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Hillary And Obama Exchange Another Volley Of Pennsylvania Ads

Hillary goes up in Pennsylvania with a new statewide spot saying Obama "couldn't answer tough questions in the debate" and responding to an earlier Obama ad on health care...

And Obama's up with a new spot hitting back at an earlier Hillary ad and reiterating his message that he doesn't take "one dime" from PACs and lobbyists...



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Must be close if they're both coming out swinging so hard.

Which ad is Obama referring to here?

A 527 for Hil-liar-y put out an ad accusing him of leaving out 15,000,000 with his healtcare plan. It came out Thursday or Friday I believe.

What did Randi Rhodes call Hillary...Oh yeah.....SHE WAS RIGHT ON......
I am looking forward to the ClintonS being pariahs in the Dem Party....

Hey Hillary there is always the Connecticut for LIEberman Party....right up your alley GIRL!

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Ad infinitum.

I have to say this is one of Obama's better response ads. Generally, I think Obama needs to be a bit more creative and humorous in his advertising, but this one is pretty good.

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It's a good move on the part of his campaign.

It actually turns her negative ad against him into a negative ad against her.

Well take heart. I just sat through Frank Lunz doing one of his `strategy rooms` with a bunch of Rep. Dem & Ind voters in Pa. They didn't like Hillary's ad: too negative. (According to him it's a general truism of all voters - they don't like negative ads.) They did like Obama's. (And were shocked by all the lobbyists she's taken money from)

Camile Paglia, on why women shouldn't vote for Hillary:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/19/wuspols219.xml

"The scrum is on! Feminist grand panjandrums like Gloria Steinem have leapt back into the arena, while younger women have seized the feminist banner to proclaim Hillary the messianic Wonder Woman, destined to smash the glass ceiling of the presidency.

All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. Never mind her spotty record or her naked political expediency. Any woman with the temerity to endorse Barack Obama (as I do) is condemned as a "traitor" to her sex. "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life," trumpeted Steinem earlier this year in an article promoting Hillary in the New York Times. Barriers of race, class or economics are waved away as mere frippery...."

As a resident of Philadelphia, I am currently under siege by the firestorm of political adverts heading toward Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, which Hillary has long been expected to win. She has roots in this state: her grandfather was a Welshman who settled in the coal-mining city of Scranton, which remains conservative and working-class. Women there are tough and blunt, with few illusions about life.

Hillary's voter base consists of middle-aged to elderly white women who identify with her caustic, stubborn, bulldog resilience. Humiliated and upstaged by her philandering husband, Hillary is the champion of an army of women who were stymied, betrayed or outmanoeuvred by men. Over the past year, whenever her cowed male opponents mildly rebutted Hillary in debate, her campaign jumped into über-feminist mode: male bullies, they screeched, "ganging up" on a helpless damsel.

Losing ground with other core groups - notably her own cohort of upper-middle-class, baby-boom career woman - Hillary played the gender card to the max. When polling showed she had seemed too harsh to the caucus-goers of Iowa, she rolled out teary eyes for New Hampshire, which handed her a primary victory. Hillary will scratch, claw, and morph through every gender trick if it rakes in votes.

I have seen women quoted as saying having a woman break through the last glass ceiling is more important than any other issue. More important that the lies about Bosnia. More important than the war in Iraq and her vote for that. More important than solving the health care crises. Just more important than anything else. That just seems dumb, and i wish someone would explain the thinking behind that sort of single issue approach.


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I have seen women quoted as saying having a woman break through the last glass ceiling is more important than any other issue.

You need to hang out with a different group of women. I don't know a single female Clinton supporter who would vote for a candidate just because the candidate was a woman. Not a single one.

Maybe a stray commenter here and there might make such a claim (that the most important issue is breaking the glass ceiling), but I've never heard anyone outside the hothouse atmosphere of the comment sections for blogs say such a thing. Never.

And Camille Paglia is about as meaningful as Maureen Dowd is when it comes to commenting on women.

There are many women online saying "it's her turn", if that's not voting single issue, what is?

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I know that many women online are saying that, but I am quite certain that they wouldn't be saying that, if, for instance, the Democratic nominee was a male, and the Republican nominee was a female.

It's easy to be categorized as a single issue voter in this particular primary season because the differences between Obama and Clinton just aren't that great (Iraq war vote, the major exception).

And for what it's worth, I'm a woman and I'm not a Clinton supporter.

We haven't done the GOP experiment. It's quite possible that GOP women would say the same thing.

Also, let's remind ourselves that it was Hillary who kept making this campaign "historic" because she is a woman. In other words, she kept reminding us...

