George Bush is John McCain's Rev. Wright
After a week of the media flogging the Wright story as hard as they possibly could, you'd think that the number one worry that concerned voters was Obama’s relationship with his former pastor, right? It’s a reasonable guess to make, but boy would you be so totally wrong.
A new NBC/WSJ poll has been released asking which of the candidates liabilities they were most concerned about.
Nope, neither Obama’s relationship with Wright nor with the former Weather Underground buddy made the top of the list...instead finishing a paltry fourth place among chief concerns from voters. What made the top of the list?
John McCain’s close alignment with President George W. Bush.
From MSNBC: "....according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the bigger problem appears to be John McCain's ties to President Bush.
In the survey, 43 percent of registered voters say they have major concerns that McCain is too closely aligned with the current administration.
By comparison:
36 percent have major concerns that Clinton seems to change her position on some issues (like driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and the North American Free Trade Agreement, which her husband signed but which she now opposes)
36 percent have major concerns that Clinton seems to change her position on some issues (like driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and the North American Free Trade Agreement, which her husband signed but which she now opposes)
34 percent say they’re bothered by Obama’s “bitter” remarks
32 percent have a major problem with the Illinois senator’s past associations with Wright and the 1960's radical William Ayers
27 percent have serious concerns that Bill Clinton would have too much influence on U.S. policy decisions if his wife is elected"
Pat Buchanan said on MSNBC that if President Bush is more unpopular than Rev. Wright, the Republicans are in a lot of trouble.
It's worth noting that the polling for this ended on Monday, before Obama's public denouncement of Wright.
I've thought all along that voters who cite Wright as a problem are voters who didn't like Obama in the first place. There was, perhaps, some doubt back in March when the issue first came up. But Obama handled it well in his Philadelphia speech on race...showed how his campaign sooo differs from the views of Wright. Wright's shenanigans last week only confirm those differences.
Let's get some perspective here:
Who cares about a two term president and his party who took your country into a terrible wasteful war which most people think was a bigger foreign policy mistake than Vietnam?
Who cares about a two term president and his party who took your country into a terrible wasteful war which most people think was a bigger foreign policy mistake than Vietnam?
Who cares that the Bushies have molested your constitution, and with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo made the US a global brand and target for torture?
Who cares about the scandal of sub prime mortgages which are causing a wave of recessions across the world? Or the fact that 40 million Americans have no healthcare?
No, no, no...Bush and his party and their catastrophic mismanagement of everything from Iraq to Katrina to tax cuts are unimportant. The public doesn't care about them.
What they really care about is a local preacher in a church in Chicago who said goddam America a couple of times.
NOT.
This is also interesting -- A Media Matters for America review found that since February 27, the date that televangelist John Hagee endorsed John McCain for president, The New York Times and The Washington Post combined have published more than 12 times as many articles mentioning Rev. Wright and Barack Obama as they have mentioning Hagee and McCain.
Remember Rev. John Hagee? The one who says the Catholic church is the Whore of Babylon, and that sin is to blame for Hurricane Katrina?
