TPM Election Central has the audio for a new radio ad that the Obama campaign will run in parts of Virginia and Ohio. It is in response to a RNC ad which claims Obama will "raise taxes".
It's brilliant, and seems like the start of a real counterpunch campaign against McCain and his prevarication.
Here is the script of the ad:
MAN: Oh man - he's starting already...
WOMAN: What now, honey?
MAN: John McCain. He's got new ads attacking Barack Obama on taxes.
WOMAN: Well, that's not new. Bush, McCain, Karl Rove - that's how those guys work.
MAN: Oh yeah, but this is shameful. He's just makin' stuff up.
WOMAN: Yeah?
MAN: But get this. Independent sources are putting McCain in his place. I went to FactCheck dot org. They said quote "it's not true."
WOMAN: Huh.
MAN: And look what Time says. Quote, "It makes sense that McCain is returning to the old playbook. But that doesn't mean he can just make up his own facts." End Quote.
WOMAN: Yowza! So what's the truth?
MAN: Obama's plan cuts taxes on the middle class - and won't raise taxes on anybody making less than two hundred fifty thousand a year. But McCain wants billions in new corporate tax breaks...and no way to pay for it.
WOMAN: Hmm. Sounds like George Bush all over again.
MAN: Guess that's why they say: John McCain - McSame as Bush!
WOMAN: Uh-huh.
Voiceover: On taxes, get the facts. Visit BarackObama.com
Obama: I'm Barack Obama, candidate for President, and I approve this message.
Also on TPM is a story about Obama advertising heavily (McCain hasn't spent anything) on "Jesse Helms' television station" in Raliegh:
The interesting historical wrinkle here is that WRAL is the station where Helms had served as an executive since the 1960s and had done on-air editorials that were, shall we say, racially-charged ... Forty-five years later, the first black man with a serious shot at becoming president is spending real money at this station and has at least a shot at winning the state. How about them historical apples, eh?
I find it quite interesting that the first skirmishes of the upcoming ad wars are taking place in Virginia. It is very telling of where the campaigns and committees think the closest battle is going to be this fall.
And the fact that it is Virginia, a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat since before the Civil Rights Era, just warms the cockles of my heart.
[Obligatory FISA mention to meet minimal diary requirements.]
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