The Obama campaign is up with its second significant TV ad of the cycle, this one a response to a recent $3 million-plus ad blitz by the American Energy Alliance, a group with ties to the conservative Koch Brothers.
The new Obama ad -- which will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia -- also knocks Mitt Romney.
An Obama campaign official adds to First Read: "We saw it as an opportunity to highlight the president's energy record."
It's worth noting that the campaign's first TV ad was in response to another anti-Obama advertisement by a group -- Americans for Prosperity -- with ties to the Koch Brothers.
The script of the new TV ad:
Under President Obama, domestic oil production’s at an eight-year high.
So why is Big Oil attacking him?
Because he’s fighting to end their tax breaks.
He’s raising mileage standards, and doubling renewable energy.
In all these fights, Mitt Romney’s stood with Big Oil— for their tax breaks, attacking higher mileage standards and renewables.
So when you see this ad
Remember who paid for it. And what they want.


Obama claims he's the only one that can waste tax payer dollars to bailout campaign contributors failed energy investments.
It's sad, seeing the frothy conservatives respond to facts. They hate facts.
roadkill conservatives know the facts and here they are; oil pruduction is only up on farmers and other private lands that Obama has no control over. the real facts is Obama stalled the pipeline to get that oil from the private lands to the refineries. the other facts are Obama stalled and revoked permits for drilling offshore and on federal lands. and it is a fact that Obama wasted 800billion dollars of real taxpayers money on failed renewable energy that was only in the development stage. any questions.
President Obama has opened up more federal land and shallow water and granted more permits than any Republican president. Facts hurt, don't they, john?
more of Obamas lies and the ad was very weak. most americans know that production is up only because of the balken reserve. a reserve on farmers and private land of whickh Obama has no control over. the real facts is that Obama stalled the pipeline to get that shale oil from the shale fields to the refineries. and lets not forget the 800 billion of real taxpayers money went to his failed and bankrupt renewable energy that were in development stage and had no credibility just like him. fossil fuels are going to be around for awhile till technology makes true sound renewable energy economically feasable. its going to be awhile before development of an clean energy source that has the muscle to power large ships and planes. its funny how this administration attacks the industry that pays the highest tax rate 41% which is providing the most jobs and tax revenue for him to waste and spend foolishly.
You post is pure fantasy nonsense.. In every regard..
Hey,.. consistency counts !!!!!
The post is actually filled with facts. Get off the Obama kool aid and wake up and realize that our country is being destroyed by a president with Marxist idealogy.
Michael Savage??? BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
That was funny.
Thanks..
Willard's a teapublican. In each and every fight, he will stand with corporate America, against average Americans.
Seriously, was this EVER in doubt??
""In all these fights, Mitt Romney’s stood with Big Oil— for their tax breaks, attacking higher mileage standards and renewables.""
Obama has given big oil the most amount of money by continuing to do nothing about lowering our gas prices. They have doubled nation wide since he took office.
That's potentially the dumbest thing I've read today.
Cheers!!!
The gas prices have doubled since Obama took office and he has done NOTHING effective to lower them. How has Obama's energy policy worked for you?
This is especially for you sally..
Have somebody read it to you, and then explain it..
Good luck !!!
""At the same time that the price of gasoline is rising, the US oil industry is increasing its exports of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.... Compared to a year ago, exports of gasoline have tripled – at a time when the price of gasoline is 42 cents a gallon more expensive at the pump.""
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0223/As-gas-prices-rise-should-US-oil-industry-stop-exporting
Which means nothing since demand is up world wide. When Saudi Arabia or Iran withholds oil from the market they are demonized, yet when Obama keeps some of the largest reserves in the world off limits, he's applauded? Yea that's smart.
When he funnels $2 billion to Brazil to develop their off shore fields, (and make campaign donor George Soros even more billions), yet does everything possible to shut down our gulf drilling, that's OK???
