What a cheap, cowardly ad. Clinton and her people should be ashamed at following the Republican fearmongering playbook.

Goldwater used similar ad and lost and the Republican Party became a minority party until 1994. This ad will be demise of the Clintons. This is a good thing for the Democratic Party because finally we would get rid of the cancer this couple has been to the Democratic Party.

Mondale did not beat Hart because of the ad. He won because he was the establishment candidate and superdelegates. Get your facts right.

Adam, how naive are you? This is a very real question deserving of a realistic answer. John McCain or Hillary Clinton would be our safest bet. Never, never Obama. He would have to call someone else first to tell him what to say. This is what happens when your words are not your own and you can't think for yourself.

Hillary's obviously desperate, and willing to place herself ahead of the best interest of her own party. What a surprise. Pathetic!

What kinda Bs is that here we go again.Trying to use fear to get votes I will tell you right now and there are a lot of my friends that feel the same way i am a reg democratic but if hiliary wins the nomination i will cross party lines and vote for Mccain.The way Hilary has conducted herself makes me sick and i will never vote for her EVER

What kinda Bs is that here we go again.Trying to use fear to get votes I will tell you right now and there are a lot of my friends that feel the same way i am a reg democratic but if hiliary wins the nomination i will cross party lines and vote for Mccain.The way Hilary has conducted herself makes me sick and i will never vote for her EVER

Having a tea party with a foreign leader does not mean that you know these leaders. Fear tactics by ill-minded politicians will destroy the US economy, image and relationship with the rest of the world. That is very cheap politics and does reflect how Hillary looks down the american people. Desparate moment call for desparate actions.

Last time I checked, the voters are looking to hire the next PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! This is not American Idol or a popularity contest. Mrs. Clinton's ad is necessary and timely.

Obama was in Beaumont Texas yesterday all he pulled was a bunch of kids, Bill was here and he had 2000 grown people, go figure,

Tnis latest tactic by the Clinton's will only backfire on the Clintons.
Bill Clinton "Red Nose" looks more and more like WC Fields (heavy drinker) who worked for the circus for many year before he started acting.

Obama wins Texas and Ohio by a large margin @ 65%

McCain best days are behind him.

Well Obama would call his spritual advisor Rev Wright who went to Lybia with Farakhan to meet Ghadafi as friends in the 80's while Ghadafi was planning attacks on the US and its allies.

Yeah. Who do you want answering that phone? Good question.

Tnis latest tactic by the Clinton's will only backfire on the Clintons.
Bill Clinton's "Red Nose" looks more and more like WC Fields (heavy drinker) who worked for the circus for many year before he started acting.

Obama wins Texas and Ohio by a large margin @ 65%

McCain best days are behind him.

Please tell me again just what Hillary has done that gives her the edge in answering the phone?

Just because she tells us she has the experience, doesn't mean its true.

By going nuclear she has effectively destroyed any chance that she had and taken the party with her. That desperate move is just adding more talking points to the coming Republican ad program that will bury the democratic choice – Obama.

What a selfish and egotistical move!

rene ford: i agree with you 100%

pepsiloverforever: by "a bunch of kids" do you mean voters who happen to be in their 20's? news flash for you, those "kids" have every right to vote that your "2000 grown up people" do. in fact, these kids that you look down could very well be a deciding factor in this year's vote and, subsequently, affect your life in some way when Obama gets the nod.

Irony? I think so.

Do we recall Jimmy Carter with his inexperience in forein policy? If it wasn't for George Bush senior, the current president would have been lost as we well remember if we look at the early comments made by him. When we start a new company we look for experience so that we can be successful are we not tired of ON THE JOB TRAINING?

