Barack Obama,  Jeremiah Wright,  John McCain,  President 2008

John McCain Watch: “Banking” on Jeremiah Wright

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The North Carolina GOP ad featuring Jeremiah Wright Flap is a “bank shot on top of a bank shot.”

Obama’s relationship to Wright is relevant to his judgment, character, and — in his explanations of what he knew and when about Wright — his honesty. Are we to ignore all this because Wright is black? Are only videos of white pastors damning America fit for airwaves? It’s not Wright’s race that matters, but his racist and anti-American rantings.

We understand McCain’s desire to steer well clear of any racial foul-play, but there’s none in the ad and he’s foolish to be pushed into the position of speech cop for every other Republican in the country. It’s unclear what McCain’s principled standard for criticism of Obama is. The Illinois senator has a closer relationship to Wright than former terrorist William Ayers, but McCain has seen fit to condemn the latter association.

From now until November, any Republican criticizing Wright will be accused of playing the race card. It’s a way to shut down discussion of Wright’s poisonous worldview, and of what it says about Obama. These rules stack the deck and stifle legitimate debate. Republicans must reject them.

Is McCain afraid of taking on Obama’s religious mentor Jeremiah Wright BECAUSE Wright is black?

Why did McCain jump all over Flap’s friend Soren Dayton for merely twittering a link to a Jeremiah Wright video but yesterday went directly after William Ayers?

Please…….