"Honor" - The Latest Obama Ad

As promised by campaign manager David Plouffe last week, the Obama team is "taking the fight" to John McCain with a tough new ad entitled "Honor." With most of the spot's script coming from editorials blasting the Arizona Republican's recent distortions on the stump and on the air, the only live-action shot is a 2000-era clip of McCain, in which he says, "I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land."

"What's happened to John McCain?" the narrator asks, before diving into the recent media blurbs calling the Republican nominee's recent tactics "vile" and "dishonorable" -- and knowingly so, "truth be damned."

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The Latest Obama Ads

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"Bringing Home a Friend"

In an ad airing in Northeast Pennsylvania, Joe Biden tries to make Barack Obama more familiar to working-class voters. He compares Obama's childhood to his hardscrabble upbringing in Scranton, saying they both learned the same values. "So it's good to be coming home, and bringing home a friend," Biden concludes. The vice presidential nominee will visit Scranton on Monday. Watch:

"Revitalize" - New Obama Michigan Ad

Barack Obama's Michigan-specific ad asks "In tough times, who’ll help Michigan’s auto industry?" -

McCain's new ad - "My Eyes Adored You"

John McCain is PISSED! It seems that the media's longtime love affair with "the Maverick" is over. . .here's his latest campaign commercial ode to Obama:

Obama's Nuclear Ad - This one's got Dick!

"Dignity" - Latest Obama ad

Obama's "Shock and Awe"

According to Evan Tracey, CNN's consultant on political television advertising, Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign provides him with the tools needed to implement a "Shock and Awe" television ad strategy designed to paralyze John McCain's campaign.

The better-funded Obama is likely to force McCain to spend money on TV ads in Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina, said Tracey. At this point in the campaign, these are states that CNN projects McCain has an edge over the Illinois Democrat, but by no means are these states safely in the Arizona Republican's column.

Obama is expected to raise three or four times the $85 million he would have received from the public financing system, providing him with a huge financial advantage over McCain, who has opted to take the public funds. Click the screen below to watch Tracey discuss Obama's advantage:

Obama - "Minute"

Obama hits Clinton on Gas Tax Gimickry

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
Indianapolis, Indiana
Friday, May 2, 2008

This morning, we learned that while the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged last month, wages have gone down, and the economy lost 20,000 more jobs. That's 260,000 jobs lost since the beginning of the year. That's 260,000 more Americans who won't have a paycheck to help them cover the rising cost of health care and child care; gas and groceries. This news is troubling, but it's not surprising - because in recent months, we've seen the problems in our economy grow worse and worse.

Now, a big part of why so many folks are struggling is that Washington hasn't been looking out for them. For too long, we've had a politics that's been more about scoring points than solving problems.

We've had a good example of this lately, with the so-called gas tax holiday that Senator Clinton is proposing. At best, this is a plan that would save you pennies a day for the summer months; that is, unless gas prices are raised to fill in the gap, which is just what happened in Illinois, when we tried this a few years ago. Just this morning, there was an article in the paper about how the real beneficiaries of this tax holiday would be the oil companies, who'd walk away with billions more in profits.

Meanwhile, unless you can magically impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies overnight to pay for the holiday, it could imperil federal highway funding, and cost Indiana more than 6,000 jobs.

Now, the two Washington candidates in the race have been attacking me because I don't support their idea. In fact, yesterday Senator Clinton demanded that everyone go on the record on this issue. She even borrowed one of President Bush's favorite phrases, and said that every member of Congress had to tell her - "are they with us or against us?"

Well, folks have been weighing in. And you know what? It turns out that people want to be on the side of the American people - they don't want to be for something that is such an obvious election year gimmick; they don't want to line up behind an idea that's more about trying to get a few votes than getting you meaningful relief.

Speaker Pelosi said that she's against the McCain-Clinton gas tax gimmick because it won't pass savings on to consumers, and "it will defeat everything we've tried to do to lower the cost of oil." Steny Hoyer rejected the idea, saying it "would not be positive." Tom Harkin, a Senator who knows a thing or two about what working people are facing here in the Midwest, said that he can't be for it because there's no guarantee that it will "put money in the pockets of our consumers." You might think that there's more support for it in Senator Clinton's home state. But her own supporter, Governor Patterson, said he's against it because the benefit of the tax cut "doesn't go directly to the consumer" - instead, it goes to the oil companies.

