Good to see the special interests getting involved. I would hate for them to not to be able to promote their candidate.

A Democrat Swiftboating another Democrat?

How sleazy. How Clintonian. How utterly predictable.

Hey Hillary,

Keep working on these solutions for the middle class... in the Senate.

HILLARY VS. OBAMA LEGISLATIVE RECORDS:
During Obama's first (8) eight years of elected service (in Illinois) he sponsored over 820 bills - 233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others. IN ADDITION, DURING HIS FIRST YEAR IN THE U.S. SENATE, HE AUTHORED 152 BILLS AND CO-SPONSORED ANOTHER 427. THESE INCLUDED:
*The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law)
*The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law)
*The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, (passed by the Senate)
*The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law)
*The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee)
In all, since he entered the US Senate, Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1,096. AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD, FOR SOMEONE WHO SUPPOSEDLY "HAS NO RECORD"
HILLARY CLINTON, WHO HAS SERVED FOR 6 YEARS IN THE U.S. SENATE, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW HOW TO "GET THINGS DONE" HAS MANAGED TO AUTHOR AND PASS NTO LAW ONLY TWENTY (20) PIECES OF LEGISLATION, ONLY FIVE (5) OF WHICH HAVE ANY REAL SUBSTANCE:
1. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11.
2. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
3. Assist landmine victims in other countries.
4. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care.
5. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.

Now, I'm an Obama supporter, but, come on, this ad isn't so bad - it certainly isn't an "attack" ad. In fact, it's pretty mild, focusing mostly on Hillary's positives (plus, the statement "if speeches could create jobs..." is perplexing - what are they trying to say?) If this is as bad as it's going to get from this 527 then Obama has nothing to worry about.

So can we expect that Clinton will not give any more speeches touting her solutions? And could some please point out her great record on the economy, cause I don't recall her taking the lead on any economic issues since she's been in the Senate.

This ad makes no sense if you take just a second to think about it.

Speeches don't create jobs. Sure, whatever. Hillary help passed one piece of legislation that was "pro-job." But, wait, and here's the confusing part... If speeches could create jobs we wouldn't be in a recession. I guess so, but then the add contradicts itself because it also implies that Hillary's legislation didn't create jobs and avoid a recession either.

So, we're in a recession and Hillary's supposed accomplishment in this ad didn't do anything to help.

She's toast, and these gazillionaires are just wasting good money they could have spent elsewhere.

I think that it somewhat misses the point to play up the "it takes more than speeches" line in the title of this entry. I pressed the play button expecting to be galled, and instead I was mildly impressed by the substantive nature of the ad. If it really had been a disparagement of Obama's eloquence, I dare say I would have found the ad less persuasive.

Of course, I do not live in OH and I already voted for Obama in my own state, but I think that it is fair to say that if I were an undecided in OH, I think that this ad would help to sway me towards Clinton. It is a good ad. It is also not terribly negative at all, which augurs well for the future of this race. It is in everyone's best interest to keep this clean so that the eventual nominee does not emerge as goods-too-damaged to win in November.

Dems are their own worst enemy... Using a 527 against your own party... fools!

The Republican Freedowatch 527 is prepared to drop $250 Million Dollars against all Dems this 08. How the heck Clinton supporters waste the funds on a fellow party member is beyond me.

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The group aims to spend approximately $250 million for a 2008 cycle onslaught against the Dems, a vast amount of money they apparently plan to use not only on the presidential election, but to greater effect in numerous House and Senate races throughout the country, where six figures can go a long way.

To review the White House connections: the group is headed by Bradley Blakeman, a former Bush White House official, Mel Sembler, a millionaire former Bush admbassador to Italy, and Ari Fleischer, who serves as the group's spokesman. Much of its support so far has come from Sembler and casino magnate and billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the sixth richest person in the world.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/005103.php

Obama needs to make that funding thing with McCain saying that there will be no 527's. If they still do 527's Obama wins and they don't then Obama wins.

Well, I just got the clinton camp's message of the day. Now she is saying that democrats must "get real" about winning the presidency. Did she plagarize that from a ten year old? Or maybe its "just words." I can see that phrase on a monument in downtown dc right now "GET REAL, H. Clinton, 2/20/08."

