McCain Hits Hillary With His Own 3 A.M. Video
EmailABC News’ Jan Simmonds and Tahman Bradley report: Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign wasted no time on Wednesday responding to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s "3 a.m." attack ad by preparing a Web video of its own. Late Wednesday, the campaign circulated a script of the soon-to-be-released clip with the much talked about 3 a.m. White House emergency theme.
For now, the video will be limited to the Internet while the McCain campaign continues making a decision about a possible full television ad buy.
Campaigns often put videos on the Web for free media pick up so they don’t have to put any real money behind them.
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
Even as she continues her nomination battle with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton whacked McCain in a new ad, saying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is not equipped to manage an economic crisis (or as her commercial puts it, McCain would simply let the red phone ring in an economic crisis).
The script of the ad says, "It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone ringing in the White House and this time the crisis is economic. Home foreclosures mounting, markets teetering. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama just said they’d solve the problem by raising your taxes. More money out of your pocket. John McCain has a better plan. Grow jobs, grow our economy … not grow Washington. It’s 3 a.m., time for a president who is ready."
This isn’t the first time McCain has gone after Clinton in a campaign spot. In November, McCain ran an ad that used part of a Republican presidential debate in which the Arizona senator drew applause for slamming Clinton for trying to get $1 million for a Woodstock concert museum in her home state of New York.
"Now my friends, I wasn’t there. I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time," McCain said, referring to his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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Posted by: reaganfan | April 3, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am
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Posted by: Dire Weevil | April 3, 2008, 2:46 am 2:46 am
Al Gore? You wish. Al gore is an American who sticks to American Values,not socialistc ideals.He goes to a good church that doesn’t damn Americans and America.
Al gore is Nobel Prize winner why would he chose to work for your inept administration
and abandon his cause?
I hope Gore will come out and publicly reject your offer which is soly staged to sway the Penn voter.What a lame way to do business. What a lame way to run a campaign. What a lame President we would have.
Posted by: ruthmatters | April 3, 2008, 3:23 am 3:23 am
Everyone is at the Obama Party! When Obama gets the nomination ,McCain will win in Novemeber.
Posted by: sparklewdc | April 3, 2008, 3:24 am 3:24 am
Fundamentally, it’s correct. Grow the economy and you will grow jobs. I don’t see how raising taxes helps anybody.
The president doesn’t have to be an economics expert. That’s why he gets cabinet members who are. The good executive is a “generalist” who puts the right “specialists” around him.
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Posted by: Brother on the Right | April 3, 2008, 5:53 am 5:53 am
Obama has no hope in november. The liberal media is the only thing propping up his campaign. It is a house of cards that will get CRUSHED in the general election.
His telfon shield will be gone as more of the mainsteam media will start to become balanced in its reporting.
He will be exposed for being a empty suit with a whole pile of swift boats hitting him over the head.
Wait and see. The republicans havent had such a blank canvass to attack in decades. Obama has nothing to back up his rhetoric.
He lost the Clinton supporters. He will lose the independents. All he will have left is the FAR LEFT radicals. Which makes sense , since he is the most liberal senator in the united states, and his two main backers are the two oldest crustiest Liberals. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy.
Posted by: tomdavie | April 3, 2008, 5:58 am 5:58 am
Quote: Everyone is at the Obama Party! When Obama gets the nomination ,McCain will win in Novemeber.
If that happens, whoop-d frikin’ do. It would just mean that American got the president they wanted. McCain is preferable to allowing Clinton back in our White House.
Posted by: Wayne P. | April 3, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am
Dire you wrote: Al gore is Nobel Prize winner why would he chose to work for your inept administration and abandon his cause?
Truth: Al Gore won a Nobel Prize based on lies and fabrications about Global Warming. Just like all the other lies and fabrications he used in the past (remember he created the internet.. right?) Now, the realy truths are coming out, Scientists are jumping off the bandwagon and standing their ground and ignoring the intimidation tactics of the Gore “machine”.
I don’t trust ANY democrat for President.. one is a socialist the other is a racist.
Posted by: my2cents | April 3, 2008, 7:14 am 7:14 am
The 3 AM adds on an economic crises are self defeating — If any president is unable to forecast and act on economic issues during the clear light of day resulting in a 3 AM phone call crises, then they were asleep at the switch and someone that we do not need.
Do the people who develop these adds think?
Do the candidates and their campaigns think?
Posted by: Frustrated | April 3, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am
Frustrated – I know what you mean. This stuff is just insulting our intelligence. When in the history of the country has the president ever been woken in the middle of the night for an economic issue?
Not saying its never happened, but certainly not a regular occurrence (and not counting something that has to do with oil supplies, there’s a good chance its never happened).
Posted by: Paul | April 3, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am
A weak video. I can understand why they put it on the Internet in order to save money. Hillary fully understands what we should be doing. McCain does not give any specifics on how he would get us out, or what role we could play in the region. The Senate hearings this week are very revealing on just how much of a mess we are in, and the enormous costs we cannot continue. John McCain needs to be a little more enlightening on what he would do. After watching some of the generals speak, I am impressed that they fully understand all the ramifications of the crisis we are in, even if George Bush does not even have a clue. McCain really does need to separate himself in a big way from Bush. That is an understatement.
Posted by: georgia | April 3, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am
I totally agree with a lot of these comments. Obama is not a good choice as is McCain, he’s to old. I’m a registered Democrat who will vote for an Independant to help throw the Democratic choice if it’s Obama.
Posted by: James | April 3, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am
I hope you all know what you are saying when you state that McCain is better than a Dem…Look at our economy!!! Do you want 4 more years of this!!!?
Posted by: cindy | April 3, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am
First of all, almost all of this economic crisis is not the fault of the Government (Congress included). Only Congress sets Federal spending limits.
Regarding the War, Congresss read the same CIA reports as the Pres–and everyone believed it!
Regarding the nomination process, it’s working! Wait it out and let it proceed. Yes, I’ll vote for Obama and yes, I contributed!
God bless America! Tmblweed
Posted by: tmblweed | April 3, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am
Did someone say CIA reports, as in skewed and trumped up CIA reports? How did Cheney, Bush, Rice, and Romney get that fixed? We evidently need a lot of checks and balances on the CIA. Many Americans felt that there were WMD’s because that is what we were being told. Obama’s claim to fame is that he was against the war, so were many of us. Unfortunately, Obama was not in the Senate then. If he had been, he most likely would have followed Kerry, Clinton, and other Democrats whose judgement and analysis he likes to copy.
Yes, I voted for Clinton. Yes, I contributed.
Posted by: georgia | April 3, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am
I guess McCain thinks Hillary will be the nominee. I sure hope so. OBAMA is the first democrat that I CANNOT SUPPORT.
Posted by: mark | April 3, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
Obama has no chance in November. Remember gerge McGovern? that’s what we’re talking here. and clinton is a pathological liar. dems are doomed in November. party blew a primo opportunity to take both houses and the presidency. why can’t we get a decent candidate to run. yes we can? hope and change? that’s all a bunch of empty words. gee, i have no change.. hope i don’t have to pay for this pizza. get it?
Posted by: Dan Brown | April 3, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Gore is a hypocrite – and a socialist. He doesn’t realize America is great because of capitalism and NOT because of the government and its intervention and regulation. Its fitting coming from a man whose father was also a socialist.
Posted by: Seth | April 3, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm