Hillary's new campaign ads: True (Texas) and Partner (Ohio)

[nomorewhopper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4_jMyV3mY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76pMq0Tm8HI

Click the link above to view each campaign ad. True is a direct assault against Barack Obama re: national defense, while Partner is a positive ad discussing economics in Ohio.

Here's what the NY Times has to say

Clinton’s 11th-Hour Ads

By Ariel Alexovich

Hillary Rodham Clinton is pulling out all the stops today, the last day of campaigning before the must-win Ohio and Texas primaries. She’s got a brand-new, state-specific ad airing in each of those delegate-rich states.

“True,” the Texas ad, paints Mrs. Clinton as the candidate best prepared to handle national security issues — a theme she’s been pushing in recent days as she campaigns with decorated military supporters.

Unlike her ad last week, the one that asked voters who they want answering the White House phone at 3 a.m., Mrs. Clinton takes a direct hit on Barack Obama in “True.”

“Barack Obama says he has the judgment to be president,” an announcer says. “But as chairman of an oversight committee charged with the force of fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, he was too busy running for president to hold even one hearing.”

Cut to a clip of Mr. Obama admitting on television that, no, he hasn’t held such hearings.

The ad wraps up with the line “Hillary Clinton will never be too busy to defend our national security, bringing our troops home from Iraq and pursuing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan,” as we see footage of no-nonsense Mrs. Clinton working hard at her desk.

One interesting thing to point out. As the announcer speaks, half of the screen is taken up by what’s labeled “Obama TV ad” — but those black-and-white clips of sleeping babies are an image first shown by Mrs. Clinton’s phone call spot.

In the second ad, Mrs. Clinton makes a last-ditch attempt to remind voters she’s the candidate who’ll champion middle class issues and defend the economic interests of “people from Cincinnati to Dayton to Parma.”

Mrs. Clinton says she’ll be a “partner” to the “American worker,” and we hear testimony from some of those workers concerned for the well-being of themselves and their state. “Hillary Clinton can turn this country around,” one man says.

“The wealthy and the well connected have had a president,” Mrs. Clinton concludes. “It’s time the middle class had a president who will stand up for you.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/clintons-11th-hour-ads/

[Botany]

1. Less than 24 hours before the vote she breaks out new t.v. spots?

In a nutshell this shows that Hillary & her camapaign are "out to lunch."

Those spots will not do squat for her campaign. Here in Ohio Obama
has had a massive ground game with thousands of people going door
to door, ads in all media, and a huge GOTV push.

Call me stupid but I betya that Hillary will lose by double didgits.

[nomorewhopper]

2. have you seen the ads being run in ohio?

interested to hear what ppl think of the ads

the new texas one is very anti-obama, and i was wondering if that will backfire on hillary or if it will stick to obama.