Romney copies Obama 2008 ad to pounce on Obama’s ‘private sector is doing fine’ remark
by George Bennett | June 14th, 2012Romney’s new ad (above) and Obama’s 2008 ad (below) drip with similar incredulity over economic statements by their rivals.
Mitt Romney‘s new TV ad pounding President Obama for saying “the private sector is doing fine” is meant to seem familiar. It has the same music, style and nearly identical punchline as Obama’s 2008 ad skewering Republican foe John McCain for saying “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” during bleak times.
Obama’s 2008 ad practically wrote itself. After reciting dire economic statistics, it showed a clip of McCain’s remark, repeated it with a question mark, showed the clip again, then concluded: “How can John McCain fix our economy if he doesn’t understand it’s broken?”
Romney’s 2012 ad recites bad economic indicators, shows Obama’s comment, repeats it with a question mark, shows the comment again, then concludes: “How can President Obama fix our economy if he doesn’t understand it’s broken?”
June 14th, 2012 at 8:57 am
If you took the time and really look at how the private sector is doing, President Obama is not off the mark. They have been creating jobs for the past 27 months and and they have trillions of dollars they are holding instead of hiring hoping that Romeny wins and let them go back to no regulations so they can take the same mrisks they made in 2008 and still have their top people make millions while the middle class get shafted. Yes they could be oing better, but they are better off then the middle class.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:01 am
The private sector is uneasy and will not invest in job creation until they know where they stand with Obamacare, the 70,000 new regulations issued by the current administration and many other uncertainties. Investment requires some modicum of assurance, and the current climate does not provide it. Would you invest in something that you feel is unsound, shaky, unpredictable? I hope not. Those three words describe the current administration in Washington, and until it is gone, the economy will stagnate and contract.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Hey Carol,
YOU LIE!
The only ones preventing the recovery are the Republicans.
They say we need to Drill Baby Drill, but the first quarter of 2012 we produced more oil that in 14 years.
This is from FOX BUSINESS:
U.S. oil output in the first quarter of 2012 rose 11.6% from a year earlier and topped 6 million barrels a day for the first time in 14 years, the federal Energy Information Administration said Friday.
The rise came on higher output from North Dakota, Texas and from federal lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/06/08/eiaus-first-quarter-oil-output-tops-6-million-bd-1st-time-in-14-years/
You and your pathetic lies about “regulations”. Give me a break.
THINK, AMERICA, THINK.
Why would we need less regulations on the oil industry that is BOOMING and yet we can’t invest in American highways, roads and bridges and water systems to repair our infrastructure and put Americans to work IMMEDIATELY?!?!
Why?!
I’ll tell you.
Because the Republican Party and their dozens of billionaire benefactors want to further repress the American people with their brand of economic slavery.
Just today it came out that Sheldon Adelson will spend over $100 MILLION to unseat the President.
$100 MILLION.
One man.
$100 MILLION.
Does that sound like freedom to you?
When ONE MAN can spend that much money on a political campaign?
When ONE MAN can fund literally “LIMITLESS” propaganda.
Does that sound like democracy?
Does that sound like America?
THINK, AMERICA, THINK.
GO OBAMA & DEMS!