The Obama campaign released a statement from campaign manager Jim Messina on the story about plans to use Rev. Jeremiah Wright to attack President Obama. Messina claims that in failing to personally condemn the attack, Mitt Romney shied from exerting the “moral leadership” required of the moment.
Here’s the full statement:
“This morning’s story revealed the appalling lengths to which Republican operatives and SuperPacs apparently are willing to go to tear down the President and elect Mitt Romney. The blueprint for a hate-filled, divisive campaign of character assassination speaks for itself. It also reflects how far the party has drifted in four short years since John McCain rejected these very tactics. Once again, Governor Romney has fallen short of the standard that John McCain set, reacting tepidly in a moment that required moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party.”
The Romney campaign has said they “repudiate” the such attacks. When asked about them directly, Romney said he hadn’t “read the papers yet.”
