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Three new Clinton ads

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:31 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Christina Jamison, NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli and NBC's Domenico Montanaro
The Clinton campaign is going up with three more ads -- two economic-focused ones in Kentucky and one in Oregon.

The Oregon ad, "What's Right," says, "In Washington, they talk about who's up and who's down, but in Oregon we care about what's right and what's wrong."

In Kentucky, "Partner," starts with Clinton speaking. "We're going to roll up our sleeves and provide the solutions that America desperately needs," she says.

"Right Track," also airing in Kentucky, sets the tone this way: "It is wrong that a Wall Street money manager making $50 million dollars a year pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than a nurse or a teacher or a truck driver or an auto worker making $50,000," Clinton says.

Here are the scripts:
"What's Right":
ANNCR: In Washington, they talk about who's up and who's down. In Oregon, we care about what's right and what's wrong. She's the one who will end No Child Left Behind so we teach children to learn, not take tests. She's the one who voted against the Bush energy bill that threatens liquefied natural gas plants along Oregon's coast. She's the one insisting on health coverage for every American. She's been right when it matters. She'll be there when it counts.

HRC: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.

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"Partner”:
CLINTON: We're going to roll up our sleeves and provide the solutions that America desperately needs.

WOMAN 1: We're living paycheck to paycheck.

MAN 1: It's hard to decide between a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas.

CLINTON: It's time that the American worker had a partner in the White House.

Man 2: Hillary Clinton can turn this country around.

WOMAN 2: Hillary has what it takes.

CLINTON: The wealthy and the well connected have had a president. It's time the middle class had a president who will stand up for you.

WOMAN 3: She will put up a very strong fight for people like me.
CLINTON: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.

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“Right Track”:
CLINTON: It is wrong that a Wall Street money manager making $50 million dollars a year pays a lower percentage of his income in taxes than a nurse or a teacher or a truck driver or an auto worker making $50,000.

ANNCR: Hillary Clinton will end loopholes for special interests and cut taxes for working families to pay for college, healthcare and retirement. It's time for action.

CLINTON: We will put America back on the right track. I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.

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Why is she even bothering? She shouldn't waste her loyal supporters donations on ads that will not help her.
if you could only see how far back my eyes are rolling into my head. Seriously?
Hillary Clinton is the only democrat that can win in November.  She's ahead in the popular vote.  She just won WV by huge margins.  Yet, you guys act like she doesn't exist.  Have you any idea how mad we are?
CLINTON: The wealthy and the well connected have had a president. It's time the middle class had a president who will stand up for you.

You are absolutely right, Hillary.  Barack Obama will be that president.

Good luck with the Peter Paul trial.

Obama in 2008.  Integrity matters and the Clintons have none.

I like these - she's not attacking Obama, she's just talking about what she can do for them. I think it's a significant move and will help us be unified once the nominee is chosen.
All positive.  Good for her.


I hope she gets on board sooner rather than later.  Hillary supporters are needed in the big fight with the GOP.  This is our country and democrats are not going to let it go anymore.  
It won't help her win the nomination, that train has passed. But I will grant her that it is the cleanest, most eloquent string of ads I have seen cominng from her side since January.

Its a good step toward party unity.
McCain divorced his first wife on her proverbial sickbed (a la the GOP's Hypocrite in Chief, the despicable Newt Gingrich). What kind of supposed war hero divorces the woman who waited for him to return from the war, and concealed her own life-threatening car crash injuries for his benefit? McCain married his current millionaire heiress beer-distributor wife, 17 years his junior, one month after dumping Carol Shepp McCain, who, as Sen. McCain so gallantly put it, "was on crutches and had gained quite a bit of weight."

"In his book, The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain's post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his "adulterous" behavior leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley. "

"While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and "engage in extra-marital affairs."  Such behavior was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates... "

You can read the whole sad story here.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcaindiv.htm

I don't know how any woman could vote for this two timer and still look in the mirror every morning.  

This time, instead of voting against abortion and gay marriage, and for prayer and guns (these issues will never go away) -- vote for your wallet , vote for the economy, vote for the environment, vote for jobs.

Vote Democratic 2008 -- don't let the corporations and their Republican stooges win again.  
How'd she get this ads to run? Thought she was out of Money? She loan herself more money just to run these ads? I am a lifelong Republician and Voting for Barack in November.
These really are traditionally Dem. ads (talking points).  She may get some results out of these ads but I'm sensing a real pivot.  These ads say vote Dem. and not so much vote Hillary (although I still have difficulty linking Hillary with her Wall Street and rich credentials with the middle class).

I'll entirely give her credit for being more positive.

Obama for our best future, Dem principles will prevail  in the Fall.  
Oh Hill... Stay in and win this nomanation! Not one of the Supers can cast their vote untill the convention. If Wright had broken before super tuesday you'd have already wrapped this up.  You know it too! The Supers know it! He can't win the GE. They'll all blame you when he loses it anyway so, stay in and take this nomanation back!
So focusing on the party message rather than on an anti-Obama message? Ladies and gentlemen, the future Majority Leader of the Senate!
It's also "wrong" for a person making $109 million dollars a year to ask poor, WHITE working people to help pay your $21 million dollar debt just because you can't manage a campaign. And THAT, SWEETIE, is just one of the many reasons why you won't be the nominee.
Clinton really has shined in the last several days, revealing a charm as well as her typical intelligence that has been sadly absent during the more ugly episodes in this campaign. I am coming to believe that she would be a wonderful compliment to Obama as vice president should she fail to gain the nomination
She is in debt and still paying for commercials??  She cares about the working class but is asking for thier money to finance this??

