Washington Bureau

Obama Camp Launches First General Election TV Ad

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s campaign says the Tampa Bay area market will be among those targeted in its first television ad for the general election, announced today.

The sixty second ad, entitled “Country I Love,” will also air elsewhere in Florida, and 17 other states.

The aim of the ad, according to the campaign, is “to highlight how our shared values have shaped Senator Obama’s life.”

Campaign spokesman Josh Earnest said the campaign will not disclose exactly for how long the ad will run, and how much money will be spent to air it in the Tampa area.

Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign responded: “Barack Obama wants more taxes from 21 million small businesses, 10 million seniors and he’s confessed that his economic proposals could damage the economy – we’re confident the more Americans know about Barack Obama the less likely they are to support him.”

Here’s the script:

OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life’s been blessed by both.

I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents. We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. Accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated. It’s what guided me as I worked my way up – taking jobs and loans to make it through college.

It’s what led me to pass up Wall Street jobs and go to Chicago instead, helping neighborhoods devastated when steel plants closed.

That’s why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families and extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected.

I approved this message because I’ll never forget those values, and if I have the honor of taking the oath of office as President, it will be with a deep and abiding faith in the country I love.

-- Billy House

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