I think that McCain needs to remember who he has courted in the past.
Parsley and others that have made racist comments.
He needs to hold out unless he wants it back.
Maybe his message is wise in asking not to air the commercial hoping for a truce.

Hagee would be another.

If John McCain does not understand the political playing field, and what the Democrats are capable of, he should not be in a national race. This video
is mild compared to what is yet to come.

I believe that Obama is be the Dem. candidate and he will run a rough campaign. We are not in a gentleman's club or going to the cotillion this is
win or lose. I fully support taking a look at Rev. Wright. "Water seeks its own level".

If anyone thought the Rev. Wright controversy was going to go away, they were fooling themselves.
I don't care what McCain says, Republicans are itching for a chance to air Obama's laundry. The voters can expect more of, not less of this subject's importance to the voters wanting to know a candidate fully, and don't truly feel they do as-of-yet.
Exactly the reason I wondered why Obama didn't consider the consquences of not addressing this for years.
He wanted to run for president, this is part of what comes because of it. No one comes out of this process without bumps and bruises. Some are caused by your own 'boneheaded-ness".

Any one who really cares about these issues should listen to the entire Wright sermons from which the Fox News soundbites were taken. They are not what you have been led to believe,

McCain doesn't have to worry about courting racist. Courting racist is how Republicans took back the White House. Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia MISSISSIPPI.

Racist are the Republicans base.

MaCain appears not to have the stomach to go after potential hot botton issues, like black racism. To win, the Republicans need a Patton, not a wimp.

Whatever James, that jim crow talk is dead dead dead, folks just tryjng to pay bills and get America back on track with jobs and the economy, that black white argument is tired, get a life.

I was a McCain campaign donor -- NO MORE! I went online and donated to the NC GOP. He was harder on Mitt Romney and other republicans than he is on Obama and Hillary. He makes me sick. I helped Bush get elected in 2000 and 2004, but McCain won't get my organization. He owes NC GOP an apology. HE is out of touch with how people feel about Obama, his pastors, and the democrats who have endorsed Obama's view of small town America.

I think that Lynette nailed it referring to the issues that are important to Ameriacans. Onr thing that Obama has alreay accomplished, much to the relief of Americans all over the map, is that he has given us a way out of this racial go-round and guilt.

Trying to turn back the clock conjures up images of Pat Buchanan's lonely Mississippi photo op in a confederat grave yard during a time when the people in that area were trying to court a large international manufacturing facility and trying to projrct a progressive image of its workforce so that they could get some decent jobs and better schools and hospitals.

When John McCain won the nomination I was willing to say, "Okay, he wasn't my first choice, but now he is our nominee and he is, after all, a national hero; so lets get behind him and win this thing." But his disgraceful pandering in the ninth ward of New orleans, without a word about the abject incompetence of DEMOCRAT state and local government, kicking George Bush when he is down for what, nobody there is going to vote for him anyway; and his attack on my home state party chair is just too much to take sitting down. The Democrats are trying to hand us this election on a silver platter, and McCain is going around dissing his own party. Why doesn't he just drop all the pretense and run as an Independent with Lieberman?
If it weren't for Barak the Weasel I might sit this election out. McCain and his RNC are getting none of my money.

Fellow Republicans: Calm down, things are not as bad as they seem. This is the winter of our discontent, Nov 2nd will be the spring. What I mean is everything seems bad now, but our fundamentals are strong. McCain is a candidate who appeals broadly to many Americans, and his opposition to this ad helps him with black voters. That means he's more likely to win, and less likely that far-left demagogues like Obama or far-left power brokers like Hillary will win.

McCain is doing his part, back him up.
Jason

The Dems have their dream candidate: John McCain. Expect to see someone being dragged behind a pick up truck in the coming Dem commercials.

Hey "Corruption",

Has McCain been attending Hagee's church for 20 years? Has he been taking his children into Hagee's church on a regular basis to hear his crap? Has he termed Hagee as "his spiritual mentor"?

Hopefully, you get my point.

There are some real idiots in this thread. Can't you morons see what McCain is doing? He takes the high road, appealing to the independents in the middle who are turned off by hyper-partisan politics, knowing full well that the North Carolina GOP and other local and state party organizations are going to play the Wright story to the hilt. So get your heads out of your a**es and drop this righteous indignation bit, OK?

