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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.