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Here’s the gist of Barack Obama’s first general election ad, a minute-long encomium to humble roots and land-of-opportunity patriotism that’s set to run in 18 states: "I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents. We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. Accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated. It’s what guided me as I worked my way up — taking jobs and loans to make it through college."
Those 18 states: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
As Joe Sudbay writes at Americablog, all but four of those states (New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) went for Bush in 2004.
Barack Obama: "Country I Love" (1:00)
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Comment posted June 21, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
I got an e-mail from Andy Martin, who is also from Chicago, and happens to be a Republican. Andy identifies himself as a muckraker, author, Internet journalist, radio talk show host and broadcaster, and media critic. Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of http://www.ContrarianCommentary.com. In this e-mail he questions the truthfulness of Obama’s statements in his new ad concerning his “strong family values”. From Andy’s e-mail:
Obama’s first TV commercial invites viewers to join him in “Fantasyland”
Is Obama the product of “strong families and strong values?” “Give me a break, says Andy
(NEW YORK)(June 20, 2008) Obama has released his first TV commercial of the general election campaign. It is an excursion into Obama’s own Fantasyland.
Obama says “America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life has been blessed by both.” Unfortunately, the claims about himself are fantasies. Obama’s family life was not “blessed” (nice Christian term, that) by either a strong family or strong values.
In the next line of the ad he goes on to claim “I was raised by a single mother
Comment posted June 21, 2008 @ 10:42 am
I got an e-mail from Andy Martin, who is also from Chicago, and happens to be a Republican. Andy identifies himself as a muckraker, author, Internet journalist, radio talk show host and broadcaster, and media critic. Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of http://www.ContrarianCommentary.com. In this e-mail he questions the truthfulness of Obama's statements in his new ad concerning his “strong family values”. From Andy's e-mail:
Obama's first TV commercial invites viewers to join him in “Fantasyland”
Is Obama the product of “strong families and strong values?” “Give me a break, says Andy
(NEW YORK)(June 20, 2008) Obama has released his first TV commercial of the general election campaign. It is an excursion into Obama's own Fantasyland.
Obama says “America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life has been blessed by both.” Unfortunately, the claims about himself are fantasies. Obama's family life was not “blessed” (nice Christian term, that) by either a strong family or strong values.
In the next line of the ad he goes on to claim “I was raised by a single mother
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