The ad opens with a photo of Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright together and a clip of Wright, whose incendiary comments about race have bedeviled Obama.“He’s just too extreme for North Carolina,” the narrator says in the 30-second spot. “We asked them not to run it,” McCain told reporters traveling with him in Kentucky. “I’m sending them an e-mail as we speak asking them to take it down.“I don’t know why they do it. Obviously, I don’t control them, but I’m making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it,” McCain said.McCain said the ad was described to him: “I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.”

Michelle Malkin

ARG, I bet the email took longer than watching it would have. Oh well I was pulling for Thompson,…

“God Damn America” eh Obama, O why don’t you ever wear the flag ?

New Orleans, LA — Sen. McCain repeated his demand that the North Carolina Republican party pull a TV ad using statements from Barack Obama’s controversial pastor, calling Thursday for all GOPers in the state to echo his call and repudiate their own leadership.

“I cannot in my role dictate to the North Carolina Republican Party what their message is but I can condemn it,” McCain said during a media availability following his tour of the Lower Ninth Ward. “I can appeal to the overwhelming majority of Republicans in North Carolina who also repudiate that kind of activity and I am calling on them to repudiate the people the small handful of people that have refused to understand that we are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and that party–that Republican Party–there is no room for this kind of activity.”

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/24/mccain-repeats-call-for-nc-gop-to-pull-controversial-ad/

A quote, is a quote, is a quote,

In other news

Why is John McCain pushing tax policies he once opposed?

Back in 2001, Sen. John McCain famously refused to support President Bush’s package of tax cuts. Now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, McCain is marching straight down the party line. The economic package he has laid out embraces many of the tax policies he once decried:

http://redblueamerica.com/topic/2008-04-25/why-john-mccain-pushing-tax-policies-he-once-opposed-3079

The advert, h/t Michelle Malkin

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