McCain, Obama Battle over McCain’s DHL Involvement on Ohio Airwaves

Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in an on-air back-and-forth over McCain’s alleged ties to a DHL downsize that put several thousand Ohioans out of work.

Obama today released a TV ad for Ohio highlighting McCain’s role, outlined by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in helping DHL purchase a U.S.-based shipping company, which could lead to a loss of over 8,000 Ohio jobs. Obama has also hit McCain on the alleged link in a radio ad, pointing to McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis’s employment as a lobbyist for DHL as well.

“In Washington, John McCain helped pave the way for DHL to take over an American shipping company,” a narrator says in the TV ad. “McCain’s campaign manager was lead lobbyist for the deal. Now: thousands of Ohio jobs at risk.”

McCain hit back, releasing his own TV ad for Ohio this afternoon, saying Obama’s allegations aren’t true and hitting the Illinois Democrat on taxes.

“Saying John McCain cost Ohio jobs: oh, it’s just not true. It’s Obama’s taxes that will hurt Ohio families,” a narrator says in the ad. See the two ads below.