Pro-GOP group takes on Obama in new ad

President Barack Obama delivers his weekly address, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. / whitehouse.gov

A pro-Republican third-party political group, American Crossroads, has launched a new TV ad criticizing President Obama on jobs and government spending.

The ad attempts to appeal to women voters as it features a woman sitting at her kitchen table talking directly to the camera after watching an ad where President Obama faced the camera in a direct appeal to voters.

After the president says in his ad, "If I could sit with you in your living room or around the kitchen table, here's what I'd say..." the woman turns to the camera and says, "But Mr. President, here's what I want to know."

She wonders about jobs "promised", "trillions" in government spending and lower wages. "My family can't afford another four years like this," she concludes.

The group, affiliated with former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, is spending $11.1 million on this ad in eight swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. It will also air on Pandora internet radio and on the Big 10 and SEC networks.

This ad is the latest from American Crossroads and its partner super PAC, Crossroads GPS, as part of a joint campaign that has totaled at least $130 million this campaign cycle. Many of the ads have been geared at defeating Mr. Obama but several have focused on criticizing Democrats running for the House and Senate.

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Can't believe the Republicans are so brazen as to blame the 2008 economic disaster on Obama. Only a stupid person would believe that nonsense. I am much better off now than when Bush, junior grade, left office. In his two years of effective governance, Democrat policies saved us from another Great Depression. Then the Republicans came back in 2010 in their obstructionist mode, allowing nothing to get done. Then they blame it on Obama as the reason.

Perhaps the recovery hasn't been as quick as we would like. What the GOP did with power brought America to disgrace in the world in a way that left nobody but Hitler with pride in their eyes. Sure, more wars, and do away with America in favor of a military state. Starve the elderly and disabled because they're no use to anyone, anyway. To hell with the land of the free. The land of the 1% is sooo much better.