Obama Ad Ties McCain To Job Losses

RCP

The Obama campaign released a radio ad in Ohio today tying John McCain to the closing of a Wilmington, Ohio shipping operation that will reportedly cost more than 8,000 jobs in the southwestern portion of the state. McCain was in Ohio this week, when a Cleveland Plain Dealer report linked McCain and campaign manager Rick Davis to a business deal that ultimately led to the ensuing job losses.

The Plain Dealer article stated that in 2003, Davis lobbied the Senate to allow DHL Express, a foreign company, to buy out Airborne Express, which ran operations at the Wilmington airport. As chairman of the Senate commerce committee, McCain helped get the bill passed.

"This was probably the most important development of the campaign this week," David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, said on an afternoon conference call. Plouffe added, and the radio ad also notes this, that McCain had been in the area a month earlier and hadn't mentioned the connection. "That's why we think this is important. It's the furthest thing from straight talk you can imagine."

Listen to the ad here

Ohio is T I G H T ...

This is a REAL in that BO's campaign can get its hand on ... HAMMER this now and often, try to get some seperation/force McCain to have to throw in more resources to keep it in play ...

"This was probably the most important development of the campaign this week."

Which is probably why the L$M weren't picking up on it. In light of Edwards' revelation, we can pretty much forget about it, now...

the ABX plane dead ended at our station and I had to fly up to Wilmington for Haz Mat training. I knew the pilot who was flying the cargo plane and really like him, he was down to earth (most the pilots were dicks who thought we were to genuflect when they walked in). Anyway, the next leg of our flyt was St Louis. I happened to ask where is Bush Stadium and the Arch. We received permission to fly directly over the Arch and there was a ballgame in Bush Stadium at the time - it was so cool to look down and see all the lights. Great flight. After working for ABX, it is so sad to hear that so many of the sort center personnel are losing their jobs. ABX was cool to work for and helped start the concept of warehousing of common computer parts. It helped computer customers get their parts faster to the tech's. (IBM).