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Our Country Deserves Better, a PAC chaired by California Republican Howard Kaloogian, is running a new TV ad against Barack Obama that revives several of the fiercest character attacks made against the Illinois senator since the beginning of the campaign season.

"Obama's Wrong Values" (subscription) opens with footage of a few of the Democratic Party's primary candidates lined up on a stage, apparently during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance; Obama is the only one not holding his hand over his heart. "Barack Obama seems to have different values from most Americans," an announcer says. He goes on to charge that Obama campaign offices have flags of "murderous leftist Che Guevara" hung on the walls and that a top official from "the terrorist group Hamas endorsed" Obama. And finally, the ad shows the now-infamous footage of Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, spouting: "... Goddamn America."

Viewers in Nevada and Colorado are already seeing the ad; the group hopes to expand into Michigan later this week, and perhaps Ohio and Pennsylvania as early as next week. PAC coordinator Joe Wierzbicki called Michigan the group's "top priority," now that the McCain campaign has drawn down its staff in the state and taken its ads off of the air.

"We believe that individual incidences of poor judgment is something that people can explain and own up to. But when you have a pattern of behavior, then it speaks to your character, temperament and identity in the political realm," Wierzbicki said of Obama. He explained that Our Country Deserves Better produced this ad in August, but held off on airing it until the McCain campaign had an opportunity to bring up these issues with voters. Since "Senator McCain’s campaign was unable to raise them in a compelling and consistent manner," however, it is "up to independent groups like ours to do so," Wierzbicki insisted.

The group is hoping to target voters who, because of the economic situation in the country and a sense that Washington has failed to lead in tough times, are tempted to vote for the Democratic candidate. "We believe that Obama lacks the qualifications and temperament to be president, and that when voters stop and think about whether this is the person they want in the White House and as commander in chief of the U.S. military for the next four years, that they will conclude that Barack Obama is not an acceptable choice to be president," Wierzbicki said.

The launch of the ad corresponds with the kickoff of a two-week national "Stop Obama" bus tour. Beginning today in Sacramento, Calif., the bus has scheduled stops in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.