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Hillary's closing ad in PA

Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:25 AM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Mark Murray

The script:
It’s the toughest job in the world.
You need to be ready for anything -- especially now, with two wars, oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis.
Harry Truman said it best -- if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Who do you think has what it takes?
I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.

*** UPDATE *** The Obama campaign weighs in with this quote from Bill Clinton in 2004: “Now one of Clinton’s Laws of Politics is this: If one candidate's trying to scare you and the other one's trying to get you to think; if one candidate's appealing to your fears and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope. That's the best.”


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Com'on PA... BAROCK THE VOTE!!!
Bill said it all.  I too will vote for hope instead of fear.  Obama has my vote.  Thanks, Bill.
That Bill Clinton, He sure knows the real deal when he sees it :)
Dear Generation Obama,

In a word, VOTE. If we turn out in record numbers in Pennsylvania, the election is ours for the taking. We’ve spent our lives trying to get out of the long, destructive shadow cast by our Baby Boomer forbearers. Need evidence of that? In last week’s debate, the conversation about VIETNAM (Rev.Wright, William Ayers) was more important than IRAQ!!!

The Boomer Generation wants the fights of the 1960’s to continue and continue and continue. It defined their generation and they want it to define the country for four more years.

Not this time, Generation Obama. It’s our time. Get out and vote, let’s take the reigns of this country and chart a better course.

V O T E!
With negative campaign coffers I see she is using you guys once again to fill in the gaps and predictably you jump....Why doesn't someone ask her when and how she is going to pay those small business owners she is stiffing
Only the idiots will believe the mesaage in this Ad. Perhaps, the so called blue collar that are uneducated will believe it.

Hillary is not fit to be the commander in Chief if all she does is fear mongering tactics of the '60s.

Tayo (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:33 AM)


The elitist from the Obama campaign what you to know that only they are smart enough to make the decisions for you.  After all, Obama knows everything - you just don't realize it.
Hillary is something else....

Wasting money putting out ads trying to show she has the experience when it is clear she has none.....

Blowing over $100 million dollars that she has collected since she started her run.  Now she is $10 million in debt......

lyng her way across the country with all sorts of fantastical stories.  She should be running for president of the tall tales club instead of president.

She needs to win by at least 20 points to keep her name afloat.

Hillary Clinton
A Liar for all seasons
You really think Clinton has no money to compete?

Obama, MSNBC, CNN and others like Drudge have been smoking too much of Audacity of Hope book lately.

Obama and his "change" is a Revolutionary Chage like the one Hamas is asking for.

The ad was simple and spectacular and it appears that Clinton has an internal PA polling of 11 point lead even though Schuster with his crazy self, MSNBC, and other news media are polling terribly.

Clinton will win PA, but the question is by how much.  The shocker is that her lead will probably be more than 10 and that is what Obama and Chuck Todd and others are afraid of.

Titantic of Obama is sinking even with all the money he has from suspect sources (especially foreign areas like Hamas).
The problem is...Obama doesn't want you to "think"...he just wants you to "hope"!!

How low does Senator Obama have to go...using Former President Clintons words against Senator Clinton!  That's the new politician...one again, this is about as low as Obama can go!!  Or is it?

Another politician...worse than most, all "words", no experience, no judgement and now a fear mongerer!!
Who has what it takes Senator Clinton? Certainly not you! Enough of the focus grouping, triangulating, centrist, pro corporate,have it both ways,ethic you preach!
Who has what it takes? Barack Obama that's who!

Come on you PA voters you have it in YOUR HANDS to end this thing. Send the carpetbagger from Arkansas (or is it Illinois?) back where she came from.
I'm a grunt in the US Army, with 15 years in, and more deployments then I care to remember. I've said it before; most of the Soldiers and Marines I know support Barrack Obama. We highly respect SEN McCain, but he is out of touch with us and our families.  I can tell you with a little authority that military people come from a similar background as SEN Obama. Many come from single parent families, blue collar, some college, and a desire to do better things for their community and nation, much like SEN Obama.  It is a rarity to meet someone from a privileged, wealthy family such as the Clintons and the McCain’s, unless they are serving to pad their resume.  I know that McCain’s sons are in the military, and I applaud them for it, but they went through the Naval Academy, and officers in the military have a much more comfortable life than the enlisted and the NCOs.  

Not all of us come from a military background; some of us have family members that are in the same situations that SEN Obama speak of. Now the elitists on the right and in the Clinton camp attack him for speaking the truth. I have Soldiers that have 3 to 5 deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan that was going to get out after serving so greatly for their nation, only to stay in because the job market and economy are scarier than another tour to Iraq.

There is no way that I, and many like me, will vote for Clinton. I am not a misogynist, I support and have voted for women in office, but this woman is a liar. She is no more in touch with the American citizen than the insurgent that took my buddies life. Look at her eyes, they are the windows to the soul, you will see a difference in the glow when she talks to supporters and when SEN Obama does. I know this first hand as I have met her twice; once in South Korea in '92 or '93, and then again recently in NC. On top of that this woman has never made the hard-right choice in her life. She didn't leave her husband when he betrayed her, not that she forgave him, but because it would have been too hard to win a Senate seat going through a divorce. She made the wrong choice on the most unnecessary war in the history of this country (and won't apologize for it), because it was the popular reason to do it at the time.

I wish the candidates and the media would get off this petty crap and give us their differences on the issues.

If you want to support the men and women serving for you in the military, vote to change all of this, vote Obama.

bishop11c (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:43 AM)


BS, I'm pushing 20 years and the only ones supporting Obama in my unit are the brothers (which is understandable).  You speak for yourself and no one else, so don't tell me how (we think).
If the pattern of previous primaries and caucuses holds, the biggest procrastinators - those who make up their minds on Tuesday - will probably break for Senator Hillary Clinton. If they side with her again in Pennsylvania, it may help Clinton hold off Senator Barack Obama with a big-enough victory to save her candidacy, again. How will late deciders vote

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2191

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I like the comment, "If you can't stand the stench get out of the sewer."
No one ever fixed anything by hiding out in the sewers.  The only thing you can do down there is change the way cr@p flows.
bishop11c, I honor your service to our country and totally agree with everything you said.  Thank you and all who serve from the bottom of my heart.  My own brother is not with us any more as a result of Viet Nam.  Another big mistake!

Obama 08


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