Flashback to 2008: Obama campaign outrageously outraged over Hillary’s use of Osama

[Stephanie]

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posted at 2:01 pm on April 27, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

I had honestly forgotten all about this kerfuffle, but ABC News’ Michael Falcone has a long memory, apparently. The Barack Obama campaign objected strongly to the “3 AM phone call” attacks from Hillary Clinton about this time four years ago, as Clinton strung out the primaries and forced Obama to defend his inexperience. When Clinton aired this ad, which included an image of Osama bin Laden, they erupted in indignation — and compared Hillary to George W. Bush:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt6W3rVTLhw]Hillary Clinton Kitchen Ad - YouTube[/ame]

On the eve of the 2008 Pennsylvania primary, Clinton’s campaign released a television commercial featuring an image of bin Laden and invoking President Harry S. Truman’s quote: “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”
The ad never mentioned Obama by name, but it was part of the Clinton campaign’s effort to brand the Illinois Senator as inexperienced, especially in the foreign policy arena.
“Who do you think has what it takes?” the ad’s narrator says as an image of Clinton flashes on the screen. (The ad showed a brief clip of bin Laden as well as images of Pearl Harbor, the 1920′s stock market crash, Fidel Castro, the fall of the Berlin Wall). “You need to be ready for anything, especially now.”

The Obama campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, accused the Clinton team of playing “the politics of fear” just like George W. Bush.

Burton, now the head of the Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA, said at the time: “When Senator Clinton voted with President Bush to authorize the war in Iraq, she made a tragically bad decision that diverted our military from the terrorists who attacked us, and allowed Osama bin Laden to escape and regenerate his terrorist network. It’s ironic that she would borrow the President’s tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points. We already have a President who plays the politics of fear, and we don’t need another.["]

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[Ed Spacer]

Excellent op.

 

[Stephanie]

I started the thread because of this...

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Romney would not have killed bin Laden, implies new Obama campaign ad
By Olivier Knox

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Would Mitt Romney have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a new video on Friday that strongly implies that he would not have, using the presumptive Republican nominee's own words against him.

Ever since Vice President Joe Biden boiled down Obama's 2012 slogan to "bin Laden is dead, GM is alive," it has been clear that the embattled incumbent would not hesitate to use the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL strike as a political weapon.


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