Hillary's Use of Osama bin Ladin in attack ads . . .

[Krashkopf]

My GOD, haven't we ALL been complaining over the past 7 years about Karl Rove's fear-mongering, "vote-for-us-or-die" Republican tactics?

The HRC campaign's use of those same tactics is REPUGNANT.

I challenge ANY Clinton supporter to justify it!

Krash

[LakeSamish706]

1. It's really very simple, she is a Republican and not a Democrat.... n/t

[BobRossi]

3. Bingo!

Nail on head.

[ShortnFiery]

4. It's even more tragic than that - HRC has compromised any semblance of what we

ascribe to as Democrats. Specifically, that we use logic and empathy to arrive at our political decisions. Using FEAR and LOATHING is shameful for Democratic Candidates to employ in order play groups of people off on one another. Are we going backward? :(

[roguevalley]

10. I consider it not only undemocratic to do that but unamerican. to

use fear to make the country go your way is fascist, not american.

[rinsd]

2. It was 2 seconds among a dozen images of crisis Presidents have faced.

Here's the ad.

I can tell who has actually seen the ad by the degrees of fake outrage they display.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDap46WOCmA&eurl=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/04/clinton-ad-uses.html

[Emillereid]

5. My outrage is not fake - it was absolutely despicable of her to use that imagery. That particular

image is recent, knowingly invokes panic in Americans and was used to frighten voters into to voting for her - not really because of 'her' experience - but Bill's.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

6. Actually, the ad is over-the-top crap that probably didn't persuade anyone

Your candidate already had the scared bigot vote locked up.

[Krashkopf]

9. Weak!

That's "weak tea," rinsd.

2 seconds of fear-mongering is still fear-mongering.

And, up until now, Democrats have held the moral highground against Republicans, because they were the fear-mongers and WE were not.

Between kissing up to Richard Mellon Scaife, and Roger Ailes, and the rest of the "vast right wing conspiracy," and now resorting to plays straight out of the Karl Rove playbook, HRC has shown a very ugly side to herself, and her campaign.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Two seconds is all it takes. In fact, one second would be better,

because while the conscious brain processes the images, the subconscious just absorbs them. It is the entire foundation of subliminal advertising.

Quick flashes of frightening images, followed by calm, soothing maternal images - and you get the idiot vote, and they don't even know why.

Subliminal advertising, that's all. BTW, in the advertising world, that's a huge no-no. Get in trouble for that shit.

[invictus]

7. Hillary is a slime-ball neocon. She will stoop to anything. n/t

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. Easy. I live in NYC and passed the Cortlandt St subway station just yesterday

It's still ruined and useless.

Live in your dream world ... in mine, we've been bombed by Islamic terrorists twice and nearly strangled in the aftermath of 9/11.

It's part of the real world and no amount of hopin' or wishin' will make it go away.