BY OLYMPIA MEOLA
President Barack Obama’s campaign is releasing a pair of new TV ads in Virginia focused on Medicare and military veterans.
“Personal” talks up the Obama administration’s efforts to crackdown on health care fraud, and says $4 billion was recovered from health care scams last year.
“To you and your loved ones Medicare is personal,” the ad’s narrator says. “And to a president raised by his grandparents, it’s personal, too.”
“Sacred Trust,” also a 30-second spot, comes on the heels of the launch of Veterans and Military Families for Obama.
The president says in the ad that it’s because of what the troops have done, “that we’ve been able to go after al-Qaida and kill [Osama] bin Laden.”
“When they come home we have a sacred trust to make sure that we are doing everything we can to heal all of their wounds giving them the opportunities that they deserve to find a job and get the education that they need.”
Amanda Henneberg, a spokeswoman for presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, responded to the ads, saying “President Obama and his campaign can’t distract voters from three years of broken promises on Medicare and our commitments to our veterans.
“In a week when his own supporters called his campaign attacks on free enterprise ‘nauseating’ and ‘very disappointing,’ President Obama is now trying to rewrite his record in an attempt to change the narrative on his campaign’s terrible week.”
May 23, 2012 - 10:40 am




