Guns, flags in Obama local ad buys
Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:18 AM by Carrie Dann
From NBC's Carrie Dann
Yesterday, hours after the NRA issued its seven-months-in-the-making endorsement of
John McCain, the
Obama campaign announced a
new radio ad designed to counter the fears of gun owners concerned about Obama's Second Amendment record. Outdoorsman and TV host Tony Dean, who describes himself as a "lifelong Republican" now supporting Obama, assures voters in the ad that Obama will allow them to "keep our guns
and our jobs."
In a script rife with hunting metaphors (McCain's attacks are "way off target," and he's "trying to camouflage his record"), Dean says that "Barack will protect our Second Amendment rights – our freedom to own guns and defend ourselves. And Barack will protect our jobs too."
The 60-second ad will run in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Speaking of local buys, check out this tough TV spot running in battleground state North Carolina, where the outsourcing of textile and manufacturing jobs is a particularly bright flashpoint. In the ad, Obama pins the closure of Carolina Mills textile factories on McCain's free-trade philosophy.
The kicker metaphor here? "Workers once proud to make their thread for American flags have their futures outsourced to Asia," the narrator says. "Washington sold them out with the help of politicians like John McCain."
