he projected from the pulpit.

The dolts at Time-CNN-Jazeera revert to their knee jerk lefty penchant for seeing The Vast Right Winn-Dixie Conspiracy at work here (again), which is their daily dilemma and the national reason nobody really pays much attention to the major media anymore, aside from the usual gaggle of Poynter heads.

Obama's history and legal hair splitting IS fair game.

Even sad, flailing Hillary knows that. If not sister Michelle.

Oh well.

JAN WENNER HAPPENS.

"...isn't the US the #1 killer in the world?"

When you count liberal late term abortions?

Very likely.

Lacking that, we FEED about half the globe, while protecting the same or greater percentage.

But we can always cut off the wheat and rice and corn exports for your hemp-fueled laptop power, I suppose.

NewsMax is a bottom of the barrel, conspiracy theory website. I don't care if McCain now claims that the article was sent out "by mistake." Just further proof that McCain is just another dirty politician willing to stoop to any slimy depth to get elected.

Further proof: McCain's claim today that Al Qaeda is going to make the violence in Iraq ramp up to prevent him from becoming prez. It's sad seeing the old man sink that much further into delusion.

No, not even close if you count late term abortions. The annual third trimester abortion rate is equal to about the weekly Iraqi death toll, at around a thousand.

US food exports are not exactly welcome, either. That issue, OECD farm subsidies, shut down the Doha round of the WTO.

But it's good to see Obamish making policy comments.

The Jeremiah Wright to-do has a get-me-to-my-fainting-couch whiff to it. I rather doubt anyone cares what Obama's pastor says, and to the extent they do, there's really no grounds for attacking what he said, especially when you consider the audience, who the U.S. imprisons at a rate of 1 in 15 (1 in 9 if you're a black man between 20 and 34). "God damn the United States" is a pretty widely-held sentiment these days. This only matters to 1) those who think black people are scary to begin with and 2) the white bourgeois press.

The short-sighted Arabs, Ruskies, and Red Chinese will do everything they can to help jack up oil prices and lower the dollar, between now and election day.

Should McCain win?

Allah help them, because he sure as hell won't.

If we get either of the DNC dolts, the libs will be rewarded with EXACTLY what they don't want: CHEAP OIL, UP THE WAZOO as another 3rd world tweak at the U.S. conservative majority that lost the trail somewhere between steel subsidies and farm supports.

No matter.

We're in for a good 5 Year Plan of unionized domestic hysteric economic flatwater, followed by Iran perfecting their nukes, Russia re-annexing Eastern Europe, Red China invading Taiwan (hello 2008 Olympiadniks) after the NBC flamers leave Beijing, Pakistan flowing over all borders near and far, and Mexico becoming the 51st state.

While Israel, Jersey, and Jesus burn.

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"...This only matters to 1) those who think black people are scary to begin with and 2) the white bourgeois press..."

SO MUCH FOR THOSE SILLY CO-EDS AT UNC AND AUBURN, EH?

One other thing:

When will anyone in the press call out Keith Osamamired on his spastic, wind driven lane change on Hillary?

He sees the Denver 2008 writing on the unionized truck stop wall perhaps, but IS that any excuse for not taking the Clixons to task YEARS ago, on all things race and class baiting?

Politically correct indeed.

At least Obama tries to distance himself from the guy.

McCain went to speak at Falwell's university despite his comments that 9/11 was caused by liberals, the ACLU, etc getting Giod pissed off at us.

Obama is keeping his crazy uncle in the attic, but republicans are allowed to openly campaign with their crazy religious figures?

Why the media double standard?

"God damn the United States" is a pretty widely-held sentiment these days.

Do you really believe that this is the case, or was this hyperbole?

What RKA said.

Stuart:
Yes, I think that's pretty much in line with what I've been hearing from outside the United States.

"Yes, I think that's pretty much in line with what I've been hearing from outside the United States."

Damn Yankees!

Signed,

Not The Red Sox