McCain Aide Suspended For Pushing Racially-Charged Wright/Obama Video Questioning Obama's Patriotism

[jefferson_dem]

McCain Aide Suspended For Actively Pushing Racially-Charged Wright/Obama Video Questioning Obama's Patriotism
By Greg Sargent - March 20, 2008, 2:25PM

A McCain campaign aide actively pushed an incendiary, racially-charged video that uses the controversial words of Barack Obama's pastor to tar Obama as unpatriotic -- despite the fact that McCain himself has suggested that Obama shouldn't be held accountable for Wright's views.

The aide, Soren Dayton, has been suspended from the campaign, a McCain spokesperson, Jill Hazelbaker, confimed to me.

The move by McCain's aide could create controversy for the McCain camp, because the video itself is thoroughly reprehensible -- it interweaves footage of Obama explaining why he won't wear the American flag pin, Wright saying "God damn America," Malcolm X, Obama's wife saying that his candidacy has made him proud of America for the "first time," and the Black Power salute at the Mexico City Olympics.

That McCain's campaign aide spread this runs directly counter to what McCain himself has said about the Wright controversy. He suggested in a recent interview that Obama shouldn't be held liable for his pastor's views, and a top aide to McCain, Charlie Black, also recently suggested that McCain didn't believe in trafficking in such stuff.

Dayton posted the following on his own page at Twitter, a blog-hosting site..



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[Kokonoe]

1. I guess if Hillary wins and does McCain's dirty work

I will vote for him? NOT :puke: Nice work though.

[gateley]

2. SUSPENDED? Until when?

'Til this all is forgotten when the next wave of ugly campaigning washes ashore?

Why not fired?

[Ysabel]

4. good question... (n/t)

[Blue State Bandit]

3. Wow! McCain acts more responsible....

than Clinton.

But the audience now is as much the Democratic superdelegates, who are especially attuned to politics and questions of electability in the fall, as it is rank-and-file voters.

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Wright would doom their party in the general election.

That argument could be Mrs. Clinton’s last hope for winning this contest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206039698-nq+oyAHtEdDZKg0gS6ggRg

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. you're disgusting...supporting McCain above a Dem!

how does it feel?

[Blue State Bandit]

10. Are you kidding me?

Please....

[Ysabel]

5. k and r (n/t)...

[Cha]

6. mccain has hilary doin' his dirty work..he can

afford to "suspend" someone from his campaign.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

7. And the MSM are currently gushing over Grandpa McWarhero for being such a mensch.

:eyes:

[Mz Pip]

8. When is Hillary

going to suspend Lanny Davis?

Fat chance.

[jefferson_dem]

11. No chance. Hillary is a "smear monger."

:thumbsdown: to her.