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by Frank James
The Service Employees International Union has a new TV ad up in Pennsylvania in support of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
It’s called “Bitter Small-Town People for Obama.” That’s a joke. The ad is really called “Change.”
It features several individuals who look like the type Obama’s been known to refer to as “ordinary people” and they’re complaining about high gas-pump prices. The union says the people are Pennsylvanians.
After a series of gripes about soaring gas prices and greedy oil companies, the everyday people shift to blaming politicians who take money from oil-company lobbyists and PACs (they don’t mention Sen. Hillary Clinton but we know who they’re talking about) and note that Obama doesn’t.
The kicker comes when some of the people say essentially that Obama cares about people like them and will stand up to the oil companies.
Question. Does SEIU invest any of its pension fund dollars in the energy industry? If so, it would seem that its members benefit from the same big profits that the ad complains about. Also, in the announcement of the informational campaign which the ad is a part of, the SEIU says the ad is about “Obama’s solutions for reigning (sic) in gas prices.” But aside from the he-doesn’r-take-lobbyists’-money and he’ll-stand-up-to-oil-companies memes, there are no Obama solutions offered. Seems like a bit of false adverstising there.