MoveOn running an anti-Dole, anti-McCain ad, apparently they have oily pockets

[Lunar]

LINK: "POCKET"

Kill two bird with one stone!  Didn't Obama have an ad called "Pocket" with the same accusation too?

MoveOn.org Political Action announced today that it spent half a million dollars to produce and air a new ad, called “Pocket,” in North Carolina. The ad ties N.C. Senator Elizabeth Dole, who is in a tough reelection fight, with presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, suggesting that both are "in the pocket of big oil.”

Obama has run ads suggesting the same of McCain, also using the phrase "in the pocket of big oil."

“We could have provided clean energy for a million homes," an announcer says as the spot opens on a shot of a young child in front of wind turbines. "Or created thousands of new jobs. Or reduced our dependence on foreign oil."

"Instead, John McCain and Elizabeth Dole allowed big oil companies to keep $13.5 billion dollars in tax breaks while taking huge contributions from Big Oil," he continues.

MoveOn explains this claim this way in its press release: "John McCain and Elizabeth Dole could have voted for cloture on the Energy Bill before the Senate in December, breaking the filibuster that granted $13.5 billion in continued tax breaks for oil companies (the bill, which needed only one more vote for cloture, would have repealed the 2004 and 2005 Bush tax breaks for the top five oil companies)."

The anouncer concludes: "John McCain and Elizabeth Dole: Two more Republicans in the pocket of big oil.”

UPDATE: The Republican National Committee' Amber Wilkerson responds: "The fact of the matter is that Barack Obama is the only candidate in this race who voted for the '05 Energy Bill, which gave nearly $3 billion in new giveaways to Big Oil, and he has received more from the pockets of employees at several of Big Oil’s largest and most recognizable companies.”

CBS News

[Lunar]

Anyone else find it funny that the RNC is attacking Obama for voting for the "Big Energy Bill" that gave away money to 'Big Oil?'

[Lief 🗽]

Usually MoveOn ads are much better than that.

[Ronnie]

Let Moveon go to hell.  Everything that comes from that website is trash.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Let Moveon go to hell.  Everything that comes from that website is trash.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Anyone else find it funny that the RNC is attacking Obama for voting for the "Big Energy Bill" that gave away money to 'Big Oil?'

No, not at all.  The funny thing is that Obama thinks he can attack McCain on being the "Big Oil Candidate" when both candidates are just awash with money from the oil companies.

[Lunar]

Well, it was essentially a Republican bill.  I remember Clinton endlessly using her vote against the "Bush/Cheney energy bill" as one of the few policy differences between herself and Obama.  If the RNC didn't like the bill, they didn't have to sponsor it haha.

[Sam Spade]

MoveOn helps their candidates more when they don't run ads.  Just FYI.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Well, it was essentially a Republican bill.  I remember Clinton endlessly using her vote against the "Bush/Cheney energy bill" as one of the few policy differences between herself and Obama.  If the RNC didn't like the bill, they didn't have to sponsor it haha.

The Republican National Committee sponsored what now?

[Lunar]

Well, it was essentially a Republican bill.  I remember Clinton endlessly using her vote against the "Bush/Cheney energy bill" as one of the few policy differences between herself and Obama.  If the RNC didn't like the bill, they didn't have to sponsor it haha.

The Republican National Committee sponsored what now?

ugh.  sigh.  I mean, "If the Republicans."