Hillary Running New 60-Second Ad In North Carolina On Veterans Issues
Hillary Clinton has a new ad in North Carolina, part of her NCAskMe.com campaign. In this one, she takes a question from a North Carolinian about what she'll do to help veterans:
This ad uses the combination of an outdoor setting and handheld cameras to give a more common, down-to-earth feel, presenting Hillary as an accessible candidate to the average voter.
And furthermore, the fact that the campaign has launched a 60-second ad means they're confident enough about both the race continuing and their own ability to pay for longer TV spots.
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Where the hell is her money coming from? I thought she was broke.
April 22, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's no money, therefore the cheap handheld camera.
April 22, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh you gullible fools.
Stories about her being broke are fundraising tactics.
They are the Clintons and can get all the money they want.
Geez.
April 22, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
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PASS THE KOOL-AID, BABY!
April 22, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then why don't they pay their bills?
April 22, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's why they're running a 60 second ad most likely with very little "confidence." they just won't pay for it
April 22, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Silly buillysumday, they can just call up Dubai, Kazakhstan, or any number of places, and the cash comes rollin' right in.
April 22, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotalife, The Clinton Short Bus Troll:
openly bragging about Hillary Turdblossom Clinton's prowess at lying to the American people!!!.
April 22, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I don't think he saw the irony in that when he typed it...
April 22, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wanker troll.
April 22, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yet surprisingly more intelligent than you.
April 22, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah ,I am the one who believed a "new kind of politician".
April 22, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's because you lack vision, my friend.
April 22, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
So you're saying they forged their FEC filings to garner sympathy?
Wow. Just...wow.
April 22, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, so you are trying to tell us she LIED to the FEC to make it look like she was broke??
For once I actually want you to be right, haha.
No, I'm pretty sure she is flat broke and unable to pay her bills:
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/04/hillarys-campaign-sinking-more-into.html
It would be HILARIOUS if the reason she used the crappy camera was because she couldn't afford a decent one. Haha, probably true. I have no idea how she can afford anything at this point.
April 22, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course they are just joshing. All those reports are lies - Including the reports that they are required by law to file and that are public, by law.
And those are the reports on their campaign finances.
*sigh*
April 22, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is a good ad. I am not an undecided NC voter, but if I were I dare say that this would help move me closer to voting for her.
April 22, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody on the fence at this point is a self-important ass....What the heck is left to decide?
April 22, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the way you think.
April 22, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Either that or they don't give a hoot what kind of bills they leave behind if it all goes down the toilet. If you see a house with falling gutters and an unmowed lawn but with a big screen tv inside you can predict foreclosure in much the same way.
April 22, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Veteran: What do you plan on doing for Veterans
Hillary Strangelove Clinton: I plan on Nuking Iran back to the stone age.
April 22, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hahahaha.
April 22, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
god, this looks so staged.
I know a lot of people complain about Obama's halting style of speech when answering questions, and not speaking from a prepared script.
But I kind of like it. He seems more real, like he's actually answering the question, and not just reflexively answering every question from rote.
Meh, I guess Hillary can do nothing to impress me now. Maybe the good people of North Carolina will be more forgiving of her stagecraft.
April 22, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that she was better off with the first, higher-production-value version of this questions-from-ordinary-North-Carolinians. This does look rather contrived. I do not think that this was a bad ad (as I indicated above, I think quite the opposite), but it was not as good as it could have been.
April 22, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, it probably is staged, but from what I remember looking at her record, she has done a lot for Veterans in terms of health care. Can't fault her for doing a staged ad like this...it's just politics after all. Can't complain about the ad, it is one of her strong points...I like this type of ad much better than those Penn-style vomitous masses called campaign ads.
April 22, 2008 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does anyone know if BO is staying in PA for the results? Because he aint acting like this thing is going to be a blow out.
I am watching MSNBC's coverage and he has several campaign stops today. Their internals must have this race to be pretty tight.
Normally the expectant loser is boarding a plan and heading to the next primary state by now. they must think they can pull out a win today.
April 22, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Franklyn,
Last I heard, about a day ago, Senator Obama
has an appearance scheduled tonight in Indiana.
April 22, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
With John Mellencamp, so I hear.
