Maybe it's just me, but I see so much more value in her let's-roll-up-our-sleeves-and-get-the job-done approach than in his believe-in-Me-and-all-things-are-possible message: we have real work to do, and as my mother would say - "if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride."

The only glimmer of "hope" that I see, in the event Obama is the nominee, is that McCain seems to be having extreme difficulty holding onto a position for more than a minute, to the point where McCain's age is going to be a significant problem for him.

It doesn't change my feeling that Clinton stands a much better chance of beating McCain than Obama, and a decisive win in PA tomorrow ought to make a difference to superdelegates who actually want to win in November.  We'll see.

One of them is that the Obama campaign can respond to anything with substance-free outrage, and the media will reliably channel the outrage and make the whole story about why Hillary is so gosh-darned mean.

Voters get tired of that.  And more to the point, he's not going to get the same treatment in the GE.  Surely no one thinks the media will suddenly start writing story after story about John McCain's unfair attack ads.

Nothing Hillary has done in this campaign is comparable to Bush/Cheney-style fearmongering ("my concern is that if we make the wrong choice in this election, we're going to get hit again"), and that is true regardless of whether the media wants to try and make it the same.  Regardless, one of the lessons of 2004 is that even if you think someone is engaging in unfair fearmongering, whining about it is not an adequate response.

They took "jesse won" and "lbj" and made it into an excuse for the south to ditch the Clinton's!

So sure, they will try anything, sometimes fluff works in extrodinary ways to stick like glue.

They know he's not up to the foreign policy aspects of the job. Hence they cry foul over a tame ad like this.

Hillary's ad showed an image of OBL. OHMYGOD that's an insult to Obama and playing the "fear" card. I thought it was a reminder that current administration hasn't caught the perpetrator of 9/11.

The fear Obama's camp must be talking about is the fear it will remind people of his lack of  experience.

Maybe to counter this "brutal" and "unfair" attack.

Is the image obsessed over?

that's what the Republcian ads will look like.

This stuff doesnt work anymore and thank goodness it doesnt.

Any chance you get to slam Obama and his supporters you take happily huh?

When he has been saying ALL campaign long that he will not use images of terrorism or terrorists to scare up votes and his main opponent then does.

Of course he is supposed to just take it.

This is the PREMISE of his campaign. He has been saying from the get go that the politics of fear have gotten us in the situation we are in. You just cant cut him any slack though can you. It has to be a move out of "fear" or being "scared" which is exactly his point.

Again, you need to watch the ad - this is not a fear ad at all.  And it certainly isn't centered on or focused on terror or terrorism.  It's about the enormous challenges that can confront a president, and the need to be prepared for anything.

Clueless people see these things and think, "oh no, Im scared and I think Obama is too so I better vote for McCain, oops I mean Hillary". She is just helping Obama with his narrative and sooner or later you will figure it out too! This stuff doesnt work anymore and thank goodness it doesnt.

It so hilarious to read you parsing this and trying to justify it. You know exactly what its intent was and that was to scare people into not voting for Obama because he cant handle Osama. No one is scared though except for the last bastions of Hillarys supporters who think this ad is just great!

And c'mon---did you feel fear when you saw the picture of Osama bin laden in the ad? Do you really think people are so clueless that they want to hide under their beds when they see a picture of Osama bin Laden?

Do you really think we (that includes me and you, my friend, and my aunt Marilyn, who is a total hardass) are all such cowards?

Or perhaps his face is a symbol of all the work we need to do.

We need a multi-phased approach to solve everything that leads terrorism. I say solve because I don't think military action is the only action required. I say solve because like a lot of troubles, it will take time and work and there will be setbacks and tragedies.

they weren't REALLY that negative were they? I mean we were in a war the ads only reminded people of the dangers we faced.