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The political undertones of President Obama's energy-related tour of swing states haven't been lost by the Republican super PAC American Crossroads, which launched new TV ads in the states where the president will stop.
As NBC News’ Ali Weinberg pointed out, Obama's tour will tout his energy policies in states that have stubbornly high gas prices.
But Crossroads, the brainchild of former Bush operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, isn't content to let that message go uncontested; the group made a $650,000 ad buy in Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Columbus -- the major media markets near the locations of Obama's stops.
The blistering attack ad suggests that the Obama administration allowed for gas to go up by $2 dollars a gallon, and neglected to develop American oil shale or support construction of the Keystone pipeline. It also uses sound from National Journal’s Major Garrett, who says in the ad: “At the White House for 3 weeks, the word has been deflect or shield on gas prices. Put up the deflector shield.”
The ad can be seen here:
Tell President Obama: bad energy policies mean energy prices we can't afford.
The size and scope of the ad buy demonstrates the influences of these deep-pocketed super PACs during the 2012 election cycle. Instead of dominating the local airwaves with his own message in swing states, the president will have to contend with countermessaging from a well-funded group of mainly unknown donors pushing back on his every word.
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Riiight!
Isnt' that what every President does going into a re-election campaign?
Good grief - these dolts are beyond mind-boggling!
Pay close attention folks - this is courtesy of the activist judges serving on the SCOTUS opening the flood gates of election buying...
would have been nice if the Scotus had at least made them tell THE TRUTH with this limitless money.
But THAT would have defeated the purpose of unlimited money.
We need to end this ruling!
This ad will get serious consideration from the trolls who love this website and from the people who would have voted for that animal abuser Romney anyway.
www.dogsagainstromney.com
So sorry the undisclosed GOP PAC guys lie so much - and folks are thinking of electing them? WOW.
The Keystone Pipeline is stalled because Nebraska Governor said NO to it going through the Ogallala Aquifer. Nothing to do with the President.
No alternative has yet been identified.
GOP leaders who are politicizing this have vested interests in the pipeline. They also tried to get Administration approval too early and were told to wait. The alternative plan has yet to manifest.
A President can only create the conditions for business. President Obama is NOT a "CEO in charge of business" but he has passed 17 tax breaks for small businesses, for starters.
Under President Obama Oil production is UP - 9 year high. Demand is DOWN -15 year low.
Global oil is not dictated by any country or President. Gas prices around the world rise and fall in tandem, and have done for decades.
Seems they should save their money.
They have not even had the GOP cannibal convention, yet.
OBAMA 2012
The ad has been running here for about a week.
I’ve seen better, more negative ads but then I understand the world market a little better than the average person since I have a few friends in the gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, heating oil, natural gas and propane business.
Oil because of OPEC and the world market does not fit the normal supply and demand model.
Bashing Obama is their only message or vision for American.
Sad for our country.
OBAMA 2012
It looks like the price of gasoline is the only issue the GOP has to complain about. This is going to be a loooong, unhappy election year for them.
Wayne-1656909
I love the dogsagainstromeny.com website and especially the part stating that Romney thinks that "corporations are people" and that dogs are luggage.
Backhouse
The Republicans claim that they want the government to keep their paws off small business yet they want Obama to somehow force the (private) oil industry to lower their prices. They say we could drill more in the US while in fact, because of low demand, oil companies have been shutting down large refineries in the US. I don't even know why these idiots hang on to blaming Obama for the gas prices - but I guess they have nothing else to hang on to.
Most of the reason gas is so high is speculation of war with Iran however the Repubs with the exception of Ron Paul would continue this so Yes it is the presidents fault gas has risen but NO the GOP will not fix it unless Ron Paul is elected and they are pulling out every stop to make sure that doesn't happen.
You can pretty much write-off any ad with "Crossroads" at the bottom of it. It's Karl Rove's SuperPac and that guy is an evil little lier that created George W. Bush and Rick Perry out of thin air. The man has no honor or scruples.
Start up the GOP Super Pac Lies...
the group made a $650,000 ad buy - holy cr--! It isn't even April and Karl is blowing through Super Pac money like Koch Brothers are made of it - oh, right they are. Wow, we got ourselves some "job creating" here, a veritable mini-stimulus for the economy from Rove's donors.
How much oil money went towards buying those ads?
(...and wouldn't those same donors rather see the continued high energy prices?)
Citizens United NEEDS to be ended!
The only thing that gives me some hope, is that I have seen limitless money fall flat on it's face here in Ca.
Meg whitman and Fiorina spent MILLIONS more than the opponent but LOST big time.
Meg Whitman lost to the limitless money of the crooked public sector unions and other parasites on the public payroll in socialist California.
So according to Rove and Gillespie when oil prices soared under GW Bush's watch that was okay but not under Obama's watch. Neither President could do anything to raise or lower gas prices but truth is a strange word to them. Hypocrisy is Rove's guideline and he does it well. Heck, he even teaches others.
These SuperPACS are just big fat whores for the GOP. They lie with nice sounding names. They are despicable. We need a constitutional amendment to stop Turdblossom from putting out these lies under a sweet sounding banner with undisclosed donors. Some liberal SuperPAC needs to put up ads just identifying the whores with their pimps. Where is the media? The reports on these SuperPACS are just like, "Oh well, the SuperPACS put up these messages funded by millions and millions of dollars by people like the Koch brothers with names like 'America First' and 'Red, White & Blue' and many are really the alteregos of Mitt Romney, but hey, that's all fine."Where is the frigging outrage?? Ads need to go up right away calling these outfits "WHORES". Karl Rove should have gone to prison for his conduct in a Texas gubernatorial election long before he became Bush's Brain. He got Clements elected by falsely accusing his opponent of planting bugs in a campaign office. Of course, later he helped out a CIA agent. Undoubtedly, he crafted the forged letter concerning Bush's MIA from the Alabama National Guard to bait Dan Rather. He is still probably laughing about that. (Bush really was MIA but the story became Dan Rather's gullibility about the forged letter.) But the right wingers still love Turdblossom. A right wing Republican is going to love a J.R. Ewing. Dirty dealing is winning dealing in their eyes. Power is power, even if it is derived from cheating, lying and stealing.
"Instead of dominating the local airwaves with his own message in swing states, the president will have to contend with countermessaging from a well-funded group of mainly unknown donors pushing back on his every word."
Awwwww. the poor President actually has to compete with his message ?
But dont worry...the national media like MSNBC has Obama's back, acting as his unofficial reelection Team !
Teabaggers= Idiots following Idiots
The super pac is redistributing the wealth from Crossroad to News corp.