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As presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee all hit the airwaves this week, the debate on candidate advertising in Wisconsin has so far centered on, well, a debate.
An ad currently running in the state from the Clinton campaign explains that she has accepted an invitation to debate at Marquette University but Obama has not.
“Maybe he’d prefer to give speeches than answer questions,” the narrator says. “Wisconsin deserves to hear both candidates debate the issues that matter,” the narrator continues. “And that’s not debatable.”
The Obama campaign released a response to the ad Wednesday afternoon, saying Obama and Clinton have met for 18 debates so far and have two more planned for the next three weeks.
“It’s telling that Sen. Obama is spending the day offering substantive ideas on how to fix the housing crisis, offer relief to middle-class families and end the outsourcing of Wisconsin jobs, while Sen. Clinton is playing the same old Washington games,” said Dan Leistikow, Obama Wisconsin Campaign communications director, in an e-mail to The Badger Herald.
“Senator Clinton’s attacks won’t help pass universal health care, or restore one Wisconsin job that has been lost due to trade agreements like NAFTA that she supported,” Leistikow added.
Meanwhile, Obama has released an ad that shows him speaking to a small gathering of factory employees, saying if the plant moves to China they’re on their own, without pensions or health care.
“We’ve got to stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving overseas and give those tax breaks to companies that are investing in the United States of America,” Obama says. “Enough is enough.”
Clinton has also run ads focused on her health care plan in the state.
Huckabee, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, has purchased 38 spots on WISN-TV in Milwaukee, starting Wednesday and totaling $29,500, and wispolitics.com reports he has also purchased 18 spots totaling $5,550 on WITI-TV, also in Milwaukee, starting today.
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Obama was in Madison Tuesday night. Hillary was in El Paso. That speaks for itself.
Of course Obama is dodging the debates: a) he has tens of millions more than Hillary to spend on TV ads b) he doesn’t want to risk his momentum and mystique c) he’s a relatively poor debater but good speech reader. But I think spontaneous debates are the best window into a candidate’s ability to think on his or her toes. A good debater speaks fluently, has facts at the tip of his or her tongue, and makes quick decisions based on a wealth—or dearth—of information. Let’s get it on!
This article is disgustingly biased toward Obama. Your editorial staff may be able to endorse Obama, but I’d like to remind the news desk they are supposed to supply balanced coverage, and point out inaccuracies in quotes. “It’s telling that Sen. Obama is spending the day offering substantive ideas on how to fix the housing crisis, offer relief to middle-class families and end the outsourcing of Wisconsin jobs, while Sen. Clinton is playing the same old Washington games,” said Dan Leistikow, Obama Wisconsin Campaign communications director, in an e-mail to The Badger Herald. Yes, but Clinton already rolled out specifics months ago, unlike Barack “sweeping promises and empty rhetoric” Obama. “Senator Clinton’s attacks won’t help pass universal health care, or restore one Wisconsin job that has been lost due to trade agreements like NAFTA that she supported,” Leistikow added. Neither will Obama’s plan pass universal health care. His campaign keeps misleadingly calling it “universal” health care, but universal it is not. He is proposing to lower costs. Clinton is the only candidate proposing universal health care. For Obama’s camp to label it as such is misleading. “Clinton has also run ads focused on her health care plan in the state.” Thanks for the equal coverage of her plan. Nice informative sentence. How about telling the people what they say?? Be careful BH, you’ve been turning into bias hacks for quite some time at your news desk.
are you censoring comments criticizing your news coverage? hmmm, maybe i should send my comment (yes, i saved a copy in case) that wasn’t posted to some campus blogs…or post it in their comments… i was not lewd, derogatory, etc. just criticizing. post it!
Who cares, there have been so many debates I don’t think another one is going to change a thing. Besides, Barack was here right away. Hillary has sent her husband and daughter here to campaign for her. I’m going to go with the guy who actually campaigns for himself.