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Latest Clinton ad sells experience with fear-baiting

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 12:30:00 PM EST


Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose. With the March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio around the corner, the million-dollar-sucking consultants at Camp Clinton have put together an ad reminiscent in tone of Lyndon Johnson "Daisy" advertisement. Its theme -- warn voters that Senator Barack Obama's experience, in comparison to Senator Clinton's, means putting the entire country at risk. (ABC):

"It's 3:00am and your children are asleep," the voice over says. "There's a phone in the White House, and it's ringing. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call."

"Whether someone knows the world's leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead. It's 3am and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?"

The problem for Clinton here is that the selling point -- that she's "tested and ready" -- places in stark relief the incompetence of her campaign operation. Given the performance of the people she's chosen to run her campaign, it suggests that experience and being tested, either as a senator, First Lady (or any of her other prior political experience), doesn't necessarily make you a good leader, message conveyor or possess good judgment when it comes to crisis management.

I'm not saying that she doesn't have those skill sets, mind you, but nothing the public has seen so far about her decision making during this election cycle, and who she's chosen as her "experts"  can give the average voter confidence about a Hillary presidency. The whole Jeckyll/Hyde persona shifts, likely a surfacing of inner tensions among the "experts" further erodes the image of a candidate in control.

I'm not sure this ad will do much to help on that front, but they are throwing anything against the wall at this point, hoping something will stick and resonate.

UPDATE: Another sad irony to add to the list of how Bill's presidency hangs over the downward spiral of this campaign. (h/t invisible_hand)...

"If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is try get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."
-- William J. Clinton, former President of the United States, October 25, 2004
UPDATE 2: Obama's response ad. Smart, pretty stinging one at that.


"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone ringing in the White House.  Something's happening in the world. When that call gets answered, shouldn't the president be the one - the only one - who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start... Who understood the REAL threat to America was al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Who led the effort to secure loose nuclear weapons around the globe... In a dangerous world, it's judgment that matters. I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message.."

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It stinks
but they are throwing anything against the wall at this point, hoping something will stick and resonate.
Whatever they are throwing it smells like feces.



Clinton is not any more qualified or experienced
than Obama is and vice versa. The only possible "experience" she has is being woken up by those calls to her husband when he was president. That's it. I'll add that absolutely no one including McCain is prepared or experienced enough to take over the mess Bush will leave behind.

The more Clinton does things like this, the more she looks like a Republican.

Never try to train a pig. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.


Obama seems to know how to fight back...
...which bodes well for November if he's our nominee.

TPM is reporting this response from his campaign:

"Senator Clinton already had her red phone moment -- to decide whether to allow George Bush to invade Iraq. She answered affirmatively. She did not read the National Intelligence Estimate. She still, curiously, tries to suggest that it wasn't a vote for war, but it most assuredly was...

"This is about what you say when you answer that phone. What judgment you show...She, John McCain and George Bush gave the wrong answer."


Quick, dirty, and effective, I think.

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

i don't see fear-baiting here.
i see confidence and reassurance.  a matter of perspective, i suppose.

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I have to disagree...
I have to disagree with you here.  This ad is the closest to the "Daisy Girl" ad of the 1964 campaign (Johnson) or Mondale's 1984 "Teach Your Children" ads.  Yes, they are provacative.  Yes, they make you think.  Yes, they may even be true (In this case I don't think so). But there is no denying that they are fear-baiting.

[ Parent ]
Her problem is that she believes her own hype
and doesn't understand that the voters don't.

The more she talks about her experience, the more we remember that all of her experience is in screwing things up and never admitting that she screwed up.

She has experience giving us DOMA and DADT and Iraq and no healthcare.

Somehow she thinks thats a selling point


so...
all those voters who have cast ballots for her and kept her campaign alive are what, invisible?  don't count?  what?

it is so far over the top to say that hillary clinton "gave us doma and dadt" that i wonder whether it is even worthwhile to respond.  can we stay in the realm of reality here?  where do you read you history, wingnutdaily?

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Unintended consequences
The problem with this type of ad, which we can expect to see much more of from the Republicans, is that anyone who buys this argument is not going to want Hillary Clinton to pick up the phone, but John McCain. This is a perfect case of how an ad intended to diminish your Democratic opponent can really end up helping your Republican opponent.  

My candidate is no longer in the running DK
  My next choice was Edwards.  The thought of Elizabeth Edwards could convince him and show him the light on LGBT issues helped me lean towards Edwards.  

 I am not jazzed up over either Obama or Clinton.  I will how ever vote for either one of the two over McCain.  There is a sticking point with me that I just don't trust the Clintons and I believe Obama will give into the religious folks.  

 Bill Clinton did give us DOMA and DADT as well as NAFTA.  If it were an Obama at that time we might have gotten the same, who knows?  Bill Clinton also left the White House without the debt we have again after another Shrub and Republican Administration.  

 All the while both Obama and Clinton are trying to show which one is the better for the White House.  It is a difficult position for both of them.  Neither can go to negative against the other with out fearing turning off the Demcratic Electorate or supplying the Republicans with talking points.  I also haven't heard any positive differences, I am sure for the same reason.

 If you listen to Hannity, he is already trying to ramp up a Clinton stole an election if she wins the Democratic Nomination.  But the only thing Hannity will convince me of is not voting for a Republican.

 Obama has said he wants to do away with all of DOMA, Clinton has said parts of it.  Check one positive for Obama.  Both have the same stance on Marriage Equality, Neither support it.  Both have said an inclusive ENDA and for passing Hate Crimes.  From what I gather, neither has done anything to change the Uniting American Families Act.

 The war voting record between the two is not that different.  The difference between their health care plans I have to view a bit closer. Again either one is better than what the Tool has to offer.



If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


DOMA and DADT
Let's reset the clock a bit
DADT was the compromise with the hero of the Gulf War, Colin Powell, who opposed ANY measure alleviating the conditions of LGBT's. Powell was, after Schwartzkopf, America's favourite hero.

DOMA was the desparate attempt to stave off something worse, offered up to try and slake the bloodlust of the then enormously popular and pugnatious Newt Gingrich(yes, there ws a time when Americans loved him)

But I have two bigger issues:
Healthcre for everyone
and LGBT rights, comprehensive and NOW!
No incrementalism, no loopholes to be exploited later
My commercial?

"It's three am and the phone in the Justice Department rings. A butch Lesbian, or an effeminate gay man, or a Trans-person has been attacked. When that call gets answered, shouldn't it be by an Attorney General whose President has championed and achieved real LGBT citizenship and equality and who will prosecute the offenders to the maximum?"


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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