Presidential ad wars continue in Virginia
The television advertising war between the presidential campaigns continues this week, with new spots from President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The Obama ad, which debuted Tuesday, is very similar to a previous spot attacking Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts. Romney is on the air today with an ad hitting Obama for his statement last week that “the private sector is doing fine.”
June 14, 2012 - 8:01 AM
It’s going to be a LOOOOONG few months. I liked it better when Virginia wasn’t a “battleground” state.
I don’t find it surprising that for the Obama ad he has citations to back up his facts were as the Romney ad has None. His ad is just more unsubstantiated accusations which are baseless. He provides zero facts to back up his claims they are made solely in order to dupe the voting public into believing he is the right man for the job when in fact he’s not. He didn’t become a multi millionaire by p[laying nice or by worrying about the middle class which was plainly obvious with his day one ad. He listed his priorities 1 big oil and the key stone pipeline. 2 more tax breaks for the rich. 3 removing restrictions that keep big drug and insurance companies from raping the little people by killing Obamacare. Yeah we known what Romney’s priorities are and it’s not the middle class
It is not at all surprising to see comments showing disdain for Mr. Romney’s wealth. The Obama Administration has done nothing more for this country than to divide us all in one way or another. Mr. Romney is a VERY successful man, both in his private and public life. His record in business, during his administration as governor in Massachusetts (where he worked primarily with a liberal majority in the legislature), as the CEO of the Utah Olymics and in his personal life depicts that of a man who is wise, prudent, committed, honest, humble and well respected. I could care less how Mitt made his money! It is HIS MONEY! I care more what the president of the country wants to do with MY MONEY! The priorities Romney lists for “day one” under his presidential administration have to do with getting America back to work! Obama has done nothings but increase the size of government. What little jobs he says he has created were in the public/government sector. We need our economy to grow and government doesn’t grow the economy,it takes the taxes from hard working citizens to sustain itself. We need the Keystone pipeline (it would create thousands of private sector jobs, tax breaks will provide financial stability for those private businesses who create jobs, and Obamacare is just another government parasite burdened on the taypayer that will kill our economy, our liberty and our future. Mitt Romney’s success is not something to demonize, it is something to celebrate and take advantage of for our future. Our country needs dynamic, BIG thinking, motivated people to revitalize our vision for America. We don’t need to keep blaming the failures of this administration on a past president – who, by the way, must be pretty powerful to still be causing our economies demize! Stop demonizing success! WE NEED SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE working in government!! We need to elect Mitt Romney and give Barrack Obama the pink slip that he himself said he would be given if he didn’t turn this economy around in 3 years. He hasn’t and he has no one else to blame but himself.
I agree, it “is not at all surprising to see comments showing disdain for Mr. Romney’s wealth”. We Americans are funny that way. We do not begrudge anyone their wealth but it matters how they got it just the same. Being a vulture capitalist and making your money by raiding and essentially looting companies and putting people out of work is just not something we applaud. Greed is not good in the big picture.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/as_bain_slashed_jobs_romney_stayed_to_side/
“But in almost all cases Bain Capital made money. In fact, the firm earned substantially more from Ampad than Staples. Staples returned about $13 million on a $2 million investment; Ampad yielded more than $100 million on $5 million, according to reports to investors.”
From the day President Obama won the election, this nation has roiled and turned into a bunch of lying, hypocritical, zealots willing to do anything to “get their country back”. Fed by hate, it has been ugly, but it has not been Obama’s fault. It is Lincoln all over again. Stir the pot until it boils and make people hate what is best for the nation because it is not best for you.
A “wise, prudent, committed, honest, humble and well respected” man cares about the entire nation, not just his cronies. NOTHING in Romney’s plans or policy positions say he cares about anyone except his crowd.
Congress must approve the budgets and write the legislation that spends the money. The president is not a dictator, remember Bush commenting on how much easier it would be if he were? That is why Romney’s “Day one” ads are a joke. He literally cannot do any of that “Day one” or even very quickly. He is lying and posturing for votes. Not very “honest” or “humble”!
It is a lie that Obama has increased “the size of government”. It is a lie that “jobs he says he has created were in the public/government sector”. The problem is that mainly the “hard working citizens” are paying taxes and the investor class (like Romney) are not paying their fair share.
The Keystone pipeline is a jobs pipe dream. http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10541404-keystone-pipeline-claims-just-dont-add-up?lite
We have the lowest tax rates in modern history and they have not “created jobs”. You have fallen for a fantasy. Giving Obama “a pink slip” will be no solution at all as we will be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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Hogwash.
Romney will be absolutely no better than Obama. I am so sick of so called conservatives praising him now, only AFTER they went down the list of candidates, one by one that knocked out of the race. He is a big government Republican and nothing more. Why not start fighting the real fight instead of yelping like a lap dog to the party powers that be.