New ad from President Obama demonstrates why he is often called "the only grown up in the room."

Courtesy of the Huffington Post:

President Barack Obama speaks directly to the camera for the first time in this election cycle in a new TV ad released by his campaign on Monday, outlining "the choice" before American voters. The minute-long spot features the president contrasting his vision for the country with that of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. 

"Over the next four months, you have a choice to make," Obama says. "Not just between two political parties, or even two people. It’s a choice between two very different plans for our country." 

"Sometimes politics can seem very small," Obama says at the end of the ad. "But the choice you face, it couldn't be bigger."

I think that is a very mature ad which addresses the very real choice we face this November and, in my opinion at least, does NOT distort Mitt Romney's campaign promises.

Of course the Romney campaign did not see it that way. This from Romney spokesperson, Amanda Henneberg:  

President Obama believes that government creates jobs, not hard-working entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Not only are his ‘you didn’t build that’ comments insulting to job creators, but they also reflect how unqualified he is to lead our country toward an economic recovery. Instead of meeting with his Jobs Council, he is busy holding fundraisers, playing golf and trying to tear down Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney will never be too busy to focus on jobs and the economy and it will be his top priority as president.

Did you notice that in addressing this ad the Romney campaign AGAIN misrepresented the President's words?

And do YOU remember that "These Hands" ad from the Romney camp BASED on their misrepresentation of the President's words? Yeah well as it turns out the star of the ad, Jack Gilchrist, wasn't exactly telling the American people the whole story about how he built his company ALL by himself:  

The New Hampshire Union Leader’s John DiStato today reports that in 1999 the business in question, Gilchrist Metal, “received $800,000 in tax-exempt revenue bonds issued by the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority ‘to set up a second manufacturing plant and purchase equipment to produce high definition television broadcasting equipment’…” In addition, in 2011, Gilchrist Metal “received two U.S. Navy sub-contracts totaling about $83,000 and a smaller, $5,600 Coast Guard contract in 2008…” 

The businessman, Jack Gilchrist, also acknowledged that in the 1980s the company received a U.S. Small Business Administration loan totaling “somewhere south of” $500,000, and matching funds from the federally-funded New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center. 

“I’m not going to turn a blind eye because the money came from the government,” Gilchrest said. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m getting some of my tax money back. I’m not stupid, I’m not going to say ‘no.’ Shame on me if I didn’t use what’s available.”

Yeah so Mr. Gilchrest built his company with his own two hands alright, AND some much needed assistance from his government,  Which of course was ALL that the President was trying to say.

But of course Mitt Romney knew that, didn't he? He just hoped that the people he was pandering to were just dumb enough NOT to know that.

So essentially Romney has only helped to drive the point of this advertisement home. We indeed have a choice.  On the one hand we have an honorable man who has worked diligently for the American people in the face of almost overwhelming adversity, and on the other a secretive egomaniac who constantly depends on lies and  misinformation to defeat his opponents, and is who barely tolerated by his Republican comrades.

Yep, the choice could not be clearer.