Give it up!!
A strickly Democratic Party message pointing out diffrences in the two partys and you obamatrons still whine!??!!
Very telling...she didn't go after Senator Obama.
Across the broad spectrum of who wants to be the next President, None of the want to be next address the careless manner Wall Street pushes oil out of reach. Wall Street and those who work there are dismantling the American infrastructure dollar by dollar. Their greed runs unchecked! So when these little Washington self serving paper hangers awake, ""You got it,It will be too late""!
I believe Barack Obama is of the same mindset that
Lincoln was as the Civil War was ending.  He was asked
how the government should treat the South once the war
was over...

"Let 'em up easy, boys, let 'em up easy..."

Unfortunately, Lincoln wasn't able to carry out his
stated policy, and his successors plunged the country
into a hundred-years of bitter Reconstruction and led
to the birth of Jim Crow.

I can just hear Barack Obama telling his troops,
"Let her up easy, boys, let her up easy..."

The sign of a true leader.
As Cheny says,  "So.."
Kris Rafferty

Hillary Clinton is not ahead in the popular vote.  Where did you get that?  I guess if you include Micigan, where I personally tied Obama in the popular vote 0 to 0, then you might have a case.  If I had been on the ballot in Michigan I still would have received zero votes.  Obama would have received many votes had he been on the ballot. As a matter of fact, 44% of the voters in Michigan took the time to go to the polling place and vote for uncommitted. I am pretty sure that many of those same people would have voted for Obama had he been on the ballot.

Obama in 2008.  Integrity matters and the Clintons have none.
Keep it up obamatrons!! You'll watch us walk "wright" out of this party! What a "change" you'll feel when the working class, heart and soul of this party is gone.

I hope she gets on board sooner rather than later.  Hillary supporters are needed in the big fight with the GOP.  This is our country and democrats are not going to let it go anymore.  
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I have seen your other posts you flip flopping hypocrite racist!
Lets just say Obama always takes his donations and spends 3 to 4 times as much as Clinton.Or do you think he is not spending your money and donations.?
"She's ahead in the popular vote."

I knew Hillary and Terry McAulliffe had a problem with simple math but her supporters too?
What about what Oberman said about Bush?

Compared to Oberman--Biden sounded like a whimp.
Maybe if Hillary had been this civil throughout her campaign...she would not now be out of the race?  Any lessons learned here?
I cannot believe the Obamas are calling it cheap shots to show Michelle blabbering on about her first time being proud of her country.There is no reason to go after his family.Pot calling kettle black,anybody.Pimping chelsea,all the name calling from annie oakly to the claws out,brushing Hillary off his shoulders.Talk about your double standards----must be a racist thing,huh?
I think that it's interesting that these have been issues Barack Obama has been speaking to throughout his campaign. I would have thought she would have defined herself and message on her own.
People need to know the truth about McShame's flight from his first wife, Carol Shepp...saddness and it
speaks volumes about his man.
Hey, at least she's running positive ads for a change, commercials about why she thinks she would be a better candidate and president, rather than just trashing Obama. People want to hear politicians propose something new now, and to address how they would approach solving the nation's problems. That's the kind of campaign that could have found an audience for her earlier.

Too bad for Hillary that this race is over and Sen. Obama has won it.


I hope she gets on board sooner rather than later.  Hillary supporters are needed in the big fight with the GOP.
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T, don't hold your breath about HRC's supporters jumpin on.  You see, many of us are just:  sweeties, typical white persons from small town America who happen to believe in religion.  After how Obama has condescended and denigrated us and others like us, why the hell would we vote for him?  
People need to know the truth about McShame's flight from his first wife, Carol Shepp...saddness and it
speaks volumes about this man.
"It's not over until the lady in the pantsuit says so."  West Virginia was a blowout loss for Obama, with PEOPLE POWER proclaiming Sen. Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee.

Obama has been orchestrating daily endorsements with fabricated fluff as an attempted end run around the presidential nomination process. This tactic shall fail.  

The Democratic presidential nomination process calls for all states to vote in the primaries.  At the conclusion of these primaries and resolution of the FL and MI voting, the superdelegates are mandated to select the best qualified presidential candidate to win the general election using their independent judgment without regard to any delegate count.  The primary season is still in progress and Sen. Clinton's campaign for the future of America and all Americans continues.  Obama has no presumptive lock on the Democratic presidential nomination. Sen. Clinton is the best qualified presidential candidate to defeat John McGain in the general election, and she will be the Democratic nominee.

The pro-Obama biased media have interfered in, undermined, and subverted the Democratic presidential nomination process.  The pro-Obama biased media continue to sabotage Sen. Clinton's campaign with impunity.  This media tyranny is our democracy's worse enemy.
GOD HELP US ALL IF OBAMA WINS
Too bad her own daughter is one of those Wall Street money managers.
No Anti Obama slams.......

I think she may be understanding we need to unite as Dems -

Nice Job Hillary....
Yes Kris, I have a fantastic idea how mad you all are. You must have been mad to back Hillary in the first place. Thank God it's almost over.
Sounds like Hil is using her remaining days as a test lab for punching up her ads and stump schicht.

Check out Jon Stewart's post West Va "news" for a deeper look at Hil's base in Appalachia, and a Closer Look at Bush/Clinton working class  'WHITE" support....

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=168561

Pity that too many politicians choose to follow these voters into our bigoted past rather than lead them into the 21st century, championing the truly American values of pluralism, freedom from religious persecution and Equality for all....
 
Can wait until the Michelle Obama sitting in Church with Rev. Wright and her going crazy!! If Clinton is not running in Nov. I will vote for the first time in my life for a Republican!!


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