Dean on NC ad: "This is a test of leadership for John McCain."

[madfloridian]

Howard Dean gets involved in NC Obama ad.

Dean says NC ad is a test of leadership for McCain

"This is a test of leadership for John McCain. If he can't pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq?" Dean said in a statement just emailed over by the DNC. "If he is serious, he will get this ad pulled."

McCain again calls for it to be stopped.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/23/for-mccain-rev-wright-is-off-limits/

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.”

Of course he can get the ad pulled if he wants to do so. Dean is right, it goes to leadership. They are playing games with us.

One good thing:

Raleigh station rejects attack ad

At least one North Carolina TV station is refusing to air the N.C. Republican Party's ad about Sen. Barack Obama's former minister. A spokesman for WRAL-TV in Raleigh said the station will not show the ad. A spokesman for another Triangle station, WTVD, said it had not been asked to air the ad but would have reservations about doing so.

The ad points out that Democratic gubernatorial candidates Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore have endorsed Obama. It calls Obama too "extreme" because of his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and implies that Obama heard Wright's controversial sermons.

The state GOP made a splash Wednesday when it rolled out the ad for reporters and the public. The Republican National Committee and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain have condemned the ad.

Meanwhile, national Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said McCain should lead his party in protesting the ad.

In an e-mail message to supporters, Dean said if McCain were serious he should have no problem making sure the ad never runs.

Only one person not heard from yet. Hillary Clinton's campaign had no comment.

[Triana]

1. "Hillary Clinton's campaign had no comment."

What a surprise. :sarcasm:

[SunsetDreams]

3. makes me suspect she is

behind it...sorry but that's just the way it seems. She injected Wright after it had calmed, after refusing to comment for a few weeks. I know, I know, she was asked a question she says, but she could have refused to comment again, like she did so many times before.

Who benefits from this being aired right now the most? Hillary Clinton.

[redstate_democrat]

2. McCain has Absolutely NO PULL with the RNC

They just run over his ass. How are we to expect him to be able to LEAD anyone if he can't even get members of his own party, a party he is supposed to be leading, to stop running a stupid 30 second ad? He is a JOKE! They have essentially told him to fuck off, kick a can, jump off a bridge, and to get lost. But, But, But this is a WAR VETERAN. He is a POW and we all must BOW DOWN TO HIS GREATNESS.

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HIS OWN FUCKING PARTY DOESN'T EVEN RESPECT HIM AND HE IS THEIR NOMINEE! WHAT A MAJOR JOKE!

[madfloridian]

4. Agreed.

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Hillary's campaign has no comment.

Go Dean, but what's up with Clinton campaign on this?


Nevermind.

[madfloridian]

6. It's very good for Hillary for the GOP to attack Obama.

She did not get Murdoch and Scaife on her side for nothing.

[madfloridian]

7. Kick

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