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Obama whacks Romney, Ryan on Northern Va. traffic in radio ad
President Obama is criticizing the transportation policies of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in a radio ad targeting congestion-weary Northern Virginia.
The ad, which is being aired in the suburbs just south of Washington, D.C., accuses Romney and Ryan of not understanding the traffic situation in Northern Virginia, a vote-rich and Democratic-leaning sector of the hotly contested swing state.
"And now we go to Kathy K. in the traffic center," a faux news reporter says in the commercial.
"Thanks, Clint. As usual, traffic in Northern Virginia is backed up again, with long delays on 66 and 395,” the traffic reporter responds.
The first "reporter" then asks, "Could things get any worse?" and the traffic correspondent responds, “Actually, traffic and our roads could get worse with the Ryan/Romney budget plan.
The ad concludes with the main reporter saying, "[S]o what does that really say about Mitt Romney, if he picked this guy as his running mate?"
"Well, it says Mitt Romney doesn’t really understand Northern Virginia,” the traffic reporter responds.
"Or what it’s like wasting time in traffic," the first reporter adds.
A spokeswoman for Romney said the ad showed President Obama's transportation policies were the ones that were insufficient.
"President Obama learned the hard way that projects are not ‘shovel-ready’ when overregulation and special interests stand in the way of new infrastructure development," Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a written statement.
"Unfortunately, the president is responsible for that overregulation and beholden to those special interests, and he wasted hundreds of billions of stimulus dollars on projects that did nothing to improve America’s infrastructure," Henneberg continued. "The Romney-Ryan Plan for a Stronger Middle Class will jumpstart the economy, bring back jobs and ensure we can make the infrastructure investments our nation needs.”