Economies can be rebuilt, armies can be repopulated, but once a nation’s pride is gone it can almost never be restored. The loss of a nation’s honor is something not even centuries can repair. –Michael Savage, Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama’s Dream Of The Socialist States Of America
The list of economic failures includes the first debt downgrade in U.S. history, and the highest budget deficits, federal spending, and federal debt as a percentage of GDP since World War II. Under Obama home ownership has declined to its lowest level since the 1960s. The number of Americans paying taxes is the lowest in the modern era, while those dependent on the government for aid is the highest in history.
That is Obama's record. It's indefensible. That is Obama's America. It's, to use a word the "green" movement loves, unsustainable
Ref:
http://theconservativebeacon.com/trickle-down-tyranny-is-the-blueprint-for-defeating-obama
The "conservative beacon"
Ah.. non-partisan media source I see.... LOL!!! OMG...
So he hasn't presided in this nations first downgrade ever? He hasn't presided over the first presidency to average well over a trillion a year deficits? Oh, OK.
Val--If you'd really followed the analysis of the downgrade, you would have read Moody's statements to the effect that the downgrade happened because the Republicans in Congress wouldn't cooperate to reach a rational agreement on raising the debt ceiling and some, such as Michelle Bachman, talked of how it would be OK to pay only the interest on the debt.
The conservatives, and also many of the liberals on this post are both stupid, hateful, and constantly willing to say anything or site any fact to get ahead. Here's my idea, despite the flaws and strong points of any candidate, and there are some for all of them, i believe Obama will do the best job, based on what i have seen of his plans, his bills, his record and his character. Agreed, crap happened when he was in office, but really, is everything bad that happened somehow his fault, and anything good that happenes not his fault? How can he claim all credit for misfortune, yet doesn't deserve any for progress and improvement? It doesn't make sense does it? And also, all you radical republicans who are ignoramuses, constantly claiming that the "lamestream liberal media" (gosh i hate that term) is telling lies to fool the public that Obama is not a Al Queda-Communistic-Nazi-ghetto-gangster, (i have heard him been called that by full grown adults,)
Just another Obama apologist. Good job???? Over three years in, and unemployment is STILL higher than when he took office, if you cut his deficits by a trillion A YEAR they would still be higher than Bush's, he shoved Obamacare down our throats despite two to one disapproval, he's funneled taxpayer money to campaign donors running companies that were known to be failures.
He's also loaded the supposedly neutral NLRB with union shills, insulted the supreme court in a state of the union address, takes credit for others achievements, and refuses to be responsible for anything.
navy squidly, your world your facts, your msnbc. (eye roll, thank God that all the "reverends" ie, al sharpton, jesse j, and of course jeremiah have hooked numbskulls like navy Patriot? (coughs), otherwise there would be no congregation of idiots.)
The corrupted Washington Establishment, the status quo, its financial supporters, and the media want you to choose between a shark, a barracuda, and a pirahna... I would still prefer an old fisherman like Ron Paul.
PERFECT AD ; BUT PLENTY MORE TO COME ; just skimming the surface at this present time. get ready for a repeat of the fighting candidates , '' in their own words about each other ''. EVERYBODY KNOWS THEY ARE HIPOCRITS , '' BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE 1%ers !!!!!!!!!!!
You're obviously drunk. Who do you think got nearly a million in 2008 from the Goldman Sachs "Fat Cats" he is always talking about? You got it--President Obama. Not to mention the hundreds of millions he got in less that $200 increments so he wouldn't have to report it. Go to opensecrets.org and get the truth on who financed our president--if you have enough guts--hypocrite!
Dennis, we are talking about $2.4 billion out of $1.5 trillion, which is .16% of one year's deficit. We the consumer will be paying more (yes a slight amount; but, still more at the pump). The real issue is out of control federal spending and not revenues received.
Wake Up America
America Is Bankrupt and Broken
Untouchable Pensions in California May Be Put to the Test
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Published: March 16, 2012
When the city manager of troubled Stockton, Calif., had to tell city council members why it was on track to become the biggest American city yet to go bankrupt, it took hours to get through the list.
