I am just curious how was the ad offensive to you?
Ford is young and at least perceived as attractive; to toss out an implication that as such that he automatically is interested in stepping out on his wife and family, and to imply as much in a commercial is, in my estimation, offensive. And to me, at least, race is NOT the issue here. It is a political ad that got too personal. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure his marriage is strong enough to endure that type of ad. But given the nastiness of the ads this year in general (there was one here in Georgia for a supreme court candidate, where one candidate insisted the other was ordered by a court never to have contact with his sister after allegedly trying to kill his mother), I suppose the Ford ad was one of the milder ones.
Then, again, given the number of political ads and campaigns that got really personal and nasty this year, I'm not surprised it went this way.