McCain Tries to Rile Up Clinton Voters Against Obama with New Ad: "Passed Over"

[jefferson_dem]

McCain Tries to Rile Up Clinton Voters Against Obama

By Michael D. Shear
SEDONA, Ariz. -- A new television ad by Sen. John McCain aims to tap into anger at Sen. Barack Obama among the legions of Hillary Clinton supporters by suggesting that the Democratic nominee dissed his one-time rival.

Erasing any doubt that McCain has his sights set on Clinton voters, the new ad uses Clinton's own words to suggest that Obama passed her over because of the tough campaign she waged. The ad is titled "Passed Over."

"She won millions of votes. But isn't on his ticket," an announcer says. "Why? For speaking the truth."

The ad then shows Clinton criticizing Obama for speaking generalities ("You never hear the specifics); for his connections to Tony Rezko ("We still don't have a lot of answers."); and for being too negative

The announcer comes back on. "The truth hurt. And Obama didn't like it."

The idea is to portray Obama as a petulant and angry rival who refused to consider Clinton as a running mate because of his anger over her comments. And to tap into Clinton supporters who just might vote for McCain.

Clinton spokesperson Kathleen Strand wasn't buying it. "Hillary Clinton's support of Barack Obama is pretty clear," she said in an e-mail. "She has said repeatedly that Barack Obama and she share a commitment to changing the direction of the country, getting us out of Iraq, and expanding access to health care. John McCain doesn't. It's interesting how those remarks didn't make it into his ad."

The ad was supposed to be embargoed until 3 a.m., though the script leaked out before then.

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[Coexist]

1. .. and that should hit home with people who would never vote for Obama anyway

so, let them spend their money on it...

Oh wait, I forget... McCain will just post it on its website and the media will run it for him, for free, 24/7.

[scheming daemons]

2. If Hillary publicly, and angrily, denounces this ad... it will be worth 3-5% for Obama in polls.

[jefferson_dem]

8. Agreed. She's obviously being used here, in a very seamy way.

She should smack this shit down bigtime... Not sure she will though.

[snowbear]

9. Exactly! ... This is a golden opportunity for the Clintons to destroy McLame!

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And if they take the opportunity, it will be lethal to the little weasle.

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"Shit. We fucked up again."

[Diane R]

11. She won't denounce it. Maureen Dowd nailed it last week.

[snowbear]

16. I disagree -- Hillary is too classy to allow a ReTHUG asshole attack.

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She knows what's at stake.

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"I'm going to need some of Cindy's pills when this Townhall is over"

[movonne]

21. We will see...I don't have much faith in hillary and bill anymore...

[movonne]

22. We will see...I don't have much faith in hillary and bill anymore...

[C_U_L8R]

3. I think I'll pass on the Passed Over

I'm tired of McCain's whining and negativity

[maximusveritas]

4. How does that work with their ad showing Biden attacking Obama?

Makes no sense at all, except in the deranged mind of McCain perhaps.

[EC]

5. That's patronizing and may backfire on them

I'd be pissed at the McCain team not the Obama team...

[PM7nj]

6. I think I hate McCain more than Bush.

This ticks me off. What a fucking prick McCain is. Fuck him.

[Orangepeel]

7. is this parody? I can't tell anymore

(it seemed real until the "embargoed until 3 a.m." which sounds like someone is trying to make a joke, without quite succeeding).

But they have one ad that shows Biden saying negative things about Obama, and then another that implies Clinton wasn't chosen because Obama can't stand having people say negative things about him?

I know that they've never been troubled by consistency before, but that takes the cake.

[elkston]

10. Clinton needs to respond to this. Pronto! n/t

[Occam Bandage]

12. Clinton needs to respond, respond quick, and respond hard.

[thunder rising]

13. McCain is such a moran. Clinton women may be pissed, but they are sophisticated and intelligent

and sure as shit know when they are being patronized.

Here's the deal for Thunder Rising, I am truly sorry that Hillary had to loose for Barack to win. The reality sucks. How does it happen that we have two really good candidates face off like this?

I was a Deaniac in '04; this hurts, I know.

[kansasblue]

14. doesn't that lock him into a Romney or Huckabee? nt

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

15. Does McCain have to account specifically for where every dollar paying for that ad came from

I get this sickening feeling that some DLC "sour grapes" money went into this.

From the Clintons themselves? Not necessarily. But from those who know the DLC is finished without them in power.

[Monk06]

17. Mc Cain is even more of a Neo Con sock puppet than Bush. He just reads

from the script that's handed to him.

The man has been blessed with a full
life without ever having an original
thought he had to defend.

As far as Hilary voters go I think that
anyone who self identifies as a Hilary
voter who will vote for Mc Cain is just
a Repug disruptor in disguise.

[Bobbie Jo]

18. If she's "on-board," as she claims....she will put this away in short order.

Her credibility hangs in the balance.

[jillan]

19. This is the moment where Hillary can further unite this party -

by coming out and telling McCain to STFU!

[Top Cat]

20. This is a test will Hillary pass?

[democrattotheend]

23. Will Clinton do a response ad with him?

That would be awesome if she did. That would help a lot, and my respect for her would shoot back up if she did that.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. You kidding? If Obama chose HRC, McCain's people would have had an ad already for THAT.

* SHE should have been the nominee, not Obama. She was robbed.

* She's still married to Bill. Nuff said.

* She's a librul.

* She'll argue with Obama about every decision he makes.

* She will settle for nothing less than a co-presidency.


These guys were ready to shoot down any one who had a remote chance of being selected vice president.

[Orlandodem]

25. Their faux concern for Hillary is insulting!

Hillary and Obama ought to do an ad TOGETHER!!!

[jefferson_dem]

26. Video of the low-road, low-rent slime here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NrQ36Djf2E&eur

[yourguide]

27. Ah the primaries...

the gift that keeps on giving.

That's OK, McCain will get his the moment he picks a veep.

[Honeycombe8]

28. Most of those "Clinton supporters" are McSame plants. nt

[bridgit]

29. McCain's got nothing he's going down! He brings on Romney he goes down twice as fast!!

Ridge? 2.5 times as fast...it doesn't matter he's going down :thumbsdown:

[Arkana]

30. I would hope this would just piss the smarter Hillary supporters off.

You can point to thousands of examples that show McCain hates the Clintons--he's just using her here.

[flpoljunkie]

31. Whatever happened to McSame's promise to run an 'honorable campaign?'

That went out the window when he hired Karl Rove protege Steve Schmidt. It's who Republicans are. By the way, it's really all about the money. McCain had to flip on the Bush tax cuts, or he would have never gotten the nomination--and he knows it.

[ecstatic]

32. Does he plan to mention the issues??? EVER??

He is reaching new lows every day.