April 22, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't get your hopes up. This was on PoliticalWire:
April 22, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
They might be confident, or, maybe they're showing this ad during a time when people are going to be turning on the TV to find out about the primary in PA. By playing it now, they're getting maximum bang for the buck.
If they keep playing it for the next two weeks, then yes, they're confident about having enough money to outlast Obama. Right now, I think that's a premature conclusion.
April 22, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is strong and brilliant.
Obama has gone negative, running scared and off his message of “a new kind of politics”.
She will win and win the general easily.
She will have a Dem rubber stamp Congress to clean up w’s mess and get our country back in the right direction with a Clinton economy and foreign policy.
What a fighter.
April 22, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got that right. She fought off those Tuzla Snipers all on her own.
Word is that the reason Bin Laden has not been seen is because Hillary Rambo Clinton winged him at Tuzla Airport.
What a Fantasy Fighter she be!!!
April 22, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
life is being under sniper fire all the time, you just have to arm yourself and shoot them back. don't let them tell you that you're delusional.
April 22, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is such a fighter she has decided to drop out of both the race and the Senate and go into training full time for the next big UFC event.
Those snipers better watch out, Hillary "rambo" Clinton is on the case!
April 22, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I know a lot of people complain about Obama's halting style of speech when answering questions, and not speaking from a prepared script."
Oilbama has to really think about saying anything about issues. He has to remember what Hillary said before he can parrot her. He is only in his element when he is using empty rhetoric about hope and change, or whining. You notice he does not halt at all when whining, he is an excellent whiner, it is really grating, and he has done a great job of teaching his supporters to whine.
Hillary will win by 15% points today and then the whining will start fro Oilbama. Anyone who does not vote for the limpwristed one will immediatly be dubbed a racist by the whole Oilbama campaign.
April 22, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is the leader and he follows.
When does not, he votes for cheney's energy bill using unity with the gop.
The trolls should thank him when they fill up.
Need a fighter not a whiner.
April 22, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello my name is gotalife.
I believe that each sentence deserves its own paragraph stating a punchy and irrelevant half-truth.
Once in the late Troll Critic 3000 era they made me compose a thoughtful paragraph those trolls.
It even had punctuation within sentences.
We need need a line break not a comma trolls.
April 22, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah doc,
I am the one who believed Obama was using "a different kind of politics".
April 22, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh boo hoo hoo. More snottering from getalife.
April 22, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to say that I have nothing but pity for you. You're going to be utterly devastated when the full reality of Mrs. Clinton's failure to secure this nomination sinks in, and I hope you have your therapists, meds and support system lined up when that happens. You're in for quite a crash, my friend. You are WAY too emotionally invested in your candidate's success or failure. You need to change your name to "Get a Life" - really, for your own good, come up for air and clear your mind.
April 22, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suspect his big focus after the primary season is choking his paycheck out of the HRD campaign.
April 22, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not going to dub you a racist, but I will dub you a homophobe.
Limp wristed? Really, is that the best you can do?
April 22, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Weren't you saying 20% just yesterday?
Hillary Clinton, and Bill for that matter, are both compulsive liars. It doesn't matter what they say, they don't mean a word of it.
At sometime you and gottalife are going to have to figure out that dishonesty does NOT equal strength.
April 22, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, dembillc, if she doesn't win by 15%, you will finally concede Obama will win?
She actually needs to do much better. According to these sliders http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/22/pa.primary/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
she needs to win by about 64% in ALL the remaining states.
Good luck with that, Hillary!
April 22, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, Eric, what you are leaving out is the ad buy.
I am not arguing from an anti-Clinton stanpoint but an anti-poor analysis one.
Making a 60-second spot using cheaper technologies--although, granted, it could be for effect and not cost reduction--does not mean anything. The factor is actually how much airtime are they buying to play it?
Maybe they are just banking on the free advertising they get from it on the internet and on the punditry shows, maybe some local newscasts.
April 22, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
TPM = Clinton campaign central.
Why not post every single Clinton campaign conference call and memo while you're at it?
April 22, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please. If you don't want campaign info, don't read it!
I've never heard more people complaining about getting information before.
"Know thy enemy."
April 22, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vet: I am wondering what you plan on doing about the returning wounded Vets.
Dr. Hillary Strangelove Clinton: Well, David I wish that people would give me more credit for what I have already done for the cause. My opponent Senator Obama did not want to go to war in Iraq, like I did, and if he had his way, we would not even have all those wounded Vets to take care of now.
