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March 1, 2008
So much for Obama being slow with a counterpunch.
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton stooped to her lowest level of attack yet, a cheesy, mindless ad (cribbed from Walter Mondale, for fuck's sake) that plays to people's least rational fears during a time of war. She's desperately trying to use her so-called experience as a miraculous cure for a failed campaign; the fact that she chose to do so—using tactics that would make Karl Rove proud—shreds any argument that she's a candidate of principle.
By the end of the day, the Obama campaign had responded.
Obama's ad is nothing to be terribly proud of, since it rests on the same fear-based premise as Clinton's. But the fact that his campaign got it made and distributed so quickly is pretty amazing.
So this is how the general election will go: highly accomplished media teams will be on watch, ready to answer the phone at 3am when another attack ad is imminent. We can only hope that there's a little time left over to talk about anything of substance.
