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Clinton Ad Features Osama Bin Laden

April 22, 2008 in Campaign 2008, Democrats by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via ABC News.)

For the last six weeks Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., have battled and bickered and both have unleashed a barrage of negativity in television ads that have aired thousands of times in the state.

That barrage of ads will come to an end today as the Democrats of Pennsylvania head to the polls in what could be a make-or-break day for Clinton, or prolong the Democratic primary season into at least another month.

Clinton Ad Features Osama bin Laden

In an ad that began airing in Pennsylvania Monday morning, Clinton implies she is tougher than Obama.

“Who do you think has what it takes?” the narrator asks in an ad depicting historical images of crises that presidents have had to deal with: Osama bin Laden, headlines about the stock market crash of 1929, long gas lines from the 1970s oil-shocks, images of the Cold War, Hurricane Katrina and soldiers. It features the first image of Osama bin Laden to be used in a TV ad this political season.

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Clinton, Obama: Dueling for voters

April 16, 2008 in Campaign 2008, Democrats by Tony Steidler-Dennison | No comments

(Via The Swamp.)

Tonight, they will face off.

On the day of the one televised debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, the candidates also are delivering their own televised messages to voters attempting to discern which one of these Democrats really is in touch with their goals for America.

They play off of Obama’s comments about the bitterness of working-class voters, with Clinton’s ad claiming that Obama is out of touch — an ad that employs at least one offended voter who isn’t really registered to vote in Pennsylvania, as the Morning Call’s Josh Drobnyk has reported here in the Swamp today.

Obama responds by accusing Clinton of playing the “politics of division.”

It’s a debate that certainly will play out live tonight, at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia. ABC News will run and air the debate, the first one since Feb. 26 in Ohio and last one before the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday. ABC’s Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos will moderate the debate, running from 8 to 10 pm EDT.

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