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A new ad released by Senator Hillary Clinton in Texas and Ohio is drawing charges of fear-mongering from Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama.
REPORTER: The ad has images of sleeping children, and an an anxious parent and the sound of a ringing phone, ringing in the middle of the night at the White House.
COMERCIAL SOUND: It’s 3AM, and your children are sleeping. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.
REPORTER: Barack Obama says Clinton is trying to "scare up votes." Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson says the ad is intended to stimulate a discussion about national security. Clinton's supporters have called next Tuesday's Texas and Ohio primaries "must-wins" for her campaign.
The ad resembles a famous one in 1984, in which former Vice-President Walter Mondale accused Senator Gary Hart of not having enough experience to answer the presidential “red phone” reserved for international crises.
Fred Mogul has been covering healthcare and medicine for WNYC since 2002. His beat takes him to hospitals, community clinics, doctors offices, health agencies, public schools and research labs across the metropolitan area. His work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Time magazine and Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.
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