Obama ad attacks McCain on Yucca
By Daniel TrudeauThe campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has launched a new television ad in Nevada attacking opponent John McCain on his stance on Yucca Mountain.
The ad features shots of Nevadan voters expressing their concern about the planned nuclear waste dump and then hits U.S. Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) on his expressed support for the project.
The spot wraps up with a shot of McCain and President Bush with a voiceover saying, "McCain, more of the same."
Watch the entire spot below.
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This ad misleads
This Obama ad recycles the same misleading and out-of-context quote as the earlier Obama ad. See what the Las Vegas Sun said about the first Obama ad:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/13/obama-yucca/
Jon Ralston, the reporter, concludes, "So the central point of the ad — that McCain would be wary of it in Arizona but not in Nevada — is simply false."
Simply false is a pretty strong condemnation of a political advertisement--which calls into question why the Obama campaign is continuing to use this quote out of context in this new ad. Too bad.
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