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Obama Response Ad: We Need "President We Can Trust"
Obama goes up in Indiana with a new spot that responds to today's Hillary ad hitting him on the gas tax by implicitly questioning her honesty...
Interestingly, this ad doesn't mention the gas-tax issue. Instead it returns to the Obama campaign's broader indictment of Hillary's character -- the claim that Hillary is a dirty-politicker who can't be trusted. The ad references a recent editorial in The New York Times -- which endorsed Hillary -- that accuses her of taking "the low road."
"We need honest answers," the ad concludes, "and a president we can trust."
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Comments (186)
Can't trust Oilbama with his judgement on Wright or gas prices.
May 5, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Oilbama"? Really?
May 5, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotalife is a Limbot. One of those old Project Chaos devotes. He wants Hillay to get the nomination so that McCain will win the general.
May 5, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe that - gotalife is right there on the Rush Limbaugh audience level.
May 5, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. Glad people are figuring out Nolife is a Limbot.
Also, the word "troll" was invented to describe people like nolife. Twits who just want to argue online, enjoy irritating people and getting attention, and have really pathetic lives.
An acquaintance of mine who I can;t stand (friend of a friend since middle school) is a self described troll. i.e. every day he goes online to deliberately annoy people and knowingly calls what he does trolling.
It's his version of crank calling and making society pay for his pathetic life.
He's now in his mid 30s, and still blames his life on his dead mother and father's lack of attention. He can't get a date, is in lousy shape, chronically insecure, has the personality and tastes of a teenager, and underneath it all is seething at the world.
Seriously, pathetic.
So before people waste time with them, keep in mind it's what they thrive on.
May 6, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, what are the words...
Ah, yes, now I remember, you, gottalife, are an insufferable little troll twit.
May 5, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
May 5, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, only Wright has nothing to do with his judgment, and it turns out that allllll of the experts agree with Obama on the gas prices, so how's that for judgment?
Oh, and speaking of judgment, do you want to talk about who trusted Bush on Iraq? Or how about who thought this campaign was going to be over by Super Tuesday and had absolutely no plan to win after that? Let's talk about who's campaign has been broke for months and stiffing vendors on their bills.
In short, you are an idiot.
May 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I especially like that she trusted Bush on Iraq, but won't trust the economists on the gas tax.
May 5, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point! Bush: trustworthy. Energy economists: elite opinion.
May 5, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Koo-koo alert!
"blah-blah-blah-Oilbama-blah-blah-blah"
lol
May 5, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
By Wright . . . you mean Bill Clinton's spiritual blowjob counselor?
By oil prices . . . You mean the
hand-job for the oil companies?Dude, you have the candidates reversed . . .
May 5, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends, I want you to do me a favor. I want you to be a part of a great test of the strength of ideas, I want you to help erect a monument to the power of words. I want you to do this for me, and I promise it will not take but a moment.
Indeed, it will not take more than you raising your hands to your keyboard.
Here is what I ask;
If gotalife has ever persuaded you one inch from your position towards him, I would like you to give me a Hallelujah.
If gotalife has ever moved you to change one belief of yours with his eloquent exposition, I want you to give me an Amen.
If gotalife has ever provided to you a single ounce of value other than serving to reinforce your own thoughts, other than the value a circus monkey has in entertaining, give me a Hosanna.
Just one, brothers and sisters. Just one.
May 5, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. People need to stop validating this guy with their responses.
May 5, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
May 5, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah idiotic. I've missed you.
May 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love the avatar, even if Mr. Elvis is supporting Hillary.
May 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was hoping for a more direct hit on what he tax pander really means to oil companies: a $10 billion handout:
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/05/hillary-goes-after-democrats-in.html
May 5, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a good ad.
Hillary is a liar, it has been proven time and again, everyone knows it.
May 5, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
May 5, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I miss Molly.
May 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
We all miss her so much. It was such a blow losing both Molly and Ann Richards so close together.
*sigh* Texas will never be the same.
May 5, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It really was. Even after she passed, I would go to Creators.com and read her articles, just to remember what fire in the spirit looked like.
May 5, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. What I believe was her final column, "Stand Up Against the Surge," holds up quite well today (and occasionally reminds me to get off my rear to the weekly war protest held around here).
http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/stand-up-against-the-surge.html
May 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Molly Ivins and H.L. Mencken are sitting together at a bar in the dustier part of Heaven right now, laughing at fools below. Fools that walk among us.
Oh, hi, RaeK.
May 5, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too Stemper. Me too.
May 5, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if Obama claims that Hillary is dishonest, 58% of the country agrees with him.
May 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not enough of that 58% live in Indiana, I'm afraid. They're probably all in latte-sipping, Prius-driving Nebraska.
May 5, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does the Prius come with a manure spreader?
May 5, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
It doesn't spread manure but it spreads bullshit.
May 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought that was your function.
May 5, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
After reading Andrew Sullivan's piece on the "Dream Ticket," I thought it may be possible.
Then I get jolted back to reality, and remember that these two don't think much of each other.
This gas tax business is the end of the line for the superdelegates, and Hillary knows that she needs to seat Michigan and Florida in her favor in order to go to the convention.
She has lost the superdelegates. Period.
May 5, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was tactically dumb, a desparate move at the worst possible moment. This blanket dismissal of ALL economists speaks to the blind-eye denial from which she suffers, brought on from decades of accomodating Bill. She may well think it's a good idea. ++ungood.
I think IN will be very close, and I give it to Obama by 2-4.
May 5, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doesn't matter. She has to win this tough-bitch-champeen-of-real-Muricans thing today. She doesn't care if she alienates the supers. She trying to stay alive, win the so-called popular and seat FLA and MI. Then the supers will have to fall in line. Really threading the needle here, but it feels like when you're rooting for the other team and Joe Montana gets the ball with 90 yards to go and 90 seconds on the clock. Oh sheeeet. Difference is I liked Joe Montana.
May 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ach! You remind me how much I miss FB here in May...
Threading the needle does not bother me. Obliterating her way through it in the most dishonorable fashion possible is, however, right out.
Pax,
M.
May 5, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmm. Interesting ad. I love the "home town" newspaper - as if New York City is some small town somewhere in upstate New York LOL!!!
I don't think he has to say anything about the gas tax holiday - it was implicit in the ad (the "record gas prices") and I think by now most people will have seen his other ads hitting back on the specific issue. I think this may be more effective because it's hitting her on general character and trustworthiness.
May 5, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly my thought, the "hometown" NYT....That is good stuff.
May 5, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
IIRC the lyrics go:
Oh! ye'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Apparently the low road is the better way to go.
Slow and steady wins the race.
May 5, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I sure wish you would go to . . . er . . . Scotland, and take Shillary with you! Git, now, you hear!
May 5, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Low road means you're dead.
Well, I suppose that works as well.
May 5, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
How is pointing out the obvious "the low road"? The majority of those polled don't find her trustworthy. You and Goatlife are probably the only ones left who do.
May 5, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Considering she's ahead in the popular vote I can't understand your point.
May 5, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
In what reality is she ahead in the popular vote?
May 5, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought you might not. Considering your level of trust, that's not surprising. Ah well, maybe Goatlife can explain it to you.
May 5, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahh, another practitioner of faith-based math.
Meheheheh.
May 5, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what I'm talking about -
Hit her on her biggest weakness - and you just did and it's a good tactic.
No one believes her or trusts her anymore.
May 5, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
You also gotta love how the ad calls the NYT her "home town newspaper." A little snark there, perhaps?? :) I've lost track of how many home towns she has...
May 5, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
O man - the list, she is long.
She's an Indianan Pennsylvanian Illinoisan Texan Arkansan New Yorker -
did I leave anyplace out?
May 5, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reminds me of the Johnny Cash song -- "I've Been Everywhere, Man". Except for Shillary, the title would be, "I've LIVED Everywhere, Man".
May 5, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can we somehow set this to the tune of Johhny Cash's "One Piece at a Time"?
May 5, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Vineyahd and DC. Also, Wellesley, so that's twice for MASS, and Yale, which covers CT. Maybe she's a double Pennsylvanian cause she lived on PA Ave.
May 5, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
O that's right - The Working Class Hero's academic career - all those tony ivy league schools.
Anyone who buys her shit about being Rose the Riveter is just as stupid as anyone who bought George Bush's Texas Good Ol Boy act.
Texas boy my ass - he's a goddamn yankee prep school cheerleader from Connecticut.
He is not a Texan.
And she is not an "elite" like I'm the Queen of the Gypsies.
May 5, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is Texas still in the union?
May 5, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are a bit of a dim bulb, aren't you? Just goes to show that transgenics aren't for everybody.
May 5, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 5, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not sure you'd know about funny.
Lame, OTOH, seems to be your strong suite.
May 5, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC -- her real hometown of course
May 5, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Israeli, perhaps?
May 6, 2008 8:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
BO is suppose to pick up 5 SDs today. The SD trickle is starting to pick up. I guess i am not the only one sensing that this nomination race is about to come to an end.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/5/12538/58159/94/509441
May 5, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've felt it in my bones for going on 3 days. I'm in such a good mood I'm giddy.
He was reported to have "dozens" in reserve to release.
May 5, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her Dad did business in Indiana, and she ate jello molds, so that counts
May 5, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to conclude most of the remaining SD's are Obama backers who have been cowed into temporary silence by the big money Clinton backers. If they were Clinton supporters, why would they hold back? She can use all the help she can get right now to keep this fiction alive.
May 5, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like pigeons or trout.
