McCain asks N.C. GOP to stop Obama ad

Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) has written a letter to the North Carolina Republican Party asking officials to stop running an ad targeting Democratic gubernatorial candidates that features Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

{mosads}The ad, endorsed at the end by state Party Chairwoman Linda Daves, targets Democratic candidates Beth Perdue and Richard Moore for being "too extreme for North Carolina," but the most prominent person in the ad is Wright, who is seen and heard giving one of his more inflammatory sermons. Both Perdue and Moore have endorsed Obama ahead of the state’s May 6 primary.

McCain wrote Daves: "The television advertisement you are planning to air degrades our civics and distracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats. In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run this advertisement."