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While Barack Obama was delivering his much-anticipated speech in Berlin on Thursday, the Republican National Committee was busy making sure that voters back home got a different message about the Illinois senator. As a counterpoint to Obama's stop in Germany, the RNC launched a radio ad (subscription) in Berlin, Penn., Berlin, Wis., and Berlin, N.H., accusing him of putting politics ahead of America's troops.

Today, timed with Obama's visit to France, the ad is also running in Paris, Mo., Paris, Mich., and Paris, Maine; and Saturday, when Obama is in Great Britain, it will air in London, Ohio, and London, W.Va.

“As Barack Obama is globe-trotting across Europe, voters back in Berlin, Paris, and London, USA want to know why he voted against funding our military and refuses to admit that he was wrong on the troop surge," RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson said.

An announcer proclaims in the ad that "when our military needed necessary resources, Barack Obama failed to stand up." He goes on to detail provisions of an appropriations bill that Obama voted against in 2007, noting that it included resources for "individual body armor," "helicopters," "ammunition," and "veterans' medical facilities and rehabilitation programs."

The spot then contrasts Obama with John McCain. The announcer calls McCain "a veteran and someone who has always put the public interest first," and says that he "stood by our troops" when it was time to vote on funding. Obama, on the other hand, is portrayed as a craven politician who puts his own aspirations above country: "If Obama can't rise above politics to support our soldiers in a time of war, then how can he claim to have the strength to change the way Washington works?"

McCain referenced the same no vote by Obama in a similar TV ad released last week. Factcheck.org points out, however, that while Obama voted against troop funding once in 2007, prior to that he voted yes on all other war-funding bills that came before the Senate since he was sworn in, for a total of 10 yes votes. Their analysis suggests that the argument made in McCain's ad is "oversimplified to the point of being seriously misleading."

The Obama camp, meanwhile, called the RNC's spot a "distasteful and misleading attack from the [Karl] Rove playbook." "There are honest differences between Senator Obama's position on Iraq and Senator McCain's," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement, "but there's no question that both support our troops."

The RNC ad buy is a relatively small one, but the committee has not been shy about trying to generate earned media attention, sending out separate notices for each series of buys. The McCain campaign and the RNC have been doing everything possible to draw some of the media spotlight away from Obama's overseas trip this week and have not been hesitant to go on the attack on the home front while he is away.