Huh, a company that is more successful when gas companies are successful doesn’t want to run ads that says we should use less gas….go figure!
Obama’s ‘Gas Pump TV’ ads pre-empted
“Once again, the oil companies and their friends are standing with Sen. McCain, the candidate for president who is proposing to offer them a $4 billion tax cut,” said Mark Bubriski, communications director for the Obama campaign in Florida. “It looks like Gas Station TV doesn’t want the American people to know about Sen. Obama’s plan to offer working families a $1,000 energy rebate that would be funded by a tax on oil company profits.
“The oil companies have taken sides in this race, and they are standing with John McCain, because they know he’s been in Washington for 26 years and can be counted on to pursue for another four years of the Bush energy policy that’s made them billions of dollars.”
The article goes on to debate whether the company and the campaign had earlier come to an agreement or not…it’s really moot.
If the company had agreed to run the ad, they were just plain stupid. Obama asking to run the ad, well that’s even stupider! Maybe they could get Pfizer to run an ad telling people that they are paying too much for drugs. Maybe the Obama campaign could get Wells Fargo to run ads saying that home mortgages are coercive contracts set up to drain you of all your wealth!
In the world of Barack, all change that tells you capitalism is evil, is good change. When someone objects to blindly apeing Barack’s call for change, well then they are “puppets”, unless the Obama campaign can find a way to paint them as a racist.
I’m sure they weren’t at all encouraged by the lack of outcry when Phillip-Morris was forced to fund “stop smoking!” ads as punishment for selling tobacco.