(CNN) — Casey Knowles has graced the airwaves this month as the unwitting star of a headline-grabbing campaign ad for Hillary Clinton. But the 17-year-old is hoping to grace the small screen this campaign year for another presidential hopefully: Clinton’s Democratic rival, Barack Obama.
Stock footage of an 8-year-old Knowles sleeping – shot when she worked as an extra in TV commercials — was used in Clinton’s “red phone” ad, which asked “Who do you want answering the phone at 3 a.m.?” in the case of a foreign policy crisis.
But the high-school senior – who will be eligible to vote in the general election – is actually a passionate supporter of Barack Obama’s, and has been volunteering for the Illinois senator’s campaign.
“I think it would be wonderful if Barack Obama and I could get together and do a counter-ad,” she told CNN Saturday.
Appearing on CNN's American Morning Monday, Knowles said she was shocked to discover she was in the commercial, and said it made her feel disloyal to Obama.
"It makes me feel a little disloyal and kind of," she said. "It hurts that footage of me would contribute to a candidate that I'm not necessarily supporting. Hopefully Mr. Obama would forgive me. "
Knowles, who lives in Washington State, also said she plans on helping Obama in Oregon ahead of that state's primary in May.
"They want to get me down there and hopefully get me to help support and get campaigning going on down there," she said.
In Wyoming on Friday, Obama told voters at a campaign event that people shouldn’t worry about what he’d do if an emergency 3 a.m. call came into the White House when he was president.
“What do people think I’m going to do? I’m going to answer the phone,” he said.
Chalk another SNAFU up for Hillary.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
As a lifelong Coyote, I refute this besmirching of our proud and noble race of garbage-rooting, pet-eating livestock stalkers by lumping us in with the likes of Hillary Clinton. She is far beneath us in social stature; unworthy even of a territorial pee.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
The winning red phone ad is still the one turned in by the Muffley For President campaign.
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
I still don't get how it was an effective ad at all. We're talking about a woman who, upon forgetting the Russian shoe-in for president's name, flippantly brushed her errors off with "whatever." I wouldn't want her manning a phone in a call center, let alone The Red Phone.
Tanasinn wrote:I still don't get how it was an effective ad at all. We're talking about a woman who, upon forgetting the Russian shoe-in for president's name, flippantly brushed her errors off with "whatever." I wouldn't want her manning a phone in a call center, let alone The Red Phone.
The ad appealed to the 'Security Mom' demographic, just like her bullshit WRT NAFTA appealed to blue collar working people.
According to articles I've seen, the phone ad was effective.
Too bad her 'experience' claims are mostly total bullshit.
One blogger said that the only way Hillary'd be answering the White House phone at 3 AM is if President McCain hired her as a switchboard operator.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
I never did, I'm just wondering why you, and/or others, find this significant. Surely, you must if you took the time to post it. Are we now taking high school actors' political thoughts seriously?
TheKwas wrote:I never did, I'm just wondering why you, and/or others, find this significant. Surely, you must if you took the time to post it. Are we now taking high school actors' political thoughts seriously?
TheKwas wrote:I never did, I'm just wondering why you, and/or others, find this significant. Surely, you must if you took the time to post it. Are we now taking high school actors' political thoughts seriously?
How about this: If you don't give a shit why are you bothering to post? I found it an amusing factoid that an actor Hillary used for her anti-Obama ads turned out to be an Obama supporter. What's your excuse?
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
The somewhat more significant aspect of this is who the ad proved effective for. Turns out the answer to the question "Who do you want answering the phone" for most people is "John McCain"
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
General Zod wrote: I found it an amusing factoid that an actor Hillary used for her anti-Obama ads turned out to be an Obama supporter. What's your excuse?
Dad: "Honey... uhh, remember that soft spot in the baby's head? Well..."
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