Can the clintons' campaign get any sillier? I don't know if that's possible.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080220/pl_bloomberg/amiyrwzpmey;_ylt=AlS0lufwnHKf_99Dd91_kpms0NUE

Obama's response: NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA and NAFTA some more.

Hillary is hardly one to talk about what it takes to create jobs.

But it is nice to see the 527s getting involved. I wonder how long till the "Obama is a muslim" ad goes on the air.

Let's look at the 890 bills that Obama cranked out in two years. There has got to be beef there. Talk about working hard for the people. Even assuming that he's been writing this legislation while away from Washington, as he has been for the past several months, he's writing more than two laws a day!

Unlike Senator Clinton who hasn't prevented the coming recession, Senator Obama has stopped the proliferation of weapons, solved the immigration problem, made government transparent, and made politicians ethical. I'm not an Obama fan, though I would vote for him in the general, but I would find it hard to argue for Hillary, in the face of his accomplishments.

"If speeches could create jobs, we wouldn't be facing a recession," the announcer says. "But it takes more."

And if Hillary wasn't such a control freak incompetent in 1993 we would not still be mired in a Health Care Coverage disaster fifteen years after Little Miss 21st Century Solutions Business made a total bollocks of it.

Obviously this message has not worked. She has been saying the same thing for weeks and voters aren't buying it. She ought to take a time out, regroup with her advisers, and come up with something, anything. Repeating the same failed attack and message over and over and over again, seems (1) to be a waste of time and (2) falling within the definition of insanity.

Seriously what is her economic record? Especially when you take into account her huge economic blunder in Iraq?

Plus her support for Indian outsourcing... Oh like the epidemic of all those telephone support calls winging their way over to her Indian corporate friends.

If there's no operational link between the 527 and the Clinton campaign, where'd they get all that footage of Hillary? Surely it's not public domain.

Am I crazy or does this seem to be a particularly ineffective ad? It's whole tone -- from music to low key imagery -- is kind of wan and wistful, if not downright mournful. With different words, you could run it as an elegiacal piece for someone dead. Is it supposed to stir up sympathy for Sen. Clinton's dying campaign or convince the voter she has sympathy for them? Can't figure out the psychology of this ad at all. Love to know who produced it. Hope they were overpaid handsomely by these stupid people. I mean, not to speak in cliches but the Clintons are just turning up everywhre as just so yesterday.

Somehow the 10's of thousands of people showing up at each Obama event just aren't getting the message! What's wrong with them???

This is a futile line of attack. Obama will play this game all day long.

Boy, that's about the most gentle 527 Ad I've seen in a long time.
No complaints about it. It certainly doesn't come close to the kind of dirty "swiftboating" the repugs will use......and hopefully Hilary's 527 supporters won't get there either.

Hillary - when you go negative, here's what people think: this is our future on Hillary Clinton. Going negative is exactly what Hillary should NOT be doing. It'll drive her already high negatives into the stratosphere. Voters already have a low enough opinion of the Clintons. How about surprising them with a turn toward the positive? She needs to speak directly to the voters with humility. Maybe this is impossible (if her stunning denial of her campaign pushing the plagiarism story is any indication. Liar, liar, pants on fire), but she needs to consider it. Think of the headlines, for crying out loud! Going negative just hands Obama two weeks more opportunity to stay positive. Talk about drawing sharp contrasts between the two campaigns.

Furthermore, keep Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson as far away from conference calls as possible. Have them put stamps on those negative mailers you've been sending out. Or have them research how many times Obama and Deval Patrick both used the words "and" and "the" in speeches. Anything that doesn't involve public speaking. You're the executive. Take charge.

I want to see him prepare well- and go wonky in one of debates; I have seen several speeches before where he is enormously policy detailed.

Actually, I remember an article in the New Yorker few months right before he anounced his candidacy-hey portrayed him a detailed, wonky policy guy with bad habit of describing every thing in detail.

It's kind of an Irony- but no compliants so far.