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Hillary Radio Ad In Wyoming: "I Would Feel A Lot More Safe" With Hillary
Hillary Clinton has a new radio in Wyoming, which will hold caucuses this weekend. The ad features a woman talking about her son who has a heart condition, and how he's benefitted from the Children's Health Insurance Program that Hillary has championed.
"I've met her, I've read her healthcare plan," the woman says. "I remember walking up to her and saying, 'I would feel a lot more safe if you were president, than I have in many, many years."
The reference to feeling "safe" can be interpreted two ways. It can refer to the health plan itself, or it can be taken as a nod and a wink to the security-mom pitch of the "3 a.m." ad that was run in Ohio and Texas.
To listen to the ad, click here.
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Hillary FAILED to get health care for Americans back in the 90's -- now she was a 2nd chance at it? Why should we think she'll do any better this time around, especially when you see that she is the highest paid candidate from Lobbyists and Lawyers?
March 6, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is championed like wrote and passed legislation, or is that just saying that Ted Kennedy had a good idea?
March 6, 2008 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is dishonest and destructive. It's becoming increasingly clear that no matter WHAT the results are moving forward, Hillary isn't going to exit gracefully. And we're facing an increasingly negative and alienating campaign that will last far into spring.
We need to start focusing on reaching new voters and winning in the fall!
A group of New Yorkers (yes, she's my Senator, and I was a volunteer on her campaigns) just set up http://www.HillaryStepAside.com to thank her for waging such a strong fight, but asking her to step aside. You can read the full text of our open letter on the page; please add your signature to the letter if you agree, and forward it to your friends. We're a grassroots campaign, and can't do it without your active participation.
I respect her, but we can't burn down the party and lose all chance of a democratic victory because she's too ambitious to see reality.
March 6, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
... too busy holding down the bile ... cannot reply
March 6, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a stupid ad. Obviously you aren't some random person, obviously the Clinton campaign told you what to say, don't try to bullshit people with a sincere advertisement.
And who cares if Hillary would be a better president than Bush? Has anyone said otherwise? I can't stand her and I know she is better than Bush, so that isn't saying much. I'm sure she'd feel safer with Obama too, or Chris Dodd, or Oprah, or me.
Stupid ad. People in the west are pretty good at smelling outsider bullshit, I don't think this will fly.
March 6, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
You want her not to have a supporter in her ads?
You don't think Obama puts people that support him in his ads?
Come on, think it through next time.
March 6, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
How low can you go.
March 6, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please go to :
dobatebarackobama.com and GIVE, I have twice in the last two days. HRC, who I respected, has lost all good faith with me. PLEASE GIVE, even $10. Thank you.
March 6, 2008 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction:
Please go to :
donatebarackobama.com and GIVE, I have twice in the last two days. HRC, who I respected, has lost all good faith with me. PLEASE GIVE, even $10. Thank you.
March 6, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm a little new to this but I think barackobama.com would be a better place to donate ;-)
March 6, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I doubt this will get much traction in Wyoming. I grew up there and have a lot of family there, many of whom have recently switched from the Republican party. They are more excited about Obama's candidacy than anything in the past two decades. Most Wyoming folks find Hillary's style to be extremely grating.
March 6, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Coonsey --
We had a Democratic Senate and House that "failed" to get health care reform passed because they were too spooked (by Harry and Louise) and/or corrupted by insurance lobby pressure, or, in some cases on the far left, absolutely unwilling to accept anything short of (politically impossible) single payer, to work with the administration on the issue. Don't put all the blame on Hillary. The too long-serving congressional Democrats who were too busy kiting checks at the House Bank, abusing their franking priviledges and using government funds to pay "ghost" employees, while collecting the best and most secure health and retirement benefits in the land, to make a good faith effort on health care for the rest of us deserve a little of the blame. Don't you think?
Of course, while Clinton didn't get health care reform passed, she did get something that had long been needed and long neglected -- funds for research into women's health issues. Funds that, my doctor, an Obama supporter, tells me led directly to the breakthroughs and new treatments that will make my cancer survivable -- in a way that it wasn't 15 years ago.
So, yeah, I think Hillary has contributed to making me, and others, a bit "safer" and I'd be glad to make a radio spot saying so.
No one is suggesting you or anyone else vote for her. But treating someone who, for many years, has worked honestly and faithfully, sometimes successfull sometimes not, on genuinely important issues with immense impact on people's lives as if she is the wicked witch of the West, is just juvenile behavior.
March 6, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if those dead Americans in Iraq feel the same way?
March 6, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
WYOMING UPDATE: I'm here. This is not Texas. This is not Ohio. Radio and TV are real weak here. Direct mailing rules and Obama has been hitting that hard... VERY. Obama has mailings tuned to Wyoming, produced for Wyoming. Hillary? None.
Look at our more Californicated sister state to the south, Colorado:
Obama: 66.57% 33 Del
Clinton: 32.38% 13 Del
I think you're looking at a better result for Obama than that in Wyoming.
March 6, 2008 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hoost --
Did you vote for Obama supporter John Kerry in 2004? Did you know that the people behind Obama's candidacy, his big financial supporters and early organization and staff, are the same people who pulled out all the stops to put an end to Howard Dean's anti-war candidacy? Did you know that those establishment Democrats and Obama's now Communications Director are the ones who produced the ugly Osama Bin Ladin attack ads against Dean in Iowa?
If you are going to lay the blame for the dead in Iraq at Hillary's feet, you might want to think about the complicity of Obama's biggest supporters, too.
On the war, and in also in terms of attack ads, there aren't any innocents in the Democratic party. Obama himself is on the record saying that he does not know how he would have voted if he had been in the Senate at the time. Knowing how his major establishment backers, the ones who encouraged him to run and helped him put together the resources to run -- Kerry, Daschle, Gephart, etc. -- did vote, and how he has voted since being in the Senate, I think it is not unreasonable to think he would have been as politically cautious as his mentors if he had been in Hillary's position.
In 2004, an anti-war Democrat could have saved a lot of lives. But the people who back Obama now where afraid that a candidate who spoke up forcefully against the war would make the party look weak, and did everything they could to destroy his candidacy.
March 6, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink