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Hillary's New North Carolina Ad: Ask Me Questions
Hillary Clinton has her first ad up in North Carolina, in which she speaks directly to the camera to promote a new Web site called NCAskeMe.com, at which she'll take voters' questions:
The ad seems to serve two purposes. By stressing that "these are not typical times," it plays into her theme that she's the serious, issue-oriented candidate the country needs to solve its problems. And by promising that this isn't a typical ad, and opening herself up to questions from the public, she also seems to be trying to project the sort of free-wheeling style that Obama has all but mastered on the trail.
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Somehow I don't think she will like most of the questions she will get...
April 3, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's broke. This is all she can afford to do.
April 3, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
"...this election isn't about me, it is about you."
Hmmmm....now where have I heard that before?
April 3, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
She could just go on Hardball with Chris Matthews, like Obama did last night and McCain is doing in 2 weeks, and answer questions from college students, except then she can't keep squeezing MSNBC for better coverage.
April 3, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody should ask her what it was like to dodge sniper fire.
April 3, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Eric!
This isn't a red-faced Bill Clinton tirade related post, or a threatening superdelegate letter post.
Please cease and desist posting anything that isn't derogatory to Hillary or Bill Clinton.
Thanks.
P.S. AGAIN, Obama is ahead in states won, and pledged delegates! Nuff said. Sheesh. She can't win.
April 3, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or does everything Clinton say these days sound insincere?
April 3, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
yawn.
April 3, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hate to admit it, but this is the best approach to politics taken by HRC I've seen in a long time.
April 3, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Question 1: Do you really think you can win North Carolina, or are you just putting us on?
Question 2: Where are your tax reports?
Question 3: Won't this minute-long ad be expensive to run on the "teevee" considering there are vendors to pay and health insurance for your employees to ensure?
Question 4: Why were you fired from the Watergate commission?
Question 5: If you're president, will we go to war with Iran?
And the list could go on...
April 3, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is this *unusual* again? candidate giving speech into camera about what the issues in the election are then sends viewers to website. Wow. Innovation.
April 3, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoa, is it me, because I'm totally a biased Obama supporter, but was her delivery really bad, or what?
I think it's a great tactic, actually, but I honestly couldn't get past her delivery to find her genuine or accessible.
April 3, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think i'm going to go ask Hillary a few questions.
But i'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that she won't answer them because they won't be "Hillary, why are you so awesome?"
April 3, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or Hillary, how can we help make you President?
April 3, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, they will be. She has plants for that.
April 3, 2008 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tax Returns?
April 3, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, your bias is clear in how you report on each candidate's ad, like this Hillary one compared to the tone you had in reporting on Obama's ad.
April 3, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you absolutely certain that a TV ad in North Carolina that directs viewers to a website that has them enter both their question and their street address/e-mail address/phone number couldn't be serving a third purpose for a cash-strapped candidate that might not be able to buy on credit from NC mailing list purveyors?
April 3, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
'Zactly... and all that personal information (i.e., name, address, phone number, email) is required information to submit your question.
In the meantime, she'll merely "work to answer as many... questions as [she] can."
Rrrrriiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttt...
Why won't she publish her phone number so that I can just call her up with a question or two. At 3:00 a.m., 'natch.
April 3, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
This also presupposes that she will have enough money to run the followup ads. She sure won't choose to answer questions like the ones I would ask her.
It also takes you to a page with a big red contribute button.
Just another ploy to try to get some cash.
April 3, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought she was just asking for money.
April 3, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will she answer questions about Monica? Or is that none of our business?
This is yet another gyration, another "voice" that Hillary Clinton magically finds when she gets cornered and needs a new strategy. I wonder which of her multiple personalities we would get as president?
Thankfully, we won't have to find out.
April 3, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
was this shot on a steady cam?
Kinda distracting the way the camera sways...
But enough nitpicking. It will be interesting to see how this works, she's finally learning to use the internet.
April 3, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watch it again, MC; it's very, very precise.
April 3, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
My Question for Hill:
Were the Michigan voters who sat out their primary (because they were told their votes could not count because their state parties violated DNC rules) *disenfranchised* at the time? If yes, then by whom were they disenfranchised? If no, how were they not disenfranchised?
OK, that's technically 3 questions.
April 3, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
/headed to NCAskMe.com
/Asking "Will you just go away?"
/Waits for answer
April 3, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary sounds like she's taken a 50 mg Valium.
If this new site is anything like her HillaryHub & YouTube pages - where only positive comments/questions are "approved" and posted - then it will fail as well.
She's not interested in what The People think. She's only interested in looking like she cares about what the people think.
If she really cared about what The Peoplethought, she would have gone to the people at the beginning of her campaign, not during the collapse of it.
April 3, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are you interrupting Deal or No Deal with this crap ad?
April 3, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to ask three questions:
1) Where are your tax-returns
2) How was agreeing to the rules to not count Florida and Michigan NOT disenfranchising voters when you were the presumptive nominee, but now that you are losing, it's called disenfranchising?
3) How is hoping delegates change their votes from the way their district voted NOT disenfranchising voters?
April 3, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn, I was really hoping for a typical political commercial. How do I switch channels on Youtube?
April 3, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
That line "it's nice talking with you" kind of comes across like a computerized voice machine that you hear when you call a telephone company.
April 3, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does almost everyone who posts to TMP generally hate Clinton, or is this an unusual number of negatives today?
Where ARE her tax returns anyway? I have not yet done my 2007 returns; but then I OWE money so I won't get a refund of either kind. (I'd be glad to give the FEC my 2006 and earlier returns if I were running, though.) i also don't have a tax accountant or anyone else working for me.
What part of agreeing to DNC rules did you NOT understand when you voted delegates from FL & MI not be counted/seated? Was it the word COUNTED? WHAT?
How much more damage do you think Bill can do to your candidacy before the general election?
April 3, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
April 4, 2008 4:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
but what about the truth... are we going to get the truth when we ask questions? Who determines which questions she will answer? Will she answer the really tough ones or just those softy types?
Asking her questions is taking a big risk.. I am not going to do it.. tooooo risky.
April 3, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
but what about the truth... are we going to get the truth when we ask questions? Who determines which questions she will answer? Will she answer the really tough ones or just those softy types?
Asking her questions is taking a big risk.. I am not going to do it.. tooooo risky.
April 3, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's one weird commercial. I think it's a complete ruse, intended to build up the underdog help-me-up-I'm-drowning schtick that usually rescues her numbers before primaries.
First, she looks like hell--puffy, pasty, and crude, heavy makeup, while the lighting is just unflattering enough to make a woman wonder how to help her out. She sounds tired. You just want to offer her a nice soft chair, don't you?
Second, the production values are quite sophisticated, perhaps even artful? You think the camera person is inept, the camera appears to wander, but if you track it you can tell the wandering is too smooth, to purely vertical or horizontal to actually be an unsteady hand. She doesn't move at all but the camera regularly shifts just enough to make you notice.
So let's not get all carried away here. This is a carefully produced and scripted ad. But as a middle-aged woman, I gotta hand it to her for being willing to get on camera with the intention of looking unattractive. There's still aaaages until April 20th.
April 3, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink