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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Didn't McCain ealier this year shy away from attacking Obama and Wright?
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That still seems to be the policy. Palin mentioned it in an interview with Kristol that's in the NY Times today. She said:
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"To tell you the truth, Bill, I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don't know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn't get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up."
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It sounds to me like they're pressuring McCain to let them start bringing it back up, and in my opinion he should let them. It's one of the more inflammatory relationships which Obama had to describe someone who by most standards is pretty out there as his spiritual adviser.
And it's pretty standard for conservative evangelicals to talk about how God isn't going to be happy about the moral decay of our country. Most Americans know that, but very few have had a pastor who yelled conspiracy theories and used the phrase "God damn America!" and if they're going to try to paint Obama as having a history of associating himself with radicals that's one of the associations they can pretty easily use to make their point.