Obama Campaign Hits Back Hard Against Hillary's "Security Mom" Ad

[Zueda]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/obama_campaign_hits_back_hard.php#comments

On a conference call with reporters just now, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe issued a withering reply:

"We don't think the ad is going to be effective at all. Senator Clinton already had her red phone moment -- to decide whether to allow George Bush to invade Iraq. She answered affirmatively. She did not read the National Intelligence Estimate. She still, curiously, tries to suggest that it wasn't a vote for war, but it most assuredly was...
"This is about what you say when you answer that phone. What judgment you show...She, John McCain and George Bush gave the wrong answer."

[TheZug]

1. How about the subtle racism in the ad?

It's the same imagery and pushes the same buttons as home alarm system ads: look at your precious little white girl sleeping peacefully. If you don't buy our alarm/vote for me, you're at the mercy of some scary black man.

Not saying that it was intended, but for those seeing sexism everywhere, this is at least as plausible.

[papau]

7. that's as plausible as saying when Obama played the race card - that the Clinton"s turned racist

[workinclasszero]

10. Hillary pulls the race card again!

Don't put the scary black man in charge Mom!!:scared::scared::scared:

Hillary is a cesspool dwelling Rovian race baiter and a George Bush class fear-monger.

[oasis]

22. Any and every attack on Obama is subtle racism. We already know that.

:eyes:

[TheZug]

28. You miss the point.

Many of Clinton's supporters seem to be finding sexism *everywhere.* But what's good for the gander, is good for the goose.

[Eurobabe]

2. Great response. Succinct: To. The. Point.

:thumbsup:

[Adelante]

12. "Senator Clinton already had her red phone moment"

Yes, she DID :thumbsup:

[Eurobabe]

26. God, who writes these things??

Brilliant.

[NightWatcher]

3. Obama campaign says "Burn"

[AtomicKitten]

4. She botched her "red phone moment."

Brilliant! I love this guy.

[Barack_America]

5. Brutally honest.

Excellent retort and it turns the conversation back around to her weakest point, the IWR.

I like it!

[femmedem]

6. He has an amazing ability to defend himself against attacks while staying on message.

A rare skill. :applause:

[papau]

8. smearing while walking on water is indeed a rare skill

[Inuca]

15. You just

throw words together, then call it a sentence and a reply. It usually makes no sense whatsoever.

[Zueda]

16. So...questioning her judgment based on fact is smearing?

But her rhetorical questioning of his judjement is not. I see.

[Blue_Roses]

9. geeze...what ad

I live in Texas and haven't seen it yet:shrug:

can't leave DU for one day without missing the latest...

[babylonsister]

11. This one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=98874&mesg_id=98874

[Blue_Roses]

13. what a cheesy ad...

she's gonna be answering the phone to ask Bill, "where the hell are you and you better get your ass home NOW buddy"...

I'm so sick of this. Tuesday can't come soon enough.

[BenDavid]

14. you obamabots are getting so caught up in this obama thing

you are losing your own set of ideals and morals....you are looking for the boogey man when there is none. Your use of racism in everything the clinton's do is getting stale....the truth about obama and him using the race card is slowly leaking out and I just hope there is enough time left so we stop this man....you wanna know why we say obama is bush LIKE not lite, he too was inexperienced and did not and I have said this over and over again.....Bush and now Obama both do not have the aptitude for this postion.....

[GarbagemanLB]

17. Meanwhile, 'ready on day one' Hillary's campaign is poorly managed and she still voted for the war..

[bunnies]

21. I dont see where the OP says anything about racism.

What I see is you accusing the OP of using racism where they didnt. Am I missing something here?

[Zueda]

23. Garble garble garble garble...

garble garble? Garble garble garble. Garble garble garble garble, garble garble.

[dionysus]

32. coherence, correct grammar, and punctuation. try it sometime please...

[Shine]

18. It's an excellent response from the Obama camp.

I am increasingly impressed with how quickly and strongly they hit back to attacks. Very well-played and savvy.

:thumbsup:

[Hepburn]

19. Fucking Security Moms....

...the same dumb voters who brought us 8 years of Monkey Boy...and Hillary is out to get their support.

Gag.....:puke:

[Orangepeel]

20. The bonus is that Obama has the responses all ready when McCain runs the same campaign against him

I know that Clinton is running the only campaign she can run at this point, but she's ensuring that if she were to pull the nomination out of a magic hat, she'll lose the general. She's running an ad against Obama that McCain could run against her.

[rocktivity]

24. She should consider herself lucky that Obama DIDN'T mention

that she made the exact same mistake all over again on the IRAN vote.

Obama is responding swiftly, concisely, most most important, factuallY, which reduces the attacks to malicious, petty non-issues.


P.S. "Knowing" world leaders doesn't automatically mean that they like and/or respect you.

:headbang:
rocknation

[VenusRising]

25. Obama is addressing this at a rally at a VFW in Houston this minute.

The audience seems to like the answer. They clapped and there were a few yells from the back.

[JVS]

27. Yup. Way to roll over and let Bush invade Iraq, Hillary!

She's awful

[Zueda]

30. Just think...

If "Senator Clinton" decided NO to the authorization I bet a sufficient amount of fellow dems would have followed her to defeat it.

[keep_it_real]

29. Anyone have a link to the add?

[high density]

31. Yep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70emIFxETs

[MethuenProgressive]

33. Great ad! Let's all Hope people snap out of their befuddled infatuation and snap out of it!

What a miserable hack Davy "Fluffy" Plouffe has become.

[Forkboy]

34. Even I have to admit that's an effective answer.

Obama breaks serve on this one.

[Sir Jeffrey]

35. Clinton's ad is a retread from the Mondale v. Hart primary in 1984...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Mondale_Red_Phone.html

The same guy that made this ad made the Mondale ad. Maybe they'll rerun the "Daisy" ad in Pennsylvania.

Hell, maybe they'll run an updated "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" ad in Puerto Rico.