That’s what the AFL-CIO has been doing online and offline all week. One of the labor group’s tactics has been posting video excerpts from speeches by lawmakers who support legislation to make it easier to form unions. Here are the latest Senate floor excerpts:
Last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York invited America to pick the theme song for her Democratic presidential campaign.
Some “American Idol” wannabes decided it would be more fun to perform than vote, and now Clinton’s team has it all on tape. It’s not pretty, including Clinton swaying with her eyes closed to one tune, but the mash-up is fun to watch.
I’m not sure Clinton is one to be poking fun at people’s musical performance skills, though, considering her own, how shall I put it, memorable attempt at singing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” a few months ago.
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.”
Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters started his tenure as the political director of BlogTalkRadio this week with a “get” for his own show, CQ Radio.
Howard Kurtz, the media critic for The Washington Post and the host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” was the guest, and they discussed the media’s coverage of Monday’s shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, among other things.
A top presidential campaign aide to Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, was the guest on another BlogTalkRadio show hosted by two Virginia Democrats.
Democrats in Congress who have changed their views on the Iraq war since they voted to support it four years ago are particularly vulnerable to then-vs.-now video comparisons, and because she is leading the bid for the party’s 2008 presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is a prime target.
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