Good ad Hillary! It is sad that people can not see through Obama. Not matter what comes out on Obama, his supporters will defend him to the end. This the same thing that happen with Bush. Supporters agreed with him about everything he said and did and look what kind of mess he got us in. It appears that people want to live in an illusion rather than in reality--the reality that Obama is all talk!! I want the security of a real leadership in the White House! Hillary 08

This thought actually occured to me when I saw how Obama acted during the debates. Most of the serious questions were asked of Hillary first and Obama always answered that he would do what she just said, never having a coherent detailed thought. Who will have the answers at 3:00AM when Hillary isn't there to bail him out. Michelle? The one who was not proud of our nation until Barack Hussein Obama became a candidate for POTUS?

We have Bush answering the phone now. Any of the new candidates sacares me. Can we just have Bush stay on? He is so brave.

After all the anti-woman hysteria is over...ask yourself who DO you want to answer the phone.

A rosy-eyed idealist singing Kumbya...or a mean, hard-hearted pragmatist Mom that says, "America First - right or wrong our kids eat first!"

My kids already told me ....vote for the person that will protect them.

Hillary is BETTER versed in foreign policy. Period. Go Hillary!

hilary is absolutely correct...

we are getting ready to nominate a president not some kind of one year us senator and two senator to the nation's highest office..

every person in my own family has more qualifications to be president than doest Obama and this is not a racist nor smearing nor untrue remark...

many many of us in this business of goverment and law had to work and work and truly sacrifice to become known as
true "agents of change" and hilary has done the necessary heavy lifting in her life to gain in this context this kind of true contemplation...

Obama only has a chance of winning texas if all those Karl Rove republicans who love to hate the clintons and those false prophets in
the national media [ug, remember a 'granite ending for the clintons in
rhode island ala EVERY pundit and major news paper in the USA including the USA!}

its so true...its time we recognize the truth about this freshman Senator from Illinois...his a nice, intellingent guy and has a future...
but he's not going to be answering that phone if my very important part of the State of Ohio has anything to do with this choice...

And Hillary has more experience because she was "First Lady"? She is delusional and a lunatic, and needs to be defeated at any costs!!!

Well, the Republicans won in 2002 and Bush fearmongered his way to a win in 2004. I guess Hillary is calling Karl Rove for advice now.

Good ad Hillary! It is sad that people can not see through Obama. Not matter what comes out on Obama, his supporters will defend him to the end. This the same thing that happen with Bush. Supporters agreed with him about everything he said and did and look what kind of mess he got us in. It appears that people want to live in an illusion rather than in reality--the reality that Obama is all talk!! I want the security of a real leader in the White House! Hillary 08

Good ad Hillary! It is sad that people can not see through Obama. Not matter what comes out on Obama, his supporters will defend him to the end. This the same thing that happen with Bush. Supporters agreed with him about everything he said and did and look what kind of mess he got us in. It appears that people want to live in an illusion rather than in reality--the reality that Obama is all talk!! I want the security of a real leader in the White House! Hillary 08

I keep hearing about Hillary's expreience. Is she counting Bill's years in office as her experience? Just because she was in the Whote House does not mean that she is the most-qualified to be president. She only has two years on Obama in the Senate. John McCain is clearly the most experienced between all three candidates.
What she knows is the pressure of being Commander-in-Chief.

maybe she is insinuating that Bill will be answering the phone.. i mean, he's the one who actually has the experience.. i'll wait until i see her White House records.. then we'll see what her "experience" is.. to me, she has no more experience than Obama.

Hillary did not need to tell us this. Its not new. We are all aware. Barack Obama has NO foreign political experience other than playing dress up in his biological fathers native clothing (talibanish clothing). Other than that, we all know what a huge mistake electing obama into the white house will be. Jimmy Carter rides again. One big mistake. Obamaites do not care about our country, they only care about getting the con man elected even if deep inside they have doubts. This may be a little harsh but its all true.

Hey Hillary,

the more you lash out at this great fellow democrat, the MORE you lose me. By the way, having a great hand-to-chin camera pose DOES NOT make you appear MORE qualified... just more rehearsed and PHONY.

