Barack Obama is out today with an unusually long television ad in which he talks about the nation’s economic problems, while the Republican National Committee is airing new English and Spanish radio ads promoting John McCain.
Obama’s two-minute TV ad begins with him saying the recent financial problems are nothing new for struggling Americans and ending with him saying that “bitter, partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and right won’t solve the problems we face today, but a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will.” Here it is:
The RNC’s English radio ad, meanwhile, paints McCain as an agent of change because, “in 20-plus years in the Senate, John McCain has never sought an earmark,” while Obama, “in three short years in the Senate,” has “requested nearly $1 billion in earmarks.”
Click here to listen to the ad.
The RNC’s Spanish radio ad says McCain is a “friend” because he “worked with Republicans and Democrats alike to form immigration legislation” last year.
“And while the bill didn’t pass, only McCain demonstrated a real commitment to reforming immigration in a way that honored our laws as well as our immigrants and traditions,” the ad’s narrator states.
Obama, the ad claims, didn’t support reform, instead supporting amendments “designed to insert a deadly poison poll to kill the immigration legislation.”
Click here to listen to the ad.