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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa When candidate Barack Obama hosted a town hall meeting here four years ago, he decried the predictable political attacks and demonstrably false statements of his rival, Sen. John McCain.
All of those negative ads that hes running wont do a thing to lower your gas prices or to lift up the debate in this country, Obama said at the time. The fact is, these Washington tactics do the American people a disservice by trying to distract us from the very real challenges that we face.
Now, in the throes of a sluggish economic recovery and tight general election race, Obama appears to have resorted to some of the same tactics he once opposed.
The Obama campaign has been flooding Iowa and eight other battleground states with TV ads attacking Republican rival Mitt Romney for his financial investments and alleged ties to outsourcing.
Independent fact-checkers have scrutinized several claims in the ads as false and misleading; Republicans say they are an attempt to distract voters from Obamas record. The tone and tenor of the attacks arguably does not lift up the national political debate.
Over the past month, 76 percent of Obama ads broadcast on local and national stations had an anti-Romney message, according to media monitor Kantar Media CMAG data obtained by Bloomberg News.
Of the more than 68,000 Obama ads that aired between June 2 and July 2, roughly 52,000 were negative, the group found.
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FLASHBACK: Obama Decries Negative Ads as Disservice on 08 Cedar Rapids Visit - ABC News
SNIP:
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa When candidate Barack Obama hosted a town hall meeting here four years ago, he decried the predictable political attacks and demonstrably false statements of his rival, Sen. John McCain.
All of those negative ads that hes running wont do a thing to lower your gas prices or to lift up the debate in this country, Obama said at the time. The fact is, these Washington tactics do the American people a disservice by trying to distract us from the very real challenges that we face.
Now, in the throes of a sluggish economic recovery and tight general election race, Obama appears to have resorted to some of the same tactics he once opposed.
The Obama campaign has been flooding Iowa and eight other battleground states with TV ads attacking Republican rival Mitt Romney for his financial investments and alleged ties to outsourcing.
Independent fact-checkers have scrutinized several claims in the ads as false and misleading; Republicans say they are an attempt to distract voters from Obamas record. The tone and tenor of the attacks arguably does not lift up the national political debate.
Over the past month, 76 percent of Obama ads broadcast on local and national stations had an anti-Romney message, according to media monitor Kantar Media CMAG data obtained by Bloomberg News.
Of the more than 68,000 Obama ads that aired between June 2 and July 2, roughly 52,000 were negative, the group found.
the rest at
FLASHBACK: Obama Decries Negative Ads as Disservice on 08 Cedar Rapids Visit - ABC News
