Americans have always been notorious for dirty presidential campaigns. In the YouTube generation, we’re hitting new highs.

Or lows. Either way, it’s certainly interesting when you come across an ad blasting Hillary Clinton made specifically for its online buzz.

According to the Boston Herald, a remake of the 1984 Super Bowl Macintosh advertisement (directed by Ridley Scott) has been uploaded to YouTube and features Hillary Rodham Clinton as a tyrannical, Orwellian figure.

The video, which has already been viewed 1,050,000 times, features a tinged close-up of Hillary Clinton’s face across a cinema screen, addressing legions of obedient minions.

That is, until a young female, sporting an iPod and wearing a tank top promoting rival presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, throws a sledgehammer at the screen, smashing Hillary’s face. Play the ad below:

Crazy stuff. As we’re sure you noticed, this thought-provoking social commentary is followed immediately by these words:

“On January 14, the Democratic primary will begin. And you’ll see why 2008 won’t be like 1984.”

Although this is followed by the address for the official site of the Barack Obama campaign, his camp has publicly distanced itself from the video.

Sites such as YouTube provide ordinary voters with a chance to share their views and become involved in the political process. Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean at Boston University’s college of communication was quoted as saying:

“It’s a free-for-all. There’s going to be campaigning going on that almost no one has any control over. At this point, anyone that gets caught doing this stuff is in for more trouble than it’s worth.”

What do you think? Is this more trouble than it’s worth? Or something that should have been done a long time ago? Here’s hoping for more… and some retalliation. That would make for an interesting Democratic race.