Hillary Clinton Used In GOP Attack Ad Against Obama

Hillary Clinton has made her way into a Republican Party attack ad, her words condemning Barack Obama taken entirely out of context to suggest that she was somehow criticizing his energy plan.

The Ohio GOP has a new web ad out, a minute and a half in length, that regurgitates the argument that the Illinois Democrat has no policy prescription for gas prices other than encouraging voters to inflate their tires. The only thing notable about the spot (which touts such specific John McCain proposals as "address climate change" and "promote energy efficiency") is that it pits the former first lady against the primary opponent she now endorses.

"Shame on you, Barack Obama," Clinton is shown saying -- a now famous clip from when she ripped the Illinois Democrat for sending out attack mailers on her position on NAFTA and health care. The Buckeye state's popular governor, Ted Strickland nods his head in the background.

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[debrouillard]

H illary is now serving her true party,the GOP

[rangem]

i disagree about the gop the only party hillary serves is the hillbillary party

[debrouillard]

Well,I will rephrase. Hi lary is now pursuing her true intentions,to make sure no Democrats gets in to the White House.

[Mitchell4A]

What a pathetic negative ad. The splicing looks like something a middle school kid would do. McCain is going to lose. On a list of a (baker's) dozen reasons why, #3:

3. The Last War Syndrome. McCain and the operatives running his campaign are like generals fighting the last war. They are still convinced that negative advertising will be as successful against Obama as it was against Kerry. However, “The Times They are A-Changin.”

“A Dozen Reasons Why McCain Won’t Win: Money-Back Guarantee”
http://msa4.wordpress.com/

[fourex]

I believe the RNC wrote the original script for Hilary.

[BCubedReg]

Maybe not the RNC, but she definitely tore pages from the Karl Rove playbook.

[Bozwellian]

ahem, even HRC's crew admitted THEY had studied as well admired the ROve abiity and learned to put to use....and it showed in their repulsive campaign. ANy who think YET that their was NOT a calculated injection of "race or sexismaticals done by the C-campers to allow for VICTIMHOOD play on emotions is truly naive. (and someone should tell Billy-boy, that HIS shallowness is selfevident and that just because he claims to embrace the black community just by gracing "them" with HIS presence in their midst, not ALL feel the "genuineness" of it ...look again at the tape /documentary filming of him "gracing" those on this latest tour of Africa to help "prove" how HE is NOT racist...really look at it...there is a distinct stink to it, and the one fator that folks can be grateful for, is that indeed thru his foundation, he has indeed provided some much neeed funding and attention to some needs but it has been a "calculation" motivated by an egocentricness of concern with own legacy and that is found rather pathetic !!! (that Carly Simon song, "Your so Vain" should be forever dedicated to Bill !!)

[debrouillard]

Tell,what year did HIV really became rampant in Africa?
That was in the 1990's. Clinton was the president of the USA and it was no concern of his then as was the genocide in Rwanda.

Cl inton knows very well how and why HIV managed to become a pandemic in Africa and who is responsible for it.

I really get bitter just seeing him making fun of those people in that fashion. Its like Mc Cain newly discovered admiration for Dr MLK after he voted 3 times against Dr King having a national day to commemorate his greatness.

[DCinFrance]

My only question is, what took them so long? I asked myself this earlier, and thought perhaps they were going to wait and see if she was going to be VP and make her--and him--eat her words. So I guess that they decided she wasn't going to be picked and free to do this now. Fine, let's get it, and her, out of the way. They are actually doing a great service--not only with this but all the other nonsense they are throwing up in the air. Let them shoot their wad early while O holds his cards.

[Freakpower]

This AD is a Toilet!

the Mc.Pain campaign is a Toilet!

end of story!

this is the most desperate Crapp I've ever seen!

t...o quote Jed Clampet... "Pitiful!"

[Coinyer101]

where do i sit?or point?

[FogBelter]

Wasn't this her plan?

[yallkiddn]

I guess during the primary, when she saw she was losing, she got desperate. What a shame!

[partyofone]

This is vintage Hillary, not the result of being desperate, the result of being dishonest, self-centered, lacking in good judgment and irrersponsible. Hillary will be a chied surrogate for McCain, totally on video footage.

[Julie02]

I used to admire Hillary but when she made the statement that she and McCain were more qualified to be President, and Obama just had speeches, I was done with her. Her assertion was the shot heard across the Democratic Party. She's a smart woman and knew this would sabatoge Obama in a general election. She's a traitor to her party and I am really sad to say that.

[yallkiddn]

Yes, Julie. I'm afraid you're right. As I mentioned above, I guess she got desperate during the primary. I have several friends who were HRC supporters--Afro-Am females, no less! (One of them was Hillary's campaign mgr. in Georgia. I just don't have the heart to say, "I told you so." Besides, that would serve no useful purpose. It seems to me that what we must do at this point is to try to break through the Hillraisers' shell of hurt, anger, and vengeance in an attempt to get them to see what the long-term ramifications of a Repugnican win in November would mean for America, and indeed, the entire world!

[abby4ever]

We knew it was coming. I am waiting for the clip of her saying that all O has is one speech when it comes to experience. (Actually, speeches don't count as experience, and she knew that when she said it. That leaves O, in her eyes, anyway, with zilch experience.)

Oh, well. At least this stuff has been around for a while, there's nothing new in it, and the new always has more impact than the old.

[BCubedReg]

Don't worry, that ad is coming next. That train is never late.

[yallkiddn]

Let's embrace the PUMAs. Maybe they will see "the light."

[partyofone]

I am always amused when a comment begins "I used to admire Hillary, Bill or the Clintons." Why? Bill and Hillary are no different now than they always have been. The differences are that they are attacking fellow Democrats the way they used to attack Republications, and that you have seen the truth, and they aren't fooling you anymore.

[Bozwellian]

...and do NOT forget, Bill is NOT a racist and as he so recently proclaims, he did NOT strike out at Obama personally, just told the "truth"...or at least HIS version of truth...Talk about truly embittered , this couple epitomize such !!!
(caught MornJoe, RIchardson got "caught in the headlights" when questioned about Bill's latest mouthing...Folks, TIME TO CUT THE CLINTONS LOOSE !!! THEY ARE DAMAGING and this tippy toeing and kowtowing and "respect" is NOT RETURNED FROM THE CLINTONS OR THEIR STALWART CAMPERS....CUT THEM LOOSE AND MOVE ON, prove just how actually irrelevant they are indeed and infomr them, that should somehow O NOT succeed in '08, the C's REMAIN TOAST FOR 2012 as well !!! The C's have shown themselves to be too self centered and NOT tru PRO's FOR THE PARTY OR THE NATION, if THEY can NOT have "it", they will continue to undermine any others !!!

[Tommygun264]

You can say it was taken out of context and in this case maybe it was, but Senator Clinton served up plenty of fodder for the pub slime machine that won't have to be twisted or spun. Just wait and see - this is only the beginning of the nastiest, most divisive Presidential campaign in American history.

[yallkiddn]

You may be right, but I hope and pray that you aren't.

[abby4ever]

Tommy is right: she has made some really damaging statements which McDeperate hasn't used yet, he will wait to use them until just before the election.

[Fudgefase]

She campaigned on experience - yet made a multitude of statements that could - and would - be used by the GOP against Obama if he won.
Scorched earth doesn't help the democrats, Hill. But then, maybe that's part of the plan.
Roll on 2012?

[rzan]

A lot of people predicted this during Hillary's divisive, nasty campaign, that her words would be used by the GOP against Obama. I do hope she won't be the VP choice.

[yallkiddn]

The PUMAs are still hoping, I guess, but very few are putting their money on that one.

[Bozwellian]

Not a problem, should not be much of a worry especially as Bills latest mouth off !!!Points to one of THE lrager problems of the baggae she totes and do note, but one portion of her very loaded load !!!

[lboucher]

"The Obama campaign has to weigh the potential disturbances
Clinton supporters might stage if he denies her a roll-call vote."
U.S. News & World Report

[abby4ever]

Yes, and one word from H and there won't BE any disturbances. I am still waiting...

