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"If [Republicans] could cut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, middle-class Americans would see fewer benefits from their tax dollars, feel more resentful paying taxes, and become even more receptive to their appeals for tax cuts and their strategy of waging campaigns on divisive social and cultural issues like abortion, gay rights, and guns."

-- Bill Clinton, in his 2004 memoirs, My Life, making the same argument as Sen. Barack Obama.

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This ad made me so sad. I don't think that was the intent but something not quite right here.

Who is this appealing to:
Christians only??
Black Christians?

I am lost on this one and will leave it to greater minds.

It's a very touching moment. But that ad probably won't appeal much to people who enjoy making fun of women.

Who's running her campaign? I mean really, who is it? Are they paying him/her? What is the add supposed to do? Who is it supposed to move in her direction? HOR-RI-BLE....

Does she think that if one Black woman supports her the rest will fall in line?

Oh. Dear.

"America, our country, is down at the foot of that mountain . . . "

Isn't that precisely the sentiment behind Obama's San Francisco remarks that fomented all this alleged outrage? Is that not a remark borne of anger and/or disappointment, if not bitterness? It's condescension if a candidate says it about people, but not if a candidate makes an ad depicting people saying it?

I don't have any opinion as to the ad's effectiveness or ineffectiveness . . . except that it seems to be making the same basic point that Obama was making in SF and for which he's been called elitist. Aside from the woman's assessment of Clinton's achievements over adversity (I think they're genuinely hers; you don't have to accept them if you don't agree), I don't see how this ad makes any sort of genuine distinction between her candidacy and his. Thus, I don't see how she gains from it.

This clip was taken from a town hall type event for Hillary in Texas, which event highlighted two women who were born before women could vote [this AA woman and the stooped white woman standing next to her].

I saw this event in its entirety, and really liked what these two oldsters had to say.......in fact, their testimonies turned out to be the best that event had to offer. I believe the white woman was over a hundred years old and the black woman in her nineties.

What was edited out of this black woman's much longer statement was her expressing joy to be also seeing a black man, Barack Obama, running for President. Nope, that statement would obviously have to be edited out of an ad run by the Hillary folks.

LAME!

Wow if HRC was going for the black and/or religious vote, she may have skewered it between the eyes. Small Christian tidbit for the campaign team over there.... one of those pesky 10 Commandments states:

"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."

So, HRC, who claims to be a devout Christian (a devout Christian would know the 10 Commandments, no?), thinks it's okay to woo the Christian right with a video claiming she's polished like gold, i.e. an idol to worship? Nice one.

Oh and not to mention that indeed it does come off just plain weird with that look on her face of almost maniacal glee, you can see she's on stage thinking to herself how she'll be able to turn this into a killer ad. Gives me the shivers.

Yes, the message Hillary wants to convey to young women is to marry well so you don't have to work so hard.

that's so depressing.