Clinton’s new ad is a joke:
Shouldn’t someone have told her that the “ominous serious voice” is more convincing if you don’t hire the voice actor who has done the trailers for every Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell movie?
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sparky
i hope McCain pays for this commercial, otherwise she should have spent the cash on donuts and parking.
or is this a trailer for the Return of Saw XXXVIIII?
estragon
That ad made me really actively not want her to be answering that phone for some reason.
gypsy howell
Makes me ashamed to be a democrat.
Please lose quickly, Hillary, before you subject us to a 24 -style ticking clock and typing-in-process crawl. We don’t need any more republican fear-mongering tactics.
gypsy howell
Huh? Totally screwed those tags. Oh well. I must have been overcome with fear.
libarbarian
Its 3am and your children are in bed, safe from bad comedy, but somewhere in the White House a phone is ringing.
Who knows the producers, directors, and celebrities?
Who has the experience to stop Will Ferrell from making another movie?
flitterbic
I’m OK with her answering the phone if it’s one of my employees calling out sick – they’ll never do it again.
If it’s anybody else, not so much.
p.lukasiak
What is objectionable in this ad is not the person doing the voice-over, but the fact that this is a very-thinly disguised negative/attack ad.
JL
The idea that the President of the United States works 24/7 just in case the phone rings didn’t seem believable. By the way her makeup was perfect. Since I tend to wear makeup, I haven’t found the brand that still looks good at 3 in the morning.
KCinDC
She forgot to put in the wolves.
Wilfred
Oh Mister trouble never comes around
when he hears this mighty sound:
“Here I come to save the day!”,
that means that Hillary is on the waaaaay.
Fear, fear wank, wank, experience, wank, wank, poor, poor pitful me, wank, wank.
gypsy howell
No, what’s objectionable is the disgusting fear tactics she employs, as if we haven’t had enough of that bullshit from the republicans for the last 8 years.
Decided FenceSitter
Well, it’s attempt at crossover appeal. She figures that if Obama can appeal to Centrists, she appeal to fear-mongering bedwetting contingent.
gypsy howell
I think I’ll head on over to Larry and Susan’s Nuthouse to read the accolades that I’m sure are pouring in for this ad.
See ya later.
Rick Taylor
Guess she decided to take Bill Kristol’s advice and resort to the politics of fear.
Both candidates have successively made me question my support of them, and in both cases it was when they grabbed for right wing memes (in Obama’s case, beginning with social security being in crises).
GSD
That commercial would be really creepy if it was Sen. Larry Craig opening the bedroom door in the dark.
-GSD
P.S. Anthrax redux. Ricin reportedly found in Vegas hotel.
cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/national/main3891549.shtml
The Other Steve
The politics of dancing! whoo ah, the politics of ohh feeling good! the politics of moving, oh yeah.
Wilfred
This is why the correct response to her is to say that winning with these tactics means that she can’t count on support in the general. She needs to be told to fuck-off in no uncertain terms, not enabled (like always) because, you know, McCain’t is worse.
tBone
I hope you’re all happy with your vote for President Obama when you’re being torn limb-from-limb by a pack of rabid wolves.
4tehlulz
I’m glad that ricin graphic has the skull and crossbones on it. Otherwise, I couldn’t figure out that it was dangerous.
EdTheRed
By this logic, I should vote for Winston Wolf for president…
Rick Taylor
On the other hand, via Open Left,
Um, I’m kind of with Hillary on this one, Obama. And I hope you’re aware, you’re going to be the target of some unfair attacks in the future, assuming as seems likely you win the nomination.
Jake
Because no brown people were seen in the vicinity.
Jon H
“P.S. Anthrax redux. Ricin reportedly found in Vegas hotel.”
Chill. Grissom will totally crack that case with the help of Marg “Married to a total schlub” Helgenbergerbergerberger.
The Other Steve
HAHAHAHAHAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I thought I was making fun of them when I mentioned the Islamofascist Killer Robots!
But no, they’re real! Fox News tells us so!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
EX-TER-MI-NATE!
Jon H
Someone needs to edit that and splice in a male detective’s voice at the end, saying, “We’ve traced the call, and IT’S COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!” just as Hillary appears.
The Other Steve
I think what he’s saying here, is if you respond in kind you appear like a child.
And people are tired of children running our government.
4tehlulz
I imagine Fruit of the Loom sales will skyrocket, as much underwear will be ruined in the wingtardosphere by this not terror at this point incident.
SenderC
Who are these people who are up at 3:00am in their work clothes? Will President Hillary never sleep?
Zifnab
Barack is playing up the fact that he isn’t Hillary Clinton. The fact that he isn’t Hillary Clinton combined with the fact that he’s willing to embrace Broder-esque “bipartisanship” on such issues as Health Care, ending the Iraq War, and reforming the tax code makes him much harder to attack.
It’s really hard to call a man who authors bills with Lugar or Warner or Coburn a “radical, intractable leftist” particularly if the guys doing the smearing are Lugar or Warner or Coburn.
Personally, I think Barack’s recapturing of the middle ground is fantastic news for Dems. It would be nice to “go to war” with the Republicans and win. But I really don’t want to see Washington DC turn into Iraq – with people drawing up in tight political lines and hammering each other for a generation or more.
All that said – in regards to the TV ad, I’ve never really caught on to the whole “Clinton Nanny State” wingnut meme until this moment. With moonbats like Clinton running for President, I can almost begin to sympathize with the right-wing crazy. Seriously, we all joked about “Democrats are worse”, but with the way Hillary has run this campaign, I almost think she could make it happen.
over it
Compare that to will.i.am’s new Obama video:
We Are The Ones
Tsulagi
Yeah, that one was a classic. I busted up laughing the first time I saw it.
Too bad Huckabee won’t get the Pub nod. Could have looked forward to ads with packs of sinister abortion doctors prowling in the early morning hours.
Krista
–Bill Clinton, 2004
John S.
Uh-oh.
If Hillary loses Paul, she’s finished.
John S.
Uh-oh.
If Hillary loses Paul, she’s finished.
jrg
“Who do you want answering that call at 3:00 AM?”
Um, gee, I don’t know… Maybe someone who’s not going to base their military decisions on a fear of getting called a bad name by the Republicans?
KCinDC
Damn, is the Onion publishing stories on the Fox News site now? Seriously, how could a real news site use that photo with the story?
Rick Taylor
I hope you’re right, but these are the same people who managed to smear a Vietnam veteran as a faker who didn’t deserve his purple heart. Frankly, the idea of Oboma being a wild-eyed hyper-partisan leftist is no more ridiculous than Hillary being one. I put nothing past them.
If it works, I will cheer. The thing is, the failure of Broderesque bipartisanship has nothing to do with Democrats pursuing scorched earth policies, or failing to attempt to work with the opposition. They, including Hillary, have pursued compromise, and it hasn’t worked. As long as they have enough votes for filibuster, the Republican minority have no interest in getting out of Iraq, embracing any form of government health care, or bringing us back to economic sanity, and I just don’t see how Obama is going to change that, because his position that he can reach out to the opposition is based on the premise Democrats haven’t been doing that all along. I believe that’s what people are pointing to when they make fun of the ‘Unity pony.’
Jon H
“Damn, is the Onion publishing stories on the Fox News site now? Seriously, how could a real news site use that photo with the story?”
Come on, that’s a totally serious picture of a terrorist robot. It even has a behead-o-ray gun on the front.
Jon H
” They, including Hillary, have pursued compromise, and it hasn’t worked. ”
Largely because they keep compromising and giving the GOP everything they want.
The Obama model appears to be “Give Obama exactly what he wants, and Obama will help with something *else* that the opposition wants”.
Cassidy
Thank you, come again. Smithers, release the hounds
Rick Taylor
Via Andrew Sullivan, this cartoon is just too funny, especially for those of us old enough to have grown up with Warner Brothers cartoons.
Jon H
“Could have looked forward to ads with packs of sinister abortion doctors prowling in the early morning hours.”
Oooh, prowling the woods stalking a very pregnant Mrs. Red Riding Hood.
Cassidy
As CIC, Obama or HRC don’t need Congress’s approval. They can just bring them home.
bdr
Kids at 3 in the morning are scared of the boogeyman.
Just saying.
John S.
Wait a minute…are you trying to tell us that the president has the authority to end a war, though they lack the power to start one?
Because Bush has got me confused on these points – I think he has it backwards.
Quackers
I’m gonna just have to laugh next time I hear her whine about some lowball tactic coming
“right out of the Republican playbook” when she’s obviously using the damned book herself.
