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"Ordinary Pennsylvania Resident" in Clinton ad not actually from Pennsylvania
Is it just me or does the Clinton campaign have a strange knack for producing Onion-like headlines of hilarious irony? Didn't we all see this coming? Hillary's latest ad in which (to quote from Sargent's post on TPM Election Central) "ordinary Pennsylvania residents express their displeasure about Obama's comments" includes - you guessed it - a guy from New Jersey.
So here's a question - is the Clinton campaign putting us on, or are they really this dense?
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Comments (22)
Lol. Seriously, they couldn't drag an actual Pennsylvanian from the street? Did they even film the ad in Pennsylvania?
April 16, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
O yeah we saw this coming miles away.
April 16, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Everyone one of these stories is like a Mastercard commercial that just writes itself.
April 16, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm trying to figure out if this is more or less funny than the "Women for Hillary" that were men. (Being an "Ashlie" myself, I was somewhat sensitive to that one—not that I was offended or anything, though. That'd be just silly.)
April 16, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have they checked out all the other people in the commercial. Knowing how inept the Clinton campaign is, there just might be one or two Bosnian snipers in the ad.
April 16, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry. Don't get the problem. The guy is a Penn resident.
April 16, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's not true.
He's registered to vote in New Jersey. He's PLANNING to be moving to PA to vote in November, but that doesn't make him a PA resident NOW.
April 16, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
According to the article:
"Thomas said he was born in Scranton, but has lived his entire life in Somerville, N.J. He is a 46-year-old unemployed environmental engineer."
April 16, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also according to the article:
"He only recently moved to Bethlehem, Pa."
It's not like he's applying for in-state tuition. He's a resident if he moved there and is elegible to register to vote there which he plans to do.
April 16, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's be honest here: it's not a real problem. It's a gotcha moment that we really shouldn't be enjoying, but we are. Yes, this is even more of a nontroversy than the bitter/cling statement from Barack.
That said, wouldn't you be enjoying it at least a little if this was coming from the Barack campaign?
April 16, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe a little. :)
April 16, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
With Hil-liar-y's credibility problems, would it have been too much for her staff to find a registered PA voter who was insulted by Senator Obama's remarks?
April 16, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, how the mighty have been deflated!
I moved here to Lancaster County some 20+ years ago from NJ (no, I'm not Amish, and I don't pretend to be one on TV), I am still considered an outsider. This ad might not be as damaging politically as other things we've seen in this campaign, but I could see where this would affect some Hillary backers who don't like outsiders. Which could be a higher amount of Hillary backers than what folks might think.
Voters in PA are a pretty forgiving lot. The DA in York once compared marriage to rape to a jury (in an election year, no less) shortly before he was overwhelmingly reelected. The mayor of Wrightsville, PA, has been convicted of federal mail fraud charges. The one thing they don't like is overspending. They'll come after you with torches and pitchforks for that. And don't say you're from their neighborhood/school district/township/state unless you actually are. The voters here may be forgiving, but they ain't stupid. (Well, most of the time...)
April 16, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Again, people want this trainwreck running our country?
The one who botched health care reform in the early 90s? The one who couldn't remember whether or not she brought her teenage daughter along for a hail of bullets in Europe? The one who couldn't even keep an eye on Bilbo, but now is claiming to have garnered all of this top-notch experience during her time in the White House?
And if not her, some of you would rather have John Sidney McCain? Sidney with a W? Let me know how that math works...
April 16, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if the article is to be believed, it at least proves that the folks in the ad were unscripted and not paid actors (which contradicts my own intuitions). It was a poor ad in any event. I would not even be surprised if it does not end up costing her as many votes as it costs Obama.
April 16, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Also according to the article:
"He only recently moved to Bethlehem, Pa."
It's not like he's applying for in-state tuition. He's a resident if he moved there and is elegible to register to vote there which he plans to do.
April 16, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, did I call this one or what? I quote from a previous comment:
"As a Pennsylvanian (granted, from Philly and a college student to boot), I don't know anyone who refers to us as the "good people of Pennsylvania" naturally. >.
Even got the guy! Boo-yah!
April 16, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is significant because it is evidence of poor management.
April 16, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Guess what, the girl who says she is not scared in the red phone contra-add, is really not that girl.
And the Rove-ing team still has not been able to locate Ashley or the elderly black gentleman.
2 tits for tat
April 16, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many excuses will be made for this idiot? She cannot get her facts straight, nor check anything before hand, and she's somehow supposed to be ready on day one???
Geez...
April 17, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
The comments that he made where not in good faith. He has a conflict; we must infer bias, and so he is not credible: He's been working for her campaign.
April 17, 2008 4:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
not dense, just desperate
April 17, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
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