February 26, 2012 10:27 PM UTC

Obama The Socialist Wall Street Toady?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Politico’s Alexander Burns:

The American Future Fund, a Republican independent expenditure group, is planning to go after President Barack Obama’s ties to Wall Street in a $4 million ad campaign targeting nine swing states, an AFF official tells me…

The AFF television ads will run on cable in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. That’s real money going onto the airwaves in real states from a group that spent heavily in the 2010 midterms, but which has yet to fully ramp up for the 2012 general election.

We wouldn’t call this an unstrategic issue to hit President Barack Obama on; it aguably targets a sore spot with more natural Obama voters than other lines of attack. But to whatever extent an ad like this might disabuse voters of the idea that only Republicans have special interest friends (see SOPA, not news), it also reminds them Obama is perhaps not a closet socialist bringing our American capitalist system “down from the inside” after all.

Because voters have been told that a lot. What’s the net value in attacking Obama as a money-grubbing capitalist? Is that supposed to drive them into the arms of Mitt Romney, then?

Maybe should have asked a couple more questions in that focus group.