There was an Obama commercial run here in Ohio that I found disingenuous

[WCGreen]

But with all the yammering about the red phone commercial, this one seemed to fly right under the radar...

Obama's commercial featured a youngish white man who had lost his job, as he said "to the NAFTA"...

His job went to Mexico and then to China...

Or so he claimed...

He stated that Obama was against "the NAFTA" and Hillary had supported NAFTA...

Now on the surface that sounds pretty Kosher...

But when you get under the surface of what the guy was actually saying, the message is disingenuous...

NAFTA was passed in 1993...

The guy was implying, by saying that Obama was against "the Nafta", that the Junior Senator from Illinois had voted against NAFTA...

By my recockoning, Obama was 32 yers old and doing community service in Chicago, a notable endevour, to say the least...

But I am sure that many Ohioans who were hurt by "the NAFTA", kinda figured that Obama had voted against the free trade policy while Clinton had voted for the pact...

It bothered me...

But I didn't get all over it because you know what, most political commercials are disengenous at heart...

They paint a little picture of the candidate or of the opponent that sets a tone for the voter...

And the Red Phone Commercial, well, that set a tone all right, one that bothered me as well...

But I took that commercial and the Obama NAFTA at face value...

As a political "opperative", I appreciated the fine craftmanship involved with both commercials and both the stated and implied messages...

I take that as a good sign for the fall...

Both dem's are willing to actually fight for the nomination and so they would fight just as hard for the general election...

[leftofcool]

1. That's politics

That is why political ads are basically all alike.........stupid

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Survival of the fittest...

[Benhurst]

3. Did you expect "New" politics?

[WCGreen]

7. Not a it....

I was never that Naive...

[blm]

4. I didn't vote for or against NAFTA - if I ran could I not say I was against NAFTA

at the time of the vote?

[EmilyAnne]

5. But he is against NAFTA.

[WCGreen]

8. He says he is...

But the way the commercial was structured, it implied he voted against it back in 1993...

[Warbler]

6. A disingenuous political commercial?

Now, there's something you don't very often.