Politics on the Hudson

And she’s supporting Barack Obama.

Casey Knowles, now 17, is the little girl in Hillary Clinton’s television ad that depicts sleeping children as viewers are left to question who they’d want in the White House if there were a national emergency at 3 a.m.

Knowles was interviewed by Matt Lauer on “The Today Show” this morning and spoke about how the footage was taken years ago for a different commercial. The image was then sold and Knowles said she realized she was the little girl after seeing the ad on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Knowles said she is a “fervent Obama supporter” and that she was a precinct captain for the Illinois senator during the caucuses in Washington state.

“I don’t think that this ad was the most classy move on her part,” Knowles told Lauer today, calling the ad a “fear-mongering message.”