It's not surprising Sen. Hillary Clinton's new radio ad deals with Sen. Barack Obama's comments about Republican "ideas," since she has been talking about the remarks on the campaign trail and in the debate Monday night.
Like yesterday's health care Web ad, this one, running on South Carolina radio, uses Obama's own words to paint him as valuing GOP ideas over Democratic ones.
Here's the ad, and the script is below, provided by the Obama campaign.
VO: "Listen to Barack Obama last week talking about Republicans.
BO: "The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years."
VO: "Really? Aren't those the ideas that got us into the economic mess we're in today? Ideas like special tax breaks for Wall Street. Running up a $9 trillion debt. Refusing to raise the minimum wage or deal with the housing crisis. Are those the ideas Barack Obama's talking about?"
BO: "The Republicans were the party of ideas."
VO: Hillary Clinton thinks this election is about replacing disastrous Republican ideas with new ones, like jumpstarting the economy. Putting an immediate freeze on foreclosures and mortgages. Cutting taxes for the middle class. and creating millions of new jobs. With the economy in crisis, we need a president with the ideas, the solutions that get America working for all of us. Hillary Clinton. Solutions for America.
What is noteworthy about the ad is that its narrator uses an accent where he drops the "g" in most words : "refusin'" instead of "refusing," "cuttin'" instead of "cutting," and so on. That's not included in the script, but you can clearly hear it.
Here's the Obama campaign's response, via spokesguy Bill Burton, and here's the fact check on the issue from the campaign, and from today's Post.
"In her newest negative, dishonest attack, Clinton claims that Obama praised Republican ideas apparently in an attempt to obscure her record of voting for Republican ideas like bankruptcy, NAFTA and, of course, the war in Iraq. That fact that Hillary Clinton has praised Ronald Reagan and supported some of the very worst Republican ideas just underscores that she will say or do anything to get elected."
-- Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (4)
The Clintons are lying their way back to POWER. McCain will stop them, if Obama doesn't. People are not stupid.
Posted by ken | January 23, 2008 2:31 PM
WHY WOULD ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE AT ALL BELIEVE ANYTHING A PRESIDENT THAT HAS ADMITTED HE LIED AND WAS CONVICTED OF LYING UNDER OATH AND IMPEACHED, HAD TO SAY? AND YET, OBAMA DOESN'T SAY A WORD ABOUT IT AND ALL THE OTHER DEMOCRATS JUST THINK BILL IS THE BEST THERE IS. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THESE DEMOCRATS? CERTAINLY NOT ANYONE WE WOULD LIKE TO ASSOCIATE WITH. THESE PEOPLE ARE IN ANOTHER WORLD AND HIS WIFE IS A CARBON COPY.
Posted by D. MCDIARMID JR.. | January 23, 2008 6:44 PM
Heavens! It would simply be terrible to think that one Party might possibly think that the other Party might have a good idea or two! I can recall back in the days of Tip O'Neil and his cohorts that the party leaders then actually did acknowledge that there were some good ideas that occasionally came from the other side. Until the party leaders start doing some cooperating in leading this country like they should, we will continue to be in trouble because of the hatred for one another expressed by those same party leaders.
Posted by Clay Boyce | January 24, 2008 12:17 AM
For the past 7 years the Democrats in Congress have been on a blame agenda. It has led to a completely ineffective Congress with regard to problem solving legislation and helped feed global anti-Americanism, both of which the next president is going to have contend with. To close that divide is going to require consensus and implementation on a middle ground. Maybe Obama is looking for that away from blame middle ground. The Clinton's certainly are not.
Posted by Larry Stone | January 24, 2008 1:32 AM