Our latest TV ad pushing Congress to fulfill Obama's campaign promise on tax cuts is making big headlines:
"Progressives Keeping Heat on Obama" -- New York Times
"Liberal Group Ad Recalls When Obama Said Bush Tax Cuts Offended His Conscience" --Huffington Post
"Liberal group uses Obama's words against him" -- CNN
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This ad was also covered by the Washington Post, The Hill newspaper, and Politico.
Here's an excerpt from CNN's reporting:
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced Thursday that its going up with an ad that uses then-candidate Barack Obama's words from two and a half years ago against the president for now striking a deal that would extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
The PCCC, in an e-mail Thursday to supporters, said "President Obama did not force a single Republican in Congress to feel political pain back home for being on the wrong side of the tax cuts issue. And now he's asking us to accept a raw deal."...
Like their first ad, the new PCCC commercial uses a clip from the 2008 presidential campaign, from then-Sen. Barack Obama speaking on April 22nd of that year in Indiana...Obama attacked Sen. John McCain, who at the time was the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
"So he's promising four more years of tax cuts for CEO's. Tax cuts that he once voted against because he said they offended his conscience. Well they may have stopped offending John McCain's conscience somewhere along the road to the White House. But George Bush's economic policies still offend my conscience and they still offend yours," says Obama, in the speech.
At the start of the commercial, as the president speaks, the words "Obama promised change" appear in the ad, which ends with the words "If Obama won't fight for his promise, Congress needs to."
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