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Obama Launches First TV Ad
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ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is breaking his advertising silence with a pair of new television ads that will begin airing in Iowa on Tuesday.
One ad recaps his career in the Illinois state Senate, with a Republican and a Democratic state lawmaker appearing on camera to tout his record of bipartisanship. The ad also uses a clip of his 2004 speech before the Democratic National Convention. Watch the ad HERE.
The second ad recounts his work as a community organizer in Chicago, and also includes a clip from the same convention speech -- the appearance that marked his political emergence on the national stage.
"It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, that makes this country work," Obama says in that clip. Watch the ad HERE.
The timing of the ads is unusual, since the days before the Fourth of July represent peak vacation time and are rarely used to make a political splash.
But the ad represents an attempt by the Obama campaign to launch a more extensive introduction to voters -- and begin to spend some of the huge bankroll he’s amassed early in his campaign for president.
The campaign is describing the ads as a "low-level" buy designed to supplement other efforts to get Obama's message out in Iowa. Three weeks ago, his campaign mailed a booklet and DVD detailing his life and experience, and Internet and radio ads are also part of the current campaign.
UPDATE: It turns out the Republican lawmaker highlighted in the Obama ad is a supporter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. State Sen. Kirk Dillard was included in a list of Illinois endorsements circulated by the McCain campaign in March.
Dillard told the Associated Press today that while he expects to support whoever wins the Republcian nomination, "I would not lost a night's sleep worrying about my young children's future if Sen. Obama were my president because I know he would probably surround himself, like Ronald Reagan, with exceptionally experienced people."
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