But Senator Clinton does have some support for her plan in Congress. After all, the person who first proposed it was John McCain. So I guess when she says "are you with us or against us" - Senator Clinton is referring to her and John McCain. That's one vote she's got, because on this issue, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are reading from the same political playbook.

This isn't a real solution. It's a political stunt. This is what Washington does whenever there's a big problem. Politicians pretend that they're looking out for you, but they're just looking out for their poll numbers. Senator Clinton's own staff even told the Washington Post that they knew the idea might not make much of a difference for you, but it could make a big difference for her campaign. And when the Clinton campaign was pressed to find a single expert who supported her plan - I'm not making this up - they put her campaign pollster on the phone to talk about how the idea polls well.

But what Americans need isn't an idea that polls well; what you need is real change. What you need is leadership you can trust. That's what I'm offering. I'm tired of seeing us lose so many jobs month after month, year after year. When I'm President, we'll stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and start giving them to companies that create good-paying jobs here at home. And we'll focus on long-term job growth. Rather than put highway funding at risk like my opponents are proposing, I have a plan to invest in our infrastructure and create millions of new jobs in the process. And I have a plan to invest in our green energy sector that will create up to five million new green jobs - and those are jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced.

To help Americans meet rising costs, I've proposed the biggest middle class tax cut of any candidate. It would mean real savings for working families, struggling homeowners, and seniors. We also need to address our economic woes at their source - the housing crisis. Nearly two years ago, I introduced legislation to crack down on predatory lenders and mortgage fraud - legislation that could have prevented this crisis from escalating. And I've called on Washington to help homeowners re-finance their mortgages so they can stay in their homes.

It's time to quit the political stunts, and start offering real solutions. That's what I've been doing throughout this campaign, and that's the kind of leadership I intend to offer as President of the United States.

Obama sets PA spending record

Barack Obama isn't just outspending Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania; he's outspending every politician ever:

Obama is currently spending $2.2 million per week on television here, over twice what Hillary Clinton is spending and an unprecedented ad buy in Pennsylvania, according to Democratic media consultant Neil Oxman, who is not working for a candidate.


"Nobody has ever spent 2.2 million in this state: not Rendell, not Specter, not Casey, not Santorum, not Bush, not Kerry," said Oxman, naming the best-funded candidates to run statewide in recent years. "That's unbelievable."

Here's the latest ad, featuring his sister and his grandmother:

Obama's Indiana Ad

"For Decades"

"3 AM" child is an Obama supporter

Child in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “3am Phone Ad” supports Sen. Barack Obama.

Photo taken from Clinton “Children” Ad

Casey Knowles, a High School Senior in Washington state, recently discovered she was one of the sleeping children in Clinton’s controversial “Children” ad appearing prior to the Texas primaries.

Knowles, a supporter of Barack Obama was shocked that she had contributed to the national security message of a candidate that she passionately opposes.

When asked by The New Argument, this is what Knowles had to say about her appearance in Clinton’s ad:

“While I love Hillary, I would much rather hear Barack Obama’s voice at the other end of the phone at 3am. Its hilarious and ironic that the child in Hillary’s ad is now of voting age and not her supporter. I’ve been campaigning for Barack since October and was a caucus precinct captain. I’ve been a very avid advocate of his and recruited a lot of folks to caucus for him in January. He’s inspired and mobilized so many already, he’s refreshing and quite simply the best option for people who want to change this country.”

King 5 News interviewed Casey Knowles and her family at their home after The New Argument broke this story.

It's 3 AM - The REAL threat is . . .

. . . the army of dark, stentorian voice-over professionals who populate campaign ads:

Obama responds to Clinton's "3 AM" ad

The Clinton ad


The Obama response

"Desperate"

Obama fires back at Clinton in Wisconsin: