SUPERSMART PARODY, OR SNEAKY ATTACK?

This bizarre video, signed "SwiftKids for Truth," uses the format of a devastating Republican spot signed "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth." In 2004, Democratic candidate John Kerry, who served on a Swiftboat in Vietnam and earned three medals, was badly damaged by an ad that raised questions about his heroism. Today, it is not clear whether the target of "SwiftKids" was the negative campaigning in which Karl Rove was a master, or Hillary Clinton, still remembered for her unfortunate statement of 1992 about staying home and baking cookies.

AFTER TEXAS, CLINTON ATTACKS AGAIN OBAMA ON HIS "LACK OF NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERIENCE"

Hillary Clinton decided to play with fire in this March 6, 2008, interview on MSNBC, where she cast doubts on Barack Obama's credentials to become President, because of lack of experience in National Security affairs, something the Republicans would love to broadcast again and again next Fall.

OBAMA'S AD IN RESPONSE TO CLINTON'S ONE

OBAMA'S COMMENTS ABOUT CLINTON'S "3AM CALL"

Comments by Senator Obama the same day Clinton's ad was broadcasted in Texas. Unfortunately, his response was not as natural and self-confident as it could have been.

THE GIRL IN CLINTON "3 AM" SPOT IS AN OBAMA SUPPORTER

This March 8 video is quite a piece of investigative journalism by Joshua Marshall of Talking Points Memo TV: one of the children shown in Clinton Campaign's "3 AM" ad (see below) is now 17, and an Obama active supporter and precinct captain.

IT'S 3 AM

The politically most influent ad of these primaries: playing on the fears of a still important subgroup, the so-called "security moms," the Clinton campaign took a page from Karl Rove's handbook, and scored big in Texas.