<p>I’m also put off by the new Barack video by william (with added punctuation). I loved the first one, but the chanting in this one is a bit creepy. Are the people in it famous singers and actors? I don’t recognize any of them.</p>
<p>And Bill Clinton commented on this kind of fear-mongering in 2004:</p>
<p>“Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”</p>
<p>NYMomof2, I just watched the first Obama ad you referenced, and I recognize a number of the people as actors. I’m not up on much on the popular music scene, so don’t know about the rest.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, BedHead. My favorite Bush impression, also on Youtube, is the one Will Ferrell made-- Bush talking about global warming at his ranch in Crawford. I love that one. :)</p>
<p>I really like the YouTube video, This One’s for the Girls/Why I’m voting for Hillary-- I think that’s what it’s called. Nicely done.</p>
<p>Oh my god, poor Hillary – I strongly suspect that video was actually made by a Clinton hater not a Clinton supporter.</p>
<p>I am not given to messianic visions of what politicians in democracies can accomplish, so the YouTube video phenomenon kinds hits me the wrong way across the board. But the fact is there is an upwelling carrying Obama rapidly toward the nomination and I think the most important reason for this was quoted right above and ironically is from a Clinton:</p>
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<p>Awhile ago, I thought the Clinton/Obama divide might be a contest of (perceived) gravitas against ability to inspire. With each passing day, though, I hear Obama’s intelligence (and growth) and the way he says things and I’d have to say he seems to be growing into his role as candidate – and I hope as future president.</p>
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<p>I saw Paul Begala (I think it was) talking about how HRC’s campaign really missed a chance to tell the story of who she really is. Graduated from law school, skipped a chance at joining a corporate law practice and became a child advocate, etc. I have a lot of respect for HRC, but she’s just got too much baggage and I just don’t think she’d win against McCain.</p>
<p>BedHead: Frankly I’m not so sure Obama has much of a chance against McCain. </p>
<p>This national security issue may not work among Democrats in the primary but in the general election there are a lot of Republicans with whom the issue will resonate. </p>
<p>I also think the Iraq war will be declared to be “won” by November. Bush wants his “mission finally accomplished” moment.</p>
<p>I do agree that the Iraq War will be painted as won. And it may be that the media is passive/stupid enough to buy into it. What is going against Obama is that to show the stupidity of that assertion that the war has been won, he’d have to be negative and show a lot of people that the Administration was so far off in terms of the stated objectives for the war vs. anything that it’s achieved, and let’s face it, no country wants to hear the truth that they’ve spent a lot of money and lives doing no net good.</p>
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<p>Did you read the papers today? I think this’ll be another “It’s the Economy, Stupid” year. And McCain’s essentially gone on record saying he doesn’t know economics. Furthermore, pushing for and supporting a stupidly conceived, strategically inane war is not a good recommendation for McCain’s stature regarding national security no matter what marketing is done (it could be argued).</p>