by Christi Parsons
HOUSTON–How much does Barack Obama’s campaign hate the new Hillary Clinton ad?
Well, campaign manager David Plouffe started the day by telling reporters that the ad, which asks voters to think about who they want taking those emergency calls at the White House in the middle of the night, was a “shop-worn tactic.”
“She had her red phone moment,” Plouffe said. “She had it in 2002,” when she voted to authorize the president to go to war in Iraq.
The candidate himself followed up shortly thereafter, as he addressed some veterans at an American Legion hall here.
“We’ve seen these ads before,” Obama said. “They’re usually the kind that play upon people’s fears and try to scare up votes.”
He also reprised the “red phone moment” line. Next, Sen. Dick Durbin and some of Obama’s foreign policy advisors called a press conference to talk about it some more.
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You’ve seen the ad and now you’ve heard the spin. Does this ad cut to the heart of an Obama weakness, or is it likely to backfire?