Hillary wants to be president so bad that it is almost obscene. I think she is obsessed with the notion that only becoming President would justify sticking with slick willy over the years. Unlike most other American women leaders, Hillary did not climb the political ladder of hard knocks to reach her current position as Senator. She started on top because her husband was President. She is a smart lady but she doesn't understand that she is not preordained to be a leader and that she has to win the nomination because the people really feel she would be the best leader and also someone they would like to follow. As she sees that slip away, she does not have the "experience" of a real veteren from the bottom up politician to take the tough times in stride.

this is a fair question to ask..."Who do you want answering the phone?" i don't understand why folks are upset about it can calling this cheap or cowardly? its a fair question to ask yourself before you vote, regardless of which candidate you support. I would hope that your answer to that question is strongly aligned to the candidate you are supporting.

Bill E, it certainly looks like Obama firmly knew what to do on the day WHEN THE PHONE RANG & someone questioned whether to throw America's precious lives and 100s of billions of dollars behind a mis-guided and arrogant war! HILLARY answered the phone & said "now whose this, oh sorry I'M STILL A BIT ASLEEP, oh Mr. Bush, sure...why not, sounds like a plan...kill 50 thousand innocent men, women & children in Irag + 4200 of our own & burn billions of dollars, sure I trust you-let's go with that...but Georgey I had a very long day-I'm getting back in bed...chow-see ya in the morning!"

If Americans want someone so low and deceitful as Hillary Clinton as their President than they need to get professional help. The Clintons have been sneaky and unprofessional for years. Why isn't the press talking about her years in the White House with all her fraudulent acts such as Whitewater, her tax evasion scam, travelgate etc.? And people find her honestðical? Boy do I feel sorry for them.

Again ~ copying from something that already didnt work.... we need some one NEW in the WHITE HOUSE. Obviously Hillary cant be original or she wouldnt be trying to copy other peoples stuff.
Been there done that.

I want someone answering the phone that is an excellent communicator. I want someone that isn't polarizing.

This is just more from a campaign on it's last leg. These negative, fearmongering attacks have only bckfired everytime. HRC, keep paying those consultants big bucks for no results. Now that is the leader we want. You had a three week head start in both TX & OH. You held double digit leads in both until you had competetion. Now look at the numbers. Just desperation but the danger is that she will leave scorched eath in her path. RNC is loving this, Dean needs to get this campaign on the high road.

If he name was Hilliary Rodham, she wouldn't have a chance. What has Hilliary RODHAM, done for this country aside from her husband that warrants election? Does this mean that Eleanor Roosevelt should of been acting president after the death of FDR. Hell, she was first lady longer; If it counts as executive experience in all? And your worried about what Obama would do in the Wite House? I think the fact that Hilliary surrounds herself with the same old relics from her husband's staff shows that she has no NEW ideas, and nothing new to offer the country. 20th century answers to 21st century questions do not make you the most qualified in today's world. It brings up the fact of why we chose a democracy (and a republic) over a monarchy such as England. Is it really Democracy with a Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, Clinton II??? What's next Jeb in 2016? Or perhaps Marvin Bush? (You know the one who was in charge of security for the World Trade Center on 911... How 'bout we elect HIM in 2016? I mean he's a BUSH, he's qualified? NOT!!!) Come on folks, just a little objective thinking will do the trick.

I have now seen it all from this woman. I hope she loses everything from this point on. This is disgusting and stupid to prey on our minds like this.

Bill Elliot - Who's being Naive? I don't want someone picking up that phone that has a tendency to exhibit multiple personalities and you don't know which one is going to pick up the phone. What ever it is you're smoking, I want some. :)

If there is anyone of the two, its Obama who has experience! Clinton did absolutely NOTHING by being in the white house. This very fact, should make ppl think: If she was there for so many years and did nothing, Obama is in the U.S. senate for his first term and he did accomplish.

So "Who do you want to answer that call???

