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... is a response ad showing clips of the (many!) various wacko preachers McPalin have "palled around" with. Don't forget the anti-voodoo blessing!

Rev. Wright ads are too late to save McCain. It might slow the bleeding and prevent a landslide, but this is a classic case of too little too late.

Cos we can all unanimously agree

With the mark of McCain

And the right 'ol honorable

Pastor Hagee

Oh wait, let's DO start one. I understand Sarah Palin knows two professional witch hunters.

I suspect Obama will put out the John Hagee ads any day now. Now, that is one radical "preacher."

Maybe Obama will produce one that satirizes "The Godfather" with McCain crawling up to Hagee on his knees while Hagee says in his best Brando voice: "Why did you come to see me?"

I'm sure no one ever heard about this controversy before! The desperation is just so palpable.

The last remaining thread of courage and decency (what there was left of it) has just slipped through the paws of a once effective politician. Good riddance to garbage. Nauseating...

I suppose the McCain campiagn can also add that Hillary Clinton is dangerously to the left of....wait a minute, you mean she's not running anymore? Gosh, when did that happen?

Very good idea already posted here to bring up the whacko preachers whose ankles John McCain was clinging to. Such as the guy who said that Gawd drowned New Orleans because He was mad at the gay guys having a parade. Of course, the French Quarter came through OK, so I guess Gawd's aim is a little off.

But we were told he was a Muslim!

Wright is not that radical. He just isn't.

If you cherry-pick bits and pieces of anyone's speeches, you can find stuff that will seem much worse out of context.

But as far as Wright and his views are concerned, he is merely carrying on an ancient tradition in the Christian Church: Trying to make things better by focusing on the bad. Getting people riled up enough to actually do something.

There are plenty of Old Testament prophets who used this technique. And most of them were reviled for it at the time that they were doing it.

And Wright has a point. The descendants of slaves in this country still get a raw deal. Look at what a big deal is still made when some person is the "first black" anything. Wright has a point.

The white minister in my white church in my predominantly white Republican town gave a sermon last spring detailing why Wright was correct to do what he was doing, and the history he was reliving.

But no real worries here. The only people who will be influenced by this ad were already voting for McCain anyway. Or, actually, they were already voting for Palin anyway.

It's not going to make any difference.

Eat raviolois!

Instead of giving a whole speech on race, Obama could have ended this with one sentence:

I often disagreed with him on politics, but I will always be grateful that Rev. Wright led me to find Jesus.

into the sewer Republicans, don't skate along the edge but dive right into the muck

Note to the Rightist hate mongers: The voters don't care!

When you are out of a job, losing your home and your retirement account will 'almost' cover a meal at Mickery D's the whole Wright Ayers Obama as Black Terrorist thing is white noise

Nothing focuses the mind as wonderfully as the letter from the mortgage company or that e-mail from work...

Ted Stevens guilty on all seven counts.

I wonder who he palled around with?

A dem-produced ad should be immediately released showing:

Limbaugh's racist slam on Powell

Hagee's anti-semitic sermons

Liddy's terrorist rants

. . . and then note that McCain has yet to repudiate any of them.

Brokaw dropped the ball Sunday when he did not press McCain as to whether he "repudiates" Limbaugh's attack on Powell. Frankly, I could care less about whether someone "repudiates" some wacko supporter making outrageous statements, but clearly it's important to McCain, as he harps on it repeatedly.

Obama's numbers go up. Thanks you loosers for trying to fight the primary we already won

"The only people who will be influenced by this ad were already voting for McCain anyway. Or, actually, they were already voting for Palin anyway."

Don't you think that is really the weirdest thing? I keep going back to that Jon Stewart piece where they were interviewing people at a VP debate-watching gathering in a bar in Wasilla and the one guy basically said they were kind of hoping that McCain would just drop dead and then Palin would get to be president. I mean, what does that really say about the republican ticket? How many people that are voting repub are really hoping that McCain dies?

We live in strange times.

No one is surprised by this. Everyone knew they'd resort to it at some point.

But it's pointless -- I'll go out on a limb and say that there's not one voter out there -- not one -- who doesn't know about Jeremiah Wright. The question everyone immediately asks on seeing this so late in the campaign is "why is this suddenly news again?" (The answer: "Because we're losing." "So why are you losing?" "....look, a terrorist!")

So it's just more gimmicks from a losing campaign without any ideas. (That it comes on the day when Obama laid out his "closing argument" just adds to it -- Obama's got an argument, the RNC's got...Jeremiah Wright.)

Also, did anyone notice the the background? The word "Hate" plastered all over it? Once again, the RNC shoots itself in the foot by forgetting that credibility matters. Calling Obama a hate-monger rings false. It's an accusation that only harms the accuser -- it makes them look...batshitty.

The Republicans just don't get it: Negative campaigning is not going to get them out of this mess. At this point its just going to make the Republicans look more desperate and vicious.

McCain said he wasn't going to go there. This ad puts him in the uncomfortable position of explaining another reversal and looking erratic. Reverend Wright is old news. Also, this ad does nothing to address McCain's primary weakness: a lack of message.

God knows why they keep trying to play Obama as the scary black man. Even after this election is over, the Republicans will not outlive the slimy race-baiting reputation they earned this season.