A conversation with Sen. Hillary Clinton on Iraq is dropping direct to DVD.
The campaign is mailing thousands of Iowans an infomercial about the Senator's "plan to end the war." "A Conversation With Hillary: Bringing Our Troops Home" was filmed by Mandy Grunwald's team and recorded two weeks ago in Iowa.
The message is two-fold. One is that Hillary is a Midwesterner -- we learn this from Tom Vilsack. The other is that plenty of anti-war Democrats believe in her plan to end the war.
Like Amb. Joseph Wilson and Dr. Julie Thomas, identified by chyron as "Anti-war Caucus goer," in case you needed an explicit reference to the theme of the project.
Dissolve to an establishing shot of Strawberry Farm in Muscatine.
Hillary enters center stage.
She sits in a well-lit dining room with a smorgasboard of Iowans. A lav mic is attached to her bright red jacket.
Then -- boom -- a cut -- it's a multi-camera shoot.
In this small setting, HRC works. The Iowans not their assent as she excoriates the administration for its prosecution of the war.
Watch the full video at HillaryHub.
BTW: there are no extras on this DVD. Next time, throw in some outtakes, at least!
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Too funny. I guess the takes from the stump speech only highlight the fact she can't give a good stump speech. So we have the more polished version now.
Oh and I'm wondering if she is going to polish up the content. Tasking the JCS and NSC for a withdrawal plan? She should have said CentCom, though her reference to SecDef wasn't completely incorrect. Very amateurish, in terms of her "vast knowledge" of what a commander in chief does. And her aid package for after we leave? Who is going to deliver/administer this aid? We got into Somalia because we needed the military to ensure safe distribution of foreign aid. Guess her "executive experience" doesn't include those months of her husband's administration.
Posted by PLM | July 18, 2007 3:37 PM