President Obama is pushing his jobs plan during a bus tour in Virginia this week and a conservative group is pushing back on the airwaves.
American Crossroads launched a critical ad Sunday night that will air through Tuesday in the Newport News, Roanoke and Charlottesville markets, and also Monday through Wednesday in North Carolina, the first leg of Obama’s three-day bus tour.
The ad, called “Don’t,” starts with ominous music followed by a 2009 clip of Obama saying, “The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.” It then attacks the president’s job proposal as a tax hike and includes footage of former President Bill Clinton saying he would not raise taxes.
Obama will visit a high school in Emporia Tuesday before traveling Wednesday to Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton and a fire station in Chesterfield County.
Interestingly enough, the ad appears to target the black voters who helped the president win Virginia in 2008 and who remain critical to his re-election efforts in two very important states. The ad portrays an ambiguous older black couple looking concerned and includes video from a town hall meeting in which a black woman told Obama she was sick of trying to defend him.
The Washington Post first reported on the ad Monday morning.
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