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"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep," a male narrator says as the camera pans over boys and girls sleeping peacefully under the covers. "But there's a phone in the White House, and it's ringing. Something's happened in the world. Your vote will decide who answers the call."
Reminiscent of Lyndon B. Johnson's famous 1963 spot superimposing a mushroom cloud over a girl plucking a daisy, the spot makes no direct mention of the Illinois senator. But it ends with a bespectacled Clinton reaching for a handset under a lamp in a darkened room with the words: "Who do you want answering the phone?"
"We've seen these ads before, trying to play on people's fears, trying to scare up votes," Obama told backers in Texas. "But I don't think they'll work this time. The question is not about who will be picking up the phone. The question is what kind of judgment will you exercise when you answer the phone."
"She had her red-phone moment in 2002," he said, referring to Clinton's initial Senate vote in favor of the war. "And she and George Bush and John McCain made the wrong decision."
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http://zfacts.com/p/920.html | 01/18/12 07:19 GMT
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