McCain Campaign: We Aren’t Going After Obama On Wright Because We’re Afraid Of Being Called Racist
Chalk up a victory to the PC police.
...the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wright’s pastoral care—and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former minister’s more extreme statements—provide an opening to challenge Obama’s judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way.
“He was a central figure in Obama’s life, shaping Obama’s thinking, and he made the extreme radical comments that are borderline anti-American,” the campaign official said.
But McCain will not allow it, according to campaign sources.
“There’s a slippery slope in politics on the racial divide, and Senator McCain made it very clear early on that he did not want to get into that area,” a top Republican official said. “I don’t want to be known as a racist, and McCain doesn’t want to be known as a racist candidate.”
There is nothing racist about focusing on the factual and pertinent associations and political/social allegiances between Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. Not only did Obama attend Wright’s church for twenty years. Not only did Wright baptize Obama’s children and marry him to his wife. Not only did Obama name one of his bestselling books after one of Wright’s sermons, and not only did he describe Wright as a “sounding board” and “spiritual mentor.” Obama also used his political power to funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to a variety of rabid, bigoted movements and organizations associated in various ways with Wright himself.
This has nothing to do with Obama’s race, and everything to do with poor choices he made both in his personal and professional life.
