Turns out that having Phil Gramm on one’s economic advisory team may not be the best way to demonstrate one’s readiness to inherit the gigantic mess that the U.S. economy has become under the Bush administration’s not-so-close watch — or at least that’s what Obama’s camp is pointing out in this ad on the financial debacle.

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