Obama summons ghost of his mother in new Hollywood-style campaign film

The film was released on the day that Mr Obama launched a withering attack on
Republican’s for their love of Big Oil and what he describe as their “flat-earther”
approach to renewable energies.

“They make jokes about biofuels and electric cars. They were against
raising fuel standards because apparently they like gas guzzling cars
better. We’re trying to move towards the future, and they want to keep us
stuck in the past,” he said in a speech in Maryland.

“Of course, we’ve heard this kind of thinking before. If some of these
folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably would have been
founding members of the Flat Earth Society.”

Mr Obama’s approval ratings slumped well below 50 per cent this week, a fall
pollsters have blamed on rising petrol prices.

At the same time, Joe Biden the vice president, made his first major foray
onto the campaign trail, delivering a speech setting out the issues the
Obama campaign says will be “at the core” of November’s election.

Using increasingly populist rhetoric that Republicans have branded “class
warfare”, Mr Biden attacked financial elites, implicitly taking aim at
Mitt Romney, the multi-millionaire management consultant who is leading the
Republican nomination battle to take on Mr Obama.

“It’s about a choice,” Mr Biden was due to tell a crowd at a car
workers union office in Toledo, Ohio. “A choice between a system that’s
rigged, and one that’s fair: a system that holds someone who misleads
investors as accountable as someone who misses a payment on a mortgage.

“A system that trusts the workers on the line, instead of just listening
to the folks in the suites. That’s a stark choice. To my mind it isn’t a
choice at all.”

Mr Romney has made a string of gaffes in recent weeks showing up the extreme
privilege of his up-bringing and social circle, and is under pressure to
show he can win the vital middle class vote after losing primaries in
Mississippi and Alabama this week.

The fight for the nomination has now moved on to Illinois – which is also Mr
Obama’s home state – where analysts say that the vote on Tuesday will be
seen as another key test of Mr Romney’s electability.

Early polls showed Mr Romney leading his more conservative rival Rick Santorum
by a narrow margin, with Mr Romney choosing to campaign in the state two
days earlier than planned and ploughing a massive $5m into campaign
advertising in the state.

Meanwhile Newt Gingrich, who has fallen far behind in the race, told a dinner
on Wednesday night that his
ideas were too clever for his opponents.

“The thing I find most disheartening about this campaign is the
difficulty of talking about positive ideas on a large scale because the news
media can’t cover it and candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,”
he said while campaigning in Illinois this week.

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