I have so many negative comments about Senator McCain, it is almost impossible to know where to begin.

We Republicans and especially conservatives have been given a choice of three democrats. It was the media who picked McCain. They figured that regardless of which one of the candidates won the election, Democrats could live with McCain.

My husband, a former F4-phantom fighter pilot, and I watched the Senate hearings on MIA's where McCain had the wives and mothers in tears, calling them dupes because there were no more MIA's in Vietnam according to his information - and how would he know? Just where did he get this information? From the North Vietnamese government? These are the same wives and mothers who worked so hard to get McCain released and he betrayed them. Senator Bob Smith said that relations with Vietnam should not take place UNTIL all MIA's were accounted for. Nevertheless, McCain, along with Kerry, succeeded in normalizing relations with Vietnam. When the PM of Vietnam came to Washington, McCain gave him a big bear hug. This is the same guy who ordered the torture and exeuction of our POW's.

And let's not forget that at one time, McCain thought of leaving the Republican party and that John Kerry had considered having McCain as his running made.

What does it tell you about the character of a man who abandons his wife of 22 years after she had been disfigured in an automobile accident in order to marry his Stepford wife?

How many people know of McCain's connection to the Kosovo Liberation Army? Please see, "McCain's connection to the KLA," at:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j022500.html It was Washington Times own Jerry Seper who wrote of the KLA's connection to Osama bin Laden in 1999.

I have no choice but to go to the polls holding my nose and voting once again for the lesser of two evils, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. The worst mistake President Reagan made was to take George Bush Senior as his VP. However, in this case, McCain will be responsible for the Republican party as we know it should be - and this is tragic.

What I have written about McCain is merely the tip of the iceberg.

Either way McCain has a problem - either he's giving out a whiff of hypocrisy by pretending not to want the Obama attack to happen while not really trying toooo hard to stop it OR he does not have control over his own party and, if elected will be just another neocon puppet (admittedly a little more difficult to manage than George !)

I have been a Republican Precinct Chairman for 16 years and have been a delegate to the state convention three times. I am so disgusted with John McCain that I am seriously thinking about voting a third party. I only wish there was some way that we could dump McCain as the nominee. He will not win against Obama as he has so angered his base or does not care that he will lose in a landslide.

I hope the NC GOP continues the work of connecting the dots (remember that phrase?) about Obama. His voting record, his ties to disreputable radicals, his occasional gaffes and his wife's periodic slips all together tell us that he is an extremist in disguise. Very little about his real agenda has come to light because of his "Hope" smokescreen and the media's collaboration. Thankyou NCGOP!

I'm still waiting for McCain to switch parties. What a pathetic wimp. He only has disdain for conservatives.

The KKK a domestic terrorist organization backs the GOP candidates and FOP candidates each year and never a peep.

Lets face it, McCain is 72 years old and has served 30 years in the Senate. I don't think he really cares one way or the other, whether he'll become the next president. He is where he is, because, the GOP didn't have any credible candidates to run with. He's a liberal, pro open border, politician, who would just love to be credited with the destruction of the conservative base of his party. His Jackal and Hyde personality, his fits of intense anger, is not an attribute we would want to have in the person we elect for president. Bottom line is, I think McCain is a potentially dangerous politician who doesn't give a crap about the constitution.

McCain doesn't get it and he needs to stay out of local matters. This is mild compared to what the DEMS are going to do to him. There is nothing wrong with this ad. It's the truth and if McCain thinks that he has a solid base..well he's wrong. McCain will only get the conservative vote because we/they will not vote for Obama or Hill. McCain is walking on thin ice and he's lucky to be where he is. McCain only got 23% of the Republican vote to get where he is...he better be thankful.

He will get my vote for only a 4 yr term..NO more.

I was a Reagan Democrat, then I converted to Republican. What has happened to the GOP! Hastert defended Jefferson, and wouldn't allow FBI to investigate the $90,000 in his freezer. Now McCain is giving the NC RNC Chair a ration of crap about telling the truth about OBAMA!
Romney was our last best hope of pulling us out of all this Socialism. I hope Romney doesn't accept the VP! He doesn't need to go down with McCain's Ship! There are no good choices in this race.