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Obama Ad: 'She'll Say Anything and Change Nothing'
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is set to release a feisty radio ad in South Carolina intended to respond to Sen. Hillary Clinton's radio ad addressing comments Obama's made about Ronald Reagan.
The scathing 60 second ad, entitled "Anything Radio" has an announcer saying that Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and is making false attacks against Barack Obama. The announcer then goes point by point - addressing the Ronald Reagan comments, Obama's stance on minimum wage, tax cuts, and corporate tax loopholes, Clinton's NAFTA stance, and reminds people that Hillary Clinton voted for "George Bush's war in Iraq." The announcer concludes, "Hillary Clinton. She'll say anything and change nothing."
These comments echo similar sentiments that Obama has been highlighting in the campaign trail in the winnowing days before the South Carolina primary on Saturday, just in better, more succinct sound bytes.
The Ronald Reagan comments refer to comments Obama made to the a Nevada newspaper editorial board in which he said "...I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating.."
Former President Clinton took acception to Obama's comments and has criticied the Illionis Demorat.
January 23, 2008 in Vote 2008: Democrats | Permalink | User Comments (91)
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Yeah!
Go get her Obama!
Posted by: sue | Jan 23, 2008 8:23:26 PM
If he wants the nomination, he better keep fighting back like this. Well done.
Posted by: ick! | Jan 23, 2008 8:30:19 PM
Way to go Obama!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sloane | Jan 23, 2008 8:30:23 PM
GO for it BARACK OBAMA. Show the Clintons that Three Can Play That Game.
You have to fight for your integrity.
Posted by: natoucheuk | Jan 23, 2008 8:38:07 PM
The Clintons got him right where they want him. Wait for the counter attack ad, it won't be pretty. :-)
Posted by: Obama the Muslim | Jan 23, 2008 8:40:48 PM
Finally looks like Barack's channeling some Stephen Harper. "We don't start fights, but we finish them."
I used to think that nothing could damage the Clintons' legacy in my eyes, but I lose more and more respect for them every day. I'll go to the mat for Barack, and I doubt I'm alone.
Posted by: Jake | Jan 23, 2008 8:44:27 PM
I used to like Bill Clinton... voted for him twice. Sticking up for yourself against the odds is an admirable quality. Propping up an unqualified candidate by being a hatchet man is not. I'll go with McCain and wait another 4 years if the Clintons get the Democratic nod.
Posted by: Joe | Jan 23, 2008 8:47:32 PM
Obama got out two important lines in the debate:
(1)Hillary will say ANYTHING to get elected.
(2)I don't know who I'm running against (i.e. Bill or Hillary)
He's got the narrative he needs and, judging from his radio ad, he's running with it.
It's about freakin' time.
Posted by: sue | Jan 23, 2008 8:48:04 PM
Go for it Barack!
Fight lies with truth!
We got your back!
Posted by: Steve McGuire | Jan 23, 2008 8:52:31 PM
Let's be honest here, Obama started throwing the dirt, and now he's crying the loudest. In a fight with the Clinton Political Machine, he will come out the loser. Many more Obama scandals are coming out soon, and they make Rezko look like a Sunday Picnic..
Posted by: Jay | Jan 23, 2008 8:52:52 PM
Jay - Hope doesn't mean not fighting back against lies and false statements.
What scandals could you be referring to? If you know of any, you could make national news by enlightening us. Rezko, while not the most savory of individuals, is certainly no Norman Hsu, who raised over $1 million for the Clintons and now sits in federal prison.
Obama has returned Rezko's donations, including the bundled contributions (which Hillary did not do with Hsu's in her Senate campaign), and did a whopping FIVE HOURS of legal work for him. Hardly the scandal that will bring down a candidate.
Posted by: Jake | Jan 23, 2008 9:07:15 PM
The Clinton have far more dirt in their closet than Rezko, No body i mean nobody can point any accusing finger at obama's dealing with Rezko he had no illegal dealing with him period remember white water, travel gate, lincoln bedroom scandal, money for pardon that ............... the list is endless the clintons know that they are very dirty and they have always gone away with it, they just want people to believe that Obama is'nt as clean as he presents himself, they just want to distort his records and make him look bad so that people will see him in a different light and vote for them but the time is up and over hillary/bill the american people have changed and they now know better. you can only decieve your selves
Posted by: bindex | Jan 23, 2008 9:07:56 PM
Keep speaking the truth, Barack!
Obama '08...change we can believe in
Posted by: Evan | Jan 23, 2008 9:14:43 PM
I've been reading a lot of these posts and you can always tell a Clinton supporter because they have nothing substantive to add to the conversation and instead have to resort to the off-topic -and often bigoted- low blows.
All this has done is convince me that the Clintons will not get my vote no matter what.
Posted by: comments make me sick | Jan 23, 2008 9:18:16 PM
Like I said, it is extremely damaging, and still has to be proven as factually true. I wish I could say more , but it would just be deleted. I am sure the MSM will be all over it after SC
Posted by: Jay | Jan 23, 2008 9:26:39 PM
"Still has to be proven as factually true." Hmm... maybe your post keeps getting deleted because printing unproven, damaging stories is what constitutes libel.
Posted by: Jake | Jan 23, 2008 9:30:40 PM
You are correct, but I didn't print any type of story, did I ?
Also, I was born and raised in Chicago on the south side, and Obama's church is exclusively black.
Posted by: Jay | Jan 23, 2008 9:32:42 PM
he is done if this ad goes on the air. negative ads in a primary is line not to be crossed. proceed with caution sir.
Posted by: Bmurphynyc | Jan 23, 2008 9:33:24 PM
Last comment for me. Posting on a website is printing for the purposes I mentioned. And I've been in Obama's church - I promise it's not all black and has members of all colors. Too bad two Chicagoans have to go at each other like this.
Posted by: Jake | Jan 23, 2008 9:37:43 PM
Sorry Jake, no disrespect intended. You are an Obama Supporter, and I am a Clinton supporter, we don't find too much fault with who we are supporting.. Just conversation, nothing more or less.
My last comment too, so the mods can stop sweating..lol
Posted by: Jay | Jan 23, 2008 9:40:44 PM
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