Obama's New Ad Focuses On Future Threats (VIDEO)

In a new ad, sent out by the campaign after his roundtable on 21st-century security threats, Obama talks about foreign policy problems outside of Iraq: terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and dependence on foreign oil.

[WATCH]

The script:

Announcer: 40 years ago it was missile silos and the Cold War.

Today, it's cyber attacks...loose nukes...oil money funding terrorism.

Barack Obama understands our changing world.

On the Foreign Relations Committee, he co-sponsored a law to lock down loose nuclear weapons.

As president, he'll rebuild our alliances to take out terrorist networks...

And fast-track alternatives so we stop spending billions on oil from hostile nations.

New leadership for a changing world.

Obama VO: I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.

Comments

[eden4barack08]

08:34 AM on 07/17/2008

I like it, good ad. But, imo, using his own voice throughout the ad, would be more powerful than the anonymous voice over.

[CashMurda407]

09:08 PM on 07/16/2008

Great ad...I can see Barack Obama being to the Democrats what Reagan was to the Republicans...ditch that idea, I can see him being what George Washington is to this great nation. The Age of Democratic Peace is on the horizon with Barack Obama!!!

Not only does he have the JUDGEMENT TO LEAD.

He is New Leadership for a Changing World!!!!!!!

Obama '08!

Yes We Can!

[Sundialsvc4]

07:59 PM on 07/16/2008

Senator Obama, like Senator Clinton and Senator McCain, never sat in a top-command post and actually directed a war.

General U. S. Grant did, and he said, "generals don't start wars... [Senators] do."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower (who wore more stars on his lapel than anyone) warned us that the military machine represented the greatest threat that our Republic would ever face. He warned us that, left to its own devisings, this industry would subsume every other legitimate social priority of government.

And so it has.

[venicesurfer]

07:57 PM on 07/16/2008

OH MY GOD, he showed images of al qaida. right out of karl roves playbook. politics of fear. OMG!!

this is the reaction of obama supporters when they saw the ad clinton put out and featured osama bin laden.

obama pledged today that he plans on getting rid of the worlds nukes. but as usual did not specify HOW. i guess he is going to charm china, russia with speeches and hope they do what he says.

what a naive proposal.

[Zoolie]

10:52 PM on 07/16/2008

Obama discussed the nuke disposal issue at the summit he held at Purdue U in Indiana today.

[eden4barack08]

08:30 AM on 07/17/2008

You really expect him to say 'how' in a 30 second ad?
Thank God you're not running for anything.

[nosanity]

07:08 PM on 07/16/2008

talk about an abomination

[nosanity]

07:09 PM on 07/16/2008

give up your nukes and give up your freedom liberal sissy's . you deserve not freedom for you know not from whence it came . George Washinton just had uh ah uh conversation with the uh ah king of england {to help him see the error of his ways no doubt} and uh the ah uh king acquiesced and the rest is history .

[marylandtravelinman]

08:37 AM on 07/17/2008

Benjamin Franklin said: those who give up freedom for safety deserve neither. But your radical fringe elements never know when or how to quote the source pertinent to the discussion. Keep trying it makes us laugh…out loud :)

[obamanation31]

06:46 PM on 07/16/2008

wonderful AD.

[bosshogg]

04:42 PM on 07/16/2008

i like this better than the other one...................

[Makesense]

05:03 PM on 07/16/2008

Me too. It has more details. It is just perfect

[Seattlelite]

04:38 PM on 07/16/2008

McBush being a war hero and all I'm sure thought he had the hole "national security guru" thing rapped up and O would just run on the economy. Well O is having none of that!!

[Makesense]

04:58 PM on 07/16/2008

Yes he is not and he is right for stressing his accomplishments on National security and foreign policy. You know - the thing that frustrates me the most is that Obama is more of a foreign policy expert than McCain. He understands the peoples of the world and their diverse cultures so well that he is able to view things not just from an American perspective but from the eyes of other cultures, while McBush has a very narrow-minded, parochial, self-centered looking view of it. It perplexes me that the American people cannot see this. They feel McCains military service is a fufilment of foreign policy cred. I totally disagree and that is why Obama should continue to push his accomplishments here to make people more aware and appreciative of his gravitas on foreign policy. Joe Biden knows this, Chuck Hagel knows this, even copycat Bush (who has currently followed yet another approach of Obama on foreign policy to engage Iran without preconditions) knows this, so it is time for the need American people to know this too, and that is what this ad will help to do.

[cdub1991]

05:55 PM on 07/16/2008

Obama said from the beginning that he could hold his own in the foreign policy debate. So far so good...

[venicesurfer]

08:19 PM on 07/16/2008

whats been good so far?

[BTJ46]

04:29 PM on 07/16/2008

McBush says Cyber is the country next door to Czechoslovakia.

[Makesense]

04:46 PM on 07/16/2008

LOL ... Nice one

[dayala]

04:56 PM on 07/16/2008

LOL....I'd like that one as a bumper sticker.

[gditty]

04:17 PM on 07/16/2008

It will be nice to have a President that can think in "real time" not rely on past administrations policies or failures to dictate the best policy.

[Makesense]

04:17 PM on 07/16/2008

The best part is the slogan -- "New Leadership for a Changing World" -- just gat to love it

[venicesurfer]

08:00 PM on 07/16/2008

we get it. you're in love.

[Makesense]

04:01 PM on 07/16/2008

Brilliant -- More than wonderful

[venicesurfer]

08:02 PM on 07/16/2008

only obama is allowed to use politics of fear. c'mon, showing alqaida, the soviets, nuclear missle?

obama supporters threw a fit when clinton release the 3am ad and the ad featuring osama bin laden. but its ok when obama does of course.

such hypocrisy.

[DAVESEAN]

03:32 PM on 07/16/2008

BRILLIANT AD....EXCELLENT
SOME REPORTER SHOULD ASK MCBUSH TO DEFINE CYBER ATTACKS

[CtJean]

03:55 PM on 07/16/2008

I thought the same thing. Do you think that m has finally learned how to log on to the internets and use "the google" to find his house. Booooosh used "the google" to locate his ranch in Crawford Texas, he was quite impressed. "Look mommy there's our house."

Repugs "google this"

[CitizenInformed]

10:33 PM on 07/16/2008

So well said!

[DAVESEAN]

03:31 PM on 07/16/2008

I thought the same things when I looked at the underlying data. Obama has 31% approval among whites, McCain has a 35% approval among whites - yet somehow Obama is failing to bridge the racial divide. Heck, that 31-35% among whites voters is probably a smaller gap than the one that existed between Kerry and Bush around this time in 2004.

Also, with McCain down by 6 overall, shouldn't he be the one worrying. Shouldn't he be trying harder to win over some of the black and Hispanic voters who overwhelmingly approve of and say that will vote for Obama? I mean, only 23% of Hispanics approve of McCain and only 5% of blacks approve.

Obama, if the status quo holds relative to this polls, wins the presidency, even with only 31% of whites approving.

Why wasn't the story about how McCain has been unable to bridge the racial divide? Why isn't the story about how Obama has a huge approval advantage over McCain among blacks and Hispanics yet they are almost tied among whites - McCain's own race? (and, I might add, Obama's)

Thanks, NYTs, for spinning a poll that holds almost nothing but bad news for McCain into one where Obama still can't win over whites