[thinbluetorpedo]

Yep, nice one Hillary. Both Hillary and Lieberman can join the Rethugs for all I care.

[yallkiddn]

I think you're too late. They've ALREADY joined. Egads!

[BCubedReg]

No.. Hill's a Dem. She ran a thug of a campaign, but she's still a Dem. Doesn't excuse her actions though.

[OBXartist]

Wow, the next thing you know the Republicans will be taking quotes out of context, splicing together months old video footage from entirely different places on entirely different topics and trying to present these lies as the truth.

This ad was so badly produced it looks like they edited it with garden shears and duct tape. Anyone who falls for this stuff probably doesn't have enough gray matter to support the bodily functions necessary to sustain life.

I'm about as cynical as they come, but I still find it hard to believe that there are people willing to knowingly create lies and actively feed them to the public, and that these lie-mongers somehow manage to feel good about themselves despite the damage they cause to our society. The ends do not always justify the means. If your argument does not succeed, you should come up with a better argument instead of willfully misleading people.

[OldKnute]

OBXartist,,,,


Lemmie think a moment. Lies????

Hummm?

Les’t see.

They lied about al Queda in Iraq, Chemical Weapons Vans, Aluminum Tubes, Secret Prisons, Niger Yellow Cake, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Water Boarding, Extraordinary Rendition, Wire Taps, Iraq Nuclear Arms, WMDs, Mushroom Clouds, Anthrax Attacks, Scooter Libby, al Qeada to Saddam connections, OIL Lobbyists, Jack Abramoff, Domestic Spying of E-mails and involving Telecommunications company involvements, the Budget, The Economy, Sup Prime Mortgages, The Deficit, Guantanimo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Torture, haracter Attacks of Celebrities, hate mongering of Journalists, Intimidation, THREATS of American Citizens, Abductions of Foreign Nationals, Firing of Federal Judges, Tom Delay, Illegal Political Tests of Career Government Employees, Money Laundering, Illegal Bribes of Elected Politicians. Opponents Military Records, Invasion of Somalia, Bombing of Pakistan, Discontinuing the search for bin Laden.

Oh MY!!!!

We have been busy!

Please feel free to add to the list,, I am sure I missed some.

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[MeanGreenMachine]

She betrayed the AMERICAN WORKER by supporting NAFTA.

Why so surprised that she betrayed the Democratic Party with her destructive rhetoric she KNEW would be used against OBAMA if he won the nomination.

[partyofone]

Hillary's only agenda is to recoup the millions she loaned her campaign. She's probably selling video footage to McCain.

[debrouillard]

Thats a good one.

[EvoMan]

Wow, what a surprise. All the folks out there thinking she should be the VP choice should realize this is why she won't be.

[Prism]

Please. Her outrage was real and justified. The under the radar tactics that Obama used WERE beyond the pale (especially in light of his flips on NAFTA and newly nuanced position on health care) Don't blame the truth teller. Blame the candidate who perpetrated the dirty tricks and got the most breathtaking pass from a corrupt and complicitous press/pundti class. I call it karma.

[rangem]

truth teller you have to be kidding nafta,bosnia,peace in irealand,my husband did not have sex with that women truth she would not know the truth if it crawled up her butt and out her mouth

[NTO08]

Ridiculous. The Repubs hate her, always have...and any Dem who hates her now are the same as them...utterly transparent and predictable...NEXT!

[Tommygun264]

The only thing more transparent and predictable than the pub smear campaign are the PUMA's (aka Republicans claiming to be Dems and a few genuine Hillary supporters driven to madness by blind, hateful spite).

[DCinFrance]

I know the truth hurts, NTO, and it's making you angry. Please find it in your heart to forgive any of us for holding this person to her words. The only thing transparent and predictable, not to mention shallow if not blind, is...NEXT!

[MeanGreenMachine]

Nice work Hill.

Scheesh...

[NTO08]

It's not her work...the Repubs...
She had every right to criticize Obama, as he had her...on legitimate issues...didn't you see this was taken out of context? HELLOOOO?