The screen fills with grainy footage of sprawling 1970s gas lines.
“Nothing’s changed,” Sen. Barack Obama says into the camera, “except now Exxon’s making $40 billion a year, and we’re paying $3.50 for gas. … I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.”
Obama’s ad, which has been airing in Pennsylvania as the April 22 primary approaches, is technically true but misleading, as non-partisan FactCheck.org and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign have been quick to point out.
What better way to revisit those heady days than to elect Obama?
Might as well, right? We elected this meddling jackass for one term back in ‘76, and we’re still saddled with him. I swear, the guy is an unflushable.
I can’t view video from work, so I’m hoping that this footage will contain the “that sounds like politics” remarks. When you say something contradictory, you lie; when I say it, I misspeak. Politics as usual. Lots of distinctions, not a lot of differences.
Comment by Pablo on 4/16 @ 6:39 am #
True dat. I must have waited 90 seconds to fill up yesterday, and they didn’t even have anyone there to verify that my license plate fell correctly into the odd/even day fueling scheme. And then, I could only put 15 gallons into the tank.
I NEED A BIGGER TANK, BARACK! Won’t you save me?
Comment by BJTexs TW/BP on 4/16 @ 6:50 am #
The Obamatron is spending a crapload of money in PA on TV ads. I’ve seen them about 4 to 1 over Hillary’s.* One of the latest local polls showed him narrowing Clinton’s lead to 6 points.
I’m starting to believe in the whole Jedi Mind Trick thing.
*I haven’t checked “Lifetime” or “Oxygen” which may skew the sampling. Nor will I …
Comment by Ardie on 4/16 @ 6:57 am #
I guess if you are an ignorant ass, you can blame Carter for just about everything. But I understand. Often invincible ignorance needs a target for its rage–any target will do. That the subject of inflation, etc. It came as a result of the Vietnam War (generally speaking, all wars bring death and inflation). Nixon tried to deal with inflation. He made a noteworthy attempt to control it as did Carter. But as far as the oil crisis of that period is concerned–we all won. Let’s put on our memory helmets and go back to yesteryear. There was the 1973 Arab embargo and following that, the 1979 ’second oil shock’. However, in the 8 years from 1977 to 1985, U.S. GDP rose by 27% as oil consumption fell by 17% while net imports from the Persian Gulf fell by an astonishing 87%. Yep…not bad. It those days the divisiveness of the Raygun [sic] Revulsion [sic] (with its Holy Babble thumpers) had not taken possession of the America psyche. Both parties worked together for the good of all.
Comment by Ardie on 4/16 @ 7:02 am #
erratum. should read: “That includes the subject of inflation, etc. (I am a struggling typist!)
Comment by JD on 4/16 @ 7:06 am #
I have been seeing that ad, in a 3 ad rotation, here in Indiana, for almost a month. Suffice it to say, he has not convinced me to vote for him yet.
Ardie !!!!!!!!!! Life was puppies and kites under Carter. Yippee!
Comment by Dan Collins on 4/16 @ 7:07 am #
Ardie–
Somehow, though, nothing’s changed, right? Which is why we need Mr. Changiness Incarnate, right? Do try to follow the argument.
Comment by JD on 4/16 @ 7:10 am #
Does the PA version of the ad also include the “windfall profits penalty” where Exxon is the devil?
Comment by B Moe on 4/16 @ 7:24 am #
Raygun [sic] Revulsion [sic]
lmfao.
Comment by BJTexs TW/BP on 4/16 @ 7:28 am #
JD: Yup!
Of course, Hillary’s beating the drums about “no one can take money from Oil Companies” while Obama has adjusted his ad to add the word “PACS.” No mention from either candidate about the hundreds of thousands of dollars Obama has received from Oil Company Executives and an organization of Trial Lawyers dedicatd to raising millions for Mr. Changey. Hillary, of course, is awash in PAC money of many ilks.
Why can’t this be over?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 4/16 @ 7:57 am #
He doesn’t take money from oil companies? Sen. Obama, your fundraiser in San Francisco was held at the mansion of the Getty’s. Any clue where that family made its money?
Twit.
Comment by McGehee on 4/16 @ 8:36 am #
Not until there’s a popcorn shortage to go with the every-other-kind-of-corn shortage.