There was the free health care for retirees, the unpaid parking tickets, the revenue bonds without enough revenue to pay them. On it went, a grim drumbeat of practically every fiscal malady imaginable, except an obvious one: municipal pensions. Stockton is spending some $30 million a year to pay for them, but it has less than 70 cents set aside for every dollar of benefits its workers expect.
Some public pension experts think they know why pensions were not on the city manager’s list. They see the hidden hand of California’s giant state pension system, known as Calpers, which administers hundreds of billions of dollars in retirement obligations for municipalities across the state.
Calpers does not want cities like Stockton going back on their promises, and it argues that the state Constitution bars any reduction in pensions — and not just for people who have already retired. State law also forbids cuts in the pensions that today’s public workers expect to earn in the future, Calpers says, even in cases of severe fiscal distress. Workers at companies have no comparable protection.
Stockton is in the midst of a mediation process with its creditors that will determine by the end of June whether it will file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, which would allow the city to negotiate reductions in its debt in court.
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"The American people and America is in denial"
America is bankrupt, since the history of mankind all great Empires fail.
Obama has bankrupt this once great Empire.
john-1960608: You make some very good points, on oil production. Solar can be used for transportation by conversion to hydrogen. However, there is the issue of cost. Our local utility JEA pays $163 per MWh for its 1% provided by solar energy. This is over twice the amount of cost for energy from coal, natural gas or nuclear. The second issue is that for every KW you get from hydrogen, you use 4 KW's to produce that hydrogen. That is a very inefficent use of electricity. Plug in battery power is cost effective compared to gas on a fuel basis; however, the capital cost $40,000 for a Chevy Volt makes the overall cost less efficent. For now fossil fuels are the best way to power automobiles.
Bruce, I would respectfully disagree. We have the technology, and have had it for over 50 years, to power our automobiles without gasoline. It is called a fuel cell. A fuel cell is like a battery that runs on fuel. That fuel would be hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrgen can be extracted from any carbon based fuel (i.e. natural gas, coal gas, methain etc.) and the oxygen can be extracted from the air. The onty waste byproduct is pure water in the form of steam.
For those who say it is too expensive, everything we now enjoy started out expensive. It was not until we started mass production that the cost will came down.
Fuel prices have doubled since this idiot was awarded the office. His energy policies are abysmal and he thinks this is all a positive?
Only the really brain-dead Obamatrons believe this whopper. Hopefully, there aren't enough of them to put him and his big spending-on-our-dime wife back into the White House.
By the way, Moochelle went to Vegas last week, again on our dime. You know, Vegas. The place Obama said we can't go to when times are tough.
Jackasses.
Im utterly befuddled from reading the 3rd post, how some lib idiot (paxil) thinks the government's purpose is to gamble with our money. It's tough to understand why intelligent people think libs have no concept of finances.
Hussein Zero's "energy" policy. $4.00 Gas, Solyndra and Algae. Gas was $1.89 when he took office. Solyndra didn't exist and STILL doesn't, but $550 MILLION is Gone and Algae. Next the "Moron-in-Chief" and Mooch-elle will be telling people to walk to work or _iss in the gas tanks. Start Packing LOSERS, you are already Two FAILED Stains on History.
Geez, I guess you have convieniently forgotten that gas was $4.00 a gallon inder GWB. Was that GWB's fault? And lets talk about wasted money. OK, the President made a bad call with Solendra that cost us 550 million. Under GWB we had TWO wars that have cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of American service men dead or wounded.
I know which one sounds better to me!
That was a spike and dems blamed it on Bush. When Obama took office, gas was 1.89 a gallon and has only gone up since then. Think before you post, please.
And don't forget, Obama campaigned that Afghanistan was "the good war" and since he took office, things there have deteriorated under his silly U.N. style rules of engagement. Ask any vet and he'll tell you the truth.
I would think that all of those who are screaming about the high gas prices would be all over alternative fuel vehichles. I mean think about it. The more people who buy electric and dual fuel cars are actually help to bring the price of gasoline down. How? By reducing the amount of gas that we consume the price will fall, so that all of you who want to drive the big internal combustion engines will be able to afford the gas!
