Friday, February 29, 2008

Campaigns of Fear

This is from Bush in 2004:



And Hillary in 2008:



And the Obama Campaign response:

"We don't think the ad is going to be effective at all. Senator Clinton already had her red phone moment -- to decide whether to allow George Bush to invade Iraq. She answered affirmatively. She did not read the National Intelligence Estimate. She still, curiously, tries to suggest that it wasn't a vote for war, but it most assuredly was...
"This is about what you say when you answer that phone. What judgment you show...She, John McCain and George Bush gave the wrong answer."
Good comeback! Haven't we grown out of campaigns of fear at this point?! Now, if Obama puts out an ad saying Hillary is using a campaign of fear and that we shouldn't buy into it because it'll perpetuate the problems facing the US, is this not in itself a campaign of fear? Tough dilemma...

Hattip: DovBear.

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