I am the candidate who voted to send those Vets to war in Iraq, and I wish that I were given proper credit for all those wounded Vets.
April 22, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've asked this question before, but what makes any of you Obamanians think that he's going to win in November?
If he can't win in PA or OH now that he's the presumptive nominee, how can he win in november?
Everyone on this site crows everytime Clinton wins the popular vote in a state, ie Texas, but loses the delegate count as if that's a sign that Obama is somehow a better nominee.
Does anyone seriously think that delegate parlor tricks like that are going to win in a winner-takeall election?
And please try to stay away from the vitriol that characterizes most of the pro-Obama, anti-Clinton comments I read here.
April 22, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Does anyone seriously think that delegate parlor tricks like that are going to win in a winner-takeall election?"
No, Obama's strong campaign with a fundraising capability and candidate vastly superior to their opponent will win it. Just like the nomination.
April 22, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
You do realize this is a primary and not a general election? Have you been paying attention to voter turnout? Whoever wins the Democratic nomination is going to have a huge advantage over McSame.
And by your reasoning since Obama lost the California and New York primary he will lose them in the General. You don't really believe that, do you? Because that is just stupid.
April 22, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Simple. Because there's no correlation between taking a state in a primary and in the general. So Obama can, and will, win in PA and OH in November.
April 22, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
We all know he's the presumptive nominee. The MSM and Hillary's campaign are the ones who think she still has a snowball's chance.
April 22, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Listen up. KevinH speaks. And he tells us that only Hillary Clinton supporters can use vitril, ok? You stupid jerky Obama supporters understand this? That no vitriol can come out of your mouths, you braindead robots who can't think for themselves.
Got it, fools?
April 22, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
And here we go again with that false argument. A Democratic primary, where voters are choosing BETWEEN TWO DEMOCRATS, is far different from a general election, where voters are choosing between a Democrat and a Republican. I can't understand why people can't make this distinction. Obama getting 48% of the vote in Pennsylvania (if that's what it turns out to be) is NOT an indicator of how he'll do in the general. We're talking apples and oranges. A better gauge would be to take the total democratic voters vs. the total republican voters (in those contests where there was both a Democratic and Republican primary) and make some inferences from that.
April 22, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
HIllary Clinton won't win Pennsylvania or Ohio either. They're Diebold country.
April 22, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd be alot less concerned on how much more money Obama is raising and alot more concerned on how he is losing after outspending her 4:1. Good news though, he will probably take Montana, which we all know is crucial in Nov.
April 22, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
4:1? Gosh, I've heard estimates that it was closer to 3 trillion to 1. ANd damn, he's still going to lose!!!
April 22, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Mark, being that she was up by 20+ points 6 weeks ago and went on a 6-week "kitchen sink" scorched earth rampage, I think she should be ashamed of herself for "allowing" him to narrow the spread to single digits. After all, we're all told ad nauseum that PA was "tailor made" for her. Even if she wins by 10 or 15 points tonite it won't do much for her popular vote or delegate count.
You're another one who's going to need a support group when you finally come to the realization that she has absolutely no chance to secure the nomination.
April 22, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Carol
So you're not at all concerned on why he isn't winning a blue state primary after sinking so much money at it against a candidate with supposedly high unfavorable ratings? And I'm NOT saying anything regarding a matchup between him and McCain in the general.
April 22, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Mark, I'm not concerned that he's not going to win the primary - I believe that he'll keep it very, very close and there will no appreciable movement in his delegate count. That's the way he's run his campaign - because, at the end of the day, it's about delegates - not popular vote, not electoral college, not "primaries vs. caucuses" - no, only about delegate count. Obama has run a brilliant campaign given the way the Democrats select their nominee; if it was a winner-take-all like the Republicans have (and like Bill Clinton fantasies about), he would have run a different campaign.
April 22, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Er, if your original post is not an unspoken intimation about his chances in November, then what exactly is it that is supposed to "concern" us here? What am I missing about which I should be "concerned" if we all agree that his inability to win the primary tells us nothing about his inability to carry the state in November?
April 22, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm more "concerned" that Clinton started with a 100 million dollar warchest and failed to seal the deal by Super Tuesday.
April 22, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
He can't seal the deal even after using gop Rove tactics.