May 5, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
People are sick of it. Notice we haven't seen any honest Sen Clinton supporters? The trolls clearly do not support her. I mean, where has the actual debate gone?
Hard to debate with lies.
May 5, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We need honest answers and a President we can trust."
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. These people are a part of me."
May 5, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
So are you implying Monica is a part of HRC?
May 5, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, you've convinced me. I bow to your skills in block quotation.
Tomorrow, we'll do drag-n-drop.
May 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Paging goatlife...
May 5, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah, goatlife.
May 5, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meheheheh.
May 5, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
"At the wire, they finish: Clinton 54%, Obama 42%. Among males, the two have been tied in 3 of the 4 tracking polls. Among females, Clinton has always led by at least 14, and finishes ahead by 22. Among Republicans and Independents, the two are effectively tied. Among Democrats, Clinton finishes ahead by 19."
She wins NC by 2 thanks to the rural voters all going with the President they can trust with solutions not business as usual with Oilbama.
Huge day for Clinton tomorrow.
Game over.
May 5, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're so funny. What color is the sky in your world?
May 5, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
White. Possibly "working class" as well.
May 5, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
now that's funny.
May 5, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
"She wins NC by 2..."
Is that a typo or do you really mean it this time?
May 5, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
If stupid predictions were people, you would be China.
May 5, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her Dad did business in Indiana, and she ate jello molds, so that counts.
May 5, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yawn.
May 5, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
B.O STOP ATTACH HILLARY CLINTON
STOP PUT UP NEG AD
May 5, 2008 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a new, and interpretive level of snark I am not familiar with....
I am beginning to like it though.
May 5, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me, too! It's really funny ;)
May 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
This style is very reminiscent of the all time champion parody troll at Eschaton - Amurkin Patriot.
If encouraged, it could get funnier and funnier.
May 5, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOLOL!! ;)
May 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
This guy is the Jackson Pollock of trollery.
May 5, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
So are you saying that Hillary has Body Odor and you wish it would stop attacking her. I mean, come on . . . the broken English is just astounding.
May 5, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he means that he wants body odor to stop attaching to Hillary. In other words, her stink is beginnning to get to him too.
May 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Hooked On Phonics" worked miracles for me! You don't have to suffer!
May 5, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think in this Berlitz is in order.
May 5, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think in his case Berlitz is in order. In my case, a new brain.
May 5, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I used to teach ESL and I don't understand the OhioHillary post. But I am also opposed to body odor, so I guess we have a point of agreement.
May 5, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
HC STOP GAS BRIBE
Have no you shame!
VOOT OBAMA!
May 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
We have a translator!
May 5, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, even the Dutch are in this. I've lived my entire life in anticipation of vooting.
May 5, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a telegram.
BO STOP
Attach Hillary Clinton STOP
Put up neg ad STOP
Cryptic missive from the field office?
May 5, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
we dont want a president to put up neg ad to attach hillary clinton...he doesnt have any experience...b.o not become a president for sure..
May 5, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
All in favor of Body Odor not becoming president say "Aye!" I think this is a movement we can all get behind! No more B.O. in the White House ;)
May 5, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aw, OhioHillary sounds almost like my little Italian grandmother! "I no lika dis - he no have 'sperienza". Too funny!!! ;)
May 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
It looks like your top issue should be education.
May 5, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
My gosh, how are the illegals going to learn proper English if they can't do it through immersion!
May 5, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
thoohiohillary--
The lies do not bother you?
That she wants to make Obliteration dem foreign policy? This doesn't shake you out your tree?
The blanket, irrational, adolescent dismissal of "all economists," not to mention certain presidential veto, and certain House opposition...this level of denial doesn't bother you?
That she needs to become "male" and gather spare testicles, reminding us of 4th grade recess mentality of her, her husband, and her surrogates, this doesn't bother you?
That she he had no plan for governing her campaign does not bother you?
The menace of a philadering monster prowling the white house does not make you remember how you cringed through the 1990s? Maybe you were not Of Age then.
Her demise is her creation, not Obama's. I call you to search for Truth.
Pax,
M.
May 5, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
OBAMA +5 Gallup, +6 superdelegates, 1.5 million donors - Cinco Celebration:
ABC [Hillary] THIS WEEK 1.3 rating/4 share
NBC [Obama] MEET THE PRESS 8.5 rating/21 share
May 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh God Help Us
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/NEWS01/805040304
May 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sigh ... there's not even a point to talking to people like that. Hopefully there aren't too many of them. It's really sad when people are just that bone-headed that they won't listen to reason or fact.
May 5, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama Elitist Alert!
May 5, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, now listening to fact and reason makes one an elitist according to the Hillary camp? Oh, that's right . . . "we don't need no stinkin' experts to tell us what we don't want to know!"
Idiot alert!
May 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink