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Obama Ad (Obama goes negative)

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Voiceover:  It's 12 noon.  Somewhere in america, a child is waiting in the emergency room of a hospital.  He had an asthma attack, and has no health insurance.  (Grainy photos of children looking miserable).

Meanwhile a meeting is taking place in the White House.  (Photos of White House, and closed doors). (Start scrolling with text:  "Hillary's contributors", then name each wired up insider, amount, and connection).

The president is discussing health care.  Who will be at that meeting?  (Start scrolling insurance and pharmaceutical corp logos). 

Cut to Clinton: "Lobbyists are people too".  (or whatever the exact quote was.)

Wipe screen.  Barack saying that the same closed-door way that washington has been doing business for years doesn't count as "experience."  (Opens door.) We need to give real people a seat at the table. 


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I like the ad, and wish the media would follow up on some of your points, but hope that Obama keeps running the ethical, clean campaign he has, but adds a couple of religious talking points. More in my post at:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/barack-obama-is-a-good-christi.php

To me, negative is a smear ad. It's an Ad Hominem argument, or a false premise, or clear and outright distortion. I fail to see how an ad like this meets that criteria. If only Obama's campaign would run it.

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