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amazing piece new york times today reporting on new campaign ad coming out
this week
by a republican super pack that's going after obama
nightly carl rove super pack the ad is the centerpiece of the twenty-five
million dollar advertising campaign in ten swing states
funded by carl rose corporate super pack
and produced by larry mccarthy
now they have sounds familiar it's because he's the guy behind the willie
horton ads
that sunk met michael dukakis in nineteen in the eight
in your times explains how it works writing the
quote
behind the story of the ads creation rest one of the greatest challenges for
republicans in the selection
how to develop a powerful line of attack against a president who remains
well-liked
even by people who are considering voting against
so to make this added end of quote
so to make his ad republican strategist took information from eight
teen different focus groups
across a whole bunch a key states all the way from florida through ohio all we
have to colorado
and what they found is
they when they focus groups attack ads against president obama's integrity or
character turned off boaters
is the president is
basically well liked by most americans
in fact the president of carl rose crossroads g_p_s_ super packs a
voters are not interested me and told him in a horrible mistake
the disappointment there now experience he has to be handled carefully
and quote
so they had a carefully the added this and that the republicans are rolling out
this week which is in title basketball
features and actress
portrayed a woman who voted for president obama four years ago and
actually still likes it
as the actress says
i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully
he promised
change
and cheaper that same
but things changed for the worse
she then tells a fictionalized but fairly common story
about her family's financial problems about our children and able to find a
job after college of move back in with their
but she can afford to retire
she basically speaks the very same problems that many americans are heavy
and even though the economy's gotten better with more than four million jobs
created a robot
since the economic freefall was starting to us nine there is still
millions and millions of americans have been left behind
millions of americans are desperately needed the president take bold action
and we're left on their own when the president was only able to get a modest
stimulus through congress because of republican opposition
course the ad doesn't mention the republicans of blacks more than fifty
pieces of legislation they would have improved the economy over the past three
years instead it makes the argument that the buck stops with the president that
he's the one who to blame for the ongoing struggle many americans are
feeling
it's these people her team and working class people
who haven't been following politic it's carefully enough
to know that it was really the republicans in congress
who prevented the levels of economic recovery we really needed
it's does people republicans attorney with this new at
but despite the truth which is the president bata has disappointed a lot of
americans by going bill clinton said the f_d_r_ in two thousand nine we all have
to rumor just how high the stakes are in this election
hanging in the balance is the supreme court which
on which four justices are over seventy
years
the next president will change the makeup of the high court you can bet
that if it's mit romney
they will have even more right wingers on the bench of the declare everything
from food stamps
to unemployment insurance
diva medicare as unconstitutional
as stake this election is the survival of the middle class
which president obama perhaps is not enough to protect but which mister
mirana completely eviscerate
rolling back protections for labor unions support for college students
really for homeowners
at stake
is our nation's
standing
in the world
with president on ending the war in iraq beginning the withdrawal trish in
afghanistan
and what is their only wanted to
uh... yeah bob bob bob already alia units
is so much at stake in this election
and i think you know why i would be leading a parade of those disappointed
in the president for choosing to be bill clinton's that f_d_r_ three years ago
i'd genuinely fear what will happen if they're running becomes president
this add the karl rove is going to roll out this week across the nation is a
brilliant study in the usa psychology
and half truths
to win an election
the day president obama was sworn in mitch mcconnell republican senate leader
declared that his first mission
over the next four years of the make obama one-term president
and mcconnell
absolutely brilliant job of helping to bring that
to a possible reality by heavy republicans filibuster every single
piece of good and useful as legislation who put americans back to work
nl karl rove wants you to forget the role that he
and george w_ bush plane crash in the economy starting to illegal wars
and throwing the government and a red with a massive tax cut
for rich people
rove wants this if alda forget
but the danger study bush came into office
the deficit was zero
the debt was beginning to decline
the bush himself pointed out in his first state of the union address
thereby continuing clinton's policies
he would pay off the entire hashing old debt within ten years here's george bush
maglaj it is funded neighbors possible increase
in our ongoing operations
it has funded our nation's important priorities
is protected social security and medicare
and are surpluses are big enough that there is still money left over
many of you talk about the need to pay down our national debt
allison's and i agree
we owe it to our children and grandchildren that now
and i hope you'll join me to pay down two trillion dollars in debt during the
next ten years
at the end of those ten years we'll have paid down all the debt
that is available to retire
that is more debt repaid more quickly than has ever been repaid by any nation
any time in history
car rolled once a solid forget that he was the architect that was his title
you know somebody in fact there is a book about corrupt called the architect
he referred to himself as the architect which of course refer to mister blossom
but that's almost like he was the architect of the bush presidency who ran
america into the ditch
and call rob instead want to average americans to blame president obama
that he hasn't yet complete fix the republican great depression george w_
bush left us
he's hoping crowell role
is hoping that will all forget
the george w_ bush stood out there in front of congress
in two thousand one
in the state of the union address indelibly was a march of two thousand
one
inside
i'm putting a budget on the table
theo cohen had this huge surplus when he left
bush inherited a surplus
and the national debt when bush became president was all in the mirror of five
six trillion dollars
and there was three trillion dollars missiles security trust fund
which you can't pay off you wouldn't want to pay off
that's were social security parked its money i mean you know the government to
continue paying interest iso securities or grows right
saudi could pay off as a couple trillion dollars
in george w_ bush set on my comment office on a payoff goes off
because we've got a surplus
in any way and saying
and he was too on paid four wars
because as a trillion bucks each
he he gave us medicare part d which said that the the uh... medicare
administration
can not negotiate for lower prices with the pharmaceutical companies that pay
full retail
and no provisions made for its part of the credit card
and he did this massive tax cuts
for millionaires in billionaires people making money like matt romney does
and put that on the credit card
and they were and the economy into the deck he wants you to forget on now for
the