(CNN) -- Senior Clinton advisers blasted Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Monday after a major Obama supporter in Iowa compared Bill Clinton unfavorably to Joe McCarthy and referenced the blue dress at the heart of the impeachment scandal.

"When Joe McCarthy questioned others' patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently, the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP," wrote Gordon Fischer, a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, wrote on his blog. "Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping -- instead he is hurting -- his own party. B. Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica's blue dress."

It's called Hyperbole he wasn't actually damning America he was trying to make a point.

What I've said and I stand by my assertion is this.

Anyone who has changed their mind about Obama based on Rev Wright is showing racism.

The entire reason the mass media is playing this over and over and over again is because the people in power know that it will stir up the fear of black people that most whites have.

Hell people are all concerned with what Obama's preacher is saying but I don't see anyone talking about the Fellowship Prayer Breakfasts that Clinton attends.

Or the crazy crap white preachers spew.

If you don't like Obama for other reasons and you like Clinton for what ever reason that's fine. I don't say that all Clinton supporters are racist in fact I don't think think many are nor do I think that the Clinton's are.

But I do think she is enough of a political opportunist to take advantage of it and I do think that many of the people who back her and run her campaign are or are at least willing to use the Southern Strategy.

I do think people tend to be awfully ethnocentric while looking at this situation.

I actually have little problem with Wright himself, I don't much care what any minister thinks, but nobody wins these "I'm more oppressed than you" contests. But that's essentially what Wright was doing and in so doing, whether intentional or not, he was denigrating the struggles women, including African American women, have gone through.  The truth is that it's not easy being a woman of any color or a black man (or other man of color) in our society.  I'm sure there have been many times when Barack and Hillary have been the smartest person in the room and treated as if they were the dumbest because of his skin and her sex.  Wright, however, set out to make his point in the most divisive way possible.  

Rev. Wright also said that, because she was not black,  Hillary had never had to work twice as hard as a white man to show that she was qualified. Rev. Wright has apparently never heard of sexism.  You don't have to debate whether racism is worse than sexism to know that both African-Americans AND women have to work twice as hard as white men in the same profession to get ahead.  The evils of racism can be understood without minimizing the evils of sexism.

Wright gave his speech in December.  HOW does that relate to Ferraro and her comments???  Uh, yeah.  It doesn't.

Women in this culture do NOT have it easy, whether they are poor or privileged.  Any woman can be assaulted in this country and watch as their attackers, if convicted, get lesser sentences thans omeone who robs a company; most women are paid less than men for the same work; most women have to watch as less qualified men get positions for which they are overqualified; most women have to put up with insensitive, boorish, often sexist, comments every single day.

Wright's sermon WAS hate speech, plain and simple.  Its intent was clearly to incite and antagonize.