GOP at its Gracious Best

Pennsylvania GOP airs an attack ad featuring Rev. Wright.

House GOP leader calls Obama "chicken shit" for voting present in IL.

A selective quote from an Obama interview is used to make robocalls in coal-producing states.

Nasty push polls are reported in Ohio.

Rightwing Group Distributes DVDs

TPM:

Citizens United, the conservative group headed by notorious Whitewater scandalmonger David Bossie, is distributing hundreds of thousands of DVDs attacking Barack Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers in newspapers in Ohio, Nevada, and Florida this week, a group spokesperson confirms to us.

...We checked in with Citizens United spokesperson Will Holley, who confirmed to us that the DVD was distributed in the Dispatch today, and will be disseminated in copies of the Cincinatti Enquirer and Plain Dealer tomorrow, followed by the Palm Beach Post and the Los Vegas Review Journal on Friday.

The DVD, a trailer of which is here, features media figures fawning over Obama and conservative commentators mocking them over their affection for the Illinois Senator, as well as footage of select Wright rantings. It also discusses Ayers and Tony Rezko, and warns viewers that there's more to know about Obama's shadowy ideology and associations than he has let on.

Why Not Rev. Wright?

An article from Time magazine explores why the McCain campaign is not hitting Obama on his ties to Rev. Wright. Here's an extract from the article.

Palin's religious background must initially have been seen as a positive to McCain campaign vetters, who assumed that her faith would appeal to the conservative base of the party that has always been suspicious of McCain. But ever since she joined the ticket in late August, the Alaska governor's various religious affiliations have caused headaches. First came reports that her pastor at the nondenominational Wasilla Bible Church was connected to Jews for Jesus, an organization that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity. Prominent Jewish leaders, including the co-chair of McCain's Jewish outreach effort, have since demanded to know whether Palin also believes that Jews must be converted. The Bible Church became an issue again when Katie Couric asked Palin about the church's promotion of a program to help gays "overcome" their homosexuality.

And finally, a videotape surfaced of a 2005 service at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, the Pentecostal church that Palin attended for most of her life. In the scene captured on video, Palin stands at the front of the sanctuary while a visiting African pastor prays that God will help her gubernatorial campaign and protect her "from every form of witchcraft." Later in the same service, the pastor complains that "Israelites" held too many prominent positions in business, a comment that has further alienated Jewish voters.

I don't know that this is what's keeping McCain from using Wright. Personally, I think he's saving Wright for the final days of the campaign but I'd love to be proved wrong on this one.