Fox News reports:
Sen. McCain said Monday that he refuses to play “referee” as state and local Republicans continue to use the Jeremiah Wright issue in their races across the country.It's going to be difficult for the MSM to understand that not everyone thinks like Barack Obama or Bernie Sanders or the editorial page of the New York Times.
“I am not going to be a referee. I have made my position very clear on this issue. And that I do not believe that Senator Obama shares Reverend Wright’s extremist statements or views,” McCain said a media availability after a health care round table. “I’ll make my position very clear and then I’ll run my campaign on health care challenges, on all of the great challenges we face, including the economic difficulties we are facing today, the challenges of a recession and providing available and affordable health care to all Americans.”
The latest controversy comes out of a local Mississippi congressional runoff race, where Republican Greg Davis is hitting his Democratic opponent Travis Childers with a new ad invoking Wright. (video above)
“When Obama’s pastor cursed America, blaming us for 9/11, Childers said nothing,” the ad blares. “He took Obama’s endorsement over our conservative values. Conservatives just can’t trust Travis Childers.”
The newest ad comes less than a week after the North Carolina Republican Party announced that it intends to release a spot using controversial Wright statements in order to attack Democratic candidates in the state. McCain repeatedly repudiated the ad last week, but the state party still intends to air the ad this week.
