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Negativity in The Crossroads of America |
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First, some recent history. Unfortunately, a familiar pattern has emerged.
The Clinton campaign was afraid she'd lose, so they went negative in New Hampshire, and it worked. Then it was Wisonsin, where they went negative again.
It was much of the same in Ohio and Texas.
She ran a television ad suggesting that the youthful Obama could not be trusted if a world crisis forced the president from bed in the middle of the night. She questioned his ethics by repeatedly raising questions about his relationship with a disgraced supporter who, by the luck of the draw for Clinton, is the target of a federal corruption trial that began Monday in Chicago, where Obama lives.And, highlighting a meeting between a top Obama aide and the Canadian government, she painted him as a typical, two-faced politician who told the voters one thing about his intention to change the North American Free Trade Agreement but with a wink and a nod assured a foreign government he would not follow through.
In Pennsylvania, she stepped it up a notch, flashing Osama Bin Laden on millions of television screens across the state. Here is another negative Pennsylvania spot she ran, featuring what appear to be bitter Pennsylvanians disgustedly explaining how not-bitter they are. Greg Sargent explains just how saturated with negative ads Pennsylvania was a week before the primary.
Now, Indiana.
The obvious implication here is that Barack Obama doesn't know how to turn the economy around. But on the issue of the day, she is the one raising the eyebrows and criticism of many economists with a gas tax scam, while Obama has dismissed the McCain/Clinton proposal as a scheme.
The gun pictured here doesn't even exist. And Apparently it depends on who she is talking to as well. Here she is in 2000, singing a different tune entirely during her Senate campaign.
We need to stand firm on behalf of sensible gun control legislation. We have to enact laws that will keep guns out of the hand of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced persons. Congress should have acted before our children started going back to school. I realize the NRA is a formidable political group; but I believe the American people are ready to come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.
I'll offer the rest without comment.
If Indiana voters are confused about what Barack Obama stands for, you won't have to wonder why.
One thing Hillary forgot…All of us are not stupid. Some, but not all. The more negative she got the more I disliked her. The more lies she told really sealed the deal. Hillary is using fear tactics and hate to prey on the ignorant. It backfires on her when it comes to the well informed voter. Hillary and her cronies will steal Indiana just as they stole other states. I certainly hope that there is an investigation very soon. Hillary is a liar. I cannot vote for a liar.
…It's not like Obama hasn't been running ads!
haha he's run far more advertisements than the Clinton campaign. Yes, the Clinton ads might be a lot less savory, but let's not forget what game is being played. It's politics. If Hillary wins Indiana, she did so fairly.
And I'm an Obama supporter. Let's be rational, please…