Obama Allies Launch New Ad Touting Stim Package As “First Step On Road To Recovery”
A Democratic operative sends over the new ad that Obama’s allies on the left — AFSCME and the labor-backed Americans United for Change — have just launched touting the benefits of the stimulus package President Obama signed today:
The ad will air on national and D.C. cable through Friday, which suggests the audience is an insider one, but an official involved with the buy says that the ad is likely to run in places where Obama travels to promote the stim bill.
The ad touts the stim package as “the first step on the road to recovery.”
This forward-looking formulation is yet another reminder that the political war over the package is only just starting. In the months ahead, Obama and Dems will be working to solidify public perceptions that the bill is righting the economy, while Republicans try to cast it as failing.
Liberals and Dems will also keep trying to boost the public’s appetite for ambitious public initiatives — hence the ad saying this is the “first step” — while Repubs try to use the stim bill’s price tag to turn the public against future expenditures.
Huh. They’re being proactive.
That’s a nice change.
I think just a regular citizen made this one but the Dems should use it. It starts out looking shady but it hits the GOP where it hurts as it goes on.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJXLF4mFlY
Proactive would be if they had been allowed to air this *before* the stim bill was passed. I still think Obama sits on surrogates and should allow them freer rein. He does like to control the dialog.
AmiBlue: point taken.
I was thinking “proactive” in the sense that Republicans hadn’t already gotten out there with some half-assed ad that completely blurred the picture.
First impressions, and all, you know?
Republicans are at least consistent. Starting with Reagan, Republicans deregulated banking and all financial business, which opened the door to the horrible mess we’re now in. “Trust us,” they said, “heh heh heh.”
During the inevitable melt-down that followed, last year, GW Bush did almost nothing, while Republicans like McCain declared everything was hunky-dory. Bush, however, under the guise of a bailout, did allow the banking and Wall Street investment businesses to loot the US Treasury, giving them billions with no adult supervision. That rewarded the Bush supporters with nice bonuses and lots more cash, drawn from use by the public and deposited in their private accounts. A nice going-away gift to the rich from GW Bush, using money that belongs to all of us.
Now that Obama is faced with the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, Republicans are continuing to obstruct, voting as a bloc to defeat Obama’s proposals, and through their know-nothing, do nothing sympathizers in the media, are obstructing, obstructing, obstructing. Obviously if you are a Republican you see a different world from the one that exists for most Americans.