Cassidy
Only Congress has the power to declare war…the CIC has the power to deploy and redeploy troops. Technically, as has been the case since Vietnam, this is not a war. Congress’s only position of power in this thing is funding.
Dreggas
It’s easy enough, which candidate has young children they see every day and knows just what may be at stake when that phone rings?
Which one, despite having shit flung at him, has remained cool as a cucumber and not taken the bait?
Tsulagi
Holy shit! R2D2 has gone jihadi. We’re all fucked now.
SGEW
Hey! Maybe Sen. Clinton’s ad is right! Don’t you remember what Michelle Obama said? That her husband is “cranky” when he wakes up? Do you want Pres. Medvedev to have to deal with a “cranky” person when there’s a 3 a.m. emergency call about the latest Ukrainian/Russian crisis? What if Pres. Obama says something not-very-nice? Look at the ad! Hillary Clinton never, ever sleeps, and if even if she’s not ready to take the call, Bill will be there to cover for her (since, naturally, they sleep in the same bed, being married and all). This ad has convinced me, utterly (much in the same way that the new F.I.S.A. bill must be passed, or else that nice clock will explode: and, hey, didn’t you notice that very few people were eaten by wolves during Reagan’s presidency? And now wolves are on the come-back! It all makes sense!).
Thin, thin reeds. It might work on certain people, tho’.
BTW, Krista: very nice quote. Sen. Clinton really is running against Pres. Clinton.
Jon H
Obama needs to get Mr. T on the campaign trail with him.
tBone
All of that toe-tapping from C3PO was bound to drive him over the edge sooner or later.
Jon H
“As CIC, Obama or HRC don’t need Congress’s approval. They can just bring them home.”
In HRC’s case, it’s a pretty safe bet she’d wait until her second term when doing so would be politically safe on the right.
SGEW
Oh, and the Islamofascist Robots also proves that Obama’s a terrorist!
Isn’t he all for, you know, technology development, and stuff? Not to mention the fact that he’s a Cyborg From the Future Sent to Destroy Us All!
Cyrus
LOL, it was great. It reminds me of a Jon Stewart clip. He showed a Fox News segment on a serial killer or something like that in a Florida town that happens to be well-known as a spring break location — so for a video inset, they showed women in bikinis dancing. I wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that there’s a stealth liberal somewhere among Fox News editors.
The linked also mentioned a “Crusher” tanklike robot made by DARPA. I searched Fox’s Web site and found it, and as might be expected, it’s hilarious. I might feel impressed if it wasn’t seven tons with a top speed of 25 miles per hour, despite being intended for use for scouting and surveillance.
Because no one will ever notice a seven-ton, six-wheeled vehicle parked down by the supermarket. And even if they do notice it somehow, it is completely impossible to get spraypaint in Iraq, right?
Tsulagi
Yep.
I look forward to President Obama issuing
sternlyuplifting worded lengthy proclamations full of hope and change for a bipartisan new way forward tomorrow. Cue will.i.am. And as long as he emphasizes tomorrow, maybe the other guys won’t be as mad at them and call them as many names while Dems stay the course in their strong leadership. Progress.DougJ
There’s ad for a home security company that is almost exactly the same as this ad.
Harley
Well, if nothing else, she’s teeing up an SNL skit. Dark bedroom, phone rings, Hillary wakes to answer….and, of course, Bill reaches across her to grab it himself. And poor Hillary can’t get a word in edgewise.
Sirkowski
Why is Hillary calling this little girl at 3am? Can’t it wait until morning? Is this sleepy little girl her Secretary of Defense? How many millions have they spent on this nonesensical commercial?
DougJ
You know what would make this better? If it showed Michelle Malkin peaking into the house to check out the family’s countertops. *That* would scare the kids.
The Other Andrew
From now on, whenever I think of Hillary, I’m going to imagine her saying, “Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons!”
Jon H
“Bill reaches across her to grab it himself”
And says, in a stage whisper, “Baby, I told you not to call me here.”
Punchy
Ok, ladies and gents. They found–sit down for this–RICIN in some loser motel room in Vegas. There’s absolutely no hint of anything nefarious, malicious, or underhanded about it. It’s not even illegal to own it!
Here’s the wager–how long will it take–minutes, hours, or a day–before the Bush Admin uses it as an example of how we must immunize the telecoms, even though it has absolutely no terrorism aspect whatsoever?
4tehlulz
I think the telecoms should be immunized against ricin.
