RNC targets Obama in ad airing during Olympics

(CBS News) Just hours after the Obama campaign unveiled an upbeat new ad slated to run in tonight's Olympics opening ceremonies, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced its own ad to run during the festivities.

The 30-second spot, entitled "Again," eschews the Obama campaign's inspirational tone, instead hammering the president for economic policies the RNC argues led to further unemployment and little else.

"While Americans waited for help, billions were spent in foreign countries, millions went to political insiders. Millions more unaccounted for," says the ad's narrator, as somber images of Americans flash across the screen. "Now your money is gone, and so are nearly 500,000 jobs. His second economic plan? Do it again."

According to the RNC, the ad will air on national cable in eight battleground states - North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and Virginia - during the Olympics.

"President Obama may think his economic plan worked but looking at today's GDP numbers it's clear the president is out of touch," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in a statement announcing the ad's release. "Obama's stimulus plan sent money to his political insiders, went to foreign countries, or wasn't accounted for. It did everything except do what President Obama promised it would: create jobs for the American people. In a second term, President Obama wants to do it all again. Middle class families can't afford that."

The Obama ad paints a much different picture: The ad, entitled "Believe," reiterates the administration's commitment to middle-class Americans and the concept that the economy is grown "from the middle out."

[marychgo]

I'm not in a swing state, and I don't have cable, but somehow that appalling RNC ad turned up on NBC during the Olympics last night. There wasn't an accurate statement in it. I hope most American viewers were taking a refrigerator (or bathroom) break so they didn't have to listen to the lies....

[Lucky12345678]

Gosh, why don't we just give ourselves 1st class health care including dental. We can borrow the money from the Chinese, no problem let our kids pick up the tab later. Or, we can learn to live within our means, which means eliminating half of the current 11 aircraft carrier groups, remove NASA programs such as the mission to seek out extra-terrestrial life forms, remove corn ethanol subsidies for gasoline and the huge one for sugar beets and federal farm subsidies. How about people taking responsibility for their own health care instead of mooching off their fellow citizens, cross state line insurance competition, limits on fees collected by medical malpractice lawyers, etc. The solutions are identifiable; the will to implement them is nowhere in sight.
With over 45 Million Americans on Food Stamps and around 47% of working Americans not paying any Federal income taxes who then is carrying the load for the Federal government? To even suggest raising taxes is an insult to everyone's intelligence. Stop the runaway spending by Congress and balance your budget... Stop borrowing money which our kids will only have to pay back with interest! We all need to learn again how to do more with less as the free ride is clearly over. Rome is burning and you still talk about class warfare, it's a disgrace to past leaders and citizens of this once great nation.

Bottom line is Obama's call to raise taxes only on the rich would bring in about 87 Billion a year, but he's running a 1.2 Trillion yearly spending deficit! This is only a game for him in order to win reelection; he seems to have little interest in solving the over spending problem and getting the USA back to work with private sector jobs. Obama's reelection platform is about two things; tax the rich and create more government jobs...

[hypnotoad72]

Was it made in the Philippines?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/irony-gop-call-blasting-obama-for-unemployment-hosted-in-philippines/11257

[CaptainSmollett]

Obama wants us to "believe" in his committment to the middle-class. Well, Mr. Obama, show me what you've done for me:
- Raised taxes on the middle-class through Obamacare;
- Decimated our job opportunities with stiffling anti-business policies and threats of more tax increases on small businesses;
- Increased the likelihood that my employer will stop providing employer-paid health insurance.
Obama's ad is another example of empty promises and deceitful rhetoric. Look at his record: It is undeniable FAILURE for the working-class.
Believe in Obama? NOT A CHANCE! He hasn't earned a second term, and we can't afford it.

[fiberglass3]

Yes captain, let's go back to 2008 and do it all over again with Romney. By the way where are Romneys taxes? Something in there that we shouldn't see?

[RollotheNorman]

I don't Obama give's a big rat's a$$ what you believe in. Died in the wool RepubliCON spammers aren't going to vote Democratic at any time. But as for the middle class, here are the latest Washington Post/ABC results for whom the middle class considers to be in their corner:

Who do you think would do more to advance the economic interests of middle class Americans, Obama or Romney?

