Obama: First Campaign Ad - Energy Record

Watch Obama's first ad of his 2012 campaign, "Unprecedented." It focuses on his energy record.



Absurd.

Mark Levin analyzes the ad.

MARK LEVIN: Does this ad have any relationship to reality whatsoever?

Short answer: No.

LEVIN: Foreign oil imports below 50 percent - do you want to know why that's the case? Because we're in a massive economic downturn. He tries to leave the impression that what he's done here is promoted domestic drilling and refining when he is obstructing it. So, these are the kind of lies that we're going to get. America's clean energy industry, 2.7 million jobs and expanding rapidly. We don't even know that means. What is America's clean energy industry? Can anyone define it? No. Where does he get this 2.7 million jobs figure? Nobody has any idea whatsoever.

Obama has a major problem when it comes to campaigning for his reelection - reality.
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UPDATE: Even FactCheck.org had to admit Obama's ad is "misleading."

President Obama’s first 2012 campaign ad misleads on ethics, “clean-energy” jobs and U.S. dependence on oil imports.

■ The spot uses outdated quotes from groups that said his record on ethics is “unprecedented” and that he “kept a promise to toughen ethics rules.” Those same groups said later that he “has let down millions of Americans who accepted his word” and rated his promise as “broken.”

■ The 30-second TV spot also trumpets a claim of “2.7 million jobs” in “America’s clean-energy industry.” That mostly counts jobs put in place long before Obama took office.

■ Finally, it boasts that U.S. dependence on foreign oil has declined to below 50 percent, as a net share of total demand, for the first time in more than a decade. That’s true, and increasing U.S. oil production is a factor (despite Republican criticisms that Obama is anti-drilling). But economists say the chief factor is reduced oil consumption, brought on by the recent economic recession.

Obama is choosing to lie to the American people rather than doing the right thing and telling the truth.

He is Jimmy Carter - a failed president, a disaster.