There’s a Phone…and It’s Ringing

<p>On first look, Hillary Clinton’s <a title="latest campaign spot" id="xyjd" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70emIFxETs">latest campaign spot</a> looks like an ad for a second-rate home security company. But it quickly takes on presidential proportions.</p>

<blockquote> <i><font size="3" color="#000000">It&rsquo;s 3am and your children are safe and asleep</font></i><br />

<i><font size="3" color="#000000">But there&rsquo;s a phone in the White House and it&rsquo;s ringing</font></i><i><font size="3" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i><br />

<i><font size="3" color="#000000">Something&rsquo;s happening in the world</font></i><br />

<i><font size="3" color="#000000">Your vote will decide who answers that call. </font></i><i><font color="#000000"><font size="3"> </font></font></i> </blockquote>

<p>Some are already <a title="comparing it" id="e8pj" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/29/715557.aspx">comparing it</a> to LBJ’s &quot;daisy ad,&quot; but that seems a bit extreme.<br /><br />

David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager, was quick with a reply, telling reporters on a conference call this morning that Clinton has already had her &quot;red-phone moment.&quot;</p>

<p>&quot;It was in 2002, on the Iraq war,&quot; Plouffe said. &quot;She and George Bush and John McCain all gave the wrong answer.&quot;</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">One thing Plouffe wouldn’t comment on: what the Obama camp has planned for two-minute ad blocs it’s bought in Ohio and Texas.</p>