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New Iowa ads: 'Why not Dodd?'
The News-Times [Danbury, CT] ^ | November 1, 2007 | MIKE GLOVER, AP

Posted on 11/01/2007 5:08:46 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Chris Dodd's barbers are back.

The Democratic presidential candidate began running two television ads in Iowa on Thursday that feature actors playing small-town barbers. The barbers, used in a previous Dodd ad, take swipes at rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards.

One commercial shows the barbers in their shop, watching a Clinton ad in which she discusses her plan to expand health coverage.

"Is that a new plan?" asks one barber.

"The only way you're going to get health care passed is to bring Democrats and Republicans together," the other says.

The exchange highlights Clinton's failed effort as first lady to expand health care.

The other spot shows the barbers in a diner, watching a televised Democratic debate in which Edwards says, "I've been fighting them all my life."

One barber quips, "You know, there's a lot of talk about fighting out there."

The other replies, "Yeah, but we need a president who is about results."

In both ads, the two look at each other and exclaim, "Why not Dodd?"

The ads then tout the Connecticut senator's accomplishment in Washington.

The spots are slated to air statewide on cable outlets and broadcast stations.

As first lady, Clinton headed an effort to expand health care that collapsed after partisan bickering. Edwards is a former trial lawyer who has made his vow to fight for working families a central theme of his campaign.

An earlier ad that featured the barbers and Dodd's brilliant white hair focused on his career. That spot concluded with a dig at Edwards' much-noted pricey haircuts, with Dodd asking the barbers how much they charged.

Iowa polls show Clinton, Edwards and Barack Obama leading in the state with Dodd in single digits.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: haircut
Sorry that our Iowan FReepers have to put up with Connecticut's long-standing problem of a senator.
1 posted on 11/01/2007 5:08:48 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough
i hope they keep him. what a complete bag of dirt that’s just making a profit from his position on the banking oversight committee.
2 posted on 11/01/2007 5:15:28 PM PDT by tired1 (responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Why not Dodd?

Lets see....maybe because he’s a fat, washed-up socialist who has sucking of the Government teat for the last 40 years. If he was a woman, he would no doubt be a bag lady.

Next question.


3 posted on 11/01/2007 5:16:48 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
I’d like to see a poll of how many real barbers in Iowa have even heard of Dodd.
4 posted on 11/01/2007 5:35:55 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: LurkedLongEnough

“Why not Dodd?”

Because he likes to get drunk and double-team waitresses with Ted Kennedy?


5 posted on 11/01/2007 5:39:32 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Now that you asked, why not Ted Kennedy?


6 posted on 11/01/2007 5:41:02 PM PDT by keepitreal
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7 posted on 11/01/2007 5:46:24 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (sing after me......de-por-ta-tion cha-cha-cha)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Yeah! Now give that kid a dirty sweat sock and a roll of duct tape.


8 posted on 11/01/2007 6:11:37 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("Whoeverso loveth me loveth my hound." - St. Thomas More)
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To: RichInOC
Because he likes to get drunk and double-team waitresses with Ted Kennedy?

Yuk! Why did you have to remind us of that? Now I can't get that image out of my mind. Gross!!!
9 posted on 11/02/2007 1:14:27 AM PDT by no dems (Don't hate me and call me names because you can't reply to my posts intelligently.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
The ads then tout the Connecticut senator's accomplishment in Washington.

You'd think that if he has only one accomplishment, the writer could at least list it in this article.

10 posted on 11/02/2007 1:20:57 AM PDT by Bernard ("Rare, Safe and Legal" - what an ideal Immigration Policy should look like.)
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Sorry that our Iowan FReepers have to put up with Connecticut's long-standing problem of a senator.

I don't consider him our Senator anymore...especially since he made a big deal about how he was moving to Iowa and taking his entire family with him. Certainly doesn't sound like someone with the interests of Connecticut in mind to me.

11 posted on 11/02/2007 11:04:46 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Because he’s a dudd? Oh, that might be a qualification for a Demoncrap.


12 posted on 11/02/2007 3:38:28 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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