That would be great except for one thing--consumption is down and the prices are still up. Research before you spew. BTW the average price per gallon during GWB's term was around 2.30 a gallon. Most of us would take that any day!
Well then Ducky, perhaps you can explain then how that is the Presidents fault. If production is up, and consumption is down, why is the price of gas so high? Do you want the President to start telling big oil what they can charge? Or would that be totally against the rights view point?
The price of gasoline was 1.85 when President Obama took office. It is now 3.90. We made a wrong turn somewhere. Make your own conclusions.
Again, I would ask, why is this different than when GWB was in office? Perhaps, just perhaps, if President Obama gets another four years, his average price for gas will be the same as GWB.
Jack there's 2 things you seem to be forgetting,
A) Obama openly stated he wanted higher gas prices because it would force his agenda. Yes he did say its worth it to make people suffer to get his way, he just said it in a politician way so idiots would think it was a good thing.
B) Bush isnt president nor running for president, i understand thats difficult for people(liberals) to wrap their heads around, but it is true.
My theory is that the Obama Administration really wants high oil prices as a means to push their green energy agenda.
There is nothing wrong with investing in green energy, but why do it at the expense of the American economy and families?
Romneycare will undoubtedly cite the Keystone pipeline as an example, knowing that his supporters are too stupid to realize that it will actually INCREASE oil prices. Willard has nothing but ignorance going for him.
On a brighter note, I see that Queen Sara is considering jumping back in. That would totally torpedo the GOP hopes this year, and I encourage her to do it. Maybe Hair Boy Trump will muddy the waters, too. The clown show isn't over yet, folks.
I love how msn, knowing how the kool-aide filled liberals will react, they throw the Koch Brothers name into the mix, and suddenly liberals heads start spinning and they spew pea soup. Its suppose to be an "end all" name drop, and America is suppose to run away screaming. Yet if George Sorros's(Move On) name is mentioned, or Jabba-the-Hut(Michael Moore) millions are thrown into the mix, no reaction its amazing. Fuel prices doubled since Obama took office, suddenly the office of the President cannot control the price at the pump. But wait thats not true because when gas prices rose under Bush/Cheney, prices were being artificially raised to benefit Halaburton, and of course in turn benefited Bush/Cheney. Do any of you liberals actually research the FACTS, because whether you like it or not, reality bites you in the @ss as well? Take "cafe standards" in the auto industry for example, do you really believe Obama can simply announce that cars will get 55mpg by a certain date, and it will happen? Do you have even the slightest idea how much technology and money(that is part of the reason a new car costs what used to be the price of a house not so long ago) went into raising the mpg cars get now? Obama announces alternative fuels, jokes about "flat earth club nay-sayers", and you liberal idiots on cue, laugh it up even though you have to have heard of the billions tax dollars already wasted. And most laughable of all is the claims of the Obama administration that domestic drilling is up, like they are responsible. And despite the fact that Obama would love to "nationalize" domestic oil production( ie.Chavez), federal land drilling permits are almost none existent(moratoriums), and its private land drlling thats up, hence Obama and the left claiming exports of gas/diesel, (private oil selling on the global market to highest bidder, its called capitalism to those in Rio Linda) and has absolutely nothing to do with Obama administration policies(what a shock Obama taking credit for something he didn't do). So keep spouting template leftys, and keep spending money on propaganda ads, problem is reality bites, and looking at Obamas approval numbers, its only those on the left that believes the KAY-WRAP................
Obama is running against Congress, the Supreme Court, the Constitution and capitalism. How can he lose?
Shut up you Tea Party Commie.....sorry, I meant to say Socialist for the main reason that you are given what you have by those who want to build a religious theocracy that you hope you'll be given great riches.
Yep the Tea Party are Socialists because they want America to give them the presidency.
Dwight..why don't you try that again, but this time in english.
GREAT AD Mr. President.
Obama / Biden 2012