New Obama Ad. McCain "In the Pocket of Big Oil" (starts running today)

[brooklynite]

Source: ABC News

As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicks off a week focused on energy, his campaign will on Monday begin running a new TV ad that attacks Sen. John McCain as "in the pocket of big oil."

"Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets," the narrator says as the screen reads: "$143 Billion in Profits Over the Last Year."

As the ad cuts to a photo of McCain, the narrator says: "Now Big Oil’s filling John McCain’s campaign with $2 million in contributions," citing the Center for Responsive Politics. "Because instead of taxing their windfall profits to help drivers, McCain wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks."

...snip...

As the camera pulls back from the photo of McCain to reveal him standing with President Bush, the narrator says, "After one president in the pocket of big oil, we can’t afford another. Barack Obama: A windfall profits tax on big oil to give families a thousand dollar rebate. A president who’ll stand up for you."

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/new-obama-ad-mc.html

[glowing]

1. Good ad.. Ignore the hype and pull the conversation back onto

McBush.. Awesome..

[bluestateguy]

2. Let's see how many loop-da-loops it gets on the cable shows

nt

[my2sense]

4. It won't get have the play time McLame's rec'd

[watrwefitinfor]

3. They showed a snippet of this ad

on the CBS morning show earlier today. Bob Scheiffer and Harry Smith were both nodding and and smirking and snickering as Scheiffer stated that the ad proves that Obama has now flip-flopped on his principles, and gone negative. (Not an exact quote, but close.)

'Now they are both doing negative ads, woe is us, the public deserves better than this' sort of crap.

Scheiffer is on a mission.

Wat

[floridablue]

8. Bob is a "goodoleTexasboy"

[bunkerbuster1]

13. If they think this is seriously "negative"

methinks that word does not mean what they think it means.

[brooklynite]

5. UPDATE: Link to ad

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_Pocket.html

[Joanne98]

6. Somebody needs to put it on youtube.

[Lost4words]

7. thanks for the link!

this is a good ad!

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. finally.... THANK YOU.... his official name is JOHN "THE BUSH REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN ! ! !

he hates the association

he would rather call obama a rock star

but let us make him WEAR IT WITH PRIDE.......

my name is JOHN "THE BUSH REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN... and I FORGOT MY MESSAGE !!!

[sourmilk]

10. Over 20 Oil Lobbyists Working on Jon McDrill's Campaign:

1 Rebecca Anderson / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Williams & Jensen / Sunoco

2 Wayne Berman / National Finance Co-Chairman / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada Hess Chevron Texaco American Petroleum Institute

3 Charlie Black / Senior Political Adviser / BKSH Occidental Petroleum Corp. / Yukos Oil Chinese National Off-Shore Oil Corp.

4 Carlos Bonilla / Economic Adviser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

5 Eric Burgeson / Fundraiser / Barbour Griffith & Rogers / BP

6 Kerry Cammack / Fundraiser C/ ammack and Strong / Exxon Mobil

7 Frank Donatelli / McCain Pick as Deputy RNC Chair / McGuire Woods / Exxon Mobil Dominion Resources

8 Melissa Edwards / Fundraiser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

9 John Green / Congressional Liaison / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada-Hess Chevon Texaco El Paso Energy American Petroleum Institute

10 Robert Harding / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / Chevron Murphy Oil Phillips Petroleum Company

11 Richard Hohlt / Fundraiser / Hohlt and Associates / Chevron

12 James "Jim" Hyland / Fundraiser / Pennsylvania Avenue Group / BP America Independent Fuel Terminal Operators Assoc. Occidental Petroleum Corp. Independent Fuel Terminal Operators Assoc.

13 Peter Madigan / Fundraiser / Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart / Shell Oil

14 Susan Molinari / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

15 Jack Oliver / Fundraiser / Bryan Cave Strategies / Shell Oil

16 Nancy Pfotenhauer / Adviser / Koch Industries / Koch Industries

17 Steve Phillips / Fundraiser / DLA Piper / BP America Occidental Petroleum

18 Elise Pickering / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti / Koch Industries

19 Sloan Rappoport / Fundraiser / Downey McGrath Group / Koch Industries

20 Matt Salmon / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / El Paso Energy

21 Randy Scheunemann / Defense and Foreign Policy Coordinator / Scheunemann and Associates / BP Amoco

22 Jeffrey Weiss / Fundraiser / BKSH / Yukos Oil Company

[kmac3]

11. Tit for Tat Strategy . . .

Somebody needs to put it on youtube.:applause:


Exactly ... Come on, someone with the technical expertise do it!

We all know MSM is Republican and will not run it.

[bunkerbuster1]

12. Nice one. Take that, McSame.

I like it. Obama fights a little dirty, and kicks him in the balls.

More like this, please.

[Lucky 13]

14. Very smart. I think every ad needs to have a picture of Bush/McLame hugging.

It's a visual that will be quite effective.