http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20181331,00.html

Salon's record of electoral results is rather dismal more faint hope than realism. But the cawcawing class may have got it right this one rare time. It seems that for the time being Obama is unstoppable. Then we will see how Obama fares against the full GOP machine. So far GOP VOTERS haven't really needed to have a say in Dem primaries. I think when it's clear that the election will be McCain vs Obama we'll see the ugly face of race baiting hate driven politics issue forth from the GOP and the voters, the GOP voters will make their ignorant raving loud and clear. Of course, the US is an ignorant raving country so we'll have to see how the election really goes. At the least the Obamaniacs who think the general election will be a cake walk are fooling themselves. It will be yet another tie. No matter how angry the conservatives are at McCain they'll never vote for Obama and they won't stay home to hand it to him. Look for FOX and hate radio to all pile on the We Hate Dems We Love McCain bandwagon by the end of next week.

From the NY times:

February 29, 2008, 10:28 am

Clinton’s National Security Ad

By ARIEL ALEXOVICH

Ring, ring. Ring, ring.

Hillary Rodham Clinton injects an element of worry or perhaps even fear into the mundane ringing of a telephone in her latest TV ad, now playing in Texas.

“It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep,” a narrator says, as images of sleeping babe after sleeping babe pass by. “But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing.”

The ominous ring ring continues throughout the ad as the announcer tells viewers they live in a “dangerous world.” They’re reminded that their vote determines whether they choose a leader who already has national security experience — or not.

At the end, the narrator repeats the line “It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep,” but this time poses this question: “Who do you want answering the phone?”

Cut to a clip of Mrs. Clinton, wearing eyeglasses, answering a telephone in a darkened room.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/clintons-national-security-ad/index.html?hp

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Haven't we done fear mongering? Aren't we tired of having our baseless fears used for political gain?

Usually in cases of emergency the phone lines are down.

The Clinton camp denied any involvement in the Obama photo on

Tuesday afternoon (hey, that sounds like it would make a good

song title!)

You can look at that photo release 2 ways

1. The Obama camp released it to make my Hillster look

bad (as if!) and to distract from the erroneous flyers they sent out

over the weekend about her position on NAFTA

2. Camp Hillary released it to make Obama look scary (?)

which it didn't, he just looked funny. (I thought)

P.S. You must be an early boomer----I remember Beanie

and Cecil from the 50's. Wasn't it "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent?"

the worst was this week when HIllary was asked for her Tax returns (like all the other candidates released) and she snarked "I'm a little busy right now." Oh, scuse me. The other presidential candidates aren't busy? Just call your aide and have her call your accountant and it's done in 30 seconds. What she showed was her horrible personality and her fear. I know I"m not running for president, but that condescending tone was a huge turn off. bu bye Hillary

oh thanks, needed a hearty chuckle !

that's not why entirely. That may be some of it, but she sealed her own fate when she made the snide suprior "well I wasn't sitting at home making cookies" comments. SHE did that, not her husband. She showed her true mean mean mean self then. and People remember, they won't forget. THAT is who HIllary is and we don't need that holding a hand over the red button.

for Obama will make a difference!

Hillary just left the Waco, Texas Convention Center. My sister, an independent like myself, wanted to actually hear in person what she had to say. I just got a call (I'm at work), from my sister (a college prof in her late 40s) and she told me that I should have been there. Clinton was articulate, sharp, quick witted, and genuine. Would you vote for her? I asked. Absolutely, was the response. I think the media is giving the sole woman a very tough time, and while I originally thought it was not gender based, now I'm not so sure. After all, think of all the "blond" jokes going around. Would anyone dare tell those jokes about a black man? Most probably wouldn't. She's been called all kinds of names by the right wing, and nobody says a word. Yep, gender bias is alive and well. Too bad, because she sounds like someone who would have been a very good leader. What a shame.

First it was a guy falling unconscious out of an airplane and now a phone ringing in the middle of the night and children sleeping soundly in their beds. The implication being that the guy falling out of the airplane is going to have his brains splattered onto concrete and the little children are going to get blown into a million bits--unless you elect Hillary president. Isn't this how the Bush administration sold Congress and the American people on invading Iraq? Clinton, who admits that she regrets her decision to authorize the war, is now using the same tactics to scare up votes. Shame on you Hillary!

Hillary doesn't care about you people. She only cares about herself. That's why she didn't stand up to Bush in the first place and that's why she has taken a page out of his play book now. She only cares about winning and she's pissed as hell she may not. Get it!

So will your sister go and listen to Barack Obama as well? Call that equal opportunity. He is also quick, articulate, and all the rest. Do you think that the scare ad that Hillary put out in Ohio today is fear mongering?