Love her or hate here, Paglia makes the accurate point that Pelosi doesn't suffer the same negative gender issues -- and Pelosi is *2nd* in line for the Presidency currently.

I say, live by the gender identity issue, die by the gender identity issue. Hillary should have run as an American with solid policies. Instead, when convenient, she ran as a woman.

I realize it was just one person (and I can't find the story at the nyt.com now... it was up yesterday), but a woman who lives just outside of Philadelphia was quoted in a story about the campaign here in the state as saying (paraphrasing), that she was going to vote for Hillary because things were pretty good when Bill was president, and "maybe she had something to do with that."

So, not a hothouse blogger, just an incredibly stupid person.

I've been baffled by the virtually bullet-proof support by "older white women" as the reports like to say, all despite what seems plenty of evidence that Hillary has feet of clay and has serious, serious negatives. I just don't get it. It's not like she's the only woman who'll ever be a viable candidate, is it?

We witnessed one of the biggest meltdowns in political history in the last debate leaving an opening for the gop to attack him knowing he his is weak and wounded.

This leads to Obama going negative in a pathetic attempt to fight back. Yet, he is still spewing he is a different kind of politician and pretends to shake it off.

Too bad he can't shake off his radical friends, his radical beliefs, the lies he has told and without apologizing for insulting the voters.

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Total buffenbargering going on here. Color me SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that it's coming from gotalife.

lol

He didn't want to knee cap you leader as she obviously doesn't mind doing to him. But, I guess if you had an ounce of common sense you would figure that one out. There's a lot to be said for getting an education.

He loses PA by 20.

C'mon.

Grow some 'nads, son.

Why not predict *more than* 20?

Gutless.

Punk.

Of course this is after her senior strategist want on MTP this morning and said they weren't running any negative ads...

Her ads are sounding more and more harsh. I don't think it is a good move for her with her negatives, but who knows.

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I don't think being more negative is a good thing for her, either, but I'm not looking at the internal polling.

In any event, I actually think the Obama ad is a good rebuttal to Clinton's. It reduces her ad(s) to nasty inside DC politics.

Hillery could use a "good rebuttal" Her current one is putting a lot of stress on her pantsuits!

You're funny.

I meant that for gotalife.

gotnolife....LMAO

Who pays you to post on every blog, Taylor Marsh or Jeralyn?....LMAO

Gotta love the red-baiting undertones to Clinton's latest ad.....real inspiring.

Why wasn't Meredith Brooks on the short-list for her campaign song? Would have been more appropriate than Celine Dion.

With Gotalife, Hillary still has her base support of comb-over voters.

Gotalife is the Chairmen of Short Bus Trolls for Queen Mistakes of Tuzla.

Um, what questions couldn't he answer? I remember him answering everything just fine. I did love her stumbling explanation of her lying about Bosnia though, that was probably the low point as far as performance went for the debate.

Um, what questions couldn't he answer? I remember him answering everything just fine. I did love her stumbling explanation of her lying about Bosnia though, that was probably the low point as far as performance went for the debate

Yeah, good point. I thought she did horrible in that debate and it still bothers me till this day. Funny how the pundits over look that she said she was sleepy again.......So full of shit she is...lol...

Just some political ad fun:

"Barack's attacks are 'destructive' and 'poisoning'"

But note the date on this statement:

February 1, 2008

Like 10 weeks ago.

Couldn't Hillary come up with a better, more recent quote?

Sheesh.

heh talk about misleading

You go, Hillary! Great ad. As for Obama's, did you notice how he said that he doesn't take money from Federal lobbyists? But Hillary didn't accuse him of that. She accused him of taking money from STATE lobbyists. And what is Obama's response to that? He says he doesn't take money from Federal lobbyists, and adds that Hillary is negative. Another tough question goes unanswered.

Ummmmm if I could, I wish I could have that vote on the Iraq war resolution, but I didnt do anything wrong and Im perfectly comfortable with my vote!

Yes, I misspoke on bosnia 3 times claiming we landed under sniper fire.Yeah, Bill often puts me and his daughter in danger. When that person questioned me about it in the last debate, I'm still going to go with I was sleepy!

Im campaigning that I dont agree with the Columbian trade deal, however my head campaign manger sneaking off to make deals with them should be ignored. Oh, and pay no attention to Bill adding $800 thousand to our Joint Account that came from that deal.
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Come on, we cant call a liar a liar. People have been sentenced to life in prison on flimsier evidence than this stuff....If it wasn't so serious it knowing that she is running for the highest office in the world, it would be extreemly funny to think average people are buying this crap!

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