Exactly what is Clinton's foreign policy experience that she would someone instantly know what to do? Would it be the travel agenda that she refuses to disclose? This is a person who is whining about getting the first question in debates and that the media is picking on her and is now falling back to the tactics of making the American people afraid in order for her to gain power. BEFORE ANY PRESIDENT makes a decision, they are briefed on the situation and available options. President Obama has shown what he is capable of doing, he can make decisions not based on fear, but on the information available. Clinton, did not even REAL the evidence to take us to war in Iraq, did not READ the Patriot act that has all but stripped us of many of the rights in the Constitution and could not be bothered to show up to vote on the PAA immunity issue. Other thean calling Obama by the name of inexperience (he has 8 more years of legislative experience than she does) exactly what is her basis for making that claim?

If there is anyone of the two, its Obama who has experience! Clinton did absolutely NOTHING by being in the white house. This very fact, should make ppl think: If she was there for so many years and did nothing, Obama is in the U.S. senate for his first term and he did accomplish.

So "Who do you want to answer that call???

I would want Hillary to answer that phone!
Go Hillary! And as for Barack, he could be a president in 2012....... He needs to do some more community organizing in Chicago............

Next week Hillary will start talking about Barak's mother. She is just so far gone at this point. I cannot wait until tuesday so that she can see that these ads do not work, again.

lol s.b.
Obama is not going to win"
Anyway there just trying to scare a strong woman" Into quiting' Surprise at the bottom of this box is a g.o.d.
So the gop and the dac and dow" jones"
Can stand up with there money" blitzer surprise" and kick abama right on his keyster " tff"

Enough with the feat tactics!!!
We've had 8 years of this and all it's done is hurt Americans.

If you have to resort to tactics like this than maybe every mother in America should give you a timeout.

Hillary, do you not listen. This is the very reason so many mothers have been voting against you. We want to support a woman, but can't in good faith support this behavior.

Everyone, JF was just joking when he said "Obama is in the US senate for his fist [indeed] term and he did accomplish"..... JF, that was indeed very funny!

by the way...it was NOT goldwater who used such an add...it was your strong man Lyndon Johnson..the famous "flower girl" add..w/ the mushroom in the background...

and it CRUSHED Goldwater..and it was intended to...

as bill clinton says...

politics is..indeed..a contact support

and i thought Texans were Tough...

come to Ohio guys and see who is packing the halls and sending the electricity thru the voter electric here...all across this state...

the national media is keeping this secret but go to the smaller local news stations websites and see the powerful
turnouts for the Clintons in Ohio..everywhere...just this past week...

don't get discourage Texans for Hilary...

she's doing just fine and we together will change ...truly change this country and turn it around...

you will be surprised..and its NOT going to be stopped...

I like it!

Again, each time a story comes out about Hillary, the media headline it with a negative flavor: "clinton goes nuclear" "clinton attacks" "clinton has a bad day" "clintons 35mil is not match to Obama's 50mil" bla bla bla...I swear...if this woman sneezes in a debate, the media headline the next day would be "clinton attempted to infect Obama with her flu virus"! All this while Obama's attacks and illogical statements are headlined as "Obama fighting back" "Obama surging" "Obama answered critics" "Obama set the record straight". Hmmmmmm, have you ever wondered why the media haven't done an analysis on whether or not HIllary was right about always getting the question first in a debate? haven't you wondered why none of the network has done an analysis on whether or not her claim of media gender bias has been true? They analyze everything else? so why haven't they analyze this? Its because its true and once again....it has alwasy been the clintons that stood up to the media and exposed them for the coporate money hungry machine that they are with no integrity or care of the public's interest.

Wouldn't this ad be plagiarism? She blasted Obama for using other's thoughts and words

lol JF thats where i am from"
makes you think a little huh drugs are like you can call any time of the day or night and have them delivered in a taxi cab in a blizzard snow storm while the mother of the cab driver slaps her baby that inst in a seat belt" and grabs her bag to give to you I wonder why i am not on his side"
Think wake up"

Just maybe her first though ..if she answered that call.....would be Oh My Gosh Did Bill Not Keep His Pants Up again............

