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"Changing World"

New Barack Obama ad running on national cable seizes on the national security theme du jour ...

Changing World Transcript

Announcer: 40 years ago it was missile silos and the Cold War.

Today, it’s cyber attacks…loose nukes…oil money funding terrorism.

Barack Obama understands our changing world.

On the Foreign Relations Committee, he co-sponsored a law to lock down loose nuclear weapons.

As president, he’ll rebuild our alliances to take out terrorist networks...

And fast-track alternatives so we stop spending billions on oil from hostile nations.

New leadership for a changing world.

Obama VO: I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

1 Comments

What a subtle way to bring John McCain's age into the discussion. But moreover, it's an effective argument against McCain's Vietnam service as legitimate foreign policy experience, because it shows the threats we face in a changing world are in no way the same we faced during Vietnam.