[Monday morning: Comments are now open on this thread.]
* We’ll use this as a thread this weekend for the latest campaign TV ads. The first two are via Larry.
* DCCC 11th District: “The Last Guy You’d Send to Clean Up Washington” - This is quite the tough ad on Ozinga…
Ozinga is bringing in Vice President Dick Cheney for a fundraiser. Kind of an odd choice, eh?
* DCCC 10th District: “How’s that working out for you?” - Fairly standard, looks almost cookie cutter…
* The RNC has a new anti-Obama ad that once again includes Bill Daley…
Script…
The Chicago Way. Shady politics.
That’s Barack Obama’s training.
His teachers?
Tony Rezko convicted of corruption, money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery.
Rezko got Obama in on a shady land deal.
William Daley. Heir to the Chicago machine. A top Obama advisor.
And William Ayers. Leader of a terrorist group that bombed the US Capitol.
Obama’s first campaign was launched at a gathering at Mr. Ayers’s home.
There’s more you need to know.
Lynn Sweet fisks the ad at this link. And here’s a brief, off-the-cuff AIM conversation between myself and a political consultant pal about the above ad…
CAPITOLFAX: why do the repubs keep putting bill daley in TV ads? are they trying to dirty him up before the ‘10 il election?
MY PAL: no
MY PAL: it’s a standard political practice
MY PAL: you need 3 things
MY PAL: 2 things just don’t work, so they’re reaching around for the 3rd one
CAPITOLFAX: but why him?
MY PAL: there’s really not anything else in IL that’s obvious to other people
MY PAL: and can be made dirty
MY PAL: If they put emil in there it’s a race thing
MY PAL: Rod and Rezko are kind of the best you get
MY PAL: and you have Rich Daley or Bill
MY PAL: Bill was a lobbyist, so you go with him
*** SATURDAY UPDATE *** Dan Hynes and Alexi Giannoulias were featured in a Newshour with Jim Lehrer report yesterday. Here’s the video…
* Obama responds on the Ayers stuff…
* Another whack on Obama’s Illinois state Senate voting record by an independent group…
From the Politico…
Asked about the accusation, Obama’s campaign said the Democrat had simply registered his vote incorrectly and corrected the record that same day.
The state Senate floor transcript from the day, March 11th, 1999, includes this from Obama: “For purpose of correction. I pressed the wrong button on that. I wanted to vote Yes.”
The Politico quotes Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” book in which Obama discusses the vote with media consultant David Axelrod after Axelrod has shown him some internal research…
“Wait a minute… I accidentally pressed the wrong button on that bill. I meant to vote aye, and had it immediately corrected in the official record.”
Axelrod smiled. “Somehow I don’t think that portion of the official record will make it into a Republican ad.” He gently retrieved the poll from my hands. “Anyway, cheer up,” he added, clapping me on the back. “I’m sure this will help you with the sex offender vote.”