San Francisco, your post is a keeper!!! And it comes from California!!! California "heart" Hillary!!!

Rene, get your facts straight. The same fliers are being passed out in Ohio.

Obama would certainly answer the phone...He'll answer it to say...give me 10 minutes then he'll call his senior strategist and ask what the latest public opinion poll say about the topic then regurgitate his position according to what's popular. This man is a mindless thinker who's only talent is in memorizing words of rehorics of others so he can project their image onto himself. He is indeed a blank screen...that is the first honest thing I've heard from this man. He is indeed a blank screen.

Obama's cabinet if he gets elected: Jessie Jackson as Secretary of State, Louis Farrakhan as Secretary of Defense, need I say more. These are the kind of people that are supporting Obama. 43% of Democrats WILL NOT vote for Obama in the General Election.

hillary will do and say anything, even trying to scare the american public in her desire to get into the WH. Yes Bill looks as thought he is hitting the bottle. Clintons campaign people are as morally corrupt as she is.

You people defending Obama sound so shrill and uninformed. I know this is the first time most of you have paid attention and voted, but saying Clinton is a lunatic and desparate and should drop out for the supposed good of the party while they are esentially tied is just plain naive. I know Obama gives a great speech and I do like him alot, but beyond that, what is there to him? Hillary is going to have a very good day next Tuesday and she is now raising a ton of money, including many donations from me. She will make a terrific president. Hopefully she will pick Obama as her running mate and then in 8 years he will have the experience to be president, giving us 16 years in the White house. Save your attacks for the general election, and pray that Clinton is our nominee, because the republicans would tear apart Obama. Don't be silly enough to think that the republicans would actually vote for him in the general election...that is naive, wishful thinking that will never happen.

This ad is appropriate. Obama is untested and his candidacy is all about his ego. Folks, we are electing the President and not the next American Idol.

San Francisco,
I agree with you. The stories tilting in Obama's favor are sickening. He is a political lightweight. He was too busy running for President in 2007 to hold a hearing about Afghanistan.

I hope Howard Dean and the DNC is watching. It will be their fault when the Republicans win the election in November because they were too afraid to tell the Clintons to stop the nonsense. No Democrat should be attacked by another Democrat the way Hillary Clinton has attacked Obama. She obviously doesn't care about the American people, she cares about herself and her blind ambition. It makes me sick.

Come on people, her ad is about a very real situation that could all too easily arise. And YES! I definately want the person with the most experience and intelligence as I see it in the White House. I feel she could handle the situation much better than her junior candidate could. If Obama does beat Hillary, then we won't have a Democrat in the White House AGAIN! We will be stuck with McCain, another Republican term to have to live through.

The politics of fear approach, so favored by the Republicans. Some fools may fall for it, but most Americans are finally rejecting it.

Hillary does not deserve to win. Because at this point, since it is mathematically much harder for her to win, Obama is likely going to be the nominee. So these attacks are only going to hurt the chance of Democrats winning in November.

No matter what Hillary says when she sucks up in debates and on the stump when she glows about party unity, she doesn't believe it. Because her actions speak louder than her empty words.

What do you want an experienced president with dumb advisers or an inexperienced president with excellent advisers?

Bush had numerous highly experienced advisers and look at the debacles we are faced with today.

Sometimes you need a fresh approach to fix old problems, not just a new person with the same old mentality.

I want someone who can not only answer that phone and get it right the first time, but I want someone who will go in and CLEAN the house of the good ol' boy network - the rich democrat and republican good ol' boy fat cats who have holed up in the white house too long without doing anything. Our woman, Hillary, will make that change. Get ready, boys, here she comes!!!

Sadly, this ad poses a valid question. We live in a dangerous world. We need an experienced leader, preferably Senator Clinton, but if not, then Senator McCain. Senator Obama may be brilliant, may be a fast learner, may be a gifted orator, but the Presidency is no place for on the job training, especially in a world of terrorists and those who will willingly die to destroy our way of life. We need experience.