April 22, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have a very limited vocabulary, don't you? I think a few remedial English courses would do a world of good for you. You're also engaging in some pretty heavy-duty projection - after all, Hillary is the one in bed with Mellon Scaife, not Obama.
April 22, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
pssst - it's not just the vocab that's limited.
April 22, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
when did 11,000,000 to 5,000,000 become 4-1? even the reported "3-1" is misleading. we should be saying "2-1".
and this is just media buys. looking at Clinton's reported expenditures on her FEC filings, she has continued to outspend Obama in other areas such as paid phone bank callers.
April 22, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
It seems to me that his inability to beat Sen Clinton in PA says more about her than it does about him. That is to say, it proves that Sen Clinton is a good candidate, not that Sen Obama is a bad candidate. It surprises me that one should need to point this out to a Clinton supporter.
April 22, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pennsylvania live blog has started at
http://darkcomedyhour.com/dcmacdaddy/
April 22, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to be in it to win!. Princess Hillary assumed that she was going to receive a Coronation Ceremony on Super Tuesday.
Hubris bit The Fantasy Warrior Princess of Tuzla in the Arse on Super Tuesday.
You have to compete to win. Senator Obama planned and competed while Princess Hillary presumed her throne.
You have to be in it to win. Senator Obama will be in it in November, which will give him a chance to win.
Princess Hillary will be pining away, on Elba, for her lost Tiara.
April 22, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Again, I didn't think anyone really believed that Hillary was going to drop out. I had just assumed that the attempt to stampede her out of the race was also an attempt to stampede the superdelegates to Obama. I didn't think anyone really believed she would quit. I still find it hard to believe.
April 22, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
She would have been all too willing to stampede him out of the race had she closed the deal on Super Tuesday. Anyone who thinks differently is absolutely devoid of reasoning. Please, let's not be ridiculous. Obama has never called for her to leave the race and to insinuate otherwise is just plain dishonest.
April 22, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well heres a corralation for you:
How is Obama supposed to win when probably 1/3 to 1/2 of Clinton's supporters in Ohio, Pennsylvania and other purple state vote for McCain?
By that clear vision of hope that Obama brings? Give me a break.
Obama is going to be the biggest disaster to hit the democratic party since McGovern.
April 22, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
What can you do if some in your party sabotages you? I guess you'll have to bring in unprecedented numbers of new voters into the process to fill the gaps in the proverbial partisan walls abandoned by prior members of said party. That 1/2 is a pretty big number, where'd ya get it?
April 22, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Er, o.k., but by the same token how would Clinton be expected to win under the same circumstances? The answer is, of course, obvious - she could not. And yet she would be just as likely (in the far-fetched scenario in which she took the nomination) to be hit with that sort of backlash as would he (in the far more likely scenario in which he took the nomination). As such, your point is, at most, as much as to say that this clash of the Titans has ruined our chances in November. It is still no argument for Clinton's claim to the nomination, however.
April 22, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I couldn't even watch the whole thing.
It's sickening to see her feigned compassion for the Vets that she helped to send to their deaths or injuries.
April 22, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm curious as to how widely she is actually airing this ad. Do we have any info as to media buys in NC? I'm asking since tv stations require cash up front, they won't let her float the costs. So, to what degree is this an ad that voters will actually see?
On the suggestion that the "Hillary is in the red" thing is just a ploy to unleash vast torrents on online sympathy donations--perhaps, but there has to come a point where donors recognize they are throwing good money after bad.
April 22, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well and the little matter of campaign finance law.
they report those figures by law and they are public.
sheesh - if she's lying she's in big ass trouble.
April 22, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Listen to Obama trying to spin his way out of his comment that McCain is better than Bush:
“To say that John McCain and some of his instincts may be better than George Bush’s, that’s a low bar,” the Democratic presidential candidate said, adding that he also has stressed that McCain is offering “warmed over versions of Bush foreign policy and economic policy.”
“So, there’s no contradiction there,” Obama said.
April 22, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Otto the Clinton Short Bus Troll is now defending George W. Bush and claiming that he is better than John McCain.
April 22, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me put this again at the end of the thread -
If Hillary is lying about her campaign finances, she's in big ass trouble.
So you can pretend that she's just playing like she's broke, but those figures get filed and are made public.
April 22, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink