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New York Times Columnist Lobbies McCain-Palin to Make Rev Wright a Central Issue of the Campaign
What do readers think about Bill Kristol using his New York Times column to rekindle the Reverend Wright "issue"?
On Sept 28, Kristol, describing how McCain might turn things around, suggested this:
Obama is, by contrast, a garden-variety liberal. He also has radical associates in his past.
The most famous of these is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and I wonder if Obama may have inadvertently set the stage for the McCain team to reintroduce him to the American public.
In his column today, he reports saying the following to Sarah Palin:
I pointed out that Obama surely had a closer connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than to Ayers — and so, I asked, if Ayers is a legitimate issue, what about Reverend Wright?
Kristol seems to be using his New York Times column as a way to lobby the McCain-Palin campaign to adopt a strategy of character destruction that plays, in part, on racist fears. Of course the NYT's article on Ayers last week fit nicely with Kristol's crusade.
Interesting, isn't it, to see the "liberal" NYT operating this way? Maybe there's a reason Sarah Palin now thinks the NYT "is hardly ever wrong."
Comments (3)
I hope you read Kristol in print. If you read online, your click rewards the Times for paying the idiot. And please send no letters referring to his columns.
October 6, 2008 8:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kristol is one of those "stupid" Republicans who have dominated American politics from Reagan right throught Clinton (Telecom Act of 1997, Welfare Reform) until now.
After 28 years of reactionary domestic policy, the Republicans may lose this election, but it won't be because the Democrats nominated a preppie con-man from Hawaii.
Obama is clueless about everything except telling everybody what they want to hear, but the financial meltdown washed out McCain's last chance, and most of the Republican A-Team has already given up.
Kristol is just whistling in the dark.
October 6, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh please please please, McCain camp, start taking advice from Bill Kristol!
October 6, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
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