Not really - just messin' with ya.

Regardless of whatever you may or may not think or who you support, you all gotta admit that Obama is running one hell of a campaign. To be able to respond that quickly and that effectively. Seriously, does he have a mole in Clinton's camp or something?

Hillary wants four long years to play on our fears. Been there, done that.

The GOP is going to have their work cut out for them. Gesh, that was perfect and fast!

half as efficiently, as competently, as thoughtfully as he has run this campaign...our country may well recover from BushCo.

I love that Obama's ad starts off with Clinton's fear-mongering opener. It hits Clinton on exactly what she tries to make as her strength, her experience. Her experience doesn't count for much when it produced such a miserable result as the Iraq debacle.

... there was more attention paid to the fact she voted to give Dubya a blank check on Iran.

oohhh...that was smack down. Good comeback!

To be able to respond this quickly and effectively to this and other attacks suggests to me that Obama has a very talented team who are able to identify vulnerabilities ahead of time and come up with effective responses before his opponents hit him. This bodes well for his chances in the Fall.

Someone on another website commented that it's impossible to know what kind of president a candidate will be until or unless they're already in the office. Instead we have to base our opinions on how they run their campaigns and how they react to criticisms and political attacks. Watching Obama gain mastery of debating, watching how his campaign has effectively diffused almost every attack from Clinton and now McCain, and watching how he has so confounded Hillary's strategists that I can only imagine how frustrated and angry they are at this ad, makes me feel better and better about my decision to vote for him.

It's like watching a slow 5'9" point guard going in for a layup against a 7'2" shotblocker. STUFF!!!

Once again Obama doesn't even waste a day in fighting back. No attack is left un-countered. Parry RIPOSTE on every jab. I think this ad kinda proves the point in the ad. By being able to respond to an attack ad within 24 hours, he should be able to "pick up the phone" and respond within 24 hours in a live situation. I am impressed.

He appears to be good and ready for whatever comes his (our) way, and he appears to have built a team of people who can come together with him and respond quickly, effectively, and without a lot of hoo-hah.

I don't know very much about Barack's campaign people because they aren't always endlessly self-promoting like Hillary's are, but, whoever they are, I hope they are still working for him in the White House. They're an awesome team.

He has a good team. This is a good sign.

The beauty of this ad is that it achieves multiple goals simultaneously:

-It shows that 'experience' doesn't mean much if it leads to bad decisions

-It shows that Obama has gotten it right on a fundamental, central campaign issue all along

- It exposes the shallowness of the 'kitchen sink' approach. In other words, the 'fear' tactic for the original ad appears to be pure political calculation - a play borrowed from the Bush playbook. I don't particularly think that Hillary is a total hawk, just an opportunistic one. The Clinton ad feels contrived, and the Obama ad reinforces this.

-It demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of his media team.

The Obama campaign keeps reminding me of my martial arts training. Obama keeps using his opponents' attacks against them. I think it bodes very well for the GE ... and for the nation, if he's elected.

He's running the best political campaign in at least a generation or more. On-target, on-message, on-the-ground, on-their-game. Across the board, top-notch. Every argument against Obama's candidacy has been gradually undermined by his candidacy!

Maybe I misunderstood but it sounds like some of you are saying that.

Well, first of all, there's the fact that he was right on Iraq from the start. That's a big plus for him.

Also, if he can respond within eight hours to an attack ad with one of his own that's clever enough to deflate the original, he just might be exactly what most of us Democrats have been waiting for: a leader who's got the guts to stand his ground and fight for what he believes in, rather than roll over and hope the right wing stops saying mean things about him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omifmO8Dm0E

But I would have really loved it if it had ended with a manicured hand picking up the phone then Obama in Hillary drag saying into the phone, "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this ad."

A leader is judged by the team he builds and the effectiveness of his organization. Obama has run a really good campaign and he doesn't brag about it or talk about it; they just go to work and get the job done. I think people like that make good staff in a well-run White House.

That doesn't qualify him to be president -- for that, you have to look at is personal qualities -- but it certainly suggests that he has is smart, effective, efficient and knows how to surround himself with people who know what they're doing and do it well.

Juuuuust kidding.

Hi HRCin08! Congratulations on taking 30 seconds to set up a Salon account. I see that this is your first comment. The rest of us who have been here for a while really appreciate you stopping by to spam our messageboards with propaganda for your fast-fading candidate. It really shows the Clinton campaign's commitment to grassroots organizing. I hope you'll swing back by again on Wednesday with a bunch of excuses for why your candidate failed to make up any ground against Obama the night before.