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Eye On Ohio: Obama’s ‘Pocket’ ad
The ad: “Pocket,” 30 seconds.
Producer: Obama for America.
Where to see it: It’s airing in several key states, including Ohio. View it at DaytonDailyNews.com/eyeonohio.
Script: Announcer: “Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets. Now Big Oil’s filling John McCain’s campaign with $2 million 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 $1,000 rebate. A president who will stand up for you. Obama: “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.”
Video: The video begins with shots of people filling their tanks at gas stations, then cuts to McCain. Then it’s back to shots of high gas prices, lines of traffic and McCain. Grim, serious music plays behind a grave-sounding commentator. Over these shots is text: $143 billion in profits over the last year, $2 million in oil contributions, $4 billion new tax breaks for oil, all citing sources in smaller text below.
Then it’s a shot of President Bush which slides over to reveal McCain, standing next to him. The ad then cuts to Barack Obama talking to a rally, a crowd of people, individuals in a restaurant booth, then standing before a big, placard-wielding crowd. There’s text here, too: $1,000 energy rebate and NewEnergyForAmerica.com, a site that highlights Obama’s energy plan.
Analysis: Once again, the presidential debate parallels the congressional debate: Republicans say that Democrats are too worried about hugging trees to drill for new sources of oil, and Democrats counter that Republicans are in the pockets of oil companies and that’s why they want to drill.
This ad, timed to coincide with the release of Obama’s New Energy for America Plan, which would give middle-class families a $1,000 rebate funded by a windfall profits tax on oil companies, highlights the latter argument and also throws in a visual dig reiterating their argument that a vote for McCain is actually a vote for a third Bush term.
If we’re going to be picky, McCain didn’t actually receive $2 million from oil companies — companies themselves are barred from contributing directly to a candidate. Rather, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, McCain has received $1.3 million from individuals who represent or work for oil or gas companies or political action committees that represent them. (He got the most money from retirees, according to the center: more than $18 million.)
The center, in a fact sheet on its Web site, said that Obama’s campaign appears to have added its $1.3 million figure with one from a Washington Post story reporting the amount of oil and gas money given to a separate fundraising organization that is giving money to McCain, the Republican National Committee and various state parties, to get the $2 million figure.
“The Obama campaign’s method for calculating the total amount that McCain’s campaign has collected from the oil and gas industry may result in some double-counting,” according to the center.
Oil and gas didn’t make Obama’s top 20, according to the center. Still, oil and gas interests gave Obama $394,465.
McCain’s campaign also retorts that Obama voted for a 2005 energy bill that included billions for oil and gas production. McCain voted against that bill. An Obama spokesman told the Associated Press that the Illinois Democrat voted for the bill because it invested in renewable energy.
Obama’s claim that McCain wants to cut taxes for oil companies by $4 billion also doesn’t tell the whole story. McCain actually has proposed cutting the tax rate on all U.S. businesses — including oil and gas companies — from 25 to 35 percent.
Jessica Wehrman is the Dayton Daily News Washington correspondent. E-mail: jwehrman@coxnews.com.
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