When Barack Obama is inaugurated in two days, Catholic voters who oppose abortion want him to know that his historic rise to power might not have happened if his mother could have predicted his troubled early years.
CatholicVote.com today released a video that reminds people of Obama’s circumstances as a child — the kind of circumstances that prompt some women to abort their babies. The ad, the first production of a campaign titled “Life: Imagine The Potential,” recounts Obama’s biography over the backdrop of an ultrasound showing a baby in the womb.
“This child’s future is a broken home,” the ad says. “He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will struggle to raise him despite the hardships he will endure. This child will become the first African-American president.”
UPDATE, 1/29: NBC has rejected the ad as unfit for airing during the Super Bowl because of its “political” nature.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said a while back that U.S. troops should have a presence in Iraq until they finish their mission — even if it takes up to ” a hundred years or a thousand years or 10,000 years.”
The liberal online activist group MoveOn.org is now taking that figurative statement and applying it literally to attack McCain. “A hundred years in Iraq — and you thought no one could be worse than George Bush,” MoveOn says in a new advertisement.
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With hundreds of delegates at stake in Super Tuesday voting tomorrow, John McCain and Mitt Romney are continuing their battle for the hearts of conservative voters over the airwaves.
McCain has been the one taking the most heat from establishment conservative commentators, but he is trying to score points by using Romney’s own words against him. In an ad titled “Trust,” McCain’s team highlights Romney emphasizing his independence, noting his vote in a Democratic primary and distancing himself from the time of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Romney’s campaign, meanwhile, has an ad dubbed “Very Close” that compares McCain’s views on hot-button issues like immigration with those of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Another Romney ad says McCain “Falls Short” in key policy areas.
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The online activist group MoveOn.org has had enough of Rep. Albert Wynn. The group is backing his rival, Donna Edwards, in the Feb. 12 Democratic primary in Maryland and putting its ad money where it’s mouth is.
MoveOn the second independent group to advertise against Wynn. The Service Employees International Union also is not a fan of his.
House races in Maryland are drawing quite a bit of independent ads. As noted last week, The Club For Growth also is making the case against Rep. Wayne Gilchrest in the Republican primary race for his seat.
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She calls New York home now, but Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton first made her mark in the political world as the first lady of Arkansas. The Natural State is among those holding primaries Tuesday, and Clinton is on the air there now to remind Arkansans that she is one of them.
Following the lead of Democratic rival Barack Obama, Clinton also has a fan from the Kennedy clan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in two different ads.
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