Friday, February 29, 2008

Is the Clinton Campaign Getting Desperate?

Since Feb 9th, Sen. Barack Obama has swept everyday of primaries in the Democratic race, winning 10 consecutive states. Sen. Hillary Clinton now finds herself trailing Obama 24 to 13 in state primaries won. According to the projected Democrat Delegate Account from the New York Times, Obama is projected to earn approximately 92 more delegates than Clinton. With the odds starting to amount against her Hillary Clinton is looking to do whatever she can do to regain the lead in the Democratic race; including commercials:



It appears that Clinton is getting desperate and is taking to the offensive to get her name back. I think that this commercial is absolutely ridiculous. The commercial says that, "you want someone, who has already been tested to lead in a dangerous world." The one question that I have is, I thought this was a Hillary Clinton commercial, not a Bill Clinton commercial. Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and could therefore be the only Clinton that has been "tested to lead in a dangerous world," not Hillary.

The Obama campaign made a response to the Clinton commercial (shown below), pointing out that Obama did not support the war, while Hillary Clinton did. I really liked this response by the Obama campaign because Hillary Clinton is going to regret making the commercial with a message that could be easily countered. I think that this is now Obama's race to win or lose after not only embarrassing her in recent polls, but using her own commercial against her.

Obama Campaign's Commercial Response:

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