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Clinton aides, who have long braced themselves for a renewed assault on the President's character, fired back Saturday with an ad charging that "to fight drugs, all Bob Dole offers are slogans: 'Just don't do it.'" The spot accuses Dole of having "voted to cut the President's school antidrug efforts--by 50%" and goes on to accuse Dole of nondrug offenses, including having "joined with Newt Gingrich to cut vaccines for children." The ad, and probably others to follow, seeks to shift the battleground to Dole's whole record--wrong, in Clinton's eyes, on many popular...
Also, even before the latest exchange, Clinton had proved himself to be an expert counterpuncher. In response to an earlier Dole drug ad, the Clinton campaign last week ran a spot announcing, among other things, that the President "now wants drug testing [of prisoners] to keep abusers locked up." That was illustrated by a cell door slamming shut...
Since then, both sides have spent millions on TV and newspaper ads, mass mailings, brochures and demonstrations. Two weeks ago, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops held a prayer vigil in Washington; the group has sent out 8 million postcards for people to pass on to their Representatives. Meanwhile, the Child Protection Fund last week unveiled its own TV campaign, including an ad in which a woman asks, "What does it say about President Clinton that he would allow this to happen...
...workers from being fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat the initiatives...
...have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season's insipid ad-world sitcom Good Company...