Her one scheduled event today is at 10 pm.

She's fading... but wants it like a nice sunset.

Ok.

Good for her. Now, let's get back to McCain.

Let's call this add what it really is; a waste of friggin money.

Meh. I don't see it as all that positive. Implying that either Obama doesn't want to or couldn't do these things - end NCLB for instance, or make health care available to every American - is disingenuous. It still speaks to the fact that Hillary is in some kind of Bizarro-World where she is The One.

At least she's not calling him a secret Muslim flag-burning elitist in this one, though.

I'd have bet anything that if she had run ads like these for the past three months, she'd be ahead. People like her - actually like her - when she's positive and confident, and they dislike her - very much dislike her - when she runs negative ads and acts the victim. I wouldn't be surprised if this helps her in Oregon. Sadly, it's too little, too late.

well, once in law school I brought my pet monkey Thurgood with me to class, but I dressed him up in a little suit and tie. It was really cute : )
anyway, that same day famous Critical Race Studies "scholar" Derrick Bell was visiting the school. So about two dozen people come up and say "welcome Professor Bell." And when Thurgood would start jabbering away, it would take about two to three minutes before people realized, hey! That's not Derrick Bell, that a monkey in a suit!

"She's the one" who claimed that she was under sniper-fire.

"She's the one" who claimed that her republican rival was better suited for the presidency than her Democratic opponent.

"She's the one" who claimed that Barack Obama wasn't a Muslim, as far as she knew.

"She's the one" who voted for the biggest foreign policy disaster in America's history.(without reading the NIE)

"She's the one" who claims that she can run the country effectively, even though her campaign has been run like a fucking lemonade stand.

"She's the one!"

Yeah, and the "Bush energy bill" actually raised taxes on oil companies after the Democrats were done with it, and gave huge subsidies for alternative energy, which is why Obama supported it. It wasn't a perfect bill, and Obama didn't craft it himself, but Obama and many others thought it did more good than harm.

And do you really want to talk about bad votes? Should we discuss which has been more disastrous, a compromise energy bill or the Iraq war? Didn't think so.

And on health care, NEITHER of your plans are universal, and mandates DO NOT WORK. Period. Typical bs from Hillary, but it is nice that she is taking on a less abrasive tone now, perhaps the sense is starting to break through.

I'm glad she's pulling back from the negativity. But if she wanted to go negative still, there actually is a reason though it might be too little too late. Her campaigns last dying gasp is to emphasize the popular vote and if she went hugely negative she might have been able to drive up Obama's negatives enough to really close in on the popular vote. Not that it matters, obviously, since it's about delegates, not votes, but I can see where someone in her campaign (Mark Penn, ugh) would make that argument. I'm glad to see she's not going that route though.

I think it's a fine ad, and a legit one. Saying, "Look, I'm great and I'm right," is a lot more positive than saying, "Look, he's lousy and he's wrong."

For one thing, it lets people fill in the precise nature of the comparison by themselves. Maybe BHO is just slightly less great and slightly less right than HRC, you know?

I agree with billysumday that if her campaign had struck this tone more consistently, it's very likely that she'd be the presumptive nominee, or at least that it would be a genuine tie. I have very mixed feelings about this, since I distinctly prefer Obama, but still have the sense that Hillary's campaign was a tragic missed opportunity.

Ah, finally. ^_^ It's nice to not be pissed off 24/7. ....Which probably wouldn't happen if I had a life. Oh well.

She's way ahead in that state's primary, so there isn't any obvious need to go negative against Obama.

She would not want more delegates? Such reasoning would only make sense in a winner-take-all context.

INteresting ad but I wonder if this will even sway a single vote. Oregon's vote-by-mail elections make it less likely that any last minute momentum can actually make a difference. But glad to see Clinton take the high road as the primary winds down.

Not attacking Obama, attacking McCain's base (the pundits) -- sounds good to me!

So is this a positive spot -- a sign that Hillary recognizes the race is largely decided and has decided to lay off harsh tactics? The spot makes no mention of Obama.

Yes, this is a "positive" spot. I have no problem with Hillary running ads like this. I find Hillary a much more appealing candidate in spots like this. Perhaps if her whole campaign had been of this tone, she would have done better.

But running the ad this weekend is significantly wasted, because many, perhaps most, Oregonians have already mailed their ballots. This is bad timing for running advertisements there.

What ads, if any, has Obama been running in Oregon? A quick search of Election Central didn't turn up anything other than this one and the pro-Hillary 527 ad announced yesterday. Was Obama on the air earlier?

So is this a positive spot -- a sign that Hillary recognizes the race is largely decided and has decided to lay off harsh tactics?

I'm guessing that more than one superdelegate has made it clear to her that she can stay in this race as long as she likes and as long as she doesn't harm the Party. But the superdelegates have the ability to shut her down if she starts attacking Obama, and I'm sure they've told her in no uncertain terms that they'll do just that.