McCain allegedly told the North Carolina republican party not to run attack ads raising the Wright issue.  North Carolina Republican Party response…….not so much.  Sen. McCain, are you not the leader of the Republican Party?  If you can’t control your own party, what kind of leader are you, or more importantly, will you be?  John McCain and the Republican National Committee supposedly expressed outrage along with submitting a plea to the local GOP not to run the ad.  wink…nudge.   Flashback:  When a similar attack ad was run against Harold Ford during his U.S. Senate run in Tennessee, there was also mock outrage from the RNC and from the then republican nominee (now U.S. Senator).  Yet, the ad continued running…….now, Ford is a pundit for MSNBC.  Lucky for Obama, it does not seem that the Wright issue is hurting him like the Playboy issue hurt former Congressman Ford.  The problem that this writer has with the North Carolina situation is that McCain has played this both ways.  The Arizona Senator plays the good cop and gets credit for taking the high road by telling the local North Carolina RNC not to run the ad.  He also wins on the low road because the ad runs and possibly dings the Obama campaign after which McCain benefits.  Somehow, I think this ad will not be going away any time soon.  Even if the ad is not run in North Carolina, the main stream media has ran it 150, 000 times, accomplishing exactly what the GOP wanted to accomplish.  This is despite McCain’s continued, hmhmm…..protestations.  Something else interesting about rejecting and denouncing this ad.  When Hillary Clinton was asked to comment?…….crickets, crickets, crickets.  There has been silence from the Clinton campaign. As a matter of fact, Hillary Clinton has refused to comment on the GOP attack ad at all.  If this had come out against Clinton and Obama had refused to comment, Clinton would have been on every news outlet asking why the silence?  Word to Obama….I don’t know if a knife in a gun fight is your best weapon.