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Jul. 24, 2008
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Obama airs campaign ad on Spanish stations

By MOLLY BALL
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took to the airwaves in Spanish on Wednesday, airing a radio ad that emphasizes his life story.

"Some people have power in connections," says the ad, which is running on Spanish-language stations in Nevada, New Mexico, Florida and Colorado. "But most of us have to make our own way through life."

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    • The spot is Obama's first Spanish-language advertising of the general election. His Republican opponent, John McCain, has already aired a couple of Spanish radio ads in Nevada, as well as an English-language television commercial that extols Hispanics' military service.

    With swelling strings in the background, the narrator of the new radio ad says of Obama, "He grew up without a father, raised by his mother with the support of his grandparents. Obama never forgot his roots."

    The ad touts Obama's work on an Illinois law "that helped reduce the welfare rolls by over 80 percent" and says he "has stood with us for immigration reform."

    A spokesman for McCain's campaign objected to the welfare claim, noting that Obama was one of several members of the Illinois state Senate who co-sponsored legislation that was required to implement federal welfare reform passed by President Clinton and the then-Republican Congress.

    "The achievements he touts aren't even his," Rick Gorka said. "His record of accomplishments during his time in the state legislature and in Congress is very thin."

    The two campaigns have assailed each other over immigration reform. McCain says he bravely championed the cause last year and Obama tried to kill the legislation with labor-backed "poison pill" amendments. Obama says he has consistently supported comprehensive reform and accuses McCain, who now says border security must come first, of changing his position.

    In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Obama supporter Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said what would resonate with listeners to the new ad was not the policy but the portrait of a figure Hispanics could identify with.

    "I think what this ad shows is Barack Obama not only has stood with us, but he is one of us," Becerra said. "His values are our values. His experiences are our experiences."

    The commercial that is airing, entitled "Nuestro Propio Camino" ("Our own way"), was altered slightly from a previous version that called Obama the son of an immigrant. The campaign said the change was made because Obama's father, a Kenyan, never truly immigrated to the United States.

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    Shannon wrote on July 25, 2008 05:46 AM: tim:

    Which means you once again can't back up your allegations, you can just tell me I'm not looking hard enough. Real good, tim. I'm impressed.


    tim wrote on July 24, 2008 07:11 PM: you can't guide the blind.


    Shannon wrote on July 24, 2008 04:53 PM: tim:

    I did look (and not on Obama's website). Why don't you guide me in the right direction by providing some links.


    tim wrote on July 24, 2008 04:24 PM: shannon,maybe you don't look hard enough or you don't want to.yea i'll go to an obama website for the truth.yuk,yuk.his history and background speak louder than words or pictures.the king has no clothes!


    Shannon wrote on July 24, 2008 11:13 AM: tim:

    The only picture of Obama I have seen was from 2006 when he was wearing Somali tribal clothes. I haven't seen any others. It doesn't mean he is a Muslim. Just for kicks, check out all the photos on this site:

    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/02/obama_in_muslim_garb/


    tim wrote on July 24, 2008 11:04 AM: wow,eb i,m impressed with your vocabulary.i guess you could'nt win the argument, eh?


    shannon,same with mccain,except the article was about oblama.i guess all those pics of him in muslim garb,growing up, are fake.


    muah wrote on July 24, 2008 11:00 AM: I wish one or more of those "bitter gun-clingers" would step up to the plate already. If a few did, I'd bet a chain reaction of political house-cleaning would erupt.

    Hey EB, how do you know they even vote, or are uneducated? Or are you just being a presumptive A$$HOLE? Perhaps you like the state of the country? Perhaps you love the low standards that indecisive, weak minds accept? Maybe you're more of a form-over-funtion personality?


    Tom, Burbank wrote on July 24, 2008 08:59 AM: "Some people have power in connections," says the ad, ...

    Obama moved up through the Chicago political landscape by very shrewdly, tenaciously and shamelessly making powerful connections and alliances. He's not different from any other politician. Change? fuggedaboudit. The pandering continues. Our country isn't in the shape it is becaue of people like Wayne and Tim, but because of the educated and "enlightened" who continue to dismiss people like them with disdainfully sniffed denigrations such as "the loud people" (Sen. Lindsay Graham), "rednecks" (California Dem Don Perata, currently under investigation by the FBI), and 'bitter gun-clingers'. courtesy Obama himself.


    Shannon wrote on July 24, 2008 08:08 AM: tim:

    Hasn't McCain been pandering to illegals as well?

    As for the Muslim part, please just give it up.


    EB wrote on July 24, 2008 08:08 AM: Tim and Wayne,
    The country is in the state it is because of uneducated, ignorant, uninformed voters like you.


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