North Carolina Republicans pull anti-Obama ad

Source: Reuters

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican Party on Thursday withdrew an advertisement critical of Democrat Barack Obama's links to a controversial preacher, Republican John McCain's campaign said.

McCain senior adviser Charlie Black said he had been informed by the Republican National Committee's representative in North Carolina, that the state party had agreed to withdraw the ad.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2429689820080424

why work when someone else will do it for you?

They want to make sure he gets the nomination first before throwing their stockpile at him.

Obama's people have had success thus far at intimidating broadcasters to play 'fair.' But all gloves are off when the GE comes. When it does, all the whining in the world won't stop the GOP from throwing all they've got at Mister O.

So I guess it's better to just give in to Republican deceit without a fight, like Gore, Lieberman, et al. did in the Senate certification of the 2000 presidential election, like Kerry and Edwards and every liberal senator except Barbara Boxer did in the certification of 2004?

You must secretly like it when Democrats lose.

are using everything they've got against Obama now and it's "fake news" and it's been flashed on the TV over and over and the GOP crowd will be bored with it and won't even listen to it anymore!!!! Hillary hasn't been hit with anything yet because Obama is running such an amazing campaign that he can be so far ahead without out using the smears and "fake news". Hillary even has the far right talk radio and TV "news" channels working in her favor and she still can't catch up with Obama. How is Obama intimidating broadcasters by the way? I wish I knew how to put the little character eating popcorn right here as I hear your response!

:popcorn:

When you hear NC and GOP, remember Jesse Helms. While he is now too feeble to a factor, this is a rather dainty example of what NC politics looks like. The Clintons have been under continuous attack since before 1992; the Edwardses since he ran for Senate in 1997/1998. The email/whisper campaigns are incredibly nasty and use every possible attack: race, money, sexuality, unfounded rumors, doctored photos, anonymous leaflets, dirty tricks, ...

It will be interesting to see just what comes out in the next two weeks.

None of this is being pushed by Clinton. Of course, she might benefit slightly from some episode, but there will be more attacks on her too.

The enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend.

nobody has actually shown the ad, though...

except now the ad will be run for free on TV stations saying: "this is the offending ad."

It is very very unusual not to run paid political ads because of the free speech issues with limiting political speech.

The main target of this ad was not even Obama; it was at the Lt. Gov. Perdue and Treasurer Moore who endorsed Obama and are running for NC Governor and claimed they should have known better. This way, the GOP gets to use Obama against the Dem candidates early and often, even in the unlikely chance that Obama is not our nominee. It also gets to use all the classic NC election themes - race, religion, education -- and even let McCain look like the good guy in all this.

Now the Dem candidates can be asked by the media to respond. Oh joy! Having Rev. Wright dragged into our local races.

BTW Speaking of education, I believe Moore went to graduate school at the London School of Economics while Perdue has a PhD from UFL (geriatric health care?).

..."I believe Moore went to graduate school at the London School of Economics while Perdue has a PhD from UFL (geriatric health care?)."


dammned intellectual elitists! they should all be run out of the country!

Actually, many of our state's leaders have graduated from UNC, either undergrad or JD.

WRAL, or WARL, or something like that.

Those are the two I saw in reports.

BTW WRAL is the station where Jesse Helms was News Director before being elected Senator.

by the NC RNC and I saw every rotten stinking southern bible literalist anal retentive southern women I have ever known who was a conservative tight witch. These good christians are so mean and nasty.
The race card will be played and in a ugly way so be prepared.

Looks like Reuters got it wrong - or some wishful thinking on Charlie Black's part. Reuters site is down just now (7:23 EDT), but here's a link to the NYT story which has in embed of the video of the ad itself. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/nc-republicans-say-the-ad-will-go-on/

The ad is running next week, according to the NC GOP.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/

And what a nasty, ignorant little piece of work she is, by the way.