I love how the first post by Adam somehow blamed this ad tactic on the republicans. Adam, Sir, the republicans are not running this ad. Hillary Clinton, a democrat, is running the ad. Your anger is misguided.

Janet

I hope Howard Dean is watching. It's about time someone stopped this nonsense with Obama and nominate a real candidate. Howard Dean's future will be destroyed if Obama is nominated and we have a McGovern moment.

I dont know why you Clinton fans are crying about how the media is treating Hillary, hell thay have been treating republicans like that for years. Remember Dan Rather, what ever happened to him?

As a woman, I am embarrassed and disgusted.

Hillary,

You were disastrously wrong on the single biggest foreign policy decision of the 21st century. Barack Obama, on the other hand, was right from Day 1.

Who do I want answering the phone at 3AM? Not you. I want the person who was right.

I do believe that Hillary is more experienced and has better qualifications than Obama. I don't care that she is a woman. I care that she can get the job done. I think Obama would be taken advantage of due to his inexperience and then the country would go down the toilet totally.

Bravo Hillary. She's right.

Funny how she waited till she wouldn't have to debate the man she was so 'honored' to be with on that stage. Hillary must have decided she no longer wants to hold ANY political office anymore. Hard to believe these tactics won't bode ill for her when she comes up for re-election in New York. Hope any potential rival is paying attention. Watch her poll numbers drop even further. She just doesn't get it. This tactic is part of the reason she went into the nose dive in the first place.

Well it looks like McCain has it made. If Hillary wins, all Obama voters will cross party lines and vote republican. If Obama wins, all Hillary voters will cross party lines and vote republican. I'm not criticizing anyone. I plan to do the same thing if Obama is the nominee.

I am a loyal Democrat but if Hillary wins the nomination John McCain will have my vote in November. She seems willing to sale her soul to the devil to get elected which makes me wonder what her true motivation is. She says that she is doing it for us the people but I don't know how many of us would want her to destroy the party in order to get to the Whitehouse. I would love to see a woman in the Whitehouse but Hillary would be a bad start.

The fact that Obama is as far ahead as he is right now is a testament to the idiocy of the "people." Hillary Clinton would be the best choice for President but the "people" are too stupid to look beyond the vapid promises of a young black man for "change." Too many of the "people" do not have a clue and are easily swayed by the churches, the talk show hosts, the news and don't take the time to look at the FACTS. So, go ahead, vote for Obama...we'll see some change perhaps (perhaps not) but it just might not be the change you had hoped for and after George Bush's presidency I didn't think it could get worse but now I see that it can and probably will. We are definitely in a decline (or as George would say, we're not headed towards a recession, er, decline...it's justs a small tilt.) HILLARY SHOULD BE PRESIDENT. THEN YOU WOULD PERHAPS REALLY SEE SOME CHANGE.

If the "dooms day" or Red phone rings, and Hillery Clinton in the White House she will be sound asleep trying to keep her hair in place and get her beauty rest.

Obama has raised more than $50+M to Hillery's limping compaign's $35M.

Hillery exprience is a huge ball of nothing.

Obama is the one

I am a loyal Democrat but if Hillary wins the nomination John McCain will have my vote in November. She seems willing to sale her soul to the devil to get elected which makes me wonder what her true motivation is. She says that she is doing it for us the people but I don't know how many of us would want her to destroy the party in order to get to the Whitehouse. I would love to see a woman in the Whitehouse but Hillary would be a bad start.

If her position is that the person with the most experience would be best to be the president, isn't she encouraging everyone to vote for McCain?

She's right about "been nowhere, done nothing" Obama. Unfortunately, she's just as inept. Either one of those two would put the Republic in great peril.

It's the truth though. Take time and think about it. Would you someone making the decision without very much experience? Hope and change is great, but more is needed.