Not willing to let Hillary Rodham Clinton have the final word in Pennsylvania with Monday's "Kitchen" spot, Barack Obama released --a response-->another ad late in the afternoon of the final day before voting began.
--Also on Monday, -->Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton accused the Clinton campaign of fear-mongering in its ad, which includes shots of Osama bin Laden and the attack on Pearl Harbor. "We already have a president who plays the politics of fear, and we don't need another," Burton said in a statement Monday. Obama's final Pennsylvania ad takes a similarly pugnacious tone.
"He Has What It Takes" --Hitting-->hits implicitly on themes which the Obama campaign has already raised repeatedly in six weeks of increasingly negative campaigning -- Clinton's ties to lobbyists and her vote authorizing the Iraq war -- --the spot-->and an announcer asks, "Who in times of challenge will unite us -- not use fear and calculation to divide us?" The ad ends on a positive note, however, with footage of Obama delivering patriotic lines from his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.