AP Photo Clinton ad touts foreign policy chops in '3 a.m. phone call' redux

Hillary Clinton's campaign unveiled a new ad Friday touting the former secretary of state's readiness and experience for the White House, in an implicit rebuke of Bernie Sanders.

"The world a president has to grapple with. Sometimes you can't even imagine," a narrator intones in the spot, titled "The World," as images flash across the screen from across the world, including images of sliding stocks in Asia, protesters waving flags and a menacing tornado swirling near a highway. "That's the job," the narrator continues, over an image of the White House at night. The 30-second ad is set to air in Iowa in the run-up to the Feb. 1 caucus, as part of an ongoing ad buy.


Clinton has hit the Vermont senator for proposals on a variety of issues that she on Thursday termed "good on paper" but "would never make it in the real world." The campaign hit out in particular Sanders' assertion during Sunday's debate that he would seek the normalization of relations with Iran like the process the U.S. undertook with Cuba over the course of the last year.

"And she's prepared for it like no other. A tireless secretary of state, standing up against the abuse of women and girls, negotiating a cease-fire in Gaza, leading the diplomacy that keeps us out of war," the narration continues, as images of Clinton's time traveling the world and meeting with dignitaries appear. "The presidency is the toughest job in the world, and she's the one leader who has what it takes to get every part of the job done."

As the narrator reads the last part of the script the phrase "Getting every part of the job done" appears, with the words "every part of the job" underlined and in boldface.

The ad is reminiscent of Clinton's famous "3 a.m. phone call" ad from 2008, which implied that Barack Obama wasn't ready to handle an overseas crisis, but Clinton was.