Obama: 51
Romney: 42

And if you're Mitt Romney, here's the bad news:

Who do you think would do more to advance the economic interests of wealthy Americans, Obama or Romney?

Obama: 24
Romney: 65

Who do you think would do more to advance the economic interests of financial institutions, Obama or Romney?

Obama: 32
Romney: 56

But despite being seen as fighting for the middle class and not having Mitt Romney's Bain baggage, President Obama's lead is still slim on the most basic question:

Who do you think would do more to advance the economic interests of you and your family, Obama or Romney?

Obama: 46
Romney:: 43

Actually, what we have here is Boehner parrot:

Obama "doesn't give a damn about middle-class Americans who are out there looking for work," Boehner told Capitol Hill reporters. "What he's trying to do is distract the American people in order to win his own reelection."

Smollett wanna cracker?

[Robby33383]

I can't see how Obama can possibly win in November. The most accurate polling service, Rassmssen, has Romney up by 4 pts. No one is buying Obama's teleprompter speeches anymore!!! The lefty media, Obama's cheerleaders, can't push him over the goal line this time around.

[hypnotoad72]

What will Romney do differently?

His healthcare plan?! (or at least taking out anything that might actually benefit a worker, just for the sake of lining the pockets of big insurance lobbyists...)

[breedum]

CBS = Can't Be Serious = more drool. WHAT HAS THE GREAT OBUMINATOR DONE FOR ANY OF US. Healthcare? You Lie! is completely accurate as my health insurance has nearly DOUBLED in 2 years. Now I only have catastrophic care and my deductible went from 2k to 5k a year. "Your healthcare won't change", F'n LIAR.

WAKE UP America, this guy has NO PLAN, DONE NOTHING for the middle class, and does nothing but campaign on our tax dollars.

I am an Independent and will not vote for either of the idiots.

How can any of you support either????????

[hypnotoad72]

Okay, so you're nitpicking Obama. That's fair.

What will Romney do differently to make your life better?

This, perhaps:

http://www.popscreen.com/v/62Q3x/Romney-says-he%E2%80%99s-not-looking-to-put-money-in-peoples-pockets

[qyeteye]

Congress is obviously a failure - vote them out, not back in.

Bash, block & blame to create a one term president, hence failure to help our nation.

[CaptainSmollett]

Obama and his leftist minions are anti-capitalist. He vowed to "spread the wealth around", but all he has accomplished is to decimate our system of free-enterprise in the process. He has been a collossal failure.

[jmn122736]

You're right CaptainSmollett; President Obama failed to stop the avalanche halfway down the hill. He only slowed it enough to prevent a second GREAT DEPRESSION. Good thing McCain wasn't elected, otherwise how would Republicans pass the blame for the Bush/Cheney fiasco?

ad_iudicium: could you please post the complete details of, or a link to, at least one of those 30 bills Reed is sitting on. Maybe the American voters should be made aware of WHY they have not been passed or allowed to proceed. You choose; ANY bill.

[qyeteye]

RNC / GOP purveyor of tribal myths, distortions and propaganda. SAY they will focus on jobs-jobs-jobs to get your vote then DO everything but. Protectors of status-quo at the expense of the diminishing class. Trickle-down show in fact to be trickle-up.

Orwellian reality they promote. And enough people take it in to keep them alive and continuing their record of harming the nation while talking how they can make it right.

[hypnotoad72]

ad_iudicium -

Unfortunately, how unemployment is calculated was spun long before Obama took office. To make a long short short, If you don't get unemployment checks, you're not unemployed. Real unemployment could be much higher (and was before 2009), but fudged stats make the issue appear better than how it truly is. There are other factors, but neither political side should be trotting out any UI figure based on the current stats, which are created via fuzzy math and arthur anderson-style accounting chicanery.

[konr22]

Hell Yeah, I'm with him! George W. Bush lost 20 million jobs. Obama lost 500,00 jobs.

[albertj829]

And that is exactly why I am not turning on theTV.