Campaign AdWatch: Pennsylvania Yells At Obama

Illinois Senator Barack Obama gave a talk about Pennsylvanians recently and used elitist code words like "cling to" and "bitter" because he's out of touch with non-hopemongering Earthlings. And Senator Hillary Clinton heard those words and got angry and shot some ducks because she hates "elitism." Hates it, hates it, hates it! So she took some of the millions of dollars she loaned herself to cut a campaign ad with a bunch of Pennsylvanians who wanted to yell at elites, too. Surely, all of the people in this advertisement will be invited to join the Clintons for high tea at their large homes or on their next all-expenses paid trip to Democratic contributor Richard Friedman's Cape Cod estate. (Which comes with a pet pig! Read all about it!)

In keeping with their established campaign rationale, subsequent Clinton ads in the states of Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, South Carolina, Utah, Iowa, Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Delaware will feature residents apologizing to Clinton for not being important enough.

Comments

[YWCYWC]

The characters on this commercial look like washed out actors, or hostage victims coerced into reading lines. They look like losers. If those are the swing votes Hillary is after, let her have them.

[HowietheScreamer]

If you aren't pissed off about how the middle and working class have been treated for the last 14 years, you aren't paying attention.

Clintons STARTED this project of outsourcing and off shoring of American jobs. They want to continue to do more of the same with the Colombian Free Trade deal, remember Billy PAID 800K to push the deal... how come nobody asks about that? With all the CFTA stuff going on around Hill with her hubby and Penn, how could she NOT know what was going on? Another case of OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. Maybe she's just like Bushie? Makes her OWN reality?

[Vern58]

Sorry Hillary. Some of us poor working schmucks are actually bitter and do not mind admitting it.
Some of us are so tired of being beat up from being left behind we are bitter. Not all of us are ignorant,or thoughtless or reactionary. I worked really hard to get your Husband elected- twice.I now regret it. That pie in the sky promise you both made to lift us up left us flat. Now after 8 years of Bush, subversion of the constitution, a war that is bleeding us dry and now your own political epiphany, you want us bitter people to elect You? Shotgun Annie drinking beer and slammers?
No. It is said better the poison you know than the one you don't. I disagree. You will get no vote from this little guy just trying to make a living out here in the rust belt. No Hillary. No.

[ruthinking]

When you are tired or troubled, please see Senator Obama's speech conceding New Hampshire. It has inspired such creative work and continues to strike a cord of common humanity, unlike anything I have ever seen in the political world. (My first vote was for Robert Kennedy.)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AkWdOa2ypYg

[snowcat]

speaking of electability :

from Sir Hugh Janus @ Dkos:

DEMS: Look what's waiting for Hillary v. McCain in a general.

Sniper Gate

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXwcyuaRmI&eurl

what goes around, comes around, HRC!

[jsarbee2]

It looks like part of this ad was filmed at Dickinson College and I'm wondering about the mindset of a campaign that films an anti-elite ad at an expensive, private liberal arts college.

[Rocky4356]

I cling to my childs hand when we cross the road. When I was laeving to go to war I clung to my mothers hand. Have we gotten this stupid to make this an issue. Or is it the same thing every four years the real elite get us fighting about crap that means as much as a tick on a bulls ass. I really do get bitter gasing up my Ford Explorer and having to stop at half a tank because I ran out of money.

[Rocky4356]

Ed Rendell started this big thing about the word bitter and clinging. Now that he sees that it only has legs in the media on shows like Morning Jerk and Fox . Now he says its really no big deal. This priceless stuff.

[karela]

I thought at first that Rendell was giving a little less support to Clinton on this, but I changed my mind. If you look at Hillary while Rendell was making these remarks, she looks smug and content. I think the whole thing with Rendell is cover for Hillary to keep being ugly. On the one hand, she tries to destroy Obama's chances of getting elected and on the other Rendell comforts the super dels that it doesn't matter if she's mean because see, he'll win here anyway. I think it's a trick to win ugly without having to take political responsibility for acting that way.

[Seraphim99]

Al Gore - "I'm hear to educate you about the single biggest threat to our planet. You see, there is something out there that threatens our very existence, and may be the end to the human race as we know it....I'm talking of course about ManBearPig...I'm super, super cereal"

Its ManBearPig, I told you SHE was real!!! :-P

[poco767]

Soon your turn to the darkside will be complete.
Its a good thing Mark Penn could hand this to them in a silk hat.

[justwaitandsee]

Early in the day her supporter were hard core but towards the end of the day they seem to tone down.

[robtomorrow]

My prediction is that Hillary will have a net loss of voters when this ad is broadcast and that number will increase exponentially each time it is rebroadcast.

[Texas4Obama]

Let's see....

Bill and Hillary Clinton have made over $109,000,000 in six years since leaving the White House (not including the millions they made last year)

McCain and his wife own EIGHT houses and have MILLIONS in the bank.

Obama and his wife recently paid off college loans and bought a house and are raising two children ---- you can bet that they don't have much in their bank account!

Obama '08 - a president FOR and OF the people!

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

McCain spend 6 years in that POW camp, the man should be dead by now so if he owns 8 houses good for him.

Semper Fi

[Texas4Obama]

Yes, good for him and he can have 20 houses for all I care.

But he doesn't know what it is like to live as an 'average' American. He did not grow up poor and he has not have to struggle while living in America. All of his needs were taken care of by his well-to-do family when he was growing up and he probably never even knew anyone that was on food stamps.

Hillary was off at her folks summer cottage at the lake when she was a young girl.

Obama's mother struggled to raise him and at times they were on food stamps. I just think he is more down to earth than Clinton or McCain.

Obama is one of US.

[ejay579]

He is dead. Brain dead. We are just wanting for the order to cut off the oxygen.

[MisterCole]

How dare he say I cling to my guns and religion! Since when is collecting, cleaning, polishing, kissing and tucking my gun in at bedtime and singing it a lullaby ever considered a bad thing? That man is an elitist! When I'm lighting the candles at the altar and thanking God for my guns I am not bitter. I am a proud positive resilient small town American who keeps the Bible on my nightstand right on top of my latest issue of Guns & Ammo. These days I've also been keeping the classifieds there too since the factory closed 5 months ago but don't tell me that I'd love my guns and the word of the Lord any less if I had a million dollars or 109 million dollars. I'm just glad we have someone of modest means running for president, a devout and proud gun loving NRA member like Sen Clinton on our side. Someone who has dodged sniper fire for heavens sake! America and small towns all over are glad to see her stand up for us and the issues that really matter most.

[nohat]

Dodged sniper fire?

[PhDiva]

um. it's satire. he's joking. wake up.

[happydayz]

LMAO!

[BrianHussein]

When that couple at the end of the ad says, "Hillary Clinton has been fighting for people like us her whole life", are they claiming to be major Wal-Mart shareholders? I'm trying to figure out who else she has been fighting for her whole life...

[heal57]

She's been fighting for Wal-Mart management.

[highlighter]

those people also probably believe that wal-mart is there to look out for the little guy

[HowietheScreamer]

Well there was the guy who raped a 14 year old, she fought for him... and destroyed the girls life in the process... but hey... it was just "her job" right? Using courtroom tactics that are IMMORAL, and today BANNED.

[Mariposa4Life]

She was also FIRED from the Watergate investigation team of lawyers, along with two others, for "lies and unethical behavior"!

http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

Once again, she's just doing her job...