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Obama for America

"Unbreakable" +

:30 ad from Oct. 26, 2012.


[Music] Obama (clips from Oct. 22 debate): When I went to Israel...I saw families there who showed me where missiles had come down near their children’s bedrooms and I was reminded of what that would mean if those were my kids.

I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.

As long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

Obama (voiceover): I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message.


Notes: No press release seen on this ad; reported by The Washington Post.

Obama's complete response...

THE PRESIDENT:  Bob, let me respond.  If we’re going to talk about trips that we’ve taken -- when I was a candidate for office, the first trip I took was to visit our troops.  And when I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn’t take donors, I didn’t attend fundraisers.  I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.

And then I went down to the border town of Sderot, which had experienced missiles raining down from Hamas.  And I saw families there who showed me where missiles had come down near their children’s bedrooms, and I was reminded of what that would mean if those were my kids -- which is why, as President, we funded an Iron Dome program to stop those missiles.  So that’s how I’ve used my travels, when I traveled to Israel and when I traveled to the region.

And the central question at this point is going to be who’s going to be credible to all parties involved.  And they can look at my track record -- whether it’s Iran’s sanctions, whether it’s dealing with counterterrorism, whether it’s supporting democracy, whether it’s supporting women’s rights, whether it’s supporting religious minorities -- and they can say that the President of the United States and the United States of America has stood on the right side of history.  And that kind of credibility is precisely why we’ve been able to show leadership on a wide range of issues facing the world right now.