Not bad - it's kind of an expansion of the yard sign I had in '06 - it was a huge "Had Enough? Vote Democratic" sign.

And that's what I think this ad says. Which is ok.

No one is better off than they were when Bush got sworn in.

Ad could be more hard hitting, but it's attention getting in its quiet way and at least they're doing something to offset McCain's upward trend in the polls. Remember when the Democratic campaign was called the most amazing race and everyone was feeling pretty good on our side? Seems like a long time ago. Thank you Hillary Clinton.

McCain was just on This Week (tempted to boycott but I'm not a Nielsen house so it doesn't matter) responding to this. He was spinning that 'alot has changed since then' and then went on to talk about the troubles facing families without ever addressing the charges. All I could think was that I can't wait to see Obama (or even Hillary if it came to that) debate him on the economy.

Excellent ad. McCain is intellectually lazy and very dishonest. Good to see him called on it.

Yeah, ABC really grilled him this morning.

All that whining really worked.

It is corporate media that will pimp the corporate candidate.

Did you see how Clinton responded to that stupid Generals comment?

She fought back and did not brush her shoulder like a rapper.

There is only one clear choice for President if you want to win,

Hillary Clinton.

Actually, there are answers to that crap - but none of them are polite and several are a long way from non-violent.

;)

I'm gonna repost this from the last thread, because gottalie and that turd Matthew Weaver REALLY NEED TO SEE IT:

Gee, I'm sure all the Hillarybots above, the ones so expert on foreign policy that they can point out just how clueless Obama is on foreign policy, know exactly how it is that Hamas came to power. Right?

...er....

Ok, a primer for all you sub-geniuses, then.

Hamas came to power because the pathetically bumbling and incompetent Bush administration, via Condoleeza Rice, set a timetable for holding elections that was consistent with the White House political calendar (you know, the one they use to figure out when to "roll out new products") rather than listening to the Palestinians, or the Israelis, or anyone else who warned them what would happen if they pushed for elections to be held when they were ultimately held. The end result was a Hamas victory. Rice, predictably, proclaimed the Hamas victory as something "no one could have forseen" - no one, that is, except the Fatah party which in many cases had several candidates on the ballot to Hamas' one...and the Israelis...and everyone else they chose to ignore. The White House then condemned the utterly predictable Hamas victory, after having engineered it in the first place by unreasonable demands on the scheduling of the election.

So, to punish the Palestinians for electing the wrong people, all the aid to the occupied territories from the US, UN, EU, and Russia was blockaded. Which meant Fatah couldn't pay the salaries of their people. Meanwhile, Hamas was getting aid from Iran. So Rice goes over and demands more elections - immediately. Fatah leader Abbas tells her "we have to wait until the end of Ramadan" (no one could have forseen, etc.), which twisted Condi's drawers into a royal knot...so basically, the Bush administration's dog in the fight had no funds, while its enemy did, and there was a lot of dirty fighting back and forth. And Congress wouldn't approve money for Fatah, because of the fear it would be used against the Israelis. So Rice gets on the phone and does a little Iran-Contra II with Jordan, Egypt, UAE, and the Saudis to get money and arms to Fatah. Not all the aid came through, but enough of it did to ramp up the Fatah-Hamas warfare. Finally the Saudis managed to get Fatah and Hamas to sit down together and establish a national unity government - which again, was something Condi "did not anticipate" and was furious about - with the result that the State Dept doubled down in its pressure on Palestinian allies, ordering a timetable for electing a new government, one that would agree with the US on Israel. State made a series of demands about how security personnel were to be trained, that Hamas footsoldiers were not to be integrated with the forces, etc. When all this background stuff emerged, Hamas interpreted it the only way they could - as a blueprint for a US-backed Fatah coup. This led, naturally, to another round of violence that "no one could have anticipated". Hamas captured most of Fatah's arms and ammo in Gaza - the ones supplied by Condi's Iran-Contra II program - and Fatah no longer has a presence in Gaza. The Bush administration, the architects of the entire disaster, quite predictably refuse to meet with Hamas to try to sort out the mess. Now people in Gaza live on less than $2 a day, and there's no end in sight to either the economic paralysis or the political one; Hamas feels free to attack Israel with impunity (and why not - we won't negotiate with them and have done everything possible to eject them from the offices they were elected to) and the whole thing is a big stinking pile of shit.

A stinking pile of shit that was engineered by John McCain's BFF George W. Bush's administration - with whom McCain agrees 100% down the line when it comes to foreign policy. Which leads to three points: 1) would it come as any surprise that Hamas would favor anyone over a Bush ally?; 2) it's a bit ironic for McCain to be using that as a reason why people should find him preferable, since his dumbassed party engineered the whole fucking disaster that put Hamas in power; and 3) you have to be a special kind of stupid, towering asshole to jump aboard this kind of rampant dishonesty that completely ignores the facts of what happened and why when it comes to Hamas holding power. And yes, I'm looking at you, Matthew Weaver.

Mccrazy is so foul and I am no longer amazed at the bootlicking media. I so want the primary to end so we can kick Mccrazy's ass back to Arizona.

He is going to fold like a pancake. We The People are sick and tired of the way they ruined this country.

An DNC ad does not matter... what matters is that Senator Obama is confronted with two candidates, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, who are both status quo candidates who will never challenge anyone and cannot win the WH less OB is dead.... HRC and John McCain are two wimps without any differences... HRC and John McCain are both paid for by the establishment elite..... the last thing this country needs is to have an old whore or an old john in the White House.

My greatest fear is that Obama will be assissinated by the HRC/McCain estalishment crowd... he proses a direct threat to their hegemony.

OHO - now I get Spider.

this is what it posted on a reader's blog thread:

liam,

Sometimes I agree with you and sometimes not, but please, if you post a link, don't post the whole article with it. Kinda defeats the purpose of the link.

Posted by SpiderPig

It thinks it's a thread monitor.

and thanks CTVoter - I like your comments =

Yes, in fact at this juncture I do hate Hillary Clinton - but it's temporary. I'm mad at her.

I don't hate Bill - I feel sorry for him.

Good for you.

Then you will get over it when she is the nominee.

You will love President Clinton when he goes after mcwar to counter the corporate media free pass.

It will get ugly.

The Democratic National Committee just released this new ad hitting McCain on the economy -- it's first run is this morning on ABC, during George Stephanopoulos' interview with the Arizona Senator...

This is excellent ad placement.

This is the fault of the negative campaign of Barack Obama and his supporters. When one runs as a candidate with no experience and tries to mislead the public on who the man truly is, and who his associates are, and what he has done in an unremarkable political past. Since there is little meat on his bones, the Obamites whine, slime, and scream at every non issue. It has been the most divisive campaign in history, only made remarkable due to it's gall in calling it self about hope and change, It is a change all right, right back to the days of Mayor Daly tactics of voter suppression.

Huh? Setback for Clinton? I don't see how. I don't see it as a setback for any Democrat. McCain is getting a free ride right now.

Free ride because he owns the media, and because he doesn't have an opponent yet. So how is this a setback for Clinton?

Posted by CT Voter

I was trying to be sarcastic. Actually, the only thing that matters to the Clinton campaign is perpetuating this fiction that she is still in the race. Anything---such as this dnc ad---which does not do that is a setback for her.