Up to now, Mr. McCain had largely avoided talking about the incendiary views of Mr. Wright, saying he wanted to run a “respectful” campaign. He has even called on the North Carolina Republican Party to pull an advertisement that focuses on Mr. Wright.
But Mr. McCain took a different approach at a news conference here when he criticized Mr. Wright for, as the senator paraphrased him, “comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior, I mean being involved in that” and for “saying that Al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags.”
“So I can understand, I can understand why people are upset about this,” said Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president. “I can understand why Americans, when viewing these kinds of comments, are angry and upset.”
Mr. McCain said that he did not believe that Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, shared those views and that he was still against the advertisement in North Carolina. But he suggested that Mr. Obama had made the subject fair play by declaring in an interview shown over the weekend on “Fox News Sunday” that questions about Mr. Wright were “a legitimate political issue.”
“If he believes that,” Mr. McCain said, “then it will probably be a political issue.”
Pretty inflammable words I must say. And to be sure, if Reverend Wright said those things, fuck him. But here's where the hypocrisy comes in:
The Obama campaign accused Mr. McCain of breaking his promise to run a respectful campaign.
“By sinking to a level that he specifically said he’d avoid,” said an Obama campaign spokesman, Hari Sevugan, “John McCain has broken his word to the American people and rendered hollow his promise of a respectful campaign.”
So, if McCain told his own political party to pull an ad, and Obama says that his pastor is a legit political issue, then how is McCain breaking his word?
This is damage control at the very worst. They have a hot headed, rabidly anti-American guy who's extremely close to Obama and they want to shift the attention away from it. Wright brought up a lot of issues of things we've done "wrong", yet, he doesn't bother to put those into context like he's complaining about with his own words. For example, he brings up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet, he DOESN'T mention the fact we asked the Japanese to surrender several times before the bombing, the fact we were attacked first, and the fact that the bombings killed less then a full scale invasion would have.
He then has the fucking nerve to go onto the news and complain that his words were being out of context.
That's cherry picking your argument and it's bullshit.
Asked about some of the comments after the terrorist attacks, Wright challenged the reporter questioning him.
Well I HAVE heard the whole sermon, and you're simply trying to weasel your way out of your own words.
What REALLY bothers me though is that the New York Times have Wright's word about Marines and Al-Qaeda, but take a look at these stories from other news organizations. Not one of them mention this.
What bothers me also, is that CNN is saying that Wright's speech was "spirited", when in fact is was borderline hate speech.
When am I going to get a news source that tells me the news and doesn't bother to try to slant it one way or another?
Travis
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