So says Dick Morris. Obama’s first TV ad makes Mr. Government Health Care look like Mr. Conservative who supported welfare reform.
The problem is……….he didn’t.
Obama opposed the 1996 welfare reform act at the time. The Illinois law for which he takes credit, was merely the local implementing law the state was required to pass, and it did, almost unanimously. Obama’s implication — that he backed “moving people from welfare to work” — is just not true.
Morris says this is a golden opportunity for McCain to stop this Obamanable campaign to turn Barack into Buchanan.
In his effort to move to the center, Obama has distorted his own record, meager though it may be, and is taking credit for a program he strongly opposed. McCain should immediately run an ad in all of the states in which his opponent is advertising setting forth the facts and explaining Obama’s distortion.
A good tag line for the ad would be: “John McCain: when you have real experience, you don’t need to exaggerate.”
Heck, I’d go a step further. Hire Dick Morris, or put Mike Murphy in charge of messaging, or this battle might be over before we decide to fight. Here’s Morris’ entire column.
The opening is NOW!
