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EXCLUSIVE: Red Cross Runs Campaign-Like Ad Featuring Obama

52jude Wrote: Nov 03, 2012 7:26 AM
Just went to the Red Cross web site and looked for the contact us tab and sent them a message about how pitiful this is the weekend before the election; especially since all Obama did was go for a quick fly over and photo op and continued on campaigning in Vegas. Let them know you will find another way to help disaster victims. I suggested that they must have been coerced into running this and that they get to the bottom of it soon.
Lance6161 Wrote: Nov 03, 2012 7:30 AM
Coerced?.....Oh well! No balls, no blue chips!

The organization should have declined any request to do an ad, if that was the case.
Lance6161 Wrote: Nov 03, 2012 7:32 AM
A simple, "go jump" would have been sufficient.

On Friday night, swing-voters across the nation saw a one-minute advertisement paid for by the Red Cross featuring President Barack Obama.

The ad comes on the weekend before the election, and while the Red Cross does unquestionable good for millions of Americans, the choice to run this ad comes noticeably close to a campaign endorsement for President Obama.

Here’s the transcript from the ad:

When a natural disaster strikes, it can leave tens of thousands of families in need of help, and it can also bring out the best in the American people....

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