SGEW
No terrorism aspect whatsoever? Nonsense! Aum Shinrikyo has sleeper cells all over this country, with their sharpened umbrellas poised to attack. The telecoms won’t be able to wiretap all those calls from Osaka without the immunity bill. Do you want the ricin gas terrorists to win?
We must defeat Shintofascism wherever it rears its well-groomed head!
zzyzx
Sorry, but I’m busy being terrified of a Dalek invasion!
Dug Jay
Well it looks like the gloves are coming off, at least in Texas, as the Clinton campaign attacks Obama over his decade-long ties to Chicago sleazeball, Tony Rezko.
Dork
Condoleeza Ricin. A toxin to our State Department?
tBone
Shorter Dug Jay: I suck at trolling, but I just can’t help myself.
Alan
If you recall, Hillary says she’ll work every day for us. Applying lawyerly parsing, who know what the hell she’ll be doing at night.
Svensker
Snort.
True Blue
“It’s a fair question”
Obama has just responded brilliantly. A Kerry Democrat would be trying dance away from this “charge”. Obama is a jujitsu master, and the folks calling the shots at the Clinton Campaign are apparently watered down Republicans.
Wilfred
Can this be happening?
He was down 15 points or more only 10 days ago.
Digital Amish
Damn, right out of the Rove 04 playbook.
Fear you can xerox
borehole
Somebody get Digital Amish a Whip Inflation Now button.
J. Michael Neal
The problem with this ad isn’t that it’s negative; on that score, I have no problem with it. It’s asking a fundamentally important question. The problem with this ad is that it’s entirely ineffective. It doesn’t really manage to draw any distinction between Clinton and Obama. It’s thirty seconds of wasted campaign time. Worse, it’s framed in such a way that it begs for the Obama response that he gave: compare the judgment of the two candidates.
On the whole, I think that this as is a net loser for Clinton, strictly within its own framing.
rreay
Very funny.
Coudal partners has a response video up.
Tzal
Actual response video:
politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obama_Ringing.html#comments
As a commentator with a wit much sharper than mine said: ‘She must be thirsty because he keeps drinking her milkshake.”
Brachiator
I enjoyed a couple of quips from the New Republic blog page:
Conservatively Liberal
Fixed.
Really, when I saw the ad I laughed at it, and I bet that I was not alone in doing so. It seems that the story that is going to come out of this primary is that Hillary thought she had it won before it started, and she has been two steps behind Obama ever since. Obama was smart, and he did not play the game as it has been played in the past. He is winning this in the best way possible, by letting every American know that he wants their vote and that he is willing to go the distance to get it.
Obama’s ground game has been unbelievable to watch. They have been quick to respond, tempered in their responses, and they seem to be able to attack very cleanly. It is not politics as usual, and Obama seemed to know that politics as usual is not selling. People want something different, we are tired of being at each others throats non-stop. We know that our country is in a mess, and it is going to take everyone pulling together to get out of it.
We are ready to put the experience of living under the worst president in history behind us, and we may be looking at one of the best presidents in decades if Obama wins. I have never been as interested in the outcome of a presidential election as I am in this one. I don’t think we have ever had so much riding on the outcome of a race in many years, if ever.
Our finances are a wreck, we are mired in a war that we never should have started, our country is divided, our economy is gutted hollow, housing is a disaster and on and on and on…
We need change. Fast. We need a real leader, and I see the chance of a better leader in Barack than I do Hillary. Change means just that, things change. With change comes the possibility of error, and that is unavoidable. That means if you want change, you have to take a chance. So I have to look at who I would prefer to take a chance with, and Obama is it. So much so that I am putting my money in his hands, and I don’t part with that green easily.
He will be good for the party in every state, even the ones we don’t win. He attracts record numbers of people to the polls, and that means he will do the same thing in the general. Downticket Democrats are nuts if they think Hillary is going to help them. People are saying that the right will shred Obama, but I think they have geared up for a Hillary contest and were ready to unload on her in the general. Anyone remember ‘Clinton Fatigue’? If Hillary is in the general, I think that she will be pounded non-stop, 24/7, and by the time the election comes people will be so sick and tired of everything Clinton, they will stay home or go out of their way to vote against her.
It is going to be interesting for the next few days, to say the least.
The Other Steve
But Obama has to win both Texas and Ohio by triple digits, or Hillary wins.
TenguPhule
Corrected for accuracy.