The Republican National Committee offers a web ad this morning that offers visually what we have been observing for a while: the 2012 edition of Barack Obama, with the deeply disappointing record, endless excuses, harsh and hyperbolic negative attacks, etc., now embodies precisely what he ran against in 2008.
So think of this as the “contrast ad” that the 2008 edition of Obama would run against his future self:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BvwBBjZo87g