Obama-Biden Campaign Launches New 2 Minute TV Ad on How Obama Will Steer Us Out of The Current Financial Crisis
CHICAGO, IL - Today, the Obama-Biden campaign released a new two minute TV ad, Same Path, which includes Senator Obama telling America he knows we can steer ourselves out of this crisis, but not by driving down the very same path and how that’s what this election’s all about.
In the ad, Obama details how his plan to jump-start our economy, create millions of jobs, and bring back our Main Streets all across America differs with John McCain’s plan to continue the same failed policies. Obama specifically lays out how his tax plan which offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class and cuts taxes for small and startup businesses differs from McCain’s which will continue giving hundreds of billions in new tax breaks to big corporations and oil companies and extends the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest.
The Ad-"Same Path"
"Same Path" will air in key states across the country beginning today.
"Same Path." See below for the transcript:
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CG: Barack Obama
CG: Read the plan to fix our economy: BarackObama.com
CG: Approved by Barack Obama Paid for by Obama for America
BO, direct to camera:
For eight years, we've been told that the way to a stronger economy
was to give huge tax breaks to corporations and the wealthiest Americans, and somehow prosperity would trickle down.
Well now we know the truth.
It didn't work.
Instead of prosperity trickling down, pain has trickled up.
Working family incomes have fallen by two thousand dollars a year.
We’re losing jobs.
Deficits are exploding.
Our economy's in turmoil.
I know that that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis.
But not by driving down the very same path.
And that's what this election's all about.
On taxes, John McCain and I have very different ideas.
Instead of giving hundreds of billions in new tax breaks to big corporations and oil companies, I'll cut taxes for small and startup businesses that are the backbone of our economy.
Instead of more tax breaks for corporations that outsource American jobs, I'll give them to companies who create jobs here.
Instead of extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest -- I'll focus on you.
My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's.
If you make less than a quarter million a year, you won’t see your taxes raised one penny under my plan.
And seniors making less than fifty thousand, who are struggling with the rising costs of food and drugs on fixed incomes, won’t pay income taxes at all.
The tax code we have today is over 10,000 pages long.
Almost every bit of it was shaped by some lobbyist taking care of some special interest.
Well, it's time we had a President who puts you first.
I hope you'll log on to BarackObama.com and read my full plan.
It will help jump-start our economy, create millions of jobs, and bring back our Main Streets all across America.
The old trickle-down theory has failed us.
We can't afford four more years like the last eight.
I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this message because I know that with a new direction, and new policies focused on jobs and the middle class, we can lift our economy and our country
