{"id":3533,"date":"2008-08-05T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/obamas-new-tv-ad-attacks-mccains-oil-ties\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:35:00","slug":"obamas-new-tv-ad-attacks-mccains-oil-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/obamas-new-tv-ad-attacks-mccains-oil-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s new TV ad attacks McCain&#8217;s oil ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> new TV ad takes aim at Republican opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> and accuses him of being in the pocket of the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the 30 second spot, which is currently airing on national cable:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QJPo5IGTd0A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QJPo5IGTd0A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cEvery time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states. \u201cNow Big Oil\u2019s filling John McCain\u2019s campaign with $2 million in contributions, because, instead of taxing their windfall profits to help drivers, McCain wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks. After one president in the pocket of big oil, we can\u2019t afford another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds responded with this statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cBarack Obama\u2019s latest negative attack ad shows his celebrity is matched only by his hypocrisy,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter all, it was Senator Obama, not John McCain, who voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that was a sweetheart deal for oil companies. Also not mentioned is the $400,000 from Big Oil-contributors that Barack Obama has already pocketed in this election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama\u2019s new TV ad takes aim at Republican opponent John McCain and accuses him of being in the pocket of the oil industry. Here\u2019s the 30 second spot, which is currently airing on national cable: \u201cEvery time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}