Obama Airing New Ad In Montana
In a sign that he isn't taking the remaining contests totally for granted as he shifts into the general eletion race, Barack Obama has this new ad in Montana:
The spot uses footage from a rally held in the state, where a recent poll has put him ahead of Hillary Clinton by a substantial margin.
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June 3 is just the beginning. But it will be a good beginning.
May 28, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great spot! Lots of energy and definitely pointing toward the general!
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"And on June 3rd, we will not just win Montana, we're gonna change this country and we're gonna change the world." --- Barack Obama
May 28, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Beautiful! And includes the Crow Nation. Yea!
May 28, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Worth noting:
In 22 years of living in Montana, I only saw one political ad on TV that directly addressed the state - a single low-budget spot by Kucinich in 2004.
May 28, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was making calls for Obama to Montana today. They're nice, nice people! And even the lifelong Republican who was going to vote for McCain had nice things to say about Obama, said she wouldn't be sorry to see him win.
So go Montana! Put Obama over the top!
May 28, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Even in a worst-case scenario (MI, FL seated according to the faux election results) he needs only about 50 superdelegates after June 3rd, easily done.
May 28, 2008 3:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is EXCELLENT NEWS!
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May 28, 2008 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tim Russert said that Obama has a bank of super delegates ready to put him over the top June 4 or 5,regardless of what the Rules Committee decides on Saturday. Can't wait for this to be over and just focus on McBush.
May 28, 2008 1:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Almost there....
May 28, 2008 1:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
A lot has been said of Clinton during this campaign, but for mine. the latest ugliness was her reference to June 1968.
What I find especially offensive about the reference is that the 1968 Democrat Convention — the one HRC uses as a model, was rigged by the Daley forces to put in Hubert Humphrey. Those who remember will recall not only was RFK killed, but Geoerge Wallace ran as a segregationist -- he could have wone WV and Ky!!. 1968 is remembered for that cop riot and for the worst kind of Republican-style slandering of the anti-Vietnam war movement. In 1968, the delegates were pretty much all old men who decided amongst themsleves who would run. 1968 was the Convention that showed that the nomination process needed to be changed to put the power to nominate into the hands of the members. So this is the year Clinton points to as her model of why she’s still in the race, and like Daley, she’s trying to drag down the candidate who has done most to get people enthusiastic about voting.
In the end, it was Nixon who benefited from the division in the Democrats.
So Hillary is not only offensive when she brings up the Kennedy assassination as her excuse for going on. Even if she denies that this is what she meant, she certainly did mean to evoke 1968 and all its ugliness — which is highly appropriate in her case.
Pete
May 28, 2008 2:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for pointing this out!
May 28, 2008 8:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton needs to be called out on that.
In 1992, Bill only won thanks to Ross Perot. 1968 was a disaster. What Hillary was really saying is this: I'll make 2008 a disaster, and no one can stop me.
May 28, 2008 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Frankly, I would have preferred this thread to have remained focused on the positive message being delivered by Senator Obama and . . .
The negative aspects surrounding Senator Clinton's on-going descent into infamy be confined to threads where the discuss her personal brand of insanity.
It was as if a walk in the park on a beautiful day was 'shat' upon by the demon of unhappiness. If I wanted ugliness I'd poke gotNOlife with a stick.
May 28, 2008 8:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's not just about the primary. Montana is like North Carolina. It may not be flippable, but its close enough that Obama can force McCain to spend time and money hanging on to state that ought to be in his pocket.
May 28, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are some other interesting parallels with 1968.
You'll recall that Eugene McCarthy only ran when it became clear that nobody would stand against the sitting Democrat president -- LBJ -- despite the increasing disquiet about the war -- especially amongst Democrats. Eugene essentially picked up the Obama consituency (minus the lock on African Americans)
Within 4 days, RFK had joined the fray. There was that same sense of destiny, but it would never have happened but for Eugene. As things developed Johnson went from being the probable winner to lame duck. RFK rapidly consolidated much of the Catholic vote behind him and bit into a slice of Eugene's constituency. The party heavies didn't like the way things were going so suddenly, Hubert Humphrey was drafted.
Post RFK's murder, McGovern tried to assemble the remnants of the RFK and McCarthy forces, but it was no match for the right and hey presto, Hubert won easily. He was the most electable, but the victory was pyrrhic because Nixon won in a canter.
You'll recall that Nixon had 'a secret plan to end the war' which turned out to be a secret plan to bomb Cambodia and Laos back to the stone age by dropping more tonnage on these two countries than the US had dropped on all belligerants in WW2. McCain has a plan too ... hmmm
Pete
May 28, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink