Crossroads ad targets Obama's pledge to move country "forward"

(CBS News) Seeking to undermine the Democratic message in the middle of the party's presidential nominating convention, American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-linked super PAC, is out with a new ad Wednesday questioning whether President Obama is leading the U.S. not forward but "backward."

The 30-second spot, which will air for one week in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia at a cost of $6.6 million, takes aim the president's campaign slogan even as voters watching the Democratic festivities from home this week are likely to see images of delegates waving campaign signs touting it.

"President Obama says he'll move us forward. But where's he taken us so far?" asks the ad's narrator. "America's worst economic recovery ever: 23 million of us without full-time work; family incomes down; 40 percent living paycheck to paycheck, and Obamacare's new tax on middle-class families, all while Obama racked up $5 trillion more in debt - is that really forward? Or backward?"

In bold text on the screen, Crossroads offers an answer to that question: "Backward. We can't afford 4 more years," it reads.

[Maerzie]

Expect LOTS of these filthy ads! They have, HOW many MULTI-MILLIONS of dollars to buy TV lies and fill our recycling containers full of their lies and twisted words?? Whomever is "in CHARGE" of all their wastes of millions, is definitely lacking in reading comprehension! Could it be the college flunkout, Karl Rove??

[thebob-bob]

The NYT said it well: "Republicans charted a course of
denial and obstruction from the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated,
determined to deny him a second term by denying him any achievement, no
matter the cost to the economy or American security."

The Koch brothers want the John Birch society tor run the country. To them, it's all a plot by those Godless Commies!!! Paranoia runs deep.

[Maerzie]

AWESOME quote from the NYT, "thebob-bob"! Thank you. THINKING people need to know and read the opinions of educated people. We certainly get our fill of too much trash from the nutcases!

[rightontarget]

"President Obama says he'll move us forward. But where's he taken us so far?" asks the ad's narrator. "
*****************************************

Well, considering the Republican Obstructionist ROAD BLOCKS, I'd say he has taken us pretty far. The Auto Industry is still ALIVE and Bin Lauden is DEAD. Women have a better shot at equal pay for equal work as men. Jobes HAVE been created even though not as much as we would like, thanks to the Obstructionist Blockers. It goes to show you that even up against INTENTIONAL obsticals that were ment to PREVENT any progress at all by this administration, he STILL managed to get some things done. And most importantly, he did NOT cave in or quit the fight. Obama was unrealistic in his views in the beginning because he honestly believed our partisan government would work together to accomplish something. Get real!! Not with today's Republican Party. I'm ashamed to say I used to be one. Back BEFORE they became the American Taliban.

[RollotheNorman]

Absolutely, the RepubliCONs have delayed, denied, and distorted very move the President has made.

[dannysteele]

Boy, you'd think an organization affiliated with the Grand OLD Party would be happy to go backward.

Also, keep in mind that almost all developed countries are having economic problems now. This is a global economic problem. The US can't be an island of prosperity in an ocean of downturn.