New Obama ad strikes ‘don’t blame me’ tone on economy

President Barack Obama's campaign released a new ad on Monday that takes aim squarely at his greatest vulnerability: the sour economy. The ad emphasizes that the president inherited the financial disaster when he took office and insists that, thanks to his policies, "we're coming back."

The minute-long message, dubbed "Go," will air in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida and Colorado—all seen as battleground states in the November election.

The ad opens with "2008: An economic meltdown" and highlights spiking unemployment rates, foreclosures, plummeting stocks and then emphasizes that they came "all before this president took the oath." The video goes on to talk about Obama's decision to champion the automobile industry bailout opposed by Mitt Romney. It then takes viewers on a foreign policy detour, showcasing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden with what appears to be night-vision footage of a military operation, as the narrator boasts of "our greatest enemy brought to justice by our greatest heroes." It also touches on the troop withdrawal from Iraq, then pivots back to the economy.

"Instead of losing jobs, we're creating them. Over 4.2 million so far," it says, before acknowledging that "we're not there yet … it's still too hard for too many." But "we're coming back."

The ad is notable in part for what it doesn't show: Romney never appears, and opposition to Obama is reduced to a few images of tea party rallies, including one shot of a demonstrator in colonial garb with a "Shut 'Er Down" sign. Obama's two signature domestic policy achievements, his health care overhaul and the Dodd-Frank rewrite of Wall Street rules, are missing, as is the $800 billion stimulus package he championed as necessary to revive the economy.

The ad drew a quick response from the Romney campaign, with spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg charging that Obama's policies "have wreaked havoc on the middle class."

"After a doubling of gas prices, declining incomes, millions of foreclosures, and record levels of unemployment, Americans know they're not better off than they were four years ago," Henneberg said in an emailed statement. "Mitt Romney's pro-growth agenda will get America back on track and stop the middle-class squeeze of the Obama economy."
And the Republican National Committee seized on Obama's strategic insistence that he inherited this troubled economy. "President Obama spends a lot of time looking backward and blaming others for the state of the American economy," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, who charged that "Obama may want you to forget he's been president for the past three and a half years."

Recent polls have shown that many Americans think the economy is still in recession, and that more people have confidence in Romney than in Obama when it comes to spurring growth. The economy tops the list of issues most on voters' minds. At his first major rallies of the 2012 campaign, the president explicitly sought to steer the debate over the weekend away from the classic political question "are you better off than you were four years ago?" and asked Americans to "keep believing in me."

b!g h!story hahaha

name me one, just one politician
that doesn't lie. not to mention lawyers,
all religious leaders, doctors and every media
source in the world. it's all spin for yourselves
and it all comes down to the almighty buck $$$

ill do better

name me one PERSON who doesnt lie,,,and Im even talking about those lies that are subjectively 'little' or 'white',,,,,,
?

Barry, however is a habitual liar.

Must not be able to help himself.

how many lies make it 'habitual'?

because then the previous question stands regarding anyone in the field of politics......

It's not how many lies that make one habitual, It's the ones that he thinks no one will catch him in and he doesn't care. Obama has been caught many times and doesn't care. As long as the lie is believed by some he will continue to lie.

so, when people are 'caught in lies' , unless they NEVER lie again,, it means they dont care?

I don't know. Obama is a natural liar. He can't stop lying. Sad isn't it.

What's even sadder is, there are people, believe it or no, that will defend every lie he tells.

Yes, that's even sadder.

and people who will continue to call different perceptions and experiences 'lies',,,,


mind readers and fortune tellers, you would think, would be amongst some of the more prominent people in the country vying for things to stay as they are,,,,,,

When different perceptions and experiences are not reality, they are lies.

like the 'reality' of whether or not someone read something in a magazine, or took someone on a date, or went to a christian school, or has family 'ties' to something, or speaks a certain language?


those realities from people who know the speaker about as well as they know Angelina Jolie?

Obviously, you don't know a lie when you hear it. How sad for you.

um.... er... everyone knows that Obama did inherit this country after the Bush-Cheney administration reeked havoc on it. But it goes back further than that. Clinton, and daddy Bush. None of them did any better.

So, exactly what lie are you referring to that Obama told?

If you want to talk about presidential "lies" I have some whoppers from George Bush and Dick Cheney.. WHOPPERS!

I don't think it would have mattered what president came into office at this point. We are on a fast decline and so it the economy. It is by design, and Obama had nothing to do with that.