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This ad is playing on the radio in South Carolina:
Barack: I’m Barack Obama, running for President and I approve this message. Announcer: It’s what’s wrong with politics today. Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected. Now she’s making false attacks on Barack Obama. The Washington Post says Clinton isn’t telling the truth. Obama “did not say that he liked the ideas of Republicans” In fact, Obama’s led the fight to raise the minimum wage, close corporate tax loopholes and cut taxes for the middle class. But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote “paid tribute” to Ronald Reagan’s economic and foreign policy. She championed NAFTA – even though it has cost South Carolina thousands of jobs. And worst of all, it was Hillary Clinton who voted for George Bush’s war in Iraq. Hillary Clinton. She’ll say anything, and change nothing. It’s time to turn the page.It's negative, to be sure, and a good final line. But it's scattershot. It's NAFTA and Reagan and she's misrepresenting his record and she'll say anything and she's an enemy of change. The tone is edging closer to the confrontation he needs, but he's really got to settle on a line of attack that will force her to defend and push his narrative into the conversation. A reporter asking Clinton about this ad will ask about "how do you respond to Barack Obama's negative attacks" rather than "Barack Obama's charges that you are X, how do you respond?"
