New Hillary Clinton ad in Texas

ledvedderman

Does this ad remind anyone else of the "Daisy" ad that LBJ used?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70emIFxETs&eurl=

Here's the "Daisy" ad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVn9k6d1og

While it isn't an exact, the politics of fear are alive in well in the Clinton campaign...just like Bill Kristol told her to use them.

cornnifer

Don't know about the LBJ ad, but i can answer the question about who i want answering the phone.
Barack Obama.

soulsinging

holy shit, that second ad is the funniest thing i have ever seen!

ledvedderman

cornnifer wrote:

Don't know about the LBJ ad, but i can answer the question about who i want answering the phone.
Barack Obama.

I too would much prefer Barack Obama answer that call...

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

stupid kid cant even count

DOSW

I've lost what little respect I've had left for Clinton. This kind of scare tactics is the exact sort of "Rove-ian tactics" that she blasted Obama for, amplified by a million. It's despicable.

This is just sad. I honestly thought Hilary was above this. I really did.

chipboy

And the teflon candidate's response....

Obama addressed the ad directly before a rally. "Now before we open this up for conversation, I just want to take a moment to respond to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today that asks, 'Who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it's 3 a.m. and something has happened in the world?'" he said.

"We've seen these ads before. They're the kind that play on peoples' fears to scare up votes," he continued. "Well it won't work this time. Because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is -- what kind of judgment will you make when you answer? We've had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer.

"But I stood up and said that a war in Iraq would cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat we face -- and that we should take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. That's the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, and that's the kind of judgment I'll show when I answer that phone in the White House as President of the United States....And I'll never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it's a threat that should rally this country around our common enemies. That's the judgment we need at 3 a.m. And that's the judgment that I am running for President to provide."

cornnifer

DOSW wrote:

I honestly thought Hilary was above this. I really did.

WHAT!? You've got to be shitting me. i, honestly didn't think there was a person alive that thougt that.

DOSW

cornnifer wrote:

WHAT!? You've got to be shitting me. i, honestly didn't think there was a person alive that thougt that.

She's been slipping down further and further in my mind recently, but even this shocked me. Doesn't she see what she's doing? It's pathetic. She's just a desperate, pathetic individual. She's just as bad as McCain now.

I hope Obama blows her away in all four states and she cries again. I'd laugh.

anotherclone

I just read this quote on a random blog, so I'm not sure if its correct or not, but I do find it interesting...

"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."

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Bill Clinton, 2004

cornnifer

DOSW wrote:

I hope Obama blows her away in all four states and she cries again. I'd laugh.

That makes two of us.

slightofjeff

That ad is pretty stupid and a tad desperate ... but, unlike some of you, I don't think it's evil, either.