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2007.08.25

(Video) Biden releases "security" ad in Iowa

One week after unveiling the ad "Cathedral", Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is spending a good chunk of his relatively small campaign war chest on another television ad, this one called "Security."  The one-minute television spot attempts to tout his experience in the Foreign Relations Committee over the last two decades.  His campaign hopes it will bring more attention to his candidacy in the middle of what has been a primary election season dominated thus far by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards:

Here is the ad:

As the Des Moines Register, Iowa's most well-known newspaper, explains, the Biden campaign is playing the 'experience' card.  It is similar to the message that Hillary is trying to convey:

Biden has vast experience in one area, foreign relations, that otherfrontrunners in the race do not. The veteran Delaware senator, whoseperformance in Iowa has been lackluster so far, is stressing thatexperience in an effort to gain on those who are way ahead of him inthe polls: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and BillRichardson.

But is experience everything, or should this campaign really be about a candidate's judgment?  In the ad, the narrator claims that Biden wants to end the war "now."  If that is so, maybe Mr. Biden can explain why he continuously votes to give Bush the money to keep this war going?  You can't say that you want to end the war now, and then turn around and give one of the worst presidents in US history an extension on a homework assignment that has already cost US taxpayers half a trillion dollars and at least 3,725 US lives.

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