Edwards Calls for Obama to Denounce UNITE HERE Radio Ads
18 January 2008 1:50 pm by Taylor Marsh
Edwards Calls for Obama to Denounce UNITE HERE Radio
Ads
reported from Las Vegas, Nevada
From the Edwards campaign a few minutes ago (update: CNN has the story):
Las Vegas, Nevada – During a “Get Out the Caucus” rally
in Las Vegas today, John Edwards made the following statement calling on Senator
Obama to denounce the UNITE HERE radio ads.“Just a few days ago, on a stage where all three of us were participating
in the debate, there was a discussion of putting behind us and stopping the
race politics that had been going on for a few days before that between Senator
Clinton and Senator Obama. And everyone pledged that this kind of divisive
politics that divides the Democratic Party and could divide America would
come to an end.“Senator Obama made that pledge. I was sitting five feet from him when
I heard him say it. And now it turns out that in the last twenty-four hours,
there’s a radio ad that’s being run—a malicious radio ad attacking Senator
Clinton. That is exactly that kind of divisive politics. It’s being run right
here in Las Vegas.“I denounce it. This kind of ad, I don’t care who’s doing it—in
this case it’s Senator Obama’s supporters—but this sort of thing needs
to stop. And from what I’ve seen, Senator Obama has not said a single word
about this. Nothing…when two days ago, three days ago, he sat on a stage
in front of America and said this kind of politics had no place in America.
That is divides America. It divides the Democratic Party. And he denounced
it. Well, now it’s happening…by his supporters…right here in this
campaign twenty-four hours before the caucuses. And what I have to say is
he should speak up. If he really means what he says—and this is not
just talk—he should speak up and denounce this kind of divisive politics.
It is not what the Democratic Party needs. It is not what America needs. And
let me say this very clearly, vis-a-vis Senator Obama, I will not divide America.
I will unite America.”
I’ve said it for a very long time, John Edwards is the anti Hillary choice,
not Mr. Obama, whose campaign tactics in Nevada are questionable at best. The UNITE HERE radio ads, which I covered yesterday, is nothing short of swiftboating.
