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The Obama 3 am response ad

Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:19 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Here's the Obama response to the Clinton "Children" ad...

Here's the Clinton ad again for reference...

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J. Merle Stanley: '...I wouldn't feel secure with "Pimp Daddy B" in control of our military.
J. Merle Stanley, Westchester, NY (Sent Friday, February 29, 2008 12:21 PM)

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Me either, I'd rather have a ham sandwich! OH we have him! Well pastor Barry can't cut the mustard either!
HP Boston...'

Thanks, HP
You and Merle are showing your desperation and frustration....
You've LOST !!
Too bad
It happens...

Hillary Clinton had ALL the advantages...
...and she was beaten by Barack Obama

Fair and square

            [;=D

I'm glad to see you're both taking it in a mature, adult fashion

Please say hello to that coward, vanreuter
He 'cut and run' pretty quickly

Dear Hillary Clinton and all your Rovian Accomplices:

I WILL NOT BASE MY VOTE ON FEAR!

I WILL NOT BE ENSLAVED BY FEAR!

I WILL CAST MY VOTE BASED ON REAL HOPE... FOR A REAL CHANGE.

YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN KARL ROVE HIMSELF!!!
MSNBC has shown Sen. Clinton's ad over 12 times now!!! Why???
i think the real story here is that hillary is rehashing the mushroom cloud commercial of the sixtys i can not remeber who used it the first time so maybe one of you could help me out with that. but i am also impress with the turn around time of the obama campiagn. it was so fast it makes hillarys a wash.
watch Bill Clinto's response to fearmongering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZW0m2nWB_M
The ad I would have liked to see is one that asks which Hillary would answer the phone.  Is it the gracious "honored" Hillary, the "shame on you" Hillary or the sarcastic "skies will open" Hillary.

What we want when that phone does ring is not only someone with judgment, but someone who is cool, calm and consistent under fire.
Tha was fast.  congrats for the campaign.

Obama has shown class, poise, and good judgement for so long!  It hasn't been 1 thing in particular that has lead me to support Obama.  He has continued to show good judgement and impress me regularly since I started following him in 2006.  

FINALLY someone is trying to bring the focus back to the Afganistan and Pakistan!!  
"I won't let the American Idol Movement blind me.

SAY NO TO FARRAKHAN.  

SAY NO TO OBAMA.

-Patty,sd,ca (Sent Friday, February 29, 2008 5:40 PM)"

Obama has denounced Farrakhan's support of him a number of times. So, just like you, Obama is saying NO TO FARRAKHAN.
HRC is always boasting her experience and attacks Obama for inexperience. I think making the wrong decisions and changing positions are her forte during those 35years. The simplicity and level headedness of Obama gives us hope to have a better an safer world for our children.
Check out youtube video posted by a McCain supporter a year ago, called "Who do you want to answer the phone?" The Clinton campaign completely PLAGIARIZED that video, down to the 3 a.m. piece!!!!!! Amazing.
Obama, yet again piggy backing on Clinton's idea. Find an original idea please.

And if the Iraq vote is the only card you have in your deck about "being right"... you have issues.


A few things (out of many) you didn't get "right" from day one:
A Nuclear Leak reporting bill with actual TEETH
Tony Rezko (at the very least, he admitted to making a boneheaded decision... HIS words, not mine)
Nadhmi Auchi
William Ayers
Exelon

Oh, I could go on and on... but you get the picture. He's just as dirty as any other politician and you are a fool to believe otherwise.

Change my a**



Once again Sen. Obama continues to remind why he has EARNED my vote. Touche.

And I find Patty up in this thread laughable. She's got her candidate's tactics down and shows exactly why they are a match made in heaven. Another bitter "Betty" spending way to much time worrying about what the other guy is doing and tearing it down instead of enhancing the merit of her own argument and building herself up in the process. Patty hon...you and Hillary are a definite match. LOL
I live in Texas and I am SICK AND TIRED OF ALL OF Obama's LAME CAMPAIGN ADS FLOODING THE AIRWAYS.  Can Obama do anything ORIGINAL and stop copying off of Hillary like he constantly have done at every debate?  

This new ad is just SILLY AND CHILDISH and shows no ORIGINALITY ON HIS PART.

GET OVER IT OBAMA.  You will NEVER WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION ANYWAYS NO MATTER WHAT AD YOU RUN AND HOW MANY.
yes we can.   vote for obama.
Damn, he just gave her another black-eye and it was mighty fast I must add.  This is getting ugly.
Hillary is playing the fear card just like Bush did these past couple of weeks with his FISA bill.  Fear is not going to work on us Americans anymore.

WE ARE NOT AFRAID, HILLARY!  
STOP TREATING US LIKE WE ARE!

Go Obama!
I think Hillary realizes that she must be careful about what she says concering Barrack because she knows--Hillary knows deep down in her heart--that she is probably talking to the next President of the United States for the next eight years.

