What are the chances that you have a commercial made to promote you as Commander in Chief and the girl in the commercial comes out of the wood work some 8 years older and is devoted to the person you tried to take out with the add?
Well as some would suggest, if it weren't for bad luck, Hillary Clinton would have no luck at all.
She started this primary season a 2-1 favorite over a field dominated by no name or at least minimum name recognition contestants save one, a young black man from Illinois. In the ensuing months she has been on the ropes, pulled off the ropes, placed back on the ropes and today is standing stunned and probably confused. Why wasn't this girl vetted to some degree to make sure that an embarrassing incident didn't rise up to bite her in the ass later on?
Now don't get me wrong, this isn't anything that will take the "monster" as one now former Obama aid described her, but it is another in a long line of minor mis-steps or blunders that have dogged her campaign since the day she found out she lost her first primary/caucus.
When you believe your own press kit as Hillary has done you tend to gloss over some details that might seem important to someone not so sure of themselves. Like this for instance. It seems the footage of the little girl sleeping was stock footage. (You remember her marvelous 3AM phone call commercial about the red phone ringing, only it wasn't red, that she borrowed from former presidential candidate Walter Mondale) You know, those pieces of footage you take and keep hoping that it will come in handy later in another commercial. So they use this footage from 8 years ago and suddenly the little girl from the sleeping images comes out 8 years older and a huge fan of... Obama.
If I may be so bold to suggest Mrs. Clinton, considering how much turmoil your campaign has been faced with so far, any little mis-step is going to go from mole hill to mountain pretty damn quick.
It might be time for another team shake up...
But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.
Isn't it Ironic? Life's a Bitch.
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Posted By: Average American Posted on: Mar. 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 04:16:29 PM
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| Yea, and I don't support her but I notice that the smallest thing she does is magnified beyond any proportional response. It's just pathetic.
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 06:14:48 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by CLB on Mar. 10, 2008 at 04:16:29 PM]
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 04:16:29 PM Yea, and I don't support her but I notice that the smallest thing she does is magnified beyond any proportional response. It's just... View this Comment Agreed CLB. As I said, "Mrs. Clinton, considering how much turmoil your campaign has been faced with so far, any little mis-step is going to go from mole hill to mountain pretty damn quick." Wait, does this make me part of the problem...lol |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 08:56:01 PM
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| To: AA Not only is the 17-year-old a fan of Senator Obama, she's a precinct captain and little miss Casey Knowles has since been contacted by the Obama camp and is probably going to make an ad for Senator Obama - I wonder if the ad had been made by the Obama camp if anyone would have bothered to research who the sleeping youngster was.... the scrutiny Senator Clinton is put through is truly unbelievable to me. I still haven't heard one word questioning why Obama paid Rezko $100,l00 for a strip of land that was appraised at $40,000, but we all know what's happening with the sleeping girl... P. |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:14:45 PM
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| Actually, Patricia, Obama paid $200k for the strip of land, that was adjacent to his home. Next, the problem with the 3AM ad is this - it reinforces the idea that Hillary's campaign ( and by extension Hillary) can't do the simplest things right the first time. She'll go back and fix it later - whether it's Iraq, or Hillarycare, or NAFTA. The other problem with Hillary's ad, the phone rings at 3am, and rings, and rings. She never picks the damn phone up! In Obama's ad, the phone rings 3 times, and then gets answered. So, if the phone rings at 3am, I want someone who can get their ass out of bed to pick the phone up. |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:20:51 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by Phaedrus on Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:14:45 PM]
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:14:45 PM Actually, Patricia, Obama paid $200k for the strip of land, that was adjacent to his home. Next, the problem with the 3AM ad is this - it reinforces the idea that Hillary's campaign ( and by extension Hillary) can't do the simplest things right... View this Comment LOL!!! |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:40:44 PM
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| I read that it was only $104,000.00. Where are you pulling $200,000.00 from? |
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:49:06 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by Phaedrus on Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:14:45 PM]
Phaedrus
Mar. 10, 2008 at 09:14:45 PM Actually, Patricia, Obama paid $200k for the strip of land, that was adjacent to his home. Next, the problem with the 3AM ad is this - it reinforces the idea that Hillary's campaign ( and by extension Hillary) can't do the simplest things right... View this Comment "Next, the problem with the 3AM ad is this - it reinforces the idea that Hillary's campaign ( and by extension Hillary) can't do the simplest things right the first time. She'll go back and fix it later - whether it's Iraq, or Hillarycare, or NAFTA." O. M. G. Please tell me that you really do not believe that when the Clinton campaign purchased a stock photo from a corporate ad base (which is where these things come from) they were supposed to have vetted the damn kid in the picture? And how was to be done, exactly? By (mis)using the CIA to search and cross-match data files in a pedaphile-like manner of photographed children in the year 2000 and what they are doing today? Other than the fact that Karl Rove might actually have done such a thing and avoided this tremendous mis-step (I guess she is not so Rovian after all) if one is so vilified as to be able to inspire nearly insane leaps of logic from bad luck to renegotiating NAFTA you have much bigger problems then what twit you unwittingly make the overnight "It Shill" (I mean Girl) for Obama! And BTW, I know the strategist who was hired to create the Harry and Louise campaign designed to bury Hillarycare and her along with it so before you start heaping blame on her for bearing the brunt of a million-dollar smear campaign she barely survived a decade ago, take a breath and check your own smug know-it-all attitude. |
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