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GOP ad contrasts Barack Obama, Bill Clinton on taxes

One big-spending GOP group has a new hero: former President Bill Clinton.

Crossroads GPS, one of the major outside Republican spending groups, said Wednesday that it has begun airing $2.6 million in ads contrasting President Barack Obama with his predecessor, on taxes and their effect on job creators and small businesses.

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The issue ad, “Two Presidents,” is running for two weeks in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Crossroads GPS president and CEO Steven Law said: “President Obama has launched a tax attack on American jobs that hits Main Street businesses, home mortgages, school and road repair funds and even charities. Former President Clinton and bipartisan majorities in Congress agree that Obama’s tax hikes won’t solve the problem The ad aims to get Obama to stop attacking and start listening.”

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Crossroads GPS president and CEO Steven Law said: “President Obama has launched a tax attack on American jobs that hits Main Street businesses, home mortgages, school and road repair funds and even charities.

You Neglected to mention that we were Losing 700,000 Jobs Per Month when Obama got in:

You also forgot that your crop of Republican Candidates All seem to agree that we should:

Just more Republican lies. Clinton will set them straight. Taxes are lower under Obama than under Clinton. And while Clinton was handed an unbalanced budget and an exponentially growing deficit from Reagan, he was not handed a crashed stock market, even greater deficits, and a worldwide economic meltdown that was hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month and spiraling toward another Republican Great Depression, as Obama was by Bush/Cheney. The Republican propaganda will just end up making the case that Republicans are lousy -- even dangerous -- at governing and only savior Democratic presidents are keeping US from sinking into a bottomless Republican pit.

Some facts for the GOP - Clinton never got over 50% of the popular vote (thanks to Perot running). Obama won by a very good majority.

Many democrats have selective memories about Clinton - much like the GOP has about Saint Reagan. Clinton gave us NAFTA, and signed the gutting of Glass-Steagal, which we are paying for, but at least his big scandal was extramarital sex, not selling arms to Iran.

We all know how the GOP demonized Clinton, so for them to now try to portray him in a positive light only highlights their own hypocrisy. All of America is getting the GOP message loud and clear - "If you're not rich, it's your own fault". They are also telling the majority of American voters "we don't care how you voted, our # 1 goal is to defeat Obama".

How about comparing Obama and Reagan who raised Taxes 11 times? Reagan also advocated to raise taxes on the rich. Karl Rove and his allies have run out of ideas to attack Obama. Your AD has failed and thumbs down. Indeed, it will back fire. lol!

I encourage all readers to nickname Willard Romney as Flipper, This nickname will remind readers that he has been diagnosed with the incurable disease of the Flip Flop Flu. If we do this and keep doing it, I hope that the nickname will stick at the national level and with the media by the summer of 2012 if not earlier.

Crossroads is led by a group that couldn't tell the truth if their life depended on it. Trying to make it seems like Obama is advocating something different than Clinton. The President has not proposed raising taxes on immediately to pay for his jobs program. He has proposed raising the revenues beginning in 3 or 4 years out after the economy is stronger. Crossroads and Republicans in Congress need to listen to the people for a change. They support Obama's proposals by significant margins.

The republicans are making a mess out of NC too. It's bad we had a Nation nose bleed of everything. Greed knows no party...true. But the GOP is a LOT worse. I have to laugh at Romney's non specific plan for America. Nothing will change for the Sr Citizens now. Right.. Just that those younger will get the option to fund SS or their own private account. Guess where that's going to leave them and everyone else..in the red. No pun intended. It will drain the account. There's a reason why all those GOP members won't raise taxes. They want to eliminate the Entitlements which will then give them a LOT of money to do other things for their businesses and the country. If you're a poor senior good luck. Romney has no heart. Obama Care may be scary to a lot of you, but it isn't to me. I work in that field, and I'm sick of seeing the costs going up up up up all over the place. You want to talk about socialistic. What do you think capitalism is. It's really communism...and you're at their mercy. My husband's company has done nothing but insurance policy, and company hopping for years. One year we're doing this, and another year we're doing that. When you move it's a mess. I want a federal social program for healthcare, that way when we move it will be the same. We won't have all these companies making money for profit, and we're still paying more and more for premiums. We have to pay for lawsuits, for people who don't have insurance, for the kids that aren't covered by their parents anymore. So, they're out with nothing. Then there are people that get really sick, and have their companies abandon them when they need them the most. It's pathetic. You can say what you want about Obama, he did what was right when we needed him, and raising taxes should have been the next step to compensate for the Federal stimulus that supposedly didn't work. That's the big GOP lie of the century. Towns are enacting their own taxes to take up the slack. Romney is wrong...the mayor does it. The Federal government has been held hostage by the GOP and their do nothing Congress. Blaming the unemployment all on our President, when it would have been so much worse without him....a stock market crash. Including a breadline. We'd all be in the Occupy Wallstreet movement. There wouldn't even be a TEa Party. Romney wants to give Corporate America and businesses the full rein. Capitalism will be our god.for sure. "In business we trust". The only thing they're not telling you is that you'll have to move to a different country to find a job. People are already doing it. Don't you ever watch HGTV House Hunters International. That's all you see now. Everybody is getting out of dodge and living over there too. Obama/Biden 2012. I agree with Clinton.

@BamaDon Clinton didn't introduce Glass-Steagall repeal Lyndsey Grahmm (R) did. The Republicans were all for it. They wanted to deregulate the banks. The Dems said no, and it failed miserably. Later on they filled it with sweetners, comprising, and Clinton signed it. The Greedy took over...Dems and the GOP. It knows no party. Bush caused the big debt. Everybody was having a great party, particularly Fannie and Freddie. The banks were having one too. So, boom. What's sad is Romney plans to even toss out Dodd-Frank which though it was not a full throttle, it did clamp down on few many things. Also, the banks are paying the country back. Romney is kissing their feet. "In Business we trust" Yup, that's the new motto if they win in 2012. The only thing is I'm praying that the country wakes up by next November and realizes that this ain't nothing but BS. The light bulb will come on at the polling place finally, and it will be "I'm going to vote for all that that caused this mess in the first place?" I don't think so. Obama/Biden 2012.