Hillary Clinton compares herself to Truman

After a couple of campaign commercials in which Hillary Clinton insisted that she - and she alone - was the ideal person to call in the event of a housing crisis at 3am, her team has decided to take a fresh approach on the newest advert.

Previous commericals, you see, only concentrated on one worrying issue at a time. Hillary's new mini-odyssey takes on everything: from the upcoming oil crisis to the threat of terrorism to the dwindling economy. Even better than that - she manages to shoehorn a President Truman comparison in there too. 'I approve this message?' No shit, Mrs C.

Using the time-honoured phrase 'if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen' - ignoring the time-honoured option to simply turn the oven down a bit, of course - Hillary casts herself as the saviour of Hurricane Katrina victims and destroyer of Bin Laden-types in one fell swoop. She also plonks a bit of Pearl Harbor footage in there as well, presumably as part of that 'time-travelling' strategy she's working on. Oh, yes - a president really does 'need to be ready for anything.'

All of which silliness would be par for the course, had the New York Times not pointed out an odd dichotomy: that of Hill's hubby Bill giving a speech in 2004, cautioning against the use of such fear tactics. Hark at what he said, folks:

“Now one of Clinton’s Laws of Politics is this. If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think; if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope. That’s the best.”

Christ. As if that marriage hadn't had enough differences already.

Written by C J Davies on 21 Apr 2008 6:09 PM. Permalink