A Presidential Endorsement With Presidential Punch
May 15, 2007, 4:32pm
In late March, former President Bill Clinton made a video cash appeal for the 2008 presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as the finance-reporting deadline for the first quarter of the year neared.
Now the former president is back online with an even more personal, and potentially more politically valuable, appeal for his wife. The nearly five-minute clip is all about Mrs. Clinton’s life of service.
UPDATE: Swampland, a blog at Time.com, analyzed the Clinton-on-Clinton ad.
Here’s what Jay Carney, Time’s Washington bureau chief, wrote: “Is the video effective? Or does it backfire? Will Bill’s fluid and persuasive delivery remind people that Hillary’s not nearly so good a politician as her husband? Or will having the ultimate political salesman making the pitch on her behalf be a net benefit? Having watched it a few times, it feels to me like a net plus for Hillary.”
Categories: New York, Producer's Picks, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Presidency 2008, Hillary Clinton
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