The advertisement features a narrator intoning, “For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor.”
Then the advertisement cues up the clip that has become infamous at this point of Mr. Wright, who was Mr. Obama’s pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, preaching in 2003 and using an expletive when referring to the United States.
The Wright video excerpt, which played on an endless loop on television and the Internet last month, sparked a firestorm of controversy and eventually prompted Mr. Obama to deliver a major address on the issue of race relations. Mr. Wright was talking in his sermon about the country’s treatment of African-Americans and arguing, instead of singing “God bless America,” they should sing something else.
The North Carolina G.O.P.’s commercial says Bev Perdue, the lieutenant governor, and Richard Moore, the state treasurer — both of whom are seeking the Democratic nomination in North Carolina for governor — and have endorsed Mr. Obama should “know better.”
“He’s too extreme for North Carolina,” the narrator says.
Brent Woodcox, the state party’s communications director, said officials have not yet decided the size of the advertising buy and how long the commercial will run on television. The advertisement also features a request for donations to the party to keep the commercial on the air. |
