Tue. May 6, 2008

2008 POLITICAL ADS: WHITE HOUSE

Barack Obama For President: "Minute -- NC"

Tue. May 6, 2008

Producer: GMMB and AKP Message & Media

Running Time: 2:00

Debut Date: 05/05/2008

Ad Buy: statewide in North Carolina

Cost: not available

Summary: Obama makes his closing argument before the North Carolina primary.

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Script of "Minute -- NC" (TV)

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: North Carolina values: hard work, community, keeping your word. There's a candidate who shares those values, who thinks differently than those who've spent decades in Washington: Barack Obama.

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me to politics.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: After college he began his career as a community organizer, helping neighborhoods devastated by steel plant closings.

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: And I worked with churches to help those workers get back on their feet.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: For two decades in public life, he's stood up to powerful interests on behalf of people -- taking tough stands, bringing parties together to get things done. It says something about the president he'd be.

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: It's not enough just to change political parties in the White House; we've got to change how our politics works.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Now, he's visiting cities and towns across North Carolina.

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: People are struggling -- jobs disappearing, nothing taking their place. Families facing foreclosure, the cost of everything from health care to groceries to gas at the pump going up and up and up.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: And at each stop, he trusts us with the truth.

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: We could suspend the gas tax for six months. But that's not going to bring down gas prices long-term. That's typical of how Washington works. Let's find some short-term quick fix that we can say we did something even though we're not really doing anything.

We've got to go after the oil companies and look at their price-gouging. We've got to start using less oil, and that means raising fuel-efficiency standards on cars and developing alternative fuels.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: It's a new kind of politics, with a plan to bring our troops home, turn around this economy, deliver real tax relief for the middle class and bring back some hope at a time when it's desperately needed.

(Text on screen: Read Obama's Plan -- to End the War; to Lift the Economy; for Middle-Class Tax Cuts; NC.BarackObama.com)

BARACK OBAMA [from speech]: That's why May 6th is so important. We've got a choice. We can go about doing the same old things with the same old folks in the same old ways and somehow hope we're going to get a different result, or we can go ahead and try something entirely different. You and I together, we'll change this country and change the world.

BARACK OBAMA [v/o]: I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.

(Text on screen: Vote Tuesday; Polls open 6:30 am to 7:30 pm; 866-675-2008; Paid For By Obama For America)