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McCain on Katrina: 'Never again'
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Republican John McCain took stock of still-hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans on Thursday and declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed at the nearest Air Force base, drawing a sharp contrast to President Bush's handling of the tragedy.
He called the response to Hurricane Katrina "a perfect storm" of mismanagement by federal, state and local governments.
"Never again, never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the disgraceful way it was handled," McCain declared, a pledged he repeated over and over during the day.
N.C. gop moves ahead with anti-obama ad
North Carolina Republican leaders are standing by a TV ad critical of Barack Obama despite opposition by John McCain, dissension in their own ranks and two stations' refusal to air it.
The ad shows Obama with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and a clip of Wright's anti-U.S. comments. "He's just too extreme for North Carolina," the narrator says in the ad.
State GOP spokesman Brent Woodcox said officials still planned to air the ad Monday.
WRAL-TV in Raleigh and WSOC-TV in Charlotte, however, have declined to run the ad.
DEMOCRATIC RACE IS LOSING ITS AUDIENCE
The Democrats' battle to pick a nominee is taking a toll on the public, with growing numbers saying this year's presidential campaign is too negative and has lasted too long. More also say it's dull, according to a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Half of those surveyed say the campaign has become too negative, up from 28 percent who said so in mid-February.
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