Rev. Wright trumped in North Carolina?
Another ad is making a splash in North Carolina (though perhaps mainly among aging baby 
boomers there).
Beverly Perdue -- one of the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates who, in the political equivalent of a carom shot, state Republican officials are trying to link to Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- is up with an ad in which she's endorsed by Andy Griffith (a native of Mount Airy, N.C.).
"Oh, you're going to be a goooood governor," Griffith says to Perdue in the spot, and anyone who grew up watching him keep law and order (and raise Opie) in Mayberry, N.C., won't have to actually see it to know exactly how that line sounds.
As detailed in this story in the Raleigh News & Observer, a Griffith endorsement is nothing to scoff at in his home state. And for more on the hard-fought battle for the Democratic gubernatorial battle -- and Barack Obama's role in it -- go here.
-- Don Frederick
Photo credit: Ken Hively/L.A. Times
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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What can any self respecting minority male say about a guy, Obama, who talks dirt about the grandmother that raised him....if this guy is a minority then so is George Bush.
I was always taught to respect my elders especially my gramdma who raised me up...
The word opportunist comes to mind use anyone you can no matter how crazy to get where you want to go.
Posted by: leroy | April 24, 2008 at 01:55 PM