Needlenose

The transcript of Barack Obama’s new TV ad (shown above):

Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets.

Now Big Oil’s filling John McCain’s campaign with 2 million dollars in contributions.

Because instead of taxing their windfall profits to help drivers, McCain wants to give them another 4 billion in tax breaks.

After one president in the pocket of big oil… We can’t afford another.

Barack Obama… A windfall profits tax on big oil to give families a thousand dollar rebate.

A president who’ll stand up for you.

Expect to see a lot more of this. Can ads with Obama swearing to “fight” (or describing how he as “fought”) for this or that be far off?

Tags: framing, Obama, oil, populism, WH 2008

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