- Campaign Ads « Obama for America
Obama for America
"Unprecedented"
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:30 ad run in IA, MI, NC, OH, VA and WI, announced Jan. 18, 2012.
[Music] Male Announcer: Secretive
billionaires attacking President Obama…
TEXT: Secretive oil billionaires are attacking President Obama.
…with ads fact-checkers say are not tethered to the facts.
TEXT: Solyndra Attack Ad ad “not tethered to facts.” ABC News, 1/13/12
While independent watchdogs call this President’s record on ethics…
TEXT: President Obama’s Record on Ethics
"unprecedented."
TEXT: “Unprecedented.” Common Cause, League of Women Voters, 4/28/09
And America’s clean-energy industry?
TEXT: Barackobama.com/EnergyFacts
Two-point-seven million jobs…
TEXT: Clean-Energy American Jobs, 2.7 MILLION, Brookings Institution, 7/13/11, Barackobama.com/EnergyFacts
…and ”expanding rapidly.”
TEXT: Clean-Energy American Jobs, “expanding rapidly”, Brookings Institution, 7/13/11, Barackobama.com/EnergyFacts
For the first time in thirteen years…
TEXT: Barackobama.com/EnergyFacts
…our dependence on foreign oil is below fifty percent.
TEXT: America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil “below the 50 percent mark”, Energy Information Administration, 5/25/11, Barackobama.com/EnergyFacts
President Obama.
Kept his promise to toughen ethics rules…
TEXT: President Obama “kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules.” Politifact, 1/21/09
…and strengthen America’s energy economy.
TEXT:
Approved
by
Barack
Obama.
Paid
for
by Obama for America.
Obama (voiceover):
I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
Notes: Obama's first major ad mixes energy and ethics. The ad responds to an Americans for Prosperity ad ("Obama Sacrifices Pawns for Politics") run in the same states starting on January 16, a reported $6 million buy.
According to the campaign press release, "The ad
highlights President Obama’s historic accomplishments on clean
energy and his record of setting the strongest ethical standards to
reduce the influence of special interests in Washington. While the
President has made significant achievements to ensure a clean-energy
future for our country, oil executives have funded an ad campaign
attacking that progress. Fighting against investments in clean energy,
these secretive corporate interests are determined to protect tax
breaks for oil companies that the President wants to end."
The
Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org
found fault with the Obama campaign's ad, pointing out that a) the
quote on
ethics refers to Obama's first 100 days, b) the 2.7 million jobs
includes jobs created before Obama took office, and c) the decline in
dependence on foreign oil is due to a number of factors, including the
slow economy. The RNC responded with a fact check
titled, "Where To Begin
With Obama’s
Latest Ad?
Obama’s First Campaign Ad A Lot Like His Term So Far – A Whole Lot Of
Talk To Thwart Attention From Obama’s Failed Record." Also of
note, the
ad
was
released the
same day as President Obama announced his decision that the
Keystone XL Pipeline application be denied, a decision which drew a
chorus of criticism from his Republican challengers.