Obama Strikes Back With Negative Ad

[depakid]

As the campaigning for the Indiana and North Carolina primaries comes to a close, the Democratic presidential candidates are letting loose on one another over the TV airwaves.

Just hours after Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed a new advertisement attacking Barack Obama for not supporting a gas tax holiday, the Obama camp is hitting back with a negative spot called “Hometown.”

Mr. Obama’s advertisement accuses Mrs. Clinton of engaging in “the same old negative politics.” It points to a line from an editorial in Mrs. Clinton’s “hometown” paper — The New York Times — that said her campaign was taking “the low road.”

Mrs. Clinton’s commercial implied that she was the only candidate that understood the struggles of the working class, but Mr. Obama’s TV spot tries to make the case that her assertion is not true.

“Hometown” does not explain why Mr. Obama opposes the gas tax suspension — or even mention it — but it states that “the same old Washington politics won’t fix our problems.”

Mr. Obama understands that voters are frustrated with the war, a sagging economy and high gas prices, the advertisement says. What’s more, he is the candidate who will approach the problems with a fresh, outside-Washington perspective.

More, including the video:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/obama-strikes-back-with-negative-ad/

[Vinca]

1. You honestly think that's negative? OMG - how naive. nt

[MadBadger]

2. Strikes Back supercedes Negative

[LSparkle]

7. Precisely!

[L0oniX]

3. Any thing that goes against Hillary is negative ...duh.

What she offers is nothing but a band aid on a wound that requires surgery.

[ej510]

4. That's a negative add? No I don't think so that was a response ad.

[depakid]

11. Just the title of the NY Times article

not my personal opinion....

[tokenlib]

5. I totally miss the negative nature of the ad....

It seems much more mild than she deserves...the word pander in relation to her "gas tax holiday" doesn't appear either.

[high density]

6. Negative?

Umm, okay.

[Cant trust em]

8. negative, but not a low blow, IMO

This is the kind of negative that I support, frankly. I don't have a problem with negative. I have a problem with nasty. I don't think this ad crossed that line.

[onenote]

9. apparently pointing out that your opponent has gone negative is negative.

[democracy1st]

13. right, Obama should have slammed her for Richard Mellon Scaife

[JVS]

10. I would have liked something more negative

[DemGa]

12. I see they are still wearing the "new politics" mask - - what a charade --NT

[gateley]

15. Ya gotta admit --

politics by its very nature is a charade.

[butterfly77]

14. Just think what they would be saying if he was ..

being negative. As far as I am concerned she has gotten off easy with the bull she has been putting out there, I guess Hill supporters think he is suppose to handle her with kid gloves..

[gcomeau]

16. "How dare you negatively call attention to our negativity! That's negative!!!"

Bah.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. Negative? That's like comparing a spitwad to a nuke. And, we know who favors nukes.