Clinton's New National Security Ad

Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:06pm.

Here is the controversial new national security ad from the Clinton campaign, essentially arguing that your children sleeping in their beds may be unsafe if Hillary Clinton isn't in the White House to answer the crisis phone at 3:00 a.m.:

The ad gets slammed in this recommended diary at DailyKos, calling it the "nuclear option," a "fear-bomb," wondering why Clinton is "writing ads for John McCain," and guessing that if she doesn't win the nomination she is hoping that Democrats lose in November so she can "run against McCain or whoever in 2012." Atrios compares it to the 2004 Bush/Cheney ad with scary wolves running through the snow. Marc Ambinder writes that it is "bound to evoke comparisons to LBJ's "Daisy" ad and Walter Mondale's "Red Phone" ads," calls it arguably her "best ... argument ... against Obama," and notes that it has taken her 13 months to make this argument so explicitly.

On a conference call today, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said that Clinton already had her "red phone" moment, and she blew it by voting to authorize the war in Iraq.

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Hillary and the Jew haters

Submitted by new yorker for ... on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:56pm.

Maybe Hillary can run an ad of her with the anti-Semite Al Sharpton of New York instead of her situational ethics when it comes to Farrahkan.
Every January, the Commander in Chief of Panderers appears at Sharpton's rally, where Democratic lap dogs praise him, forgetting:
1-he called Jews "diamond merchants" during the Crown Heights riots in 1991. A Jewish man was murdered by roving bands of thugs.
2-he held a rally on 125th Street outside Freddy's Mart saying no "interlopers" should be allowed to open a business there. Not long afterwards, a deranged man set fire to the store, killing seven people. Everyone knew that interloper was code word for the Jewish landlord.
3-he is best friends with two disbarred lawyers, one of whom said Mayor Dinkins was hanging around with "too many yarmukules."

4- Clinton said nothing when Mayor Bloomberg took support from the Jew-haters of the New York Indpendence Party.

check it out on google!
Ask Hillary about Sharpton!

Clinton's laws of politics...

Submitted by Wiseblood on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 1:07pm.

"One of Clinton's laws of politics is this: If one candidate's trying to scare you, and the other one's trying to get you to think; if one candidate's appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes; you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope." -- Bill Clinton, 2004

i think the ad is a miss

Submitted by melanie simpson on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:10am.

Blatant fearmongering - which i think people are tired of - since we have had it in the White House for 8 long years. Reminds me of LBJ

Also, isn't everyone going to think - Not her - after all didn't she jump to send our young men, our children to Iraq. Smart decision.

Good judgement is what I would want on to answer that phone - sound reasoning, and exceptional insight. I guess i mean Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGW38Zy4bJo&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/...

International Crisis Experience

Submitted by melanie simpson on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:14am.

I just heard on Meet the Press that when this ad was discussed in a conference call with the CLinton campaign, reporters asked what actual experience HRC has had with an international crisis - and of course there was dead silence.

Because she has had NO experience with one.

They mentioned that she is on the armed service committee - but the only crisis there has been John McCain losing his temper.