Obama Responds To Hillary`s Ad - "Red Phone Moment" - Longer Version

[Hope And Change]

Run time: 02:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXudjm0lx2o   Posted on YouTube: February 29, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 29, 2008 By DU Member: Hope And Change Views on DU: 1386

 

[IowaGirl]

1. Tiring theme......

How anyone can know how they would have voted without having the same facts in front of them is hard for me to fathom. Perhaps he would have voted "present" if he had the same classified info the other senators had.

[Hope And Change]

2. You are just pissed because Obama won Iowa...

and Obama did oppose the Iraq war from the start ;-)

[IowaGirl]

21. Dang, ya got me.....

:eyes:

[WDIM]

3. Tiring theme is right

Obama would make just as good (probably better) a commander and chief as Clinton and there is no reason to think otherwise. The Clinton campaign saying he wouldn't be ready is complete nonsense. What foreign policy experience did Bill Clinton have as governor of Arkansas? Didn't seem to bother the Clintons in 1992. Obama was against the war in Iraq when it was unpopular to be so and I applaud him for that and he is right it does show better judgment on his part compared to Clinton's judgment of write Bush a blank check.

[helderheid]

9. But, but, but, 9/11changed everything!!!

:sarcasm:

Welcome to DU!!

:hi:

[Herman74]

13. Hell, Obama has more than Bill did...

B. Clinton in 1992 had just been a governor. Senator Barack Obama has been (unless I'm mistaken) a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

[MindMatter]

15. It is about time there were some consequences for such horrendous malfeasance

Maybe Obama is just lucky he didn't get swept up in that mania. Maybe he's really as dumb as the ones who did. But I simply point out that the rest of them, except for Edwards, have yet to even admit that this was one of the biggest foreign policy, security, economic, and strategic blunders in the history of this nation. Until they do, they have no business asking Americans to trust them again.

[GrimReefa]

18. Tiring for Hillary supporters

Because there is no way for them to defend what she did.

I don't know to what "classified info" the Senators may or may not have been privy, but I do know this: nowhere in that classified info was there any proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

How do I know this?

BECAUSE THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. And if there were no weapons, there could not have been any proof of their existence, just a lot of hearsay, innuendo, and circumstantial evidence, none of which would even stand up in court, let alone be grounds to start a WAR.

I'm guessing, if you're a regular poster on this site, that when the President was banging the drums for war, you were hopping mad. Millions of Americans, mostly on this side of the political spectrum, were demanding sanity and reason from our government before they started a war in our name. We marched in the streets of Washington, San Francisco, and in countless cities in between. We begged our government, especially the Democrats in our government, the people who represented us, to hear our call for common sense and at least voice opposition to this horrible war machine. But we were marginalized, by OUR OWN PEOPLE. The Republicans can call us names, and that's fine, but when the Democrats in Congress don't have the guts to stand up for our principles, we become marginalized. Now, we were a bunch of fringe freaks. Even Hillary Clinton supports this war, what the hell is the matter with all of these hippie peaceniks?

What do you want in a President? I'll tell you what I want: I want someone who, when the chips are down, will stand by their principles and stand up for what is right. There is no more crucial a decision a government can make than whether or not to go to war. The chips don't get any more down than that. And when that decision came to Hillary Clinton, she ignored her principles, she ignored her common sense, she ignored the millions of us begging her and her fellow Senators to stand up for what was right, and instead reached for her political calculator, which told her that voting for the war was the "safe" option.

If we made her our Presidential nominee, what message does that send?

No. There has to be a price for that kind of political cowardice. And Hillary is learning what that price is. I hope she has a long and distinguished career as a US Senator. But POTUS is, and should be, out of the picture.

[Thrill]

4. Maybe she shouldn't of voted for it

Its not like everyone in the Senate voted for it. Some of them actually said this is bullshit. And Obama would of been there right beside Teddy Kennedy and Dick Durbin saying this is bullshit

[GrimReefa]

20. and...

Akaka, Bingaman, Boxer, Byrd, Conrad, Corzine, Dayton, Feingold, Graham, Inouye, Jeffords, Leahy, Levin, Mikulski, Murray, Reed, Sarbanes, Stabenow, Wellstone, Wyden, and even Lincoln fucking Chafee for chrissake.

[BuyingThyme]

5. Hillary and McCrazy are now in the same boat.

This guy's good.

[flyarm]

6. what kind of judgement did Obama have when he had Rezko help him buy his home?

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, for "advice" as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate.

snip:

Rezko had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and the FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury in a case that prosecutors say involves bribes, kickbacks and "efforts to illegally obtain millions of dollars."




http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4111483

[WDIM]

7. What was that land deal the Repubs use to attack the Clintons on?

Whitewater?!

[flyarm]

11. exactly..we all know everything about it..already vetted..what do we know and

how long will we have our dem heads beat in on ..Obama/rezko??????????..i can just imagine what the rove machine has planned..it will be scathing...i can see Kenneth Star now...or his wanna be..let see how will that help heal this nation?????

oh and you don't think we are about to see whitewater redeux..ohhh pleaseeeeeeeeeee...i am too old and seen too much to fall for that baloney.

fly

[Recursion]

17. ROTFLMAO

Yeah, the Republicans aren't going to mention Whitewater. Or Travelgate. Or Vince Foster. Or the Clinton Library donors. Or Mark Rich. Or Monica. Or...

Being vetted is only a good thing if you're vetted and found clean.

[jefferson_dem]

8. Response ad here - - - >

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid353515028?bctid=1438426955

[helderheid]

10. WOW! Did he really release that as a response ad?

Well done!

[jefferson_dem]

12. Indeed. Team Obama in swift-response mode.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obama_Ringing.html

[IowaGirl]

23. More like "swift boat"......

Obama's campaign used the race card to take Hillary "out" after New Hampshire. His camp had to do something to justify black voters abandoning the Clintons after Hillary had stood up for them since 1965. Innocent comments were twisted with rumor and innuendo to give black voters the excuses they thought they needed to make a switch. Heck, people could understand the black community wanting to support the first black candidate. There was no need to smear somebody unnecessarily. So this is the politics of "change"? Regarding Hillary's many years of service fighting for racial equality, I guess this just proves the old adage, "no good deed goes unpunished."

[sonias]

14. Wow - that's awesome

Can he use the same images in his ad, or are those other kids asleep etc.

Lightning quick response with facts too - better judgment!

Cool!


Sonia

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. These points have now been made into an effective ad

for Obama which starts out exactly like Clinton's ad, but veers to a photo of the White House and then photos of Obama with points made not only about Iraq and Afghanistan but also Obama's working on halting nuclear proliferation. Ends with the point Obama made about judgement being important. I was impressed that they got the ad out so fast and that it was so effective in bringing home Obama's message.

[democrat2thecore]

19. Again - It's David Axelrod at work. The BEST. -nt

[Don Davis]

22. Here's Hillary Clinton’s New 'Dead Phone' Ad

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1550