Speaking in Las Vegas, Barack Obama blames “predatory lenders” for the “foreclosure crisis.” No details, of course, of how the couple he cites in his speech was bamboozled into buying a home they couldn’t afford and signing a document they didn’t understand, but no matter.
Obama notes that Nevada has a high rate of home foreclosures without mentioning that a lot of investors played that hot housing market and then walked away when they crapped out. (That messy detail wouldn’t fit the predatory lender narrative.) Always better when speaking to a union audience to blame Republicans, along with “Wall Street and K Street.” Oh yeah, lay out a whole buffet of tax breaks for “hard-working Americans.” That’ll clean up the mess.
In this 30-second spot running in Indiana, Hillary Clinton says she’s she’ll “stand up to China” and “create 5 million new jobs.” (Don’t you love it when candidates promise they’ll “create” jobs.)
Tomorrow is primary day in Pennsylvania and the hills are alive with the sound of political ads. Here are the Clinton campaign’s latest efforts:
Kitchen
“It’s the toughest job in the world . . . who do you think has what it takes?” Not that soft, elitist Obama guy, that’s for damn sure. (Why doesn’t she just call him a pussy and get it over with?)
Spoke Out
Despite Hillary’s warnings, President Bush ruined America’s economy. Luck for us, she “knows how” to fix it. (Shot and a beer, please.)
For People
Hillary likes middle-class folks. Middle-class folks like Hillary.
Talk
Obama lies when he says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. He’s just like the rest of us bought and paid-for politicians.
Answer
Obama is “making false charges against Hillary’s health care plan” because “there are more and more questions” about him and he doesn’t want to answer them. (Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Weathermen?)
Barack Obama sits with a few folks in an Indiana coffee shop who say they’re victims of the changing economy. Obama mumbles something about doing a better job retraining workers. Guess he didn’t have the heart to tell them that a massive global economic restructuring is underway and that those manufacuring jobs that have gone to Brazil or Mexico or China or wherever aren’t ever coming back to Indiana. More coffee, Senator?
North Carolina — and the rest of America — is in the dumper, says Hillary Clinton. Ain’t nothing working, she says. Every damn thing in the good old USA is broken. So she’s inviting North Carolinians to ask her some questions and she’ll offer some solutions.
Sound Bite: “This election isn’t about me, it is about you.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign team likes that 3:00 AM phone call ad so much they’ve just released a spinoff: this time the phone’s ringing because the economy is in trouble. John McCain is just gonna let it ring because he’s a mean Republican who doesn’t care about ordinary folks. Lucky for us Hillary’s still at her desk in that same brown pantsuit and she’ll answer the call. Makes you want to go right out and buy a house.
At a town hall meeting today in Lancaster, PA, Barack Obama says Countrywide Financial is responsible for “infecting the economy” by “inducing” borrowers to take out “these sub-prime loans.” And not only that, but their top executives got big bonuses when the troubled company was sold.
Sound Bite: “What’s wrong with this picture? Everything’s wrong with it.”
Hillary Clinton gets all populist in this 30-second ad running in Ohio. She says she’ll be a president for the middle class and working people. “She’s going to bring jobs back here to Ohio,” says one lady. Yeah, sure. Go ahead and wait by that steel plant gate.
After revealing earlier this week that she lent her campaign $5 million, Hillary Clinton says the money from new contributors has been pouring in. She’s getting contributions from old friends, from the young mom who doesn’t have much money but she’s doing it for her two young girls, from the woman who says it’s “now or never,” from the woman who told her husband she wanted to contribute to Hillary instead of going out to dinner on Valentine’s Day, from the “crusty conservative” who trusts her to get America out of its “mess.” It takes a skillful candidate to go from flush frontrunner to dialing-for-dollars in a few short months and make it sound like a heroic journey.
America’s economy is in the dumper says Hillary Clinton, as she channels Chicken Little in this 30-second ad. Fortunately, we can “depend” on her to “fix it.”
This must be the red-state version of Hillary’s message on the economy: “Americans still have that can-do spirit,” she says in this 30-second spot. “We know you can’t solve economic problems with political promises.” But her “35 years of experience” coupled with our “voice and spirit,” can “turn our economy around and build a new age of prosperity.”
