Source:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ight-obama-ad/
[quote]Updated The North Carolina Republican Party is planning to roll out a television advertisement on Monday attacking a pair of Democrats running for governor in the state for endorsing Senator Barack Obama by playing a clip of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, excoriating the United States.
The release of the commercial, which Republican officials said would debut during 6 p.m. newscasts in the state on Monday, injects a potentially divisive racial element into the state’s upcoming Democratic presidential primary on May 6. (Our colleague Elisabeth Bumiller, reporting from the campaign trail, tells us that Senator John McCain denounced the ad this morning. He also just issued a letter urging the head of the state G.O.P. not to broadcast the ad. See Mr. McCain’s comments and text of the letter below.)
The advertisement features a narrator intoning, “For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor.”
Then the advertisement cues up the clip that has become infamous at this point of Mr. Wright, who was Mr. Obama’s pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, preaching in 2003 and using an expletive when referring to the United States.
Seems to be working:
Latest North Carolina Polls:
Obama 50, Clinton 41
Earlier in the month, she was losing by 20+
Bye-bye Obama.