I read on the CNN web site that the Clinton campaign is showing a television commercial advertisement featuring sleeping children in their beds, and a narrator asking who you’d like to have answering that phone at 3 AM in the event of some unnamed but catastrophic international development.
The first thing I think of when I read this is that it sounds like Lyndon Johnson’s ad with the girl plucking petals off a flower, which ran exactly once.
Then further along in the article I read that Clinton’s people "brushed aside notions it is reminiscent of the famous Lyndon Johnson ‘Daisy’ ad. “That ad basically envisions the apocalypse, and that is not what this ad does,” Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said.
Well, it is clearly at least sometimes reminiscent of it.
So, if some international development that is bad enough to impact your children in their beds at 3 in the morning is not apocalyptic, what is?
Gee, you’re right, Zebra. It IS an ad for McCain, in effect.
By the way, the more I think about "“brushed aside notions it is reminiscent of the famous Lyndon Johnson ‘Daisy’ ad” the more it galls me. So I Googled:
clinton johnson “daisy ad”
and got 892 web sites where somebody apparently shares my misconception to a sufficient extent that they were motivated to publish it on the Web. Brushed aside, indeed!
The “Daisy” ad is what I thought of at first, too. What the fuck is she thinking? Is she figuring that any coverage is good coverage? What next, is she going to punch out a reporter just to make the front page?
The biggest WTF moment for me, in that ad, is the claim that Hillary understands the military.
If someone understood the military, shouldn’t her Senate web page’s contact form list of name prefixes, which lists almost all possible officer ranks, have, maybe, more than just three enlisted ranks? It sure looks like she’s willing to listen to Zeros, but blueshirt scum shouldn’t bother to contact her.
Perhaps she’s thinking if she can’t have the white house, neither can Obama, and an ad that looks like McCains may subconsciously plant itself in peoples minds and everyone will vote republican…again. Just kidding…but seriously, this dirty nasty crap she is pulling is going to deepen the divide in the dem party and make it harder for Obama to pull a win. I like Obama’s ads countering Clinton’s - here in Southeastern, Connecticut we are seeing a lot fo Rhode Island ads, 3 for every 1 of Clinton’s… I’m campaigning for him today - I hope we can narrow the divide here in CT.
My sense is the ad will not sway anyone who wasn’t already going to vote for Clinton, if anything - such as the case of my Clinton supporting sister - it will further people from voting for her. Especially those folks who remember the Mondal and Johnson ads of the same nature. Clinton is facing loss to Obama and will do anything to sully his attempt at the nomination. It won’t work…she’s not even close to blowing Obama away like she would need to, in fact quite the opposite.
