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Obama campaign ad uses energy to draw contrast with Romney
President Obama’s reelection campaign is launching a new ad in three swings states that aims to contrast Obama’s record on energy policy with Mitt Romney's, claiming the GOP challenger has a history of sending jobs overseas.
The campaign, with the new ad, parries attacks on Obama’s green energy programs while knocking Romney’s record in business and as Massachusetts governor.
The 30-second ad that will air in Virginia, Ohio and Iowa opens by decrying “false attacks from Big Oil,” pointing to a Washington Post article that called a pair of ads attacking Obama’s energy programs — including a multimillion-dollar buy from Americans for Prosperity — inaccurate and out of context.
“What about Mitt Romney?” the ad says. “As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China. As governor, he outsourced state jobs to a call center in India.”
“It’s just what you expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account,” the ad concludes, a reference to the account, disclosed earlier this year, that was closed in 2010.
Update: The Romney campaign is striking back against the new ad.
"Unable to defend his failed record of 23 million Americans struggling for work, wasteful boondoggles like Solyndra, skyrocketing national debt, and unacceptably high energy prices, President Obama has once again resorted to attacking Mitt Romney. The American people have suffered enough over the last three years and deserve better," said Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg.
This post was updated at 8:49 a.m.
