Obama notes working class roots in new ad
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/06/30/art.obamaad.ap.jpg caption="Obama is out with a new ad Monday."](CNN) - Barack Obama’s campaign announced the release of its second general election television ad Monday, a 30-second spot designed to highlight his working-class roots and economic agenda as he ends his three-week economy tour but continues his efforts to woo that key Democratic constituency.
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The campaign said ‘Dignity’ will air in 18 states, including perennial blue-collar battlegrounds like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and some traditionally Republican areas where the presumptive Democratic nominee is hoping to compete in this fall, like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
“He worked his way through college and Harvard Law,” says the announcer. “Turned down big money offers, and helped lift neighborhoods stung by job loss.”
The ad will begin airing Monday in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
Earlier this month, the Obama campaign’s first ad of the general election highlighted his patriotism and values.
(Full script after the jump)
SCRIPT – “Dignity”
OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
Announcer: He worked his way through college and Harvard Law.
Turned down big money offers, and helped lift neighborhoods stung by job loss. Fought for workers’ rights.
He passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by eighty percent. Passed tax cuts for workers; health care for kids.
As president, he’ll end tax breaks for companies that export jobs, reward those that create jobs in America.
And never forget the dignity that comes from work.
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We Californians would like to see the ad too.
DEMOCRATS UNITE!!!
ron...
go back and READ your own post....
then tell me that you got all of your talking point "logic" for hating Senator Obama from ANY place other than the back of a cereal box...
pathetic
CHANGE=
I have changed my mind, I will be voting for McCain, Senator Obama has just become unbelievable to me, I dont even want to take the energy to go into all of the in your face mis-truths and arrogance.
Democrat for McCain-Never thought I would vote Republican
Down with The Republicans and the crazy religions right and those nutty Pumapac.
i will NOT vote for war mongering or fear mongering "period!"
just say NO to war (iraq, iran, Afghanistan). It is easy to be a bully.
see what you can accomplish when you actually "talk to your enemies" (NORTH KOREA)!
OBAMA '08
STUDY OBAMAS LIFE DON'T JUST READ HIS BOOKS, HIS BOOKS ARE WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT HIM. I JUST FINISHED STUDING HIS LIFE. OBAMA = MUSLIM HIS WHOLE LIFE
obama and michelle actually had to work to get where they are today..
what did the mccains do? not everyone is as lucky as cindy and be born with a silver spoon.
When Obama's ad's appear on my TV- I simply place them on TIVO Hold, wait three minutes and then fast forward. He's not going to force me to listen to his lies.
Democrat for McCain
CHANGE=
I have changed my mind, I will be voting for McCain, Senator Obama has just become unbelievable to me, I dont even want to take the energy to go into all of the in your face mis-truths and arrogance.
Democrat for McCain-
Thank you Obama for caring about the economy and other important issues effecting Americans and not ramming foreign policy down our throats and the possibility of another war and lying to us like your counterpart. BTW your sound judgment is far more welcoming than john mcwar's so called 'experience'. Look where that so called 'experience' got us today.
OBAMA IS ALL FOR HIMSELF. ALL YOU BRAINWASHED FOLLOWERS WILL SOON FIND OUT YOU MADE THE WORST MISTAKE IN YOUR LIVES. YOU TRASHED A REAL CANIDATE FOR OUR LEADER JUST BECAUSE OF BIAS AGAINST A WOMAN. YOU RATHER VOTE FOR A UKNOWN, ARROGANT, HYPOCRITICAL ,CONTRADICTER CON MAN ,WITH A SMOOTH SPEECH. AMERICA GETS WHAT THEY ASK FOR.
Hey Rezko – Connection – it stinks no more than the Keating 5, look that up. BTW they couldn't even bring charges against Obama cause he did no wrong. Thank God we are not jailed for simply knowing criminals or we'd all be in jail you moron.
go obama!
“Change is the law of life, and those who look only to
the past or the present are certain to miss the future”
John F. Kennedy, 1963
Dignity or bitter...?
Pandering again – are they bitter... or do they have dignity? 🙂
I think it is a good idea. Rove and the GOP are trying to paint Obama, who was raised in a single parent household and received food stamps as elitist! Every person raised in single parent homes should rise and smile! The welfare moms can rise and smile! They are elite!! Thanks GOP!! You made the poor kids raised in single parent homes proud to called elitist!!! You Republicans always make me laugh!
Play that ad here in Arizona. Obama's got support in McCain's back yard.
Obama attended Punahou Academy in Honolulu, which today cost $15,000 a year in tuition. While he attended an exclusive private school, his mother attended an unspecified graduate school. Despite having all the money to pay for all this, Obama claims that his mother collected food stamps during this time. He also claims that his mother receiving food stamps qualifies him as having a “poor” upbringing.
Obama is either lying about the food stamps, or his mother was abusing the system by collecting food stamps when she had lots of money.
That picture is not Obama . Unless his ears grow every time he tells a lie. Look at his ears in this picture and look at a newer one.
Check out the Boston Globe article last Friday. It goes beyond Rezko.. it's worse. This guy is a big phoney that the DNC is shoving down our throats.
Hasn't Obama been a politician most of his grown life? Hell, he's never had to risk anything like putting on the uniform of his country and he's just lived off the largess of the American taxpayer. That's executive experience?
LEAVE YOUR COMENT.
MCCAINS LANDSLIDE LOSS IN NOVEMBER IS AWAITING MODERATION.
AS FOR LIBERMAN TERRORIST ATTACK-- DON'T EVEN RESPOND/LEAVE A COMMENT B/CAUSE HE WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE THE RESPONSES,THEN HE WILL THINK IS INTERACTING WITH WISE AMERICANS, HE IS A FOOL.
TWO OLD FOR NOTHING MEN IN ONE BAG.WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE BAG? -----– ANSWER PLEASE-HA HA HA HA HA HA-CONTINUE.
Blackman4Mac June 30th, 2008 4:55 pm ET
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It's good to know that in America a person still has the right to be an idiot. Surely you jest with some of the comments that you made. It's people like you that are ruining this country. Intolerant of others, delusional and down right thoughtless and apparently uneducated.
You say as for you and your community........ where is that village? You know the one that elected you its idiot.
Worried in NJ
If you are serious I would suggest you go to his campaign website. It is extremely detalied. I would also suggest you look at the wealth of Economic advisors he has and the fact that he actually listens learns from his state's mistakes is something you should take into consideration, He has good advisors on everthing and he is trying to involve mayors and governors which really helps because then it is not too brad based but down to city and State level . I feel that economically we will do so much better under an Obama Presidency.
As for the town Halls why should he have town halls set up by the McCain people? Why should they set up for him? If you have been following his campaign you'd know that he has been having smaller more intimate settings where he talks to regular people and deals with regular day to day issues. Keep abreast with his website and you will know where he has been who he visited with and what is going on. What do you consider a town hall style meeting?