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Harris Wofford says McCain running dishonorable campaign
The normally genial 82-year-old Wofford, a surrogate for Barack Obama, made the comments in a conference call with reporters. He said he served with and respected McCain when the two served together in the Senate in the early 1990s. "But the John McCain I am seeing in this campaign is not the John McCain I knew," said the former Pennsylvania lawmaker. "He pledged to run a civil and honorable campaign, but he is running a negative, nasty, dishonorable campaign." The criticism was in line with the Obama campaign's attempts to brand McCain as "dishonorable" for airing ads that accuse Obama of canceling a visit to wounded troops in Europe because the Democratic candidate couldn't bring television cameras along. Obama's campaign has said the visit was canceled because he thought it might be perceived as political. A Washington Post report last week found the McCain accusation lacked evidence. Former Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, was the Country Director of Ethiopia.
Harris Wofford says McCain running dishonorable campaign
Wofford: McCain running dishonorable campaign
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Posted by Josh Drobnyk at 6:06:21 PM on August 4, 2008
Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford on Monday ripped into GOP presidential candidate John McCain Monday for what he said had become a "negative, nasty, dishonorable campaign."
Harris_woffordThe normally genial 82-year-old Wofford, a surrogate for Barack Obama, made the comments in a conference call with reporters. He said he served with and respected McCain when the two served together in the Senate in the early 1990s.
"But the John McCain I am seeing in this campaign is not the John McCain I knew," said the former Pennsylvania lawmaker. "He pledged to run a civil and honorable campaign, but he is running a negative, nasty, dishonorable campaign."
The criticism was in line with the Obama campaign's attempts to brand McCain as "dishonorable" for airing ads that accuse Obama of canceling a visit to wounded troops in Europe because the Democratic candidate couldn't bring television cameras along. Obama's campaign has said the visit was canceled because he thought it might be perceived as political. A Washington Post report last week found the McCain accusation lacked evidence.
The ad, which aired in the Harrisburg media market, accuses the senator of making "time to go to the gym but not to visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't let him bring cameras."
"It is a sad spectacle," Wofford said on the call.
McCain spokesman Paul Lindsay's response: “It was not ‘honorable’ when Barack Obama ran the first negative attack ad of this election, just as it was not ‘honorable’ when his surrogates went so far as to attack John McCain's military service. John McCain will continue laying out his vision for a stronger America and talking about the clear differences between himself and Barack Obama.”
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