The Obama campaign has thus far refrained from calling on McCain to fire Charlie Black, the top adviser who stirred up a big brouhaha the other day by saying that a terror attack on U.S. soil would help McCain's campaign.

But now Obama ally MoveOn is calling for just that. The group blasted out an email to supporters moments ago that echoes some tough language from Change to Win, the coalition of unions backing Obama...

Our allies at Change to Win have called for McCain to fire Charlie Black, saying "the memory of all those who died on 9-11 demand it." We couldn't agree more.

Surely the Obama team is glad to have MoveOn staking out a left flank and keeping the story alive. Full MoveOn email after the jump.

Dear MoveOn member,

For the last eight years, George Bush has built power using the politics of fear. Now, John McCain's team is doing the same thing.

On Monday, McCain's top adviser, Charlie Black, said that a terrorist attack will help his candidate win the election.1 This kind of fear-based tactic is straight out of the Bush play book, and it's just plain wrong.

And yes, this is the same Charlie Black who has lobbied the US government on behalf of some of the world's worst dictators--including Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Jonas Savimbi from Angola. We even made a video about it last month.

Haven't we had enough of this kind of politics? Click here to watch the video. At the end of the video is a phone number to call to urge John McCain to fire Charlie Black once and for all:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VjCYmjjxp8I

Black is becoming McCain's Karl Rove, seeing everything through a lens of how to get elected. He even noted in the same article that while Benazir Bhutto's assassination was "unfortunate", it helped John McCain.2

While McCain has tried to distance himself from Black's statements, he steadfastly refuses to fire Charlie Black.

Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the bipartisan 9-11 Commission, identified Black's statements for exactly what they are:

"I think the remarks were so out of place that they call for some recalibration in the thinking and perhaps a greater adherence to principle here in staying away from the politics of fear."3

Our allies at Change to Win have called for McCain to fire Charlie Black, saying "the memory of all those who died on 9-11 demand it."4 We couldn't agree more.

Can you watch this video about who Black really is and call the number at the end to demand that he be fired from John McCain's campaign?

Thanks for all you do,

-Eli, Ilyse, Wes, Patrick S. and the rest of the team