This is not a leftover April Fools joke or a rick roll. The real Hillary Clinton campaign has released a new campaign ad, “Ringing.”

“It’s 3 am, and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone ringing in the White House and this time the crisis is economic.

“Home foreclosures mounting, markets teetering … Hillary Clinton has a plan to protect our homes, create jobs. It’s 3 a.m., time for a president who’s ready.”

The ad takes a jab at John McCain, accusing him of wanting to take no action on the housing crisis. The McCain campaign had a swift retort.

“With ads like that, it’s more likely the call at 3 a.m. is ‘Senator, you just lost another superdelegate,’” McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt said.

Clinton and her surrogates have sustained the “3 a.m.” theme of experience and readiness on the stump ever since the ad first aired. (Source.)

Not to mention that we have to wonder whose economic crisis; that of the country or that of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Recycling ads saves money and stops “3 a.m.” collection calls. It also recycles doubts about her leadership.

John McCain’s campaign struck back shortly after Clinton’s team released a new ad that makes the case that Hillary Clinton is better-prepared than the Arizona senator to handle the nation’s economy.

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“John McCain is ready to lead with a pro-growth economic plan to lower taxes, cut government spending, empower America’s entrepreneurs and get our economy back on track. Americans can’t afford the Democrats’ liberal agenda to raise taxes, nationalize health care, cut off trade and crush the economy under big government.” — McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds (Source.)