Comment by narciso on 4/16 @ 8:38 am #
Well there’s that along with Getty Oil’s current ventures in the Caspian with Saudi Delta Oil, owned by the Yemeni Saudi Hassan Al Amoudi; who some have tied to funding
Al Queda’s Golden Square network.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 4/16 @ 8:43 am #
Nothing’s changed?
Two words: food riots.
Comment by Ardsgaine on 4/16 @ 9:02 am #
This looks like a fun game…
I guess if you are an ignorant ass
… you will start your arguments by dividing your audience into those who agree with you and “ignorant asses.”
I guess if you are an ignorant ass
… you will adopt a tone so insulting and insufferable that no one will feel obliged to consider the content of what you say.
I guess if you are an ignorant ass
… you’ll waste your time trolling instead of trying to have a productive conversation.
Comment by guinsPen on 4/16 @ 9:11 am #
@ #3
invincible ignorance needs a target for its rage
So, what made you choose PW?
Comment by bergerbilder on 4/16 @ 10:03 am #
[sic],[sic],[sic].
Needless to say, I am revulsed.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/16 @ 10:31 am #
bb:
I am repolted.
Comment by PCachu on 4/16 @ 10:38 am #
Yeah? Well, I’m reupholstered!
Comment by Cowboy on 4/16 @ 10:49 am #
I am also glad that I was too young to vote for Carter, because at that age, I was certainly stupid enough.
Comment by maggie katzen on 4/16 @ 1:18 pm #
RACIST!!!
Comment by BJTexs TW/BP on 4/16 @ 1:24 pm #
Maggie: wha? You just threw all of my identity politics into the spin cycle. :-)
Comment by Lisa on 4/16 @ 2:58 pm #
LMAO @ Cowboy. I really love Carter as a civilian. He is a great humanitarian. But I am glad I was too young to vote for his craptastic presidency (unfortunately I voted for Dukakis as soon as I was able – but in my defense, at that time I was dating a guy who looked EXACTLY like Richard Marx, ubermullet included, so I was obviously mentally impaired).
Comment by JD on 4/16 @ 3:19 pm #
Ubermullets are fun to point at. However, pointing at Mexi-mullets and even worse, Camaro-mullets, can be harmful to your health.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/16 @ 3:22 pm #
Except for the dating a guy thing, same here.
Comment by Rusty on 4/16 @ 3:29 pm #
Lisa. He was ,and is still, this countries greatest carpenter. Unfortunately we are still dealing with his mismanagement of foreign policy. Double digit inflation Ardie. Yeah he was a great president.
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 4/16 @ 3:33 pm #
I came to the US to work for the summer in 1980. Returned to Ireland in the fall, people would ask “So, who’s going to win hte election?” To which I would reply “Reagan, in a landslide.”
They couldn’t believe America was going to plump for Reagan. The European media was full of anti-Reagan propaganda, basically predicting the end of the world if Reagan was elected.
What they didn’t see was just what an ass Jimmah had become. Iran, the hostages, and Desert One. The Savage Rabbit. Amy as foreign policy advisor. Cyrus Vance. Stagflation. Sweaters. America the failure because Americans had failed him.
The man may have inherited a bad situation, but he only made it worse. Having had four years of sackcloth and ashes, the American people had him pass on a worse situation to Reagan.
Case closed.
Comment by Dan Collins on 4/16 @ 4:11 pm #
That sackcloth and ashes . . . you sure couldn’t get into a disco in that crazy get-up.
Comment by Lisa on 4/16 @ 6:36 pm #
JD, the politically correct term is the mullatino, which is inclusive of those mullets that hail from Central and South American locales. And it is a lovely thing, especially when combined with some article of clothing or a fashionable accessory that proudly displays the Virgin Mother.
Comment by Lisa on 4/16 @ 7:09 pm #
My friends totally think I am lying when I tell them that I saw a guy sporting an awesome mullet, driving a crappy primer painted Camaro, and blasting the song “Fantasy” by Aldo Nova. It was the trifecta of mullet fabulosity. Quite rare and exquisite (he was driving in his native habitat of Dundalk, MD).
Comment by maggie katzen on 4/16 @ 7:51 pm #
Comment by Lisa on 4/17 @ 8:57 am #
Yeah maggie. Don’t you know the diff between African jungle drums and Amazonian man-hating feminazi drums? WTF?