Charlie Black on McCain & the PA GOP Wright ad: "He can't be the referee of every ad"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Republicans in Pennsylvania brought back the controversial comments of Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., despite McCain's admonition that he should not be used as a political weapon, and the campaign unleashed robo-calls that employed the withering dismissal that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made of Obama's experience when the two were competing against each other in the Democratic primaries.

McCain adviser Charlie Black said his candidate would have preferred that the Pennsylvania GOP not air the ad using Wright's controversial anti-American statements. But "as McCain said back in the spring, he can't be the referee of every ad," Black said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202604.html?hpid=topnews

[Left Is Write]

1. I thought he was The Repudiator.

[FrenchieCat]

2. He can't do shit...that's why he deserves to lose.

If he can't control some Republican operatives, than he won't be able to control a thing as President.

Too bad he doesn't realize this.

But most likely, he doesn't want to.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. He can't select his own Vice President without permission from Karl Rove & James Dobson

I'm sure he got some kind of heads-up about the Wright ad and nodded approval before nodding off.

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. Oh, this is so fucking stupid.

Do they really expect us to believe McCain didn't sign off on this?

[progressivebydesign]

5. So.. the Pennsylvania GOP made a NATIONAL buy??

Cuz that ad is running all over the nation. McCain's campaign is in total disarray. McCain doesn't deserve an ounce of respect after the cesspool he has created with his campaign.

[rebel with a cause]

6. It is running in Missouri and Kentucky.

that I can swear to because I have seen it today every time I watch NBC (Kentucky) or CBS (Missouri). I don't watch ABC (Southern Illinois) that much, so I don't know about it.

[MercutioATC]

7. "I'm John McCain, and I approve of this message"

This verbiage was instituted to differentiate between random peoples' views and the statements of the candidate.

It's a legal stricture. It means that John McCain approves of the message...officially.


Any claims to the contrary are pure bullshit.

[dbmk]

8. That was my first thought as well

He can approve them - but not approve them?

[radfringe]

9. if mccain

and by extension his "staff' can't manage a campaign - how the hell is he going to manage a country?