Hillary's "3 a.m. call" ad (Part 1--Karl Rove would be proud.)

This post could also be Part 3 of "Vote for me or the terrorists win."

It could also be entitled "Hypocrite Hillary goes back to the Karl Rove playbook--again."

Chances are you have seen this ad already, but if not, you can see it here.

The ad shows sleeping children, and eventually the mother gets up to look in on her children. This part of the voiceover sums up the ad:

It's 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep," the announcer says. "But there's a phone in the White House, and it's ringing — something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.

The ad goes on to claim that Hillary has the experience and has been tested, and thus people should vote for her.

This just show what a damn hypocrite Hillary is. About a week after she railed against Obama for use Rovian tactics, she presents this crap. Any Democrat who wants to try to argue that this is not a tactic from the Karl Rove play book is a complete idiot. And I don't give a rat's ass if that offends anybody. If you really believe that this is not a classic Rovian tactic, you need to wake the hell up and quit making excuses for Hillary. Wake up and take a close look at what she does and says.

And, by the way, for those of you who want to cling to your delusions, check out the following posts which show that Hillary has been continuously using the Karl Rove play book:

• More reasons NOT to vote for Hillary (January 3, 2008)
• Hillary: "Vote for me or the terrorists win." (Part 2)
• Hillary continues to politicize in order to distract. (January 15, 2008)
• Hillary lets others try to do the dirty work in Nevada. (January 21, 2008)
• Hillary is a negative campaigner (Part 2), and she twists the truth. (January 25, 2008)
• Hillary is a negative campaigner (Part 3). (January 31, 2008)
• 2 for 1 special: Hillary's campaign being negative AND hypocritical (February 23, 2008)

I will detail Obama's response to this ad in another post, but for now I provide parts of the response Obama gave at a press conference afher the ad aired.

I do want to take a moment to respond, because the press is, I’m sure, curious, to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today. It asks a legitimate question. It says, who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it's 3:00 a.m. and something has happened in the world. It’s a legitimate question. And we’ve seen these ads before. They’re usually the kind that play upon people's fears and try to scare up votes.

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I don't think these ads will work this time because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is, what kind of judgment will you exercise when you pick up that phone. In fact, we have had a red phone moment; it was the decision to invade Iraq.

Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer. I stood up and I said that a war in Iraq would be unwise. It cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat that we face, and that we should take the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That’s the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation.

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I will never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it's a threat that should rally the country around our common enemies. That is the judgment we need at 3:00 a.m., and that's the judgment that I am running for as president of the United States of America.

(emphasis added). Obama is absolutely right on the judgment issue. Hillary clearly made the wrong choice, and she has been trying to avoid that issue nonstop. Obama made the right call, and accurately predicted what would happen in Iraq.

Moreover, for the purposes of this post, Obama calls this ad what it truly is--fearmongering and an attempt to "scare up votes." We have had way more than enough of that bullshit from the Bush administration, and Hillary is blatantly using that same Rovian tactic, all while scolding Obama for being like Rove.

Hillary is a damn hypocrite, and she is just like George W. Bush.

Wake up, Democrats. Wake the hell up.