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Pro-Hillary 527 On The Air In Montana And Puerto Rico
Although all analysts give Hillary Clinton long odds to win the nomination, her major union backers and other big donors clearly haven't given up. The American Leadership Project, the pro-Hillary 527 group, is running a new pair of ads in the upcoming contests of Puerto Rico, where she's favored, and Montana, where Obama is ahead.
Here's the Montana spot, promising that Hillary will help middle-class families and end tax breaks for oil companies:
And here's the Puerto Rico ad, centering around health care:
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And all I hear is a cash register.
More debt.
Has she paid Indiana University yet?
Has she paid her small-business vendors?
I know Montana and Puerto Rico aren't expensive markets, but DAMN!
May 29, 2008 1:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Even her top SUPPORTERS give her long odds (see Ed Rendell).
May 29, 2008 1:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I sorta agree with the Montana ad. I also want Hillary to keep fighting for America's families... except from the floor of the Senate.
May 29, 2008 1:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, two ads aimed at the financially-strapped middle class and they don't even include a 1-800 number. How cheap can they be? Very poor planning.
PS: I don't speak Spanish and assume the context of the Puerto Rico ad is similar to Montana. It also has a 202 number (Washington, DC) to call.
May 29, 2008 1:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Smart to go with something re. gas/energy costs in Montana, but they should've de-emphasized petroleum and gone full out on natural gas and clean/sustainable home heating and power alternatives. Show less of the oil rigs and more of the wind farms.
My only real complaint is pretty petty: "good paying jobs" is nails on a freaking chalk board.
May 29, 2008 3:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did that ad say good paying jobs? Montanans have been promised that so much that I don't even think I heard it.
My complaint is even pettier: There's this very subtle way the narrator pronounces Montana. Its exactly the same way that national news reporters pronounce it when their spewing the same boilerplate crap about cowboys and mountains (especially the NPR variety of crap.)
It's a really petty quibble, but it makes me cringe every time. The way Senator Obama says Montana is a little different, but equally cringe-inducing to me.
May 29, 2008 8:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
You have to give them credit for one thing: nobody's trying to apply lipstick to the pig of the gas tax holiday.
May 29, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
lame, can Hillary not speak spanish?
May 29, 2008 7:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Clinton's Campaign = GASP...GASP...ARGH...GAAAAAAAAASP....BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
May 29, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still waiting for the ads that will say "I'm Hillary Clinton, Independent for President, and I approve of this message."
The biggest potential joke could very well ultimately become truth in a few months.
May 29, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
At least the PR ads didn't mention the "Vote for me and I'll make Puerto Rico's vote count in the General Election" she's been subliminally spewing in her "rallies" there - when she wasn't dancing.
BTW, did anyone catch Governor Rendell on MSNBC last night admit he believes Hillary is done for? I think it was on Tweety's show.
May 29, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary has to run as an Independant . . . Connecticut for Lieberman Party rejected her and the Democrats aren't voting for her.
May 29, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
The hundred-thousand-dollar elitist Democratic donors still have a voice via their 527 life-support for Hillary.
May 29, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink