First they put out an ad finding a solatary bad thing Biden said about Obama more than a year ago:
Then they put out an ad saying Hillary should have been VP, but Barack didn’t pick her because “the truth hurts”:
I’d say it’s on now. McCain wants to use statements people made about Obama in the primaries in ads? I’m sure there are plenty we can dig up on McCain if we tried. Such at this:
“I simply don’t think that the people of Florida are gonna say the nominee of our party ought to be a person who on more than one occasion has expressed lack of understanding of our economy at a time when the economy is the number one issue that people are talking about”
Or perhaps Obama can point how how McCain treated Romney in the primary:
Or perhaps Obama can bring up the fact that several GOP Senators have remarked how much of a hot-head McCain is.
I think Obama – and Hillary – should call out this ad for what it is: desperate pandering.
As a saide, I do think Hillary is the one who has to take the lead on this, as she’s the one who made her statements. I’m not sure she’s ever publically fully walked back her statements about Obama in pubilc, so this is a good chance to do that, and to slam McCain in the process.
Update
Looks like Hillary has already started to respond:
Clinton’s team immediately dubbed the ad misleading. “Hillary Clinton’s support of Barack Obama is pretty clear,” said Clinton spokeswoman Kathleen Strand. “She has said repeatedly that Barack Obama and she share a commitment to changing the direction of the country, getting us out of Iraq, and expanding access to health care. John McCain doesn’t. It’s interesting how those remarks didn’t make it into his ad.”
It’s a good start, anyway. Especially if, as kos notes, McCain seems to take everything Hillary says as “the Truth.”