So, Hillary supporters, you will soon--very soon--have get past your prejudice and hang-ups.  It's not about sex, or race, or simple rhetoric. It's about the future direciton we, Americans, want to go.  There's the republican direction; there's the democratic direction; and there's the American Direction.  We are all in this together--which way do you really want to go.  Don't even begin to think that the republicans can win--after Bush's war? Please--it's not going to happen. Not with democrats turning out in record numbers? I was an independent conservative, but once I read Barrack's ideas on Education and Economy I said, "Son of a Gun! I haven't heard a politician make this kind of good common sense since--well --ever. And who has gotten the democrates so excited--The barrack/clinton race.  In the end, I believe Barrack can bring our country together, but only if we--the people--stand together behind him after he wins the nomination, and the Presidency.  Hillary, who is a good person, just has too much of a past (and not all of it good), and too much fight in her persona to bring any two sides together.  But there's a simple rule to follow, and it's not to vote for McCain out of spite because Hillary lost, and it's not to stay home and pout during election day.  The simple rule is to vote for what you feel will be best for America. I no longer wish to see the country I've fought for, the country some of my friends have died for, the country I love, be divided against itself any longer.

It's time for special interests to end; it's time for corruption to end; and its time for a new beginning.  Now, I don't think Barrack is perfect, but if we (the people) all stand behind,then maybe some perfect things can happen in our goverment that have never had a chance of happening before. Maybe we can even restore the honor, pride, and strength of America for democrats, for republicans, for independents: but most of all-- for AMERICANS!
the way obama has run his race has been amaze-ing we are all in awe of the phenom!i am still in shock,america needs a great president at a time of great challange,the american people can change!i am so proud that this year we have an mvp in obama.
i cannot belive hillary went so low to get votes old school fear mongering.are so you desperate for power?
that you will use the same fear that bush gave the world for the iraq war?shame on you woman!shame on you!i belive you sure have crossed the line!once again shame on you!play fair and get a hold on youself.
Hm. Who was in the white house when RWANDA happened?
Lets get real... "already knows the world leaders" what a bunch of crap.
I donate 100 bucks,and i need to donate another 100.

Obama  08
here's what will happen....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrWHrbq1uE4
Gee All this from A guy Who Won't Wear An American Flag Pin??????????
With a view from the sidelines, I find it funny that nobody has pointed out the similarities between the rhetoric coming from the the Clinton camp and that of the Bush administration over the last 7 years. This constant moving of the goalposts, saying "Well THIS is the turning point, THIS will make all the difference" and then when we see that fail we immediately hear "well that didn't really matter anyway, what really matters is THIS", it's practically identical to the tactics used by Bush regarding progress in Iraq, the constant promise that we're about to "turn a corner" when she in fact is doing nothing but buying herself time, doing anything possible to distract the American people so she can hold on just a bit longer.

It's frankly dishonest and hurtful to the democratic party and the country as a whole, I can whole-heartedly sympathize with the Clinton supporters who are still backing their candidate, wanting to watch her "fight it out"; but there is a point when you have to be realistic and address the fact that drawing this race out this long is only serving to hurt both candidates, and in the end hurt the Democratic party's chances of securing the presidency in November.
Obama cant even think up his own ad .... lol

He agrees with everything Hillary says in debates cause he doesnt have his own answers.

He uses speeches someone else has already given.

He doesnt know which button to push... 5 times

he votes present cause he does not have someone there with him telling how to vote.

Wake up people - he is a big fake.

Hillary is the best choice for our nation - one that is growing more poor by the minute.
This ad issue only proves Obama has put together the greatest campaign operation ever. It is true Clinton underestimated him early and had run a terrible campaign early. It is true he bushwacked her in all the Super Tuesday cacus states because of that. It is true that he then feeds off the anti-Hillary hatred(both media & public)for momentum for 11 wins in a row.
 However, Hillary is still in the game if she doesn't quit in spite of all of the above. It won't be pretty if she wins, in fact it will be ugly. Hillary believes she is the best candidate and the ends justify the means. Her big problem is the Super Delegates will give her Obama as V.P. whether she likes it or not.So she can't say what she needs to now because McCain would hang her with it during fall debates. During last 2 debates the moderators gave her a chance to call Obama unqualified for Commander in Chief and she wouldn't. That is why she is in box.
While Hillary is probably the better candidate- Obama has run the brillant campaign.
This ad issue only proves Obama has put together the greatest campaign operation ever. It is true Clinton underestimated him early and had run a terrible campaign early. It is true he bushwacked her in all the Super Tuesday cacus states because of that. It is true that he then feeds off the anti-Hillary hatred(both media & public)for momentum for 11 wins in a row.
 However, Hillary is still in the game if she doesn't quit in spite of all of the above. It won't be pretty if she wins, in fact it will be ugly. Hillary believes she is the best candidate and the ends justify the means. Her big problem is the Super Delegates will give her Obama as V.P. whether she likes it or not.So she can't say what she needs to now because McCain would hang her with it during fall debates. During last 2 debates the moderators gave her a chance to call Obama unqualified for Commander in Chief and she wouldn't. That is why she is in box.
While Hillary is probably the better candidate- Obama has run the brillant campaign.
obumba is a tard.... he doesn't know what he's talking about....


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