Hillary Clinton's gutter politics

If you thought that Hillary Clinton's increasingly directionless campaign did not have some further reservoirs of self-immolating malice to draw upon, please disabuse yourself of the notion. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Exhibit A: a new television spot being run in Texas in advance of that state's primary on March 4th. The conventional wisdom is that, simply, Team Hillary needs a clear victory to even stay in the race. So here's the spot, titled "Children":

To place that in context, here's one of the final ads from Team Bush in 2004, "Wolves":

How astonishingly depraved: after eight years of fear-mongering, a leading Democratic candidate embraces the Rovian playbook. They're not even being subtle about it.

Vote for me or your children die. Appalling.

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This ad takes white woman privilege to a whole 'nother level

Submitted by liza on 1 March 2008 - 1:26am.

I was shocked and appalled by it.
It's not the white little kids sleeping placidly in their white picket fenced suburban house.

I was actually offended by the mother coming in, in full masculinist working clothes (she's wearing a shirt not a blouse), did I see some pearls there as well?

And what the fucks is it about her at the end.

I don't think they need to hire him, but I'd love to know anyway if Rove is part of this campaign because, man, "politics of fear" certainly is.

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