by John McCormick

More than six months before the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign announced today that it is starting to run television commercials in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

Calling it a "low-level" advertising effort, the campaign said two different spots will highlight his biography and career of the junior senator from Illinois.

You can view the ads here.

The scripts of the two ads, as provided by the Obama campaign:

Script for “Choices” (60 seconds):

Obama: I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

Obama (from the 2004 Democratic National Convention): It is that fundamental belief: I am my brother’s keeper. I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work.

Narrator: After college, Barack Obama signed on as a community organizer for local churches, working to help families devastated by plant closings.

Tom Balanoff (President SEIU Local I): Barack was organizing at a time when everything was collapsing…it was people who had good lives and all of a sudden they unraveled.

David Kindler (Former community organizer): The fact that Barack chose to try and effect social change, you know how do you understand that motivation? The pay stinks, the hours are bad.

Narrator: Three years later, Barack went to Harvard Law, then returned to the community to lead a voter registration drive and defend civil rights.

Laurence Tribe (Harvard University Law School): It was inspiring, absolutely inspiring to see someone as brilliant as Barack Obama, as successful, someone who could’ve written his ticket on Wall Street, take all of the talent and all of the learning and decide to devote it to the community and to making people’s lives better.

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Script for “Carry” (30 seconds):

Obama: I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.

Obama (from the 2004 Democratic National Convention): There is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America.

Kirk Dillard (Republican Illinois State Senator): Senator Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way…

Larry Walsh (Democratic Illinois State Senator): The legislation that he carried, he believed in. He was not carrying it for a group. He was not carrying for a lobbyist.

Kirk Dillard: Republicans legislators respected Senator Obama. His negotiation skills and an ability to understand both sides would serve the country very well.