Tracking and analyzing campaign advertising.
âGive me a break,â Mr. Clinton said in New Hampshire on the eve of that state's primary more than four years ago, when Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mr. Obama were in a tight race for the Democratic nomination. âThis whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen, â he said of Mr. Obama's position on the Iraq war.
Mr. Clinton's words drew immediate criticism from Democrats, especially African-Americans.
The ad notes that Mr. Clinton is sounding a different tune today, though it casts him as âa good soldier, helping his party's presidentâ after being called upon to support a âfailing campaign.â
The narrator then recites recent unemployment figures and says that the middle class is falling âfurther behindâ before the âGive me a breakâ clip rolls a second time.
The Romney camp has spoken well of Mr. Clinton's presidency. Stumping in Iowa on Wednesday, Representative Paul D. Ryan, the vice-presidential nominee, noted Mr. Clinton's economic successes and said that Mr. Romney would save the welfare reforms that the 42nd president enacted.
The Romney campaign declined to provide any details about where the ad was running, its standard practice, and the Obama campa ign did not offer an immediate response. But after Mr. Clinton's 48-minute convention speech, one thing is clearly better off than it was four years